Anxiety's A B!tch
Let’s break the rules here. The first 5 of these Podcasts get right into practical help. Only after that I get around the long boring, but important stuff on what Anxiety is and does to your body. If you are suffering from anxiety-YOU DAMN WELL KNOW WHAT IT IS!
Let’s fix it!
I created this series as a reaction to all the pop-psychology and pseudo-science advice on the Internet. Patients mentioning these posts make me tired and grouchy.
I am a noted and accomplished clinical psychologist, a scientist and a clinician. These podcasts cut through those weeds of bad advice and give you very usable, practical approaches to calm your ANXIETY. If you want to quickly calm your stress and anxiety, listen in.
The techniques and approaches here are solidly based on the best practices and research in mental health and on the analysis of 6200 successful cases of coping with anxiety. Each episode gives doable techniques to help you NOW! These easy-to-listen podcasts are reassuringly life changing!
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 10
- Years Active
- 2025
More About Sleep
In this follow-up to Episode 5, Dr. John Mayer returns with powerful new tools and insights to improve sleep for all ages. He introduces Dreamscaping, a technique to reduce anxiety and encourage rest…
Anger
In this episode of Anxiety’s A Bitch, Dr. John Mayer dives deep into the connection between anger and anxiety, exploring how anger, both internal and external, can fuel stress and emotional distress.…
Performance Anxiety
Spoiler Alert: This episode starts out with a Bonus Tip to calm your anxiety.
The five truths of facing anxiety: You have enough life experience (History), you are smart enough, have experienced this…
Kids and Anxiety
Fascinating itinerary of all the ways that anxiety can damage your body. I’m throwing in a Bonus Tip here also.
Ok, What Is Anxiety Anyhow
Finally let’s take a few minutes to understand what anxiety is and isn’t. The differences between anxiety and worry will be explained. Why now? Don’t you hate books and videos that spend countless pa…
How To Get Better Sleep
Spoiler Alert: This episode starts out with a Bonus Tip to calm your anxiety.
No one ever teaches us how to go to sleep—Sorry Mom and Dad! Mayer gives a detailed protocol for getting better sleep wit…
Inside Out - The Fortress Against Anxiety
During this episode Mayer provides practical ways you can prevent anxiety with internal techniques. He discusses his most successful interventions such as Compartmentalization, Lowering your expectat…
Build A Fortress Against Anxiety
Here Mayer shows how the environment that surrounds us can be a huge help toward calming anxiety. Many tips and techniques as usual. This is anxiety PREVENTION.
Putting Away Your Anxiety
In this episode, Mayer gets right into helping with anxiety NOW! Specific ways to quiet your anxiety are detailed here.
The Effective Approach To Quieting Your Anxiety
In this first episode Dr. Mayer tells you who he is and explains his successful methods to calm anxiety. The concepts and techniques of: Surrender, Making the Unknown~Known, and Undoing or Fixing are…