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Robin Meade struggled with and overcame Anxiety and Panic Attacks

In her new book “Morning Sunshine”, Robin Meade discusses how she was able to overcome disabling anxiety and panic attacks, that “plagued her own personal life for so long.” Robin Meade is the anchor of HLN’s morning show, “Morning Express with Robin Meade.”

Robin’s history of anxiety problems stemmed back to her younger years, and ironically, on Sept 11, 2001, her very first day at CNN’s Headline News, when the country itself went into shock, she noticed a strange phenomenon – her anxiety subsided. It was a classic case of “taking one’s eyes off yourself and putting them on others” – she noticed that due to her need to focus on reducing her audience’s fears and anxieties, that her anxiety and panic subsided.

Her story goes on to tell of the work that she did through a doctor’s care to learn about, accept, and eventually dispel her disabling anxiety issues. And then she offers advice to anyone with anxiety issues – to take action, and find a solution. Talking with others, realizing that it can happen to anyone, knowing there are solutions – these can all take away the fear that helps to reduce the cycle of panic and anxiety attacks.

She points out how people shouldn’t assume that just because some people are on television, popular, or seen as a role model, that they are immune from the challenges we all face, and in fact that it’s likely that those challenges are amplified.

Our goals and dreams are part of our future, and the future is an element that many people have difficulty coping with, due to its ‘unknowability’. Due to fear, anxiety and panic, many people put their future on hold, or never get ‘out of the gate’ in moving to their potential.

Fear, stress, the unknowable future. She describes the cycle realized by many as a “pendulum”, a force that wants to try to move us into the future, where the unknown lies. Her description sums it up so very well: “If I can make that pendulum be still, I can stay in the present. If I can stay in the present, I can quiet my anxiety.”

I applaud Robin Meade for her transparency and candor in her new book, “Morning Sunshine.” The book style is very warm, inviting, and reads easily. It is another confirmation that the non-drug approach to reducing and eliminating anxiety and panic has validity and the capability to cure permanently.

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Book review by David Jensen

Anxiety is largely the result of a response to fear, and that’s not all bad. In fact, much of our anxiety comes from mixed feelings about whether it is bad, or if it’s bad enough. We rationalize its presence because of this dual nature. On the one hand you want to be responsible for solving your issues, on the other, you feel like you can’t gain control over your emotions. As a result, anxiety can come and go, and when it isn’t present, it’s rationalized as being okay.

But chronic worrying can have strong negative effects, from becoming irritable and grumpy, to a feeling of helplessness, that if left unchecked can create negative behavior and self control. It is important that the fear, worry, anxiety and panic cycle be controlled. This can occur with medication, or by using proven techniques for ending the cycle.

The price for not intercepting the cycle is an escalating spiral of anxiety and compromise that can result in chronic anxiety, which in turn can lead to panic. It’s important to stop worry and anxiety at their healthy levels, and to do so means changing your attitude that worrying serves a purpose. Fear and fear response is positive, as long as it is real. But as we all know, fear can breed fear. That’s why taking control with a long term strategy is so vitally important.