Here is the new video I just completed. If you know anyone that you think would make a good coach, please forward it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ehDc2TB5w. This is going to help us fund the app, so I can get the method to more people. I have written 20 more scripts and will be doing some more recording soon. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Many of you have told me: "This material is life-changing, but I want to go deeper. I want to really master this." I heard you. That's why I'm creating the "Stage One Anxiety" mini-course—a comprehensive program based on Emotional Integrative Therapy that takes you beyond introduction into true mastery. What makes this different: This isn't just more content. It's a structured learning path that: - Expands every lesson from this classroom with practical applications - Takes the YouTube videos (https://www.youtube.com/@DrMarieFilion) from "interesting" to "I know exactly what to do" - Breaks down the 6Rs framework step-by-step so you can actually use it - Reveals the third element of Stage One Anxiety—the piece that makes everything else click From understanding to transformation: You'll move from "I think I get this" to "I know how to work with this in my daily life." Stay tuned for the launch announcement. Your deeper understanding is coming soon! Cost: only £27.

I posted my next video in the classroom section. I discuss the dangers of staying in the Sensation Management Loop. It is so important to practice the 6Rs daily because it helps your system calm down on a physiological level. The 6Rs will be discussed in a subsequent lesson.

Hello Friends, Please check out the classroom section; I just posted another lesson on Emotional Development. Hopefully, this will bring you more insight. Please let me know what you think about the lesson.

Do you identify with your anxiety or with the sensations of your anxiety. I had a client tell me that she chose me because we had so much in common. When I enquired about childhood, nationality, or another common experience, she replied that the similarities had to do with anxiety symptoms. Many anxiety clients identify with the sensations at such a deep level that the sensation itself becomes the primary symbolic representation of the self, we have what I would call a "semiotic confusion" - the signifier (the anxiety sensation) collapses into the signified (the self). This could indeed contribute to depersonalization, where one feels detached from oneself. When anxiety sensations become symbolically equivalent to the self, depersonalization may emerge as a protective mechanism - a way of creating distance when cognitive differentiation has failed (separating yourself from your sensations). The individual may be caught in what Piaget would term "centration" - an inability to decentre from the immediate, overwhelming sensory experience. They cannot step back and take multiple perspectives on their own experience. Depersonalization involves a disturbance in the object permanence of the self - the individual loses the sense of the self as a continuous, stable object (Hunter et al., 2003; Sierra & Berrios, 1998). That was psychologist-speak. In layman's terms, when you concentrate on your sensations, you feed into depersonalization and derealization. I hope that provides hope for people, as this means that you are not a slave to depersonalization and derealization. Use the techniques I provided in my Three Elements of Stage One Anxiety video to break free. Would this be an interesting topic for my next video?