How I Manage Anxiety | Telling my story 

Helen, thank you for sharing this with us. I had crippling anxiety 3 years ago when I experienced a manic episode after taking an anti-depressant. This is not a normal thing, but my brain basically experienced panic attack after panic attack for months because I did not know how to cope or know what was happening. I was already small and ended up losing an insane amount of weight. Insomnia set in and I was unable to sleep for months. It was horrifying. I had to become my own advocate or I was going to literally die. Took years to figure it all out. Today, I am healthier, happier and proud of myself for how strong I had become. No one knew what I was going through besides me. I felt very alone. I am so happy you are better and doing well. I just ordered several things from moon juice as I am always willing to try new things :)

Thank you Helen, I’m glad you shared your experience! Your message is very important: there is absolutely no reason to be afraid of panic attacks. I also suffer from panic attacks but much less today because I learned to be less afraid of them and to listen to my body more. I’m talking as a woman with hypothyroidism for which I have medication. Anxiety and hypothyroidism are linked. I encourage people to check their thyroid hormones. Also lack of iron can cause anxiety, so get your iron levels checked too. In my case I tend to feel anxiety a couple of days before periods, therefore I take more iron supplements in advance. I also like to take magnesium in liquid ampoule (more effective than tablets) before going to sleep. I’m against panic attack medication, but if it helps someone I would recommend to carry one pill in your handbag for ”the worst attack”, it’s just a trick to calm you down but hopefully you never actually have to take that pill. Please don’t forget to take care of yourself (enough sleep, sports, healthy food, mindfulness, massage etc.) and lastly, cutting off cafeine and heavy use of alcohol are important. Those are my tips to share :)

“Don’t give the fear the power.” You are so right! Thank you so so much for posting this and sharing it with us. You are amazing 💕🌸

Its so refreshing to hear someone talk about coping with anxiety using the power of the mind. As someone who used to be on medications, and quit, I still feel pressure from family and friends to Medicate. But The mind is so powerful! And like you said, some people might need to go down that route. This is your story, and your story can’t be wrong. Thanks for sharing this Helen.

I totally understand what you mean about feeling like a speck in the universe. The first time I had a panic attack, about 20 mins prior, I was just standing in front a mirror staring at myself, touching my face and looking so deeply into my eyes, not comprehending who I was or why humans were created (sounds weird but I just couldn't grasp this feeling). It felt like an existential crisis where I didn't understand how and why we were put on this earth, how we're literally made of stardust and how everything basically meant nothing because we live on a floating ball in the universe. Little did I know I was beginning to have my first panic attack and the ambulance was there 45 mins later haha. This just goes to show everyone's experience is different with anxiety, but the more we talk about it, the more we can help people see that it will get better, it will pass and you're going to be ok

really honorable to share this story. so relatable and refreshing. love your content, Helen! 🥰

You are very brave! So nice to hear what is going on when someone has a panic attack. I don’t feel anxiety myself but know lll have a better understanding of it if a friend goes through it❤️

Helen, I love this video! I experienced my first panic attack/major encounter with anxiety while in college too, so it was refreshing and comforting to hear your story. Thank you for sharing ♥

You’re strong girly 💜 I struggle with severe panic attacks. And it feels awful. I hope to get to this point soon 🙌🏼 inspiration

Helen, you are just amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing your story. Hearing your perspective and thoughts is always such a breath of fresh air for me☺️ You are so well spoken and I continue to look up to you every freakin day!!! Keep doin you!

Wow, this is the first video on anxiety that I have related to so much. Thank you for keeping it real ❤️

I love your reference on what happened in your mind and walking us through the descriptive process ! Thank you for sharing! I love what you create Helen !

Thanks for sharing your anxiety story. I had the worst 😫 anxiety & panic from anxiety medication 💊 withdrawal symptoms & luckily found your Instagram channel when you first started with Maybe just 100 to 200 subscribers... Your pics & videos really helped me get through those dark moments. Thank you again for sharing your story ❤ 🙏🏻

Thumbs up for talking about the power of the mind over everything! Thanks for sharing! Love to you and Zack!

I love that you shared your story - thank you!! - and I couldn’t have watched it at a better time, as I’m currently battling some demons of my own. Thank you for relaying your account and experience, along with tips and tricks that you’ve found have worked. I’m sending you peppermint hugs back ☺️🤗☺️

Wow this was so good and incredibly brave for you to share you and Zach experience! I’m going to send this to my best friend who deals with anxiety heavily. Love you Helen, keep being a light in this world 💓

Thank you for sharing your story Helen 💓 you are a huge role model for me and I look up to you a lot. I suffer from crippling anxiety and panic attacks. I’ve started getting paid collabs to work with brands as a content creator, but I’ve been so afraid that it’ll be impossible to travel and work with my constant anxiety 😮‍💨 after watching your video, I feel so much relief and comfort. Your anxiety is not embarrassing! I can relate to feeling anxiety in places where I can’t escape. I recently quit caffeine and can already feel a decrease in anxiety. Im happy to hear you’ve learned how to manage your anxiety. It makes me feel hopeful 🤍

Thank you for being open and vulnerable Helen!! I really needed this and it was so helpful to get insight on your story and how you have coped and overcome your anxiety!! It is inspiring and is much appreciated!

Awwww Helen thank you for the virtual peppermint hug. This was a great video and you navigated it with such tenderness and care (for such a hot topic). Thank you for sharing your experience - I'm going through a breakup right now and pulled out my journal, which is a huge help to me with anxiety or grief. Your video inspired me to be honest with where I am, and reminded me of the power of the mind - for thinking healing thoughts or anxitey-filled ones. Hugs!

I truly enjoyed watching this Helen! Love how open and transparent you are!!!

I’m really glad you explained in detail your and zak’s experiences with panic attacks. I think too many people throw around the world anxiety as just a replacement for the word nervous and don’t really understand so this was very helpful to share

Helen, you have described this so well and so brave to do it. I suffer with anxiety and have managed to find ways to manage it and randomly chewing gum is one of them. The part that resonated was when you said it was an inner battle every time you go and do something. Thank you for posting and thank you for the links on the supplements. Always good to get recommendations. xx

Wow!! I totally resonate with inventing your own type of anxiety and have trouble explaining in situations why I need to leave a restaurant or get out of the car (I call it car anxiety/noise anxiety). Thank you for sharing and so glad you have found tools that help 💛✨

I’m only half way through this video and already feeling so grateful you’re talking about your experience. I’ve felt the same where you’re in a seemingly normal environment doing something that is a normal activity yet inside you’re dying inside with anxiety and you don’t know why you’re having a panic attack and sitting there thinking, I look completely normal, I wonder who else is going through exact same thing at this moment. I teaches us to be more patience and compassionate with others. It’s scary and scary to think the PA’s can come at any time.

Thanks soooo much!!! I recently started to experience traveling anxiety after a bad turbulence. So I just try to get my mind out of the negative thoughts and picture my self at my destination having fun or just a calm spa or something. I also try to watch friends to get distracted. The window also helps but once I feel the smallest moment in the plain I stressed and battle all my thought while I am praying and trying to hold my breath. So thanks for those tips cause I do love traveling and I was so used to been on planes útil this happened and almost every single trip after that have some sort of problem or turbulence. I want to keep traveling and this had made me think to stop doing it. So I will really try what you have said! Thanks and will tell you after! 🙏🏻🤞🏻✈️

I just started crying, because you gave so good advice. I think this video helps a lot of people. I will watch it many times, because it made me feel so good. I just had a litte anxiety attac and it really helped me rn ❤️❤️

thank you SO much for opening up about this. I related to every word you said, makes me feel so much better for knowing I'm not alone.

You’ve been missed! Yesterday I was just thinking, “Where’s Helen?? I hope she uploads soon!” Thank you for being strong and sharing this with us 💗

Thank you for sharing your story. I am 24 and I live in Vancouver BC, I just recently started getting really bad panic attacks, and they mostly happen after a heavy night of partying or binge drinking. Usually I would go on trips with friends and I would feel so embarrassed for having to leave the bar early because of a panic attack. The key I learnt was to stay away from alcohol and just drink in moderation and definitely avoiding coffee when thinking I will go through an episode. This video I could to reallyyyyy relate to. Thank you 💕☺️

I related to this so much. Especially when you said, I thought I created a new form of anxiety that is anxiety about getting anxiety. This is literally what will send me into a panic attack- when I say to myself, I hope I don’t get anxious lol insane what our minds can do

Thank you for sharing and being vulnerable. We need more conscious creators like you who are brave enough to be real online

Found you through Mike Glover. I know the feeling. Mine is a bit different. A feeling of "electrical pulses", like a million tiny needles in my brain. I suffer from PTSD and have a distinct fear of dying, somewhere where nobody will know. I fear that only for my wife and kids. I have never feared death and for the most part still don't....but the sense of nobody knowing I am dead and where I am terrifies me because of what it would do to my family. Bless you young lady for this post and I know it will help many many people. I wish you much love, only the best in your journey and a a lifetime of happiness and health. -The Phantom

I really needed this ❤️ reminds me that we are all human and I have no words for how grateful I am. I tend to turn to a glass of wine at the end of the day and I kind of beat myself up for that, I will definitely be trying the magnesium drink ❤️

Thanks so much for sharing your story! You are such an amazing person. I suffer from anxiety and panic attacks as well. It's definitely terrifying, especially the first time it happened, just as you and Zack experienced. I was hungover and taking a long road trip from Florida to Kentucky. Thought I was having a heart attack and pulled over on the side of the interstate and called 911. Ended up going to the hospital in an ambulance and they didn't mention anything about anxiety to me, just said I had low potassium. Happened again the very next day as I got on the road again. Being in vehicles, especially stuck in traffic or at a stop light, has been a trigger for me too and I think it has a lot to do with that first experience being so traumatic. In my experience, the attacks are almost always after a night of drinking as well. I appreciate hearing what has helped you cope with it. Breathing helps me overcome the attacks when I feel them coming on. Long, deep breaths - in through the nose and out through the mouth. It helps to decrease blood pressure and heart rate. It doesn't always work but it usually helps to at least shorten the duration of the attack and reduce the physical symptoms. I also stopped drinking coffee for that very reason. If I do drink it anymore it's always decaf. As you said, CBD seems to be helpful for me also. I will give the Moon Juice supplements a try. Thanks for the recommendation.

You're human. I get them and don't go through a day without fear of the anxiety. We are so not alone and it is so normal.

I can relate to this so much! Wow! You summed it up perfectly. Thank you for sharing.❤️

Thank you, from a fellow of the same hard and dark feelings. Be safe and healthy. God bless you!

Thank you Helen so much for sharing this !!!♥

Ahhh I can relate to everything you've said, I wish I don't know what you talking about but I really do! It's the most scariest thing I've ever experienced 😭 I cried watching this video bc I feel bad for you I know exactly what you went through❤

I understand you because I know how is to live with that and its so hard to explain, so thank you to share this part of your life ,because I think you can help a lot to others to be aware the importance of mental health

you are so inspiring helen! ❤️

thanks for sharing helen! I found this very helpful and thought your suggestions were great 💜

I had also to learn it the hard way that avoiding coffee improves so much and that I should not limit myself because of irrational fears in my head 💕

Thank you for sharing, I’m at the heigh of my anxiety ever 😔 I go through those episodes often and last night I almost had to go to emerge.

Thank you for sharing your story! Also please do your curl tutorial I need to know how you curl your hair with volume its always so good xo

Thanks for sharing your story ♥️ I wanna try those supplements you suggested. It’s so great to see this vulnerability in your videos. You have a beautiful heart ❤️

❤❤❤🙏🙏 You're not alone I've been personally going through this now as my partner has up & left me recently Just because we are positive & smile we're all going through this together 🙏❤ You have helped me so so much & I thank you from the bottom of my heart Beautiful xx❤❤❤❤❤❤ You are all beautiful & thankful for you all ♡

Hi Helen, loved your video! So relatable!

When I was struggling with suicidal ideation, my therapist told me to watch a 20 minute sitcom/show that brings me joy or makes me laugh because 20 minutes can be the perfect amount of distraction we need to feel calmer! My go to show is modern family:)

You very brave helen thank for sharing

love ya so much. stay well! 💞

Thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏻❤️

I needed this 😭

Thank you so much for sharing your story! Please know that it really does help other people. Even a "million miles away" here in the Netherlands ;-)

Be strong. I have same experience, but mostly I past out. It is real problem, it happens when I am in car, at doctor atc. I have fear from fear. I hate it...

Loved this one thank you 🤍

Thank you for sharing!! xoxo

I can 100% relate. The feeling I would get was like a rush of bad adrenaline like the feeling you would get in your body right before you get in a car accident or like that feeling like it was about to happen. I remember my first panic attack I felt like I was dying my heart was racing, my arm went numb, I even got really hot then was shivering. It was awful 😭 Thankfully I don’t experience that much anymore however I have noticed if I drink I can get “hangxiety” lol I guess that’s actually a thing because of the imbalance in your body that alcohol can create. Thank you so for sharing your story! Also side note I love your rings where did you get them?😍

I had a panic attack at 3 am at a hotel and it was terrifying:( my arms and legs were shaking then I started feeling numb. I had trouble breathing and but after an hour it passed thank God

Oh my god… I’ve always believed that I had hypoglycemia my entire life, even though my blood sugar levels always showed normal levels even when I have hypoglycemic episodes. I just realized those were actually panic attacks. The description sound SO similar, the experiences…

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LOVE THIS! Quick question I tried your Seeds code and it didn’t work, do you no longer have a seeds code? Thanks in advance ♥️

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wow nice to meet you

Kinda tired of this feeling too im just 17 and got this when pandemic strikes and im scared when my parents are not with like i feel im suffocated and no one will help me when they are not around :(

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Not just coffee, its all caffeine. There were pre-workouts I had to stop taking because while it had a good effect in the gym, if something happened later that day to give me anxiety, it would turn a 3/10 issue into 9/10 DEFCON 5 anxiety.

Meditation really helps with anxiety. I have many friends who suffered from panic attacks and meditation helped them, for anyone who is reading and haven’t tried meditating- do get into it 💕i created a 5 day Meditation challenge on YT if u wana check it out. Thanks Helen for sharing your vulnerable moments and genuine emotions and sharings with us all. I have been following you for a while and these content is great because you have the power to change the world 🙂I wish you and Zac well and happy and that you guys can find your inner peace ☮️ 💕

Hi Helen 1.Your video is amazinggg 2.Can I send u a DM about something and I need your advise for it ?

Hey there, I love your vids but the volume is so different in every shot and in between music suddenly is really loud. That takes it away a bit for me

A panic attack is like the worst case of hiccups imaginable; you try to breathe but can't and feel like you're going to die. Worth asking a doctor to prescribe you Propranolol or something similar; calms you right down in a few minutes.

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