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Brandon Fairweather's Anxiety Survival Toolkit and The Hell Inside Our Heads: why you can't beat anxiety and how to manage it well instead.
Brandon Fairweather's Anxiety Survival Toolkit and The Hell Inside Our Heads: why you can't beat anxiety and how to manage it well instead.
Brandon Fairweather was born with a heart defect doctors said he'd need to fix "someday." That someday came at 28 — heart surgery on his third wedding anniversary. Since then: 2 strokes, a near-fatal internal bleed, and a cancer diagnosis. Through all of it, a level of anxiety that, at its worst, made it hard to get out of bed. He wrote his way through it, and that became his book, The Hell Inside Our Heads: Managing Anxiety and Practical Steps for Better Mental Health. In this episode, Brand...