Freedom From Anxiety with Lily Sais

Experiencing anxiety and panic attacks can often lead us to do more (and more) to try to manage and control them. Lily Sais found herself in exactly this situation – working with children as a school psychologist while suffering in silence about her own anxiety. When she found the Three Principles she was released from all that she was doing to try to manage her symptoms and now she helps others find that same freedom.Lily Sais is a former school psychologist who now works as an anxiety coach and three principles practitioner. She works with compassionate, deep-thinking individuals who are currently experiencing anxiety and seeking a profound sense of relief. They’ve tried countless techniques, sought advice from numerous “experts,” and devoured countless books, only to realize that it all feels overwhelming and unnecessarily complex. Deep down, they know there must be a simpler way, but they haven’t discovered it yet.You can find Lily Sais at Peace-From-Within.com and on Instagram @_peacefromwithin.You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below. Show Notes* Working as a school psychologist while struggling with anxiety and panic attacks * How there is always less for us to do than we think * How our mental health is always with us * Learning that we have choices about what we focus on * How we can unintentionally argue for our limitationsResources Mentioned in this Episode* Sarie Taylor’s website * Spark curriculum * Jack Pransky’s book Somebody Should Have Told Us * Lily’s blog post on body sensations * Nicola Bird’s podcastTranscript of Interview with Lily SaisAlexandra: Lily Sais thank you so much for being here with me on Unbroken.Lily: Thank you for having me. I’m excited to be here.Alexandra: My pleasure. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got interested in the three principles.Lily: Prior to coming into the three principles understanding I was a school psychologist. And what actually led me to the three principals was my own mental health struggles.I struggled with anxiety for a lot of my life. But then it really ramped up in 2011 when I had a panic attack, I had a bad reaction to a medication. And so I had a panic attack that involves derealization and depersonalization. This feeling of like unreality, and like I was losing my mind. And I had it when I was driving on the freeway in Los Angeles. Actually quite a few people, their first panic attack will be driving or on a plane or something like that. But so as what happens with some people is that I started having like panic about panic, and you know, associating it with driving, and living in Los Angeles, we do rely on our cars a lot. So I had a lot of thinking about it. And so I just tried so many things. I’ve always been interested in mental health and I just really ramped it up after having a panic attack. I’m really interested in somatic therapy, neurofeedback, cognitive behavioral therapy. I also get really into it, I’m like, Oh, my God, this is going to be it. And I’d want to and think about sharing some of it with the stude...