What Is Excessive Worry?

Worry involves repetitive, unpleasant thoughts, images, or emotions, often centered around things that might happen in the future. People who experience excessive worry and anxiety spend much of their time thinking about worst case scenarios, or playing out multiple possible outcomes.

Some people with excessive, habitually worry feel as if their worry has the potential to prevent unwanted outcomes. Worry is viewed as a coping mechanism that appears to be preparing or protecting them, even when that is not logical.

What You Might Be Experiencing

- Racing or repetitive thoughts
- Indecision or procrastination
- Low mood
- Fatigue
- Anxiety
- Trouble sleeping
- Difficulty with focus and concentration

What You Might Be Experiencing

- Racing or repetitive thoughts
- Indecision or procrastination
- Low mood
- Fatigue
- Anxiety
- Trouble sleeping
- Difficulty with focus and concentration

You Are Not Alone

Everyone worries at times; worry crosses the line into something more debilitating when it is persistent and extreme. Worry is closely related to anxiety. Over 90% of people who experience anxiety report excessive worry.

Men and women, and people of all cultures and demographic backgrounds can experience excessive worry. Worry has nothing to do with the actual presence of unwanted events. People can find themselves in habitual worry even when nothing is objectively troublesome or dangerous.

People who worry excessive worrying often feel as if they have no choice in the matter. What if’s and worst case scenarios flood their mind and they feel compelled to mentally play out these scenarios.

What Can I Do About It?

Traditional treatment for excessive worry and anxiety most often includes psychotherapy and in some cases, medication. However, traditional treatment for worry and anxiety is not nearly as effective as we’d wish it to be.

Thankfully, there are newer, less traditional approaches that are incredibly effective. The No-Willpower Approach that I outline in my bestselling book, The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit has helped countless people find lasting freedom from habitual worry.

The No-Willpower Approach is an insight-based approach that helps you see yourself and your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in a radically new way.

Excessive Worry Is A Changeable Habit –How to Stop Worrying

Although many people struggle with this habit, excessive worry and anxiety are very changeable. You do not need to “cope” with, or “manage” worry long-term. No matter how long or how often you’ve been caught up in worry, there is enormous hope for complete freedom from this habit.

Worry is not about actual protection or what’s happening in your life; it’s about a few simple misunderstandings about how our thoughts, feelings, and habits truly work. Freedom comes from the inside-out, from seeing yourself, your thoughts and feelings, and your habit in a brand new way.

Hi, I’m Amy

I struggled with anxiety in many forms, from generalized anxiety to excessive worry about my health, to panic attacks and intrusive thoughts, for most of my life. I was told by many well-meaning professionals that I would likely struggle with this forever; that I could learn to cope, but that this habit might always come back when I was feeling stressed or overwhelmed.

Thankfully, nothing could be further from the truth today. I have been completely free of debilitating worry for many years with no effort or coping necessary. In that time, I’ve shared what helped me find freedom with people all over the world in my books, videos, online school, and my podcast, Changeable.

I’ve trained over 70 coaches to be experts in the no-willpower paradigm through my Change Coach Training Program. I’ve been a regularly featured expert on The Steve Harvey Show and Oprah.com, as well as in The Wall Street Journal and Self magazine.

REAL PEOPLE, REAL CHANGE

Lisa

“My anxiety was consuming my life. I couldn’t enjoy holidays as I would be worried about returning to work. Weekends were the same, I would start worrying from Saturday evening. My brain felt like it would explode with all the thoughts going on.

During The Little School of Big Change, I began to understand that I needed to let my thoughts carry on but not take them seriously. I can’t stop them but I don’t need to act on them either. The course also gave me the freedom to do whatever I wanted in life. It doesn’t matter if I make mistakes or have bad days. I don’t have to dwell on them, I can just move on. It’s given me freedom and helped me to relax. I know I’m on the right track.”

Uma

“I had general worries, anxiety, and a heavy attachment to my fluctuating emotions. I placed a huge emphasis on my feelings and moods which created a lot of unnecessary day-to-day suffering.

Words don’t do justice to the kind of transformation I felt after finding Amy and The Little School of Big Change. I feel like I have the missing ingredient to true freedom and inner peace that everyone seems to be searching for. It’s not that you become immune to the human condition, but no matter what life throws at me, I’m in touch with a deeper knowing that I’m inherently well, peaceful, and resilient. It’s a permanent shift in how I view life and understand the human experience.”

Colleen

“Before Amy and The Little School of Big Change, I struggled with excessive worrying, overthinking, and being overly self-critical.

I love that there are no techniques, rules, or steps in Amy’s work. Just rediscovering that I am normal and healthy. I don’t take thoughts so seriously, AND it’s not up to me to change them. I don’t have a worry problem. I just have a busy mind like everyone on the planet, and that’s SO incredibly freeing!”

What Can I Do To Change My Excessive Worry?

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About The Little School of Big Change

My bestselling book, The Little Book of Big Change, and my online school, The Little School of Big Change, have helped tens of thousands of people in 50+ countries find their own freedom from binge eating and other habits without therapy, revisiting the past, medication, or willpower.

The Little School of Big Change is a highly supportive 6-week course that shares a groundbreaking new paradigm in mental health that has helped hundreds of thousands of people around the world to tap into their natural health and resilience.

The school helps you see yourself and your psychology in a radically new way—a way that leads to freedom from what holds you back.

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