Anxiety Hacks

Proven Techniques, Tools and Tips to Calmness

By: Kate Hudson-Hall

Narrated by: Kate Hudson-Hall

Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

"Kate Hudson-Hall provides some GREAT hacks for us all to use during these uncertain times." (Professor Emily Mendenhall, Georgetown University)

Anxiety Hacks has been awarded the first place winner of the "Wellbeing" category of the Firebird Book Awards, and IndieReader has given it five stars, making it “IndieReader Approved".

Are you exhausted by constantly feeling anxious or worried?

Are you looking for easy strategies to help you overcome your explosive anxiety?

In this conversational and life-changing book, anxiety psychotherapist Kate Hudson-Hall will teach you step-by-step the techniques, tools, and tips taught to thousands of her anxiety clients. Finally, overcome your fears and anxieties and enjoy a healthy, happy life.

You will learn how to:

• Take yourself from being completely overwhelmed by your anxiety as you are shown easy ways you can learn to cope with your anxiety behaviors and instantly calm yourself, some in less than 90 seconds.
• Create your own toolbox to manage your stress, worry, and anxiety in a way that works.
• Improve your life with the support of the free companion course containing downloadable worksheets and bonus videos of Kate demonstrating each powerful strategy revealed throughout the book.

By the end of Anxiety Hacks, you'll understand why you have these challenging anxiety behaviors and how you can break through these to a calmer new you.

If you are looking for empowering tools to unlock your anxiety and break free from these painful behaviors then take a listen.

About Kate Hudson-Hall, Dip. AdvHYP (N-SHAP): Personally having suffered from anxiety since age five, Kate has been an anxiety therapist for the last 22 years. She believes you can reduce and overcome your anxiety with the right tools.

“Anxiety Hacks is an absolute must for anyone who suffers from anxiety and worries.” (Judith Fuhrmann, PhD)

Download the accompanying reference guide.

©2022 Kate Hudson-Hall (P)2023 Kate Hudson-Hall

Fans of guided imagery are likely to rate this 5/5

You’re missing out if you don’t get the audiobook. Expect your blood pressure to improve while listening. The author is a psychotherapist specializing in anxiety. This is not an audiobook to listen to when you are tired unless you are trying to fall asleep. This is not because the book is boring, but because the author (who is also the reader) has a very soothing voice and relaxing cadence when she speaks (which are, no doubt, very helpful traits for a psychotherapist).

The book opens with the standard obligatory biology overview, then goes into seven categories of practices/techniques/hacks that readers can use to manage and ultimately decrease their anxiety. Strategies include ways to modulate the physical responses to stress, increasing self-awareness, and conscious reframing/reinterpretation of anxiety triggers (often, one person's source of anxiety is another's source of excitement or enjoyment).

Breathing, guided mental imagery, acupressure, and self-affirmation all figure prominently (philosophically, I think the self-affirmation is excessive, but I can see the appeal). Based on the techniques employed, I think average female readers are likely to get more benefit from this book than average male readers. As a man with no anxiety disorders that I am aware of, most of the tools provided were either unhelpful or naturally distasteful to the point that I would have to experience extremely severe chronic anxiety before I would be willing to attempt them. As stated in the headline, fans of guided imagery meditation are likely to love this book, but those people who find meditation unpleasant or counterproductive may find this off-putting, though they may find benefits in some of the other components such as acupressure tutorials.