Healing Anxiety and Binge Eating with Clare Assante

Clare Assante knows whereof she speaks. For years she struggled with anxiety, which also created a binge eating habit. And like so many of us, she tried All. The. Things. to try to manage, control, and eliminate those struggles. Thankfully, Clare discovery the 3 Principles, which not only helped her with the anxiety and binge eating, they softened the blow when she received a potentially devastating health diagnosis.Clare Assante suffered with anxiety for 25 years; it made her world very small and she was doing less and less. She had tried many things but nothing helped long term until she came across an understanding of how the mind works that helped her to navigate life without getting caught up in all the drama. Clare is now a certified Change Coach and works with those struggling with anxiety, depression, unwanted habits, health anxiety or anything that’s making life feel like hard work. You can find Clare Assante at BlindsidedByThought.com.You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes, links, resources and full transcript are below.Show Notes* On the difference between the other approaches Clare used to try to deal with anxiety vs. the 3 Principles * Processing a devastating health diagnosis with a grounding in peace and well-being * How our unwanted habits work to quiet our insecure minds * How our thinking surprisingly isn’t personal * On the value of living in the unknown * On coaching teens about their innate resilienceResources Mentioned in this Episode* Clare’s Parenting Teens More Gracefully Facebook group * Dr. Amy Johnson * Nicola BirdTranscript of Interview with Clare AssanteAlexandra: Claire Asante, welcome to Unbroken.Clare: Hi, Alexandra. Thank you for having me.Alexandra: My pleasure. Tell us about your background and how you got interested in the Three Principles.Clare: I was a very worried child who spent my whole childhood just worrying about things and not really knowing that was what it was. And as I got a bit older, it took hold as anxiety, really. And then, I struggled with severe anxiety for about 25 years. And it just got worse and worse.I literally tried every single possible thing that I could find and threw a lot of money at it. And, even these weird and wonderful things that you think, maybe this is the one. I did find a lot of them, a lot of the things, temporarily did the trick. I thought, “I found it found it last”, and then it was just, I think, where it just didn’t shift enough, nothing shifted enough.So then I would end up back to square one again. And then eventually, I found the three principles, which were just something completely different.Alexandra: Can you describe the difference between the two approaches that you saw?Clare: I think the main thing that I would probably describe it as is the fact that with all the other things, you’re basically trying to fix the behavior. So it felt like white-knuckling, and you’re just not really getting anywhere with that. Whereas with three principles, you are changing something so deep within you that once it’s changed, there’s no going back. I always say it’s like when someone shows you a magic trick, and you’re completely fooled by it, and then they show you how it’s done. And then you’re like, Well, I can’t even believe in that again. And that’s what three principles gave me.