Owen O'Kane
A Life Less Anxious
Learn practical tools to handle anxiety in real time and build lasting control over how it impacts your life.
This course includes:
What you'll learn
When anxiety takes over, it’s hard to know what to do. Owen’s practical guidance will help you take back control – day to day and over time.
- Understand why you feel anxious
- Work with – not against – your anxiety
- Move from overwhelm to agency
- Learn practical tools for anxious moments
- Interrupt overthinking and thought spirals
- Build supportive habits for lasting change
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Owen O’Kane is the renowned psychotherapist behind the BBC show Change Your Mind, Change Your Life and Sunday Times bestsellers How to Be Your Own Therapist and Addicted to Anxiety.
With more than 25 years in the NHS, including as Mental Health Lead, his approach has earned the trust of Davina McCall, Lewis Capaldi, Benedict Cumberbatch – and millions worldwide.
Crucially, Owen’s lived with anxiety too. He knows how it feels. How even talking can seem too much. He created this course so you can manage anxiety on your terms, with tools you can return to whenever you need.
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Marina Abramović
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Mo Gawdat
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Oliver Burkeman
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Richard Greene
Public Speaking and Communication
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Doreen Lawrence
Finding the Inner Strength
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James Nestor
The Power of Your Breath
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Stephanie Romiszewski
Sleep Better
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Dr Rangan Chatterjee
A Blueprint for Healthy Living
Course preview
Lesson plan (22)
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01
Introduction to A Life Less Anxious
05:36
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02
What is anxiety?
08:48
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03
Why do we get anxious?
05:59
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04
Types of anxiety
07:27
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05
The keys to coping with anxiety
07:15
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06
The junction point
04:25
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07
Locating your anxiety
08:54
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08
Fight, flight, freeze
04:07
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09
Disarming the threat
11:22
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10
Understanding your brain
01:23
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11
Rational vs. irrational
07:53
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12
Understanding and managing anxious thoughts
08:30
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13
Our best teachers
06:19
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14
The power of being present
07:22
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15
The rhythm of anxiety
05:26
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16
How you could be fuelling anxiety
09:41
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17
Lifestyle choices
09:30
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18
Let’s go for a walk
03:44
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19
The right type of talking
12:37
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20
Accepting uncertainty
09:40
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21
Understanding relapses
06:06
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22
Dare to dream
08:32
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