Have you ever thought deep breathing was healthy? Well in today's episode will explain the complete opposite

Discover:

• What it means to breathe deeply
• What health issues it can cause
• What healthy breathing actually is
• The  way to a panic free life

Over thirty years ago, I quit panic attacks. Completely. For Ever.
How did I do it?
With an amazing program that enabled me to quit AND continue to live a panic-free life.

Check out Your Panic Free Life Breathing Re-Training Programme that led me from panic to recovery.

Your Panic Free life - Get more panic free living tips

See you there,
Annie
Quit Panic Expert
Founder of Your Panic Free Life

Do you have symptoms with no medical explanation? This podcast explains the likely cause of your mysterious symptoms.

Discover:

• The likely cause of your mysterious symptoms
• What connects mysterious panic attacks with other symptoms
• Why doctors fail to identify the cause
• When the cause is identified: What then?
• The  way to a panic free life

Over thirty years ago, I quit panic attacks. Completely. For Ever.
How did I do it?
With an amazing programme that enabled me to quit AND continue to live a panic free life.

Check out Your Panic Free Life Breathing Re-Training Programme that led me from panic to recovery. Just pop your e-mail address into the box below, right now, press submit and you’ll go straight through.

https://www.yourpanicfreelife.com/

And on your way, remember to download: Your Panic FREE Life Q and A sheet.

See you there,
Annie
Quit Panic Expert
Founder of Your Panic Free Life

Are you breathing correctly?

This podcast explains how the way you breathe can cause panic attacks.

Discover:

• The importance of healthy breathing
• Breathing incorrectly can damage health
• Consequences of a poor breathing pattern
• Never, Ever, blow into a paper bag
• The way to encourage good breathing

Over thirty years ago, I quit panic attacks. Completely. For Ever.

How did I do it?

With an amazing programme that enabled me to quit AND continue to live a panic free life.

Check out Your Panic Free Life Breathing Re-Training Programme that led me from panic to recovery.

Your Panic Free Life - for more panic attack free tips

See you there
Annie

Quit Panic Expert
Founder of Your Panic Free Life

Are you suffering from repeated panic attacks? This podcast explains how the way you breathe can cause panic attacks.

Discover:

• That panic thoughts & feelings are natural
• The importance of breathing healthily
• Why simply breathing can cause panic
• How doctors misdiagnose the cause 
• When pills only treat the symptoms

Over thirty years ago, I quit panic attacks. Completely. For Ever.

How did I do it? With an amazing programme that enabled me to quit AND continue to live a panic free life.

Check out Your Panic Free Life Breathing Re-Training Programme that led me from panic to recovery. 

See you there, Annie

Quit Panic Expert

Founder of Your Panic Free Life

For more information, go to https://www.yourpanicfreelife.com

Are you taking pills to cope with your panic attacks? 

In this podcast, I explain what causes panic attacks, why a pill is not the answer and how they can be eliminated. Completely. For Ever.

Discover:

• That dysfunctional breathing causes panic attacks
• Why a pill only subdues panic attacks, not cures
• The reason for other seemingly inexplicable symptoms
• The way to quit panic attacks. Completely. For Ever
•  How to breathe your way to health through the breathing re-training programme

Over thirty years ago, this same breathing re-training programme released me from a life controlled by panic and replaced it with a life controlled with ease.

For more information, visit https://www.yourpanicfreelife.com

Welcome to Podcast Five in Your Panic Free Life Series.

Hello,  I’m Annie Roy-Barker, founder of Your Panic Free Life. 

Research is on-going into the cause of Long Covid.  So far, not so good. I understand that no answer has yet been found for what causes Long Covid.

Let’s investigate the facts:

 First, a significant number of people are suffering with a problem that has been given the name of Long Covid. That’s a fact. 

The second fact is that the problem always manifests itself after the virus, Covid-19, has gone. It’s waved goodbye, it’s left the body, it’s gone looking for another victim.

The third fact is that research has not yet found what causes Long Covid; why only some people succumb to it whilst others have no after affects from the Covid-19 virus.

Here come another couple of very valuable facts. The symptoms of  Long Covid vary from person to person and symptoms can attack any organ in the body.

It’s the last two facts that have the ability to change Long Covid from fact into fiction. Now, I’m not suggesting that Long Covid is actually fictional. What I am suggesting, is that another illness actually  presents with comparable symptoms.

So, here’s the thing. It’s highly likely that the illness now known as Long Covid actually  existed way before the Covid-19 pandemic hit our shores. The illness I’m referring to is known as Chronic Habitual Hyperventilation Syndrome. (HVS for short). And HVS often follows flu or, indeed, a virus or illness of any kind. Get the picture?

Let me explain. When you’re ill, your breathing pattern alters. If that incorrect breathing pattern continues for a significant time after recovery from the illness, it then becomes an illness in its own right, known as Chronic Habitual Hyperventilation Syndrome.

In my book ‘Your Panic Free Life’ I list the symptoms that can present with HVS, including  panic attacks. Regrettably, HVS does not show up in any tests or examinations, which is a reason highly qualified health professionals regularly dismiss chronic hyperventilators as being neurotic, a hypochondriac, or frequently make a wrong diagnosis of anxiety. And now, it seems highly likely that HVS is being wrongly diagnosed as Long Covid.

Meanwhile, researchers continue their quest to find the cause and treatment for Long Covid and my breathing re-training programme continues to help people overcome panic attacks and  eliminate other symptoms of Chronic Hyperventilation Syndrome.

For more information to give you the opportunity to live Your Panic Free Life, check out Your Panic Free Life Breathing Re-Training Programme that led me from panic to recovery. 

Welcome to Podcast Four in Your Panic Free Life series. I’m Annie Roy-Barker, founder of Your Panic Free Life. Here’s my question: What is the reason that some people recover completely from the Covid-19 virus and others suffer long term effects from it? And, it seems, even those who had a mild attack of the virus can suffer from long term COVID symptoms such as chronic fatigue, exhaustion, lethargy, severe weakness, muscle aches and pains.

It’s possible that the answer could be staring us right in the face.
Let me take you way, way back to the American Civil War, between 1861 and 1865. It was then that a physician by the name of Jacob Mendes Da Costa observed, in soldiers, the same symptoms that present in Long Covid today. Da Costa’s studied soldiers that marched twenty miles or so every day, at double pace, with little or no food and water and in appalling weather. Eventually, of course, many soldiers would fall by the wayside, exhausted.

Now, here’s the really interesting bit. Even after the virus had worked its way through, soldiers still had debilitating symptoms such as abnormal palpitations, muscle aches and pains, fatigue and breathlessness that prevented them returning to full military duties. The cause of this condition, which came to be known as Da Costa’s Syndrome, has baffled physicians for centuries.

Fast forward, now, to Dr Claude Lum, 1916 - 2008, Emeritus Chest Physician, Papworth Hospital, England. Dr Lum’s extensive study into Chronic Habitual Hyperventilation Syndrome (dysfunctional breathing) revealed symptoms matching Da Costa’s Syndrome. In his article ‘Hyperventilation: The Tip Of The Iceberg’ Dr Lum states: Symptoms may show up anywhere, in any organ; for we are dealing with a profound bio-chemical disturbance; a condition that doctors fail to recognise and, because hyperventilation syndrome doesn’t
show up in any tests or examinations, the patient is diagnosed as suffering from anxiety.

And here’s another really interesting point. Dr Lum identified that Chronic Habitual Hyperventilation Syndrome commonly takes hold following a virus.
So there you have it. The symptoms of Long Covid and Chronic Habitual Hyperventilation Syndrome have remarkable similarity. And this brings me to the reason for my professional interest. I met Dr Lum when I was referred to him as a patient. For about nine years, I’d been experiencing mysterious symptoms - that this Podcast is all about.

By the way, I’d already been through numerous doctors, consultants and all manner of health professionals prior to being referred to Dr Lum my illness as Chronic Habitual Hyperventilation Syndrome and, under his guidance, I made a full recovery. That was over thirty years ago, and I’m still symptom free. And this is the reason I created my Breathing Re-training Programme, to enable people to overcome the debilitating symptoms that dysfunctional breathing can create.

Discover how to live Your Panic Free Life by checking out the Your Panic Free Life Breathing Re-Training Programme that led me from panic to recovery. 

Welcome to Podcast Three from Your Panic Free Life series. I’m Annie Roy-Barker, founder of Your Panic Free Life. I’m very aware that Covid-19 and its inevitable restrictions on everyone’s life, is proving incredibly difficult for a tremendous amount of people. So, is it any wonder that panic attacks have become more prevalent? One attack leading to another, seemingly out of the blue. Or are they?

This podcast is about panic attacks and other symptoms that you may be experiencing as well. It’s unlikely that a person experiences panic attacks alone; other symptoms usually present themselves.

When I was hyperventilating, (caused by an incorrect breathing pattern, which is usually the cause of panic attacks), I had several quite ridiculous symptoms. Well they seemed ridiculous when I didn’t know what was causing them. And even more ridiculous when nobody else could tell me what was causing them either. In fact, I was frequently told they were ‘all in my mind’ and I didn’t take kindly to that because I knew they weren’t. 
So I want you to please listen to the following short list of some of the symptoms you’re likely to be experiencing with your panic attacks. Free floating anxiety - that is anxiety that’s sort of floating all around you with no reason:

• Excessive yawning and sighing, pins and needles in arms, legs, lips, maybe 
• Dry cough
• Bowel problems impersonating IBS
• Palpitations/rapid heart beat
• Spaced out feelings – as if you’re dreaming
• Numbness in lips, limbs, face
• Excessive perspiration, particularly during the night
• Pains in arms, legs, everywhere, shooting around
• Nausea, dizziness, trembling

These are just a few of the symptoms that you may be experiencing.

The list is endless. So, if you’re having panic attacks, with or without other symptoms that don’t appear to have a cause, it’s highly likely that you’re hyperventilating - that is breathing in a dysfunctional way. And any amount of tests or examinations will always prove negative because Hyperventilation Syndrome does not show up in any tests or examinations - which is why even highly qualified, experienced, health professionals invariably say ‘there is nothing wrong with you.’

As for me, when I had conquered my dysfunctional breathing pattern and had learned how to breathe in the correct manner, my panic attacks and all other symptoms disappeared.  And I haven’t had a panic attack in over thirty years.

To discover how to live Your Panic Free Life, check out Your Panic Free Life Breathing Re-Training Programme that led me from panic to recovery. 

Welcome to Podcast two in the ‘Your Panic Free Life’ series.

I’m wondering if you, like me, have heard it stated that panic attacks are a mental problem. Frankly, I consider this to be a very alarming claim, because there was a time when I suffered debilitating panic attacks and I certainly didn’t have a mental problem. In my case, it turned out that my panic attacks happened because I was breathing incorrectly. (It’s actually the basic cause for them) That’s right. The cause of my panic attacks was that I was breathing incorrectly. In other words, I was suffering from Chronic Habitual Hyperventilation Syndrome.

So, there are two points to consider here. The first is that hyperventilation is not a mental issue, it’s a physical problem. It has to be, because the very act of breathing is a physical function. The second point is that telling a person that they are mentally ill implies they are unable to adequately cope with life.

And there’s a third point that it is also important to consider. Because hyperventilation will never show up in any tests or examinations, hyperventilation syndrome is frequently mis-diagnosed as anxiety. Yes, breathing can seriously damage your health.

Now for the good news. As I said earlier, over thirty years ago, a dysfunctional breathing pattern caused my panic attacks. When I learned how to breathe properly, my panic attacks stopped and I haven’t had another one since. 

I’m living proof that:

*** Breathing incorrectly can seriously damage your health.

*** Breathing correctly can seriously improve your health.

For the opportunity to live Your Panic Free Life, check out Your Panic Free Life Breathing Re-Training Programme that led me from panic to recovery. 

Welcome to the first Podcast in the Your Panic Free Life series. I’m Annie Roy-Barker, founder of Your Panic Free Life and the first thing I want to say is that I really do know how frightening and debilitating panic attacks can be; how hard and frustrating it is when you don’t know what’s causing them and don’t have a clue how to prevent them. How do I know? Because I’ve been in that situation. Got the T-shirt.

Desperately, I would search the web looking for some semblance of help that would get me out of the insidious mess that controlled my life. All I could find was advice about coping with/managing panic attacks. That just wasn’t good enough. I wanted to know what was causing my panic attacks and how to stop them happening.

After suffering panic attacks for nine horrendous years, I was referred to a respiratory consultant who had pioneered work into the cause and effect of dysfunctional breathing.

He diagnosed that I was suffering from Chronic Habitual Hyperventilation Syndrome.

Surprising as it may seem, breathing incorrectly was actually causing my panic attacks? I was taught how to breathe correctly and, eventually, my panic attacks ceased. No more coping. No more managing. And it’s really important to say here that all this happened over thirty years ago. And I haven’t had a panic attack since. I live a panic free life.

And to give you the opportunity to live Your Panic Free Life, click here for further details.

Check out Your Panic Free Life Breathing Re-Training Programme that led me from panic to recovery.