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Your Anxiety Is Giving Me Anxiety: A Survival Guide for Thriving in a High-Stress World

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240 pages, Paperback

Published January 20, 2026

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Elizabeth April

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Clairvoyant, truth seeker, intuitive psychic, and best-selling author ELIZABETH APRIL (also known as EA) is here on a mission to help humanity awaken by expanding their mind to the infinite possibilities the universe has to offer. Through her online community, The School of Awakening, her Amazon best-selling book, You're Not Dying You're Just Waking Up, and her successful podcast, Expand, EA has brought her expertise to celebrity clientele like Demi Lovato, models, actors, and musicians such as Chris Daughtry... as well as her huge online community. Each week on her podcast, EA dives into topics like the matrix, simultaneous time, consciousness, quantum physics, spirit guides, aliens, awakening, the mandala effect and much more.

With well over seven million views on YouTube, over nine million minutes watched every month and an Instagram community of over 100K, the world is listening to what EA has to say. EA has been featured on Vice, Bustle, and Gaia TV to name a few, and has spoken at world renowned conferences across North America including the Harmonic Convergence Festival, Alien Con Toronto, and Wellness Expo Toronto. She has shared her expertise on numerous podcasts including Almost 30, The Balanced Blonde, Positive Head, Master Mind, Body, and Spirit among others. Most recently, EA was a featured expert on Unidentified with Demi Lovato (NBC's Peacock TV).

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3,289 reviews136 followers
November 22, 2025
I received a free copy of, Your Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety, by Elizabeth April, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This book helps you deal with your anxiety, ways to cope with anxiety. Over thinking and worrying are big parts of my anxiety. This book shows us way to cope with anxiety.
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48 reviews
January 27, 2026
I listened to Your Anxiety, is Giving Me Anxiety on audiobook and found it to be a really refreshing and helpful take on anxiety. I loved the perspective this book offers. Instead of focusing on “fixing” anxiety, it centers on living with it, understanding it, and learning how to work alongside it, which felt realistic and empowering.


The tone throughout was very positive and reassuring, and so much of it felt genuinely applicable to everyday life. I especially appreciated the structure of the book, including the glossary and the 21-day section at the end with practical things to try. Those parts felt incredibly useful and grounding.

My only small critique as an audiobook listener is that I would have loved clearer direction on whether there’s a way to access the glossary or the 21-day practices in a written format. Having those sections available as a downloadable or companion resource would be especially helpful for listeners.

Overall, this was a thoughtful, compassionate, and refreshing listen that I would highly recommend.
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44 reviews
March 30, 2026
Just brilliant. I follow Elizabeth April on instagram and YouTube and decided to download this new book to my Apple library, because her approach is so forward thinking. A unique book, exciting in its insights, aimed at the empaths among us, also the starseeds, who are prone to anxiety on off through life - it’s kind of a given that when you feel everything deeply and extra sensory, you will experience anxiety, and learn to manage it. The book not only shows excellent ways to deal with it, but it goes a step further in encouraging the reader to not only stop seeing anxiety as a flaw, but to utilise it for what it is, and capitalise on it, implying that it’s actually a superpower when seen correctly - for example we’re aligned with our intuition and higher self when anxious, and in that higher state of awareness we’re closest to being able to manifest and lots more. I wish this book was written when I was young, I would’ve found it highly beneficial and an eye opener! The writer is only in her 30s but definitely an evolved soul. I’d buy this book without hesitation for any young adults or adolescents who found themselves dealing with any anxiety or any empathic/highly sensitive tendencies, so that they had the tools to not only understand themselves better, but to understand the real root causes with what I believe to be advanced knowledge here, that would enable them to live extremely successfully, confidently and comfortably in their own skin, alongside their empathic natures.
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149 reviews4 followers
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
January 15, 2026
Proceed with caution - best used alongside therapy

"Why are so many children these days dealing with anxiety? I talked earlier about how trauma gives rise to anxiety. Most children have not yet experienced many traumas. Of course there are unfortunately many children who are currently experiencing trauma, but there are also many more who have an incredibly loving upbringing and yet are more anxious than most adults. So this piece of the puzzle when understanding the rise in anxiety doesn't quite fit. What is going on?"


Thank you to NetGalley, Elizabeth April, and Brilliance Publishing for this advanced audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

CW: Discussions of anxiety, trauma, mental health, encouragement to process trauma without professional support

I need to be upfront about something important: Elizabeth April has no formal training in psychology or mental health. April's background is as a clairvoyant and intuitive psychic, not as a mental health professional. While spiritual perspectives can complement therapy, this book positions itself as a primary treatment approach for anxiety, which is concerning given her lack of clinical training. Your Anxiety Is Giving Me Anxiety: A Survival Guide for Thriving in a High-Stress World makes bold claims about treating anxiety, encourages readers to work through trauma on their own, and frames medication as a temporary stepping stone while positioning her method as the better long-term solution. These are concerning positions for someone without credentials to take.

The book is built on the premise that anxiety stems from "energetic imbalance" and that people who are empathic absorb too much energy from the world around them. April frames anxiety as a gift or superpower that, once you stop fearing it and redirect its energy, will open new ways of moving through the world. Her ReNU Method is a three-part strategy designed to help readers decode anxiety, recognize triggers, and break free from fear cycles.

Here's what actually works in this book. The structure is solid. Each chapter includes tangible exercises with checklists and checkpoints, chapter summaries that make it easy to review what you've covered, and case studies that illustrate the concepts. There's a 21-day anxiety survival guide at the end designed to help shift habits. Many of the specific techniques April presents are actually evidence-based and used in therapy: pattern disruption, cord cutting letters, journaling, breathwork, grounding through the five senses, identifying whether anxiety comes from past wounds or future fears, gradual exposure to anxiety triggers, and reducing phone use. These are legitimate tools that can help people manage anxiety.

The problem is how these tools are presented. Everything is framed through pseudoscience about "energy drain" and "energetic imbalance" rather than the actual psychological and neurological basis for why these techniques work. More concerning, April encourages readers to identify and work through trauma on their own right at the start of the book. This can be genuinely dangerous depending on the severity of someone's trauma. She also positions medication as "suppressing" anxiety rather than treating it, framing her method as "the next step to move away from medication" and "the better option." This stigmatizes people who need psychiatric care and could discourage readers from getting necessary treatment.

April makes universal claims that her approach works for everyone without acknowledging when professional help is actually needed. The section on childhood anxiety particularly bothered me. She dismisses the reality of childhood trauma by saying most children haven't experienced "many traumas," which ignores adverse childhood experiences, bullying, academic pressure, intergenerational trauma, medical trauma, and neurodevelopmental differences. Trauma can happen even in loving homes.

What worries me most is what happens to readers who commit to this 21-day process and don't get the desired outcome. At the end of the guide, April tells readers that "true freedom from anxiety isn't a quick fix" and is "a commitment to showing up for yourself every single day." There's no acknowledgment that some people have clinical anxiety disorders requiring medical treatment. There's no guidance about when to seek professional help. This creates a framework where if the method doesn't work, readers blame themselves for not being committed enough rather than recognizing they might need actual psychiatric care. For someone with a serious anxiety disorder or trauma, this could keep them trapped in an ineffective approach while their condition worsens.

I want to be clear: I don't think everything in this book is bad. There are useful, legitimate techniques here. But this book should not be used as a standalone approach to treating anxiety. If someone is already seeing a therapist or counselor and wanted to use this as a supplemental framework for working through some of their anxiety, it might be helpful. But this book alone, without professional support, could spell disaster for many people.

Elizabeth April narrates her own audiobook. Her tone is fine and the audio quality is good. I found the pacing a bit slow for my taste so I sped it up, but that's just personal preference.

This book might work for people already in therapy looking for supplemental spiritual perspectives to discuss with their therapist. It is absolutely not appropriate for people with clinical anxiety disorders seeking primary treatment, trauma survivors who aren't already working with professionals, children or teens, or anyone not currently under the care of a mental health professional. If you're dealing with serious anxiety, please seek help from a licensed therapist or psychiatrist rather than relying solely on this book.

Some useful techniques presented irresponsibly by someone without the credentials to guide people through serious mental health work.
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148 reviews8 followers
January 26, 2026
Your Anxiety Is Giving Me Anxiety by Elizabeth April is a relatable and accessible listen, especially for people who are new to therapy or just beginning to explore their mental health.

As a mental health professional, none of the core concepts were new to me, but that isn’t a flaw. What stood out was how the author reframed familiar ideas in a way that feels modern, relevant, and genuinely approachable. April has a conversational style that normalizes anxiety without minimizing it, which makes this book particularly well-suited for readers who may feel overwhelmed, intimidated by therapy, or unsure where to start.

Elizabeth April narrates the audiobook herself, which adds an extra layer of authenticity and connection. Her tone feels like a supportive friend rather than a clinician or lecturer, making the content easy to absorb and emotionally validating. While seasoned therapy-goers may find much of the material familiar, this book shines as an entry point, offering reassurance, insight, and practical reflection for those early in their healing journey.

Recommended for: therapy beginners, therapy-curious readers, or anyone looking for a compassionate, low-pressure introduction to understanding anxiety.

Thank you to NetGalley, Elizabeth April, and Brilliance Publishing for the advanced copy.
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379 reviews6 followers
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
January 15, 2026
Your Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety offers reasoning for heightened anxieties (absorbing energy from people and things around us) and ways to help combat the anxiety, including a very thorough 21-day guide. I found some of the ideas to be quite useful, such as asking yourself what is wrong when you are feeling anxiety. Some things I do think maybe should not be practiced if you have OCD, or at least require a conversation with a therapist first. Some of the ideas, though, did completely lose me. When the author began discussing connecting to deceased relatives and a car accident actually being a good thing because you can get a new car from insurance, or your child's severe accident is just a part of their "soul contract." This book is definitely aimed to an audience that is maybe a bit more spiritual than I am.

The author mentions they are not a doctor or therapist at the beginning, but I think it needs to be repeated. Some of these suggestions, especially those including visualizing traumatic memories, should not be done without discussion with a properly licensed mental health professional.
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108 reviews
January 21, 2026
Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder in the world.

Chances are, you have it and know many other people who do too.

That’s probably why there are a bazillion tips, tricks, and short cuts for dealing with anxiety.

And Elizabeth April, author of Your Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety, says all that is stressing us out!

So, here’s the thing about April’s book. She starts it by telling us all the ways she isn’t qualified to speak about anxiety.

But there are tons of people out there who are speaking about things that they don’t necessarily have the credentials for. I mean, look at Mel Robbins!

April has done the research. She also works through her own anxiety and helps others.

For me, don’t write a book about something you don’t feel like an expert in. And if you have the expertise, don’t undermine it from the jump.

The book itself was about recognizing anxiety, reframing it, and coping with it… all useful skills.

I gave it three stars.
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68 reviews
January 29, 2026
Ironically, reading this book made me feel anxious at times.

I read this because I thought it would be very informative and propose new ideas for living with anxiety. It did that, just in a different way than I was expecting.

The author brings up good points and suggests viewing anxiety in a different way, thus helping to manage it. She did lose me a few times when those thoughts trailed off. I also felt somewhat skeptical at times when she mentioned some of her abilities/background, but tried to keep an open mind.

There definitely are some good takeaways as well as a 21 day guide, but I wouldn't exchange this alone for therapy or other help if you are looking. Also, I was not a fan of the narration in the audio version of this book.

Overall rating: 🌕🌕🌗
Anxiety awareness rating: 😬😬😬😬😬
Interesting concept rating: 🤔🤔🤔

Thank you to Brilliance Publishing for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.
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223 reviews1 follower
February 8, 2026
Thank you to the publisher and author for giving me an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

This review will be very short. As helpful as I found this book and enjoyed the spiritual tips, I found myself relating the most to the personal experiences.

While I’m not a psychologist or even a spiritual healer, I do think it does take a wholistic approach to dealing with trauma and anxiety (I’m personally pro-medication, but that depends on the individual with the help of your doctor. Medication doesn’t work for everyone). Diet, exercise, and even down to your daily habits will either feed or starve your anxiety.

This book was simple to read but I don’t think anxiety can be/ should be reduced down to “you should just heal energetically.” Then again, I plan on applying some of the tips in this book since I think that energy is a portion of the bigger picture of anxiety triggers.
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Author 20 books11 followers
January 26, 2026
I love self help books, I read any I can get my hands on and particularly ones to do with anxiety and depression in the hope one will finally fix me (so far, no dice!). This didn't fix me, but I enjoyed it.

Some thing(s) I liked:
✓ Personable, fun tone. The author's voice came through as kind.
✓ The little tasks were fun
✓ I liked the background reasons for writing the book

Some thing(s), not so much:
✘ I was thrown by the psychic/ medium thing... Unfortunately, I feel it draws credibility from the author
✘ I'm not fixed :'(
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37 reviews1 follower
January 25, 2026
Review of ALC received on NetGalley:
Elizabeth April offers relatable coping mechanisms for anxiety. She seems to be narrating the story of those of us who deal with anxiety and providing a glimpse into the inner turmoil that we face daily. She skillfully demonstrates how anxiety manifests itself in a variety of ways and offers strategies for managing it.
Thanks to Brilliance Publishing, Brilliance Audio, and NetGalley for the advanced listener copy.
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100 reviews1 follower
January 18, 2026
I was given a free copy of this audiobook from NetGalley in exchange for a honest review.

I appreciate this author attempting to provide something new in the way of managing anxiety. The audience for this book is quite slim, due to the basis of this framework being on energy work. I wouldn’t be able to refer this book to many clients.
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36 reviews1 follower
February 20, 2026
Thank you to NetGalley, Elizabeth April, and Brilliance Publishing for this advanced audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
If you are coping with this issue this book can help you a bit to deal with yours and understan what pushes your anxiety. It includes some nice tips too and the author does understand where you come from.
12 reviews
March 10, 2026
Book is so helpful creating a new perspective of anxiety! Elizabeth April beautifully explains the power of our own thoughts and how we ultimately choose what direction we go. She gives real life application steps to coping with anxiety. Overtime with practice ie creating new neuropathways, anxiety will be felt as guidance and less stress
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235 reviews26 followers
February 6, 2026
Thanks to Netgalley for the audiobook, but unfortunately I immediately turned around and purchased the Kindle edition ... so, the free copy ended up being not free. (And, I want to do the 21-day journal.) I would highly recommend to anyone looking for a spiritual approach to addressing anxiety, relying on scientific methods but not claiming to be them.
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74 reviews1 follower
January 29, 2026
thanks to the publisher and netgalley for an arc of this book. as a person who suffers with bad anxiety I found this book insightful. I took some notes on certain topics. it really made me think about the way I look at things and process things. especially about the past and future. would recommend to people who suffer with anxiety but proceed with caution. its not an easy read as it makes you look at your triggers, trauma's etc.
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1,292 reviews12 followers
March 21, 2026
There really isn't much new in this book. April takes ideas from everyone, from Sigmund Freud to Marie Kondo (while never giving anyone credit). I picked up the book because I wanted to learn techniques on how to not let others' anxiety affect me, but instead, I got a book about turning my anxiety into a "superpower."
There is no doubt that there are good techniques here, but they weren’t created by the author. The only good thing she did was include a workbook at the end of the book to use the techniques inside. She also used the outdated idea that it takes 21 days to make a habit; sadly, for all of us, it has been proven to take much longer.

I was given an audio ARC by the publisher; all opinions are my own.
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