Free guide from Anxiety A to Z

5 Tools to Calm Anxiety in 60 Seconds

After 30+ years in emergency psychiatry and crisis care, here is what I know for sure: calm isn't a personality trait. It's a set of skills. Get five of my favorites in a free one-page guide you can save to your phone.

• 4-7-8 Breathing to switch on your body's relaxation response
• 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding to stop racing thoughts
• Tense and Release to let go of tension you're carrying
• Catch It, Check It, Change It for anxious thoughts
• The Pause, my mom's simplest tool of all

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"Now let's just think about what we're doing here."

My mom, Jan Leys, used to say it, and it's the first line of my book. Anxiety A to Z has 26 practical tools, from Acceptance to Zen, written in plain language with no jargon and no judgment.

Susan Leys, M.Ed., C.A.G.S. | Author, crisis clinician, and healthcare consultant