What most people do when facing anxiety is try and ignore it, hope it will disappear, find themselves always on the look out for any new strategy or self-help book under the sun to try and fix it; does this sound familiar?
 
But for most people, none of that  works.

•       The more you focus your mind on it, the worse it actually gets

•       At times you end up suffering with panic attacks as you are focusing on it more and more

•       You end up thinking that nothing will work and you end up going round in circles

    
And what happens if you just do nothing? If you just keep doing what you’ve been doing?
 

• Your anxiety turns into daily panic attacks

• Your anxiety stops you from socialising with friends and causes you to turn down events and invitations

• Your anxiety affects your performance at work, and you end up thinking you are failing all of the time

• Your anxiety affects your relationships and you feel like you are no fun to be around

• Your anxiety takes over your life and is in the driving seat

I’ve got an answer that works. Here’s the story:

In 2013 I hit a wall, for some reason I couldn’t stop crying when on my own, I had an anxious feeling in my throat and chest pains. I had a lot of negative voices in my head and I believed every one of them, it was like a spiral. The thing was I didn’t know why. there were no obvious triggers or stress, no trauma I could link it to. The more I wished it to go away, the worse the feelings got.

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The situation came to a head when I was driving home from food shopping with my wife. An emotional song came on the radio and I started full on crying, I had been keeping it a secret for weeks. My wife was amazing, it felt great to tell someone, the burden suddenly felt a bit lighter. I made an appointment to see my GP and started my journey to turn things around.

I started to learn about the mind, and how it works, and what strategies you can use which actually work. Yes, there are medications to help with mental stresses and anxiety but is this the only solution? Can we learn tools and mechanisms to get control and lift the fog? I'm pleased to say that yes- we can.

Let's fast forward 9 years and in 2020 with my anxiety under control, I discovered coaching and qualified as a Personal Performance Coach. I am passionate about working with people to help them set goals, strengthen their mindset and unlock their potential.

Coaching is the solution you have been looking for and not found. Elon Musk, Leonardo Di Caprio and Oprah all have coaches. We have personal trainers for fitness, mentors for our work progressions- why should we neglect our minds?

Stop your anxiety now!

Do you suffer from an anxious mind?

Are you are tired of your inner voice just asking your anxiety to go away all the time?

Does it keep coming back?

Then this message is just for you.

 
If I said to you there is a way you can get control of your anxiety, quieten it down and then turn it into positive action, would you want to know more?

That solution is having a coach, my name is James Carpenter and I help you get control of your anxiety to become self-confident and start taking the opportunities that anxiety has been costing you.
    
Not addressing these feelings allows them to rule your decisions, your choices and your life.

IT WORKED FOR CIARAN AND IT WILL WORK FOR YOU

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‘The reason I began coaching with James was due to his own mental health story. I knew I had been struggling with anxiety for some time but felt too embarrassed to admit it. The sessions really helped me to rediscover what I want in life from my career to my personal life. James reminded me how competitive I was which helped me to recapture my drive to do well because I want to and not because I don’t want to fail or let people down.

Through a few sessions, I found it was just what I needed to help improve my mindset and my approach to my career and personal life. James has helped me to think more positively and guide me to achieve my goals.’

I began coaching with James at a turning point in both the professional and personal aspects of my life. I had a lot of goals which were conflicting and making progress was impossible as I was trying to juggle far too many things - I was constantly busy and exhausting myself but wasn’t seeing results! One of the biggest things I learned from my sessions with James was how to prioritise my goals, allowing me to focus my energy fully into singular projects. Thanks to James’ coaching and support I now have the tools to recognise when I’m ‘over-goaling’ and have been applying these both personally and professionally. I’m pleased to say I have been able to make great progress with both without leaving myself burned out!

I really enjoyed my coaching sessions with James. He helped me breakdown my overall goal into smaller manageable bite sized goals, focussing on the positive aspects of them as well as discussing different approaches to the more challenging aspects.

James also challenged me to try find the answer to some of the questions I had myself, instead of either giving up when I didn’t know straight away or wanting somebody else to give me the answer.

He always backed my ideas and supported my goals which was very encouraging and morale boosting.