Dare Quotes

“You are not your anxiety. As abnormal as it makes you feel, this anxiety is not the real you. It is not who you are or who you have become.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“When you’re very anxious, you end up trapped in your head all the time— the prison without walls. Your”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“You are not a weak or cowardly person for having an anxiety problem.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“You become a curious witness instead of a victim of your anxiety. You stop getting hooked in by each anxious thought or sensation and learn how to simply observe and allow it to be.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Anxiety is nothing more than nervous energy in your body. This energy rises and falls just like waves on the ocean.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Whatever! I accept and allow this anxious feeling. I’m excited by it as I engage with what’s in front of me.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Recovery lies in the midst of all the sensations you dread the most.” –Dr. Claire Weekes”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“The anxious thoughts you experience are just thoughts and nothing more. They don’t represent the real you. They’re simply the result of stress hormones interacting with your vigilant and creative mind.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Yet an anxiety disorder is simply an experience that a person moves through, just like a period of grief or sadness. Would we give a person with a broken heart or someone suffering from grief a label for life? No, yet people who go through a period of anxiety sometimes end up believing that this diagnosis, this label, is now a part of who they are.   “HOW”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Worry is the driving force of general anxiety. The origin of the word worry is actually ‘to strangle’. We strangle and contract our lives when we worry.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Fear and excitement are just different sides of the same coin. When wildly excited, you experience the exact same sensations as you do when you’re very anxious. The secret is learning how to flip your perception of these sensations from negative to positive. Once you master the ability to see them as nothing more than a heightened manifestation of energy in your body, you end the illusion of a threat.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“you are truly safe.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“when we fight anxiety, that effort traps us with the same force we put into trying to fight it. When we run from it, it chases us with the same speed of our escape.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“The secret to ending panic attacks is to strip the fear away from the sensations that you feel.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Remember, anxiety arrives in waves. Every now and then, a really big wave will come (a.k.a. a panic attack), but if you don’t respond correctly in those first few moments, the fear can swamp you, leaving you shaken and terrified of the next one.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“This mechanism worked great when we needed to escape saber-toothed tigers thousands of years ago, but it’s considerably less helpful when it’s triggered while stuck in traffic or riding on the subway.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Panic attacks are a false triggering of the fight-or-flight response.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“The most important thing is that you actually apply it each and every time you feel anxious. If after a few moments you feel another big wave of anxiety rise, then start The DARE Response over and go through the steps again.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“You get comfortable with your anxious discomfort. “I accept and allow this anxious feeling.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“You immediately respond by defusing it with a playful “so what/whatever” attitude.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Don’t get upset when the anxiety keeps intruding. It will, I promise you—that’s inevitable.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Let it excite you rather than terrify you. In clinical psychology, flipping one’s perspective like this is called “arousal reappraisal.” This is the conscious act of choosing to adopt a new perspective toward anxious bodily sensations.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Fear and excitement are just different sides of the same coin. When wildly excited, you experience the exact same sensations as you do when you’re very anxious.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Remember, anxiety is nothing more than a wave of energy flowing through your body. This energy will not hurt you.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“but soon you’ll be able to experience all manner of uncomfortable anxious thoughts or feelings without feeling caught up in it. You occupy a new space of noticing and allowing. Things change from being scary thoughts to just thoughts, from anxious sensations to just sensations.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“What you’re looking to achieve is to feel the sensations without getting upset or scared by them—to feel anxiety without getting anxious about it.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“What we resist persists, and what we accept, we can transform. When we fully accept our anxiety by allowing it to be, without begrudging it, it then goes through a subtle transformation. As Lama Govinda said, “We are transformed by what we accept.” In”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Wherever you go, there you are.” - Buddha”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“People tend to overidentify with clinical labels once they have been given one by their doctor or mental health professional. Yet an anxiety disorder is simply an experience that a person moves through, just like a period of grief or sadness. Would we give a person with a broken heart or someone suffering from grief a label for life? No, yet people who go through a period of anxiety sometimes end up believing that this diagnosis, this label, is now a part of who they are.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Your anxiety is not an attacker. It’s an internal tug-of-war you’re having with yourself. No monster is chasing you. Instead, this is your body’s own misguided way of trying to protect you. It’s trying to do what it thinks is best for you.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast