Anxiety to Serenity CD series

"ANXIETY TO SERENITY" CD series

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Some Comments from

Listeners:

..... "your CDs have changed my life"....

... "listening to disc one worked better than taking a Valium"...

... "I found it so helpful to learn the signs of anxiety and that so many others have the same issues ... learning strategies to combat anxiety has really helped."

"When I get the sense of dread or get a headache and think I have a brain tumor or am going crazy or that I have schizophrenia or dementia .... listening to the CDs helps me redirect my thinking and see how I'm creating my own fear. It makes me feel so much better because it makes me realize I'm not crazy."

"I listen to the 4th disc whenever I'm anxious ... it is my saving grace because it always calms me ... it brings me down from my high anxiety ... my physical symptoms go away and my fear and shakiness just disappear."

This CD self-help program was created to provide you a complete education as to the causes of anxiety and how to eliminate it. Designed to overcome panic, generalized and obsessive-compulsive types of anxiety, and social phobia.

Information on how to purchase CD Program

and additional telephone sessions --

in the middle & bottom of this page

By listening to this program, you will learn:

The 10 "Most Common Traits" of anxious people.
How you are actually more "normal" than you have ever thought.
Why you feel bad about yourself, and feel defective.
How you are a superior, above average person in several important ways.
Why you keep fearing things that never happen.
The "Vicious cycle" of anxiety, and how to turn it into a "Virtuous cycle" that fosters serenity.
How your background contributed to the development of your anxiety.
How current life circumstances are contributing to your anxiety.
The bottom-line cause of, and remedy for, your anxiety.
How anxiety is passed on in families, and how you can avoid passing it on to your children.
How to eliminate anxiety, and replace it with a capacity for serenity.

An extensive education on anxiety

and techniques that help you to eliminate it --

including one 20 minute telephone session

-- all for less than the cost of one therapy session --

$89 plus $6 shipping & handling

More Comments from Listeners:

"... your description of anxious people has me pegged ...."

"You have the understanding ... and explanation ... of anxiety down to a science"

".... it's like you know me ... you describe me to a T" ....

"... I haven't felt this calm in years ... "

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May also be purchased by sending $95 check payable to:

Dr. Stephen Pravel

700 North Old Woodward

Suite 300

Birmingham, MI 48009

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Be sure to include name of purchaser

and address to which CDs are to be sent

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This program is divided into 3 parts. The first disc is Part One: explaining the origin of anxiety and how you came to be an anxious person. The second and third discs are Part Two: providing you the tools and techniques that will help you overcome your anxiety. The fourth disc is Part Three: consisting of interventions designed to help you when you are in the midst of a panic attack or obsessive worry -- to help you intervene to put a quick halt to your episode of anxiety.

INDEX OF CONTENTS

Disc I -- “Understand Anxiety”

1. Introduction.

2. The 10 most common traits of anxious individuals.

3. Explanation of anxiety and a cognitive model of anxiety.

4. Amplification; Catastrophizing; Common physical symptoms of anxiety; Fear of fear cycle; Core fear of all

anxiety attacks; Worry-habit.

5. Root causes of anxiety disorders - psychological and biological; Involvement of alexithymia in anxiety.

Disc II -- “Find Serenity” (1)

1. Medical vs. psychological treatment; Mind & body & emotions; Nature hates a vacuum; Importance of humor.

2. Explanation of Cognitive-Behavioral therapy (CBT) and overview of CBT strategies of: relaxation, belief modification & exposure.

3. Overview of CBT exercises: power of externalizing, use of a partner, value of journaling.

4. Irrational belief changing exercises; Journaling assignments; Physical sensations; Identifying core fear; Cognitive distortions.

5. Reality-Check exercise; Feeling vs. Fact exercise.

6. Cost-Benefit Analysis exercise.

7. Positive Affirmations; Reminders; Journaling progress; Important facts about progress.

Disc III -- “Find Serenity” (2)

1. Externalizing techniques; Structuring techniques; Relabeling; Double-chair technique.

2. Fear hierarchy; Real-life exposure techniques; Relaxation technique; Imaginal exposure.

3. Exposure to feared sensations technique; Acceptance of sensations technique; Flooding techniques: Worst case scenario, Freak-Out .

4. Insight techniques: The 4 feeling groups; Identifying emotions and related physical sensations; Identifying the cause of emotions.

5. Lifeline; “What’s going on” technique: identifying life circumstances contributing to anxiety.

6. Other possible coexisting issues: ADHD, Substance Abuse, Non-assertiveness; Conclusion.

Disc IV

1. Panic Intervention.

2. Obsessive Worry Intervention.

This program is unique for several reasons:

1. It is based on information from:

"The Experts: -- the proven theories and methods from the best minds in the field.

"Patient Tested" -- the direct feedback from many anxious individuals as to what concepts and techniques are most helpful to them, and:

My own 20 years experience of obtaining and applying the best information and ideas from both the experts and my patients, as to what works best.

2. Combined approach: using both proven CBT concepts and techniques, AND an "Insight" component, to understand background and other life issues that cause or contribute to anxiety, and how to resolve those. My experience, as well as that of hundreds of people I have treated, indicates that a combined approach is most effective in truly eliminating anxiety.

3. Only this program also addresses, and helps to reduce, the Alexithymia that many anxious individuals experience. Unless underlying Alexithymia is recognized and reduced, anxiety cannot be eliminated, which is why many treatment approaches fail. Alexithymia refers to the following 3 traits:

1. Difficulty identifying emotions.

2. Difficulty finding words to describe emotions.

3. The tendency to confuse emotions and related

physical sensations.

This program provides you the information, insights, tools and techniques that have proven to be

very successful for my patients over the years

-- all available to you in concentrated form in these 4 CDs.

You too can enjoy the benefit

of this effective, successful combination of

education and exercises that have been so helpful

to many others. Where traditional talking therapy

and/or medication have failed so many,

this powerful combination of CBT techniques

with an Insight approach, will also help you to

overcome your anxiety to find the peace of mind

you have long wished for.

Complete 4 disc CD series

3 1/2 hour long treatment program

includes a 20 minute telephone consultation:

$89 plus $6 shipping & handling

Telephone consultation fees:

15 minutes -- $40

30 minutes -- $80

45 minutes -- $120

60 minutes -- $150

can be purchased in addition to CD

program or alone

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Because Alexithymia is so prevalent with anxious people,

I did my doctoral dissertation on:

Alexithymia and Panic Disorder.

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