Welcome + Course Intro

Welcome — and thanks for being here.

Starting something like this takes a certain kind of willingness — to turn toward something that hasn't been easy rather than push it aside. That's worth acknowledging.

This is a five-lesson course on working with anxiety, overthinking, and difficult emotions. Not by fighting them or thinking your way out of them — but by developing a different relationship with your inner experience altogether.

The skills in this course are drawn from neuroscience research and from Focusing-Oriented Therapy, developed by philosopher and psychologist Eugene Gendlin and further developed by Ann Weiser Cornell, whose work this course draws on directly. They're practical, grounded, and designed to be tried — not just read about.

How the course works

Each lesson introduces one skill, explains why it matters, and offers a simple experiment to try before the next lesson. The experiments are where the real learning happens. Reading about these skills is a useful starting point — but the shift comes from actually trying them, even imperfectly, even when it feels a bit awkward at first.

If something doesn't click right away, that's completely normal. It doesn't mean you can't do it — it just means it's new. Like any skill, it gets easier with practice. And if at some point it feels like the work would benefit from more support alongside it, that's worth paying attention to too. Sometimes we can pick up a guitar and play — and sometimes it makes more sense to work with a teacher.

I'll be with you throughout. If something isn't landing or you have questions at any point, I'm just an email away: [email protected]

Before you begin

Download the companion workbook if you haven't already — you'll want it alongside each lesson.

Ready? Let's go.