You were fine all day.

Not great, maybe. But fine. You made it through work, ate dinner, even laughed at something dumb on TV. No real signs of trouble. Then, out of nowhere, your heart jumps. Your stomach flips. You feel like you’ve been dropped into your body from a great height.

And it’s bedtime.

That’s the part that gets to you – not just the anxiety, but the timing. Like your nervous system is saving its biggest performance for when you’re finally trying to rest. You keep thinking, “Why now?” Like there’s something wrong with you for unraveling the moment everything’s supposed to slow down.

This episode leans into that question. Why panic seems to hit hardest in the quiet. Why sleep feels impossible even when you’re exhausted. And what’s actually going on in those moments when your body feels loud and your thoughts go dark.

The explanation isn’t what most people think. And neither is the way out.

Tune in.

(This is an AI-generated episode inspired by my YouTube videos. I personally moderate these to share insights more efficiently, keeping the content informative yet completely free.)

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction (00:00) 
• Anxiety and sleep are deeply intertwined (00:17)
• Panic at night is often aan drenaline release (03:12)
• Trying to force sleep activates wakefulness (05:01)
• Step 1: Stay in bed, no matter what (06:33)
• Step 2: Observe, don’t fight intrusive thoughts (07:24)
• Step 3: Trust the process of recovery (08:11)
• Sensitized nervous system causes all symptoms (09:46)
• Desensitizing is the path to long-term freedom (10:02)

Additional Resources:

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"You're fine."

That’s what the labs said. What the scans confirmed. What the doctor repeated after glancing at the results.

But your heart's still pounding for no reason. Your arms go numb in the middle of the night. Walking to the corner store feels like stepping into a survival drill.

This episode looks at what happens when the medical system runs out of explanations – but you haven’t run out of symptoms. When the only next step offered is a vague referral, and the underlying message is: “This is just something you'll have to learn to live with.”

It traces the quiet frustration of not being believed, not because anyone’s trying to gaslight you, but because the framework they’re working from doesn’t account for what’s actually going on.

Not anti-doctor. Not anti-therapy. But it is a closer look at why so many people feel stuck – despite doing everything they were told.

There’s more to the story. Tune in.

(This is an AI-generated episode inspired by my YouTube videos. I personally moderate these to share insights more efficiently, keeping the content informative yet completely free.)

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction (00:00) 
• Healthcare often misses anxiety’s physical symptoms (01:56)
• Therapy can reinforce chronicity instead of healing (04:11)
• Normal emotional anxiety vs. chronic anxiety state (06:07)
• Common advice often mismatches lived experiences (07:42)
• Desensitization as a recovery process (09:52)
• Learning to stop fighting symptoms (10:25)
• Full recovery is real and possible (14:01)

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It can hit in the most ordinary moment. Grocery store. Couch. Sidewalk. One second you’re fine, the next it feels like your body forgot how to breathe. Your chest tightens, your thoughts race, and nothing – not even the slowest, deepest inhale – seems to help.

That’s usually where the advice starts. “Try some breathwork.” “Breathe in for four, out for eight.”

And maybe sometimes that works. But for some people, it doesn’t even touch the panic. It might even make things worse.

Not because breathwork is bad. But because the breath isn’t always the cause – it’s the consequence. The symptom of something louder happening underneath. A nervous system stuck in high alert. A brain convinced it’s about to lose control. A body trying to help, but feeling like it’s turning against you.

This episode explores: 

• why the breath feels broken 
• why the fixes don’t always fix
• what might actually need to shift first... before your body starts to feel safe enough to breathe like it used to

Tune in.

(This is an AI-generated episode inspired by my YouTube videos. I personally moderate these to share insights more efficiently, keeping the content informative yet completely free.)

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction (00:00) 
• Doctors say you’re fine, but symptoms persist (00:28)
• Your body actually pulls in more oxygen during panic (03:30)
• A sensitized nervous system keeps you in alert mode (04:30)
• Googling symptoms increases panic (05:46)
• Breathing techniques don’t always address chronic anxiety (06:22)
• Recovery requires a mindset shift, not symptom control (08:21)
• Acceptance is the path to lasting freedom (09:04)

Additional Resources:

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Most people think healing is about defeating something.

Like you’re either going to survive this or you’re not. And when your life feels like it’s flipped upside down, when you're going through symptoms and everything feels like chaos, your mind just goes: “Oh my God, is this the end?!”

But what I’ve come to realize – through panic attacks, through job loss, through grief – is that this isn’t the end. It’s just a transition. And when you’re in transition, that’s when the most growth happens.

In this episode, I’m walking you through what it really looks like to grow in the middle of the fire. 

I’ll talk about how chaos doesn’t mean something’s gone wrong – it actually means something’s waking up. I’ll share how losing my dog Layla cracked me open in a way that no symptom ever could… and why resisting that pain only makes it harder.

You don’t have to fight your way out. You don’t have to fix the chaos. You just have to allow the transition.

Tune in – especially if things feel messy right now. This one’s for you.

Key Takeaways:

• Intro (00:00)
• Recovery is more mindset than method (01:26)
• Growth through life transitions (02:07)
• Forest fire analogy: Small burns prevent collapse (03:23)
• Embracing COVID chaos helped build Bye Bye Panic (05:57)
• Layla’s death prepared through slow transition (07:59)
• Emotions come in waves – let them (12:48)
• Unknown is where the best things happen (14:58)

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It usually starts small. A skipped event. A short drive postponed. A quiet hesitation in the middle of what used to be normal. Then one day, without much warning, your world feels smaller than it used to.

Agoraphobia doesn’t always announce itself with a dramatic moment. It builds itself around the fear of what might happen if. If you panic. If no one helps. If you can’t get out. And so, bit by bit, it teaches you to avoid.

This episode traces the shape of that avoidance. How it offers relief while taking something bigger. How it convinces you that staying safe means staying still. And why, for so many people, the scariest part isn’t the outside world – it’s what might happen inside if they try to return to it.

There’s no quick reveal here. No dramatic fix. But there is something else: a deeper look at what agoraphobia really is, how it operates, and what starts to shift when the goal isn’t to feel brave – but to move anyway.

Tune in.

(This is an AI-generated episode inspired by my YouTube videos. I personally moderate these to share insights more efficiently, keeping the content informative yet completely free.)

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction (00:00) 
• Anxiety convinces you you're uniquely broken (00:30)
• Agoraphobia is fear of internal sensations, not places (02:15)
• Recovery is possible and not rare (03:50)
• Antifragility: stress can make you stronger (04:37)
• Anxiety recovery builds inner strength (06:15)
• Final message: you are not broken forever (11:30)

Additional Resources:

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Most people don’t realize how much energy they spend fighting themselves.

They wake up already tense. Carry that tension through their day. Overanalyze every sensation. Try to control every thought. Then wonder why they feel completely drained by the evening.

It’s not their fault. It’s what they were taught – keep fixing, keep figuring it out, stay ahead of the next flare-up.

But there’s a pattern I see in almost everyone who stays stuck.

It’s subtle. It’s persistent. And it’s easy to mistake for progress.

In this episode, I break down what that pattern looks like, how it shows up in your daily life, and why it makes recovery feel so out of reach even when you're doing everything “right.”

Tune in and get clear on what’s been missing, even with all the work you’ve been putting in.

Key Takeaways:

• Intro (00:00)
• Resistance to emotions creates more anxiety (01:33)
• Misery can feel safe and familiar (02:02)
• Incorrect beliefs about symptoms fuel fear (03:56)
• Even knowledgeable people avoid feeling (06:01)
• Embodied feeling is the path to healing (10:39)
• Letting go of judgment allows energy to return (11:04)

Additional Resources:

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You’re doing everything they told you. Taking the meds. Following the routines. But the dizziness won’t go away. The nausea flares up again. Your chest still tightens when there’s no reason for it.

Eventually, someone mentions anxiety. 

And maybe at first, it makes sense. But then other names start getting thrown around – IBS, POTS, fibromyalgia. Each one sounds like a piece of the puzzle. But none of them explain why your symptoms keep shape-shifting, why they seem to multiply instead of resolve.

This episode takes a closer look at those in-between cases – the ones that don’t show up clearly on lab results, but still hijack your life. It follows the story of someone who went through years of labels and treatments, only to find out something much simpler was underneath it all. Not easy. But simpler.

What they discovered might not be the answer for everyone. But it offers a different way of seeing things – especially if you’re starting to wonder whether these diagnoses are giving you clarity… or just more confusion.

Tune in.

(This is an AI-generated episode inspired by my YouTube videos. I personally moderate these to share insights more efficiently, keeping the content informative yet completely free.)

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction (00:00) 
• Anxiety symptoms often persist even after normal test results (01:16)
• Nervous system sensitization introduced as core concept (02:42)
• Sensitization leads to real, scary physical symptoms (03:29)
• Fibromyalgia may be misunderstood as separate from anxiety (04:16)
• POTS and long Covid tied to nervous system sensitivity (06:18)
• Even insomnia may stem from sensitization, not disorder (08:10)
• Letting go of diagnoses was crucial for recovery (09:02)
• Nervous system desensitization is key to lasting relief (10:46)

Additional Resources:

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Clayton spent years struggling with panic attacks, insomnia, chest pain… No matter how many ER visits he racked up, nothing brought lasting relief. His anxiety didn’t just disrupt his life; it defined it.

It started in early 2022 after a work-related stress episode. The chest tightness was so alarming that he thought he was having a heart attack. Dozens of tests later, every result came back clear, but the fear didn’t go away.

He threw himself into every recovery tactic he could find – strict sleep hygiene, meditation, quitting caffeine – but the harder he tried to get better, the worse things seemed to get.

Eventually, in the middle of yet another sleepless, anxious night, Clayton signed up for the Bye Bye Panic mentorship program — from an ER room. That decision, and what followed, changed everything. Instead of stacking more strategies, he started learning how to stop the fight altogether. Letting go became the real turning point.

Today, Clayton sees anxiety and insomnia differently. He doesn’t fear them anymore.

In this episode, Mirka, one of the BBP program mentors, talks with him about what it took to recover, what kept him stuck for so long, and what finally set him free.

Tune in to learn more.

Key Takeaways:

• Intro (00:00)
• Panic began after a stress event in Jan 2022 (01:53)
• Dozens of ER trips despite clean medical results (03:26)
• Joined mentorship from the ER in Aug 2023 (06:39)
• Tried every recovery tactic but still suffered (10:11)
• Real breakthrough came from surrender, not strategy (21:40)
• Gave up all sleep rules and started sleeping better (27:19)
• Clay’s advice for those going through anxiety right now (38:33)
• Life lessons from the anxiety recovery journey (44:33)
• Avoid using AI tools like ChatGPT for constant anxiety reassurance (55:42)
• Final thoughts (01:00:04)

Additional Resources:

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You’ve spent your whole life relying on your mind to get through. It’s helped you succeed. It’s helped you stay safe. It’s helped you make sense of a world that didn’t always feel predictable

But when it comes to healing anxiety… that same mind might be the very thing keeping you stuck.

In this episode, I share why people who are highly analytical, high-achieving, and brilliant often struggle the most to recover. Not because they’re doing something wrong – but because they’re overthinking it.

I’ll explain the key difference between critical thinking and chronic thinking, why the intellect demands certainty (and how that blocks progress), and how intellectual identities like “I’m broken” can keep you stuck – even when they’re just stories.

If your default response is to loop, fix, solve, or figure it all out... this episode will challenge that.

Because healing isn’t a puzzle. It’s not something to figure out. And the moment you stop trying to think your way to freedom… that’s often when real healing begins.

Tune in.

Key Takeaways:

• Intro (00:00)
• Intellect helps in life but blocks healing (01:30)
• Thinking critically vs. thinking constantly (03:40)
• Recovery is not intellectual – it’s embodied (05:08)
• The intellect can't feel (06:07) 
• The intellect demands certainty (06:48)
• The intellect builds identities (07:38)
• The intellect resists stillness (08:39)
• The intellect fears transcendence (09:05)
• The intellect isn't the enemy (09:57)

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Back then, it didn’t take much – just a text and a jacket. 

Now it’s different. A dinner invite feels like a test. A friend’s birthday sits on your calendar like a deadline. Even the idea of showing up, of being seen, brings a tightness to your chest.

You cancel. Or you go and leave early. Or you stay, but it feels like you’re watching your own life from the outside.

People say you’ll be fine once you get there. But that doesn’t account for what your body’s already doing – before the door’s even opened. There’s a whole internal dialogue most people never hear. A nervous system running its own script, long before the conversation starts.

This episode explores what builds in the lead-up – the quiet dread, the mental back-and-forth, the resistance that shows up before the plan is even real. And what begins to change when the aim isn’t to enjoy it – but just to be there, regardless.

No “just be yourself” advice. No quick fixes.

Just a different kind of approach – one that’s helped more people than you’d think.

Tune in.

(This is an AI-generated episode inspired by my YouTube videos. I personally moderate these to share insights more efficiently, keeping the content informative yet completely free.)

Key Takeaways:

• Social anxiety often makes home the only safe place (00:00)
• Recovery begins with nervous system desensitization (02:10)
• There’s no quick fix – healing takes steady work (03:06)
• Just showing up is more important than enjoying it (04:26)
• Judging yourself by others’ opinions is a losing game (07:46)
• Self-respect should outweigh fear of judgment (08:35)
• Take one small values-based step this week (09:57)

Additional Resources:

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