Calm, Confident Brain

The short online programme to go from anxious, antsy and secretly panicked to calm, clear, and confident, for stressed leaders and high achievers

If you've landed on this page, you're likely to be looking for a solution to your underlying anxiety and the discomfort of physical stress.  You may be feeling antsy, fearful of making powerful decisions, or experiencing constant high alert.  I'm Anne Cheshire, SEP, MNIMH, trauma therapist, qualified business strategist, and trained in Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing.  I may be able to help you.

Here's the problem.  You might feel highly anxious, super-sensitive to your surroundings, or constantly on the lookout for other people's reactions, even though you present a good front.  You've tried everything you can to manage your anxiety, and still you don't feel safe or comfortable making decisions, initiating innovations, or managing a crisis.  You may even be facing overwhelm or burnout, and you don't want anything that takes for ever, is difficult to do, or does not fit in to your day.

If this is you, then please click on the video (it's just under nine minutes long).  The underlying anxiety is all to do with your unconscious brain settings.  And I can show you how to change your brain settings with discrete, simple, practical exercises which will take you a few moments each day, so you can show up in your role with genuine ambition and purpose, and achieve your goals without the brakes on all the time.

Experience a calm, confident brain

The programme to get you feeling good in your own skin.  

• Discover how to deal with overwhelm, anxiety, red alert, and emotional storms.
• Calm your unconscious brain activation, so you are calm and in charge.  
• Soothe, regulate, and even repair the unconscious brain's fight,  flight and freeze
• Generate confidence and switch on clarity so you can think and feel clearly, and make better decisions, without second-guessing yourself, procrastinating, or stalling.

Over years of working one-to-one with thousands of clients from all walks of life, as well as business owners and high achievers, one thing has become crystal clear:  It's the unconscious brain which regulates our levels of anxiety and panic, or calm and confidence, WHATEVER the circumstances.  And you can discover how to change your unconscious brain patterns without digging into the past or expensive therapy sessions.

How to feel calm, clear, and confident, deep down inside

Here's what you get, without needing years in therapy, or exhausting mental gymnastics

Get yourself help for right now, and stop having to pretend you're ok, when you're panicking:  First Aid for Now module:  7 quick, super-simple actions for immediate first aid in anxiety or panic.  Six out of the seven are entirely discrete, and you can do them without anyone noticing that you are doing anything.  Try them in meetings or in the office.  The video shows you what to do, step by step, and you can follow along with me to decrease activation and agitation, and steer your brain towards a calmer state.  There are loads of variations, and you can't do it wrong!

Crystal clear explanations, based on my expertise in the field, showing how the unconscious brain responds to threat or uncertainty, and creates patterns that stay in place, whether we want them or not.  You'll see what happens and how to change the patterns.

Easy, practical video lessons, structured to get you the biggest results in the shortest time.  Lasting 15 - 20 minutes each, the videos allow you to practise super-simple exercises alongside me.  You can't get them wrong, and it's easy to see which suit you best.  You'll change your unwanted response patterns step by step, and restore calm in the unconscious brain, so that you can feel safe and confident, deep down inside, ready to take action.  

Everything ready for you right now.  All the videos are waiting for you to access immediately.  Start with 'First Aid for Right Now' to get some quick and easy solutions to feeling panicked or anxious, right then and there in the moment.  

THE FULL PROGRAMME

Module 1:  First Aid for Right Now - big results in tiny, doable steps.  Return to this whenever you need to.

Module 2:  Why Does the Brain Make us Anxious? - The nerdy, theory part with clear explanations. You'll see why the exercises work, and how to make them most effective.

Modules 3 and 4:  Being able to see what is going on and connecting safely with our surroundings.  You'll discover how to gain calm awareness and feel safe rather than being on red alert, or feeling as if you don't know what is going on, even if rationally you are totally on it..

Module 5:  Switch the brain on to take clear, confident action,  which allows us to get things done.  It's about getting our unconscious brains to allow confident, decisive action.

Module 6:  Discover actually feeling safe and free, rather than stuck, fearful or trapped.  Essential for feeling comfortable in our own skins.

PLUS SPECIAL BONUSES

Bonus 1:  You'll discover how to come out of Freeze and Dissociation - crucial if you ever find yourself freezing or spacing out when overwhelmed.

Bonus 2:  Taking it further: connect with your sense of self and trust your gut instincts. Vital for making good decisions.

Bonus 3:  Only available with this edition.  Discover 10 ways to ground and centre yourself using your new skills. All you need if you find yourself knocked off kilter for a moment or two.

PLUS:  Membership of the Calm, Confident Brain insiders' private FaceBook group for questions and support.  I'll be hanging out there to answer your questions and cheer you on.  

If you identify with any of these, this programme will help you.  

You find yourself getting stuck in indecision and confusion and you can't take action even if you know what to do.  Your expertise is not in question, but something is stopping you.  Maybe stressful situations make you feel anxious and even a bit panicky?  Chances are, you sometimes feel cut off and isolated.  It's all happening in the unconscious brain.

Helping you move from anxious and distracted to calm and focused

I'm Anne Cheshire, SEP, MNIMH, here in the city of Edinburgh.  I'm a practising trauma therapist, trained in brain centred trauma therapy and somatic experiencing.  I'm also a qualified business strategist.  My mission is to help people in all walks of life use the power of their own brains to feel calm, clear and confident, and generate mental and physical/somatic skills which fully support their goals and ambitions, whatever they may be.

I'm a business woman, a mum, and a linguist. I've owned exercise studios (I still teach barre!), I've been a secondary school teacher (Philosophy and Modern Foreign Languages), I've run an art gallery (on the side), and I have been a trauma therapist for fifteen years.

I've worked with thousands of individual clients and patients in one-to-one therapy, seeing them reconnect with themselves, generate calm, clarity and confidence, and empower their roles, their businesses, and their lives.  What I have found is that it's not just about knowing rationally what to do, but about enabling the unconscious brain to feel calm and action oriented, rather than stopping you taking powerful action. 

And it's true that, even if you have done years of 'talking therapy', coaching, or mentoring, the 'calm/anxiety' switch is in the brain's unconscious mode.  However much one tries to talk or reason oneself out of anxiety, it doesn't work.  You see, the unconscious brain does not understand words!

This is where I help.  Rooted in in-depth training and clinical experience in my field of expertise, my system helps anyone with an unconscious part of the brain (that's you and me!) gain calm, confidence, and laser focus.  We can zero in on our purpose, and get on track with our goals and ambitions.  I've been on that journey myself, and I'm here to guide you on your's.

The old way... or a totally different new way

If you are ready to say goodbye to the old way of always being on red alert, and just powering through, then you are probably asking "how"? 

Say hello to the new way in The Calm, Confident Brain, a programme in which I show your unconscious brain how to be calm and confident without expensive therapy or digging into the past.

It's not a course or a diploma, and you don't "think about" how you feel, it's a system where you DO quick, simple things to change the way your brain responds.

Your brain learns new patterns effortlessly with a little targeted repetition.  I'll show you how to get your brain to learn, what the new patterns need to be, and how to build repetition into your busy day with ease.

Who is this programme for?

A quick check to see if this is right for you.  This programme is for you if you want this:

• You want to discover how to take charge of your own brain for ever, and calm its reactions.
• You want to make deep-down fundamental changes in the way you respond to life.
• You want super-simple, quick and easy steps to follow so you can begin to feel calm and confident from the start.
• You want the power to decrease anxiety and high alert in your own brain, in the part of the brain where it is actually happening.
• You want clear understanding about how our brains work to keep us safe, and how they become stuck in survival patterns.
• You want support and encouragement along your journey, as well as expert advice and help.
• You want instant access to a programme which enables you to discover how to gain calm and confidence, step by step.
• You want  to make the discoveries alongside others on this journey in our optional supportive private  Facebook group.

Who this programme is not for:

It's really important to know what this programme does not do, and if you want any of these, this programme is probably not for you:

• This is not a quick fix.  After years and maybe decades of unconscious brain patterns, the change doesn't happen overnight.  But, however long these unhelpful patterns have been there, you CAN change them, step by step.  
• This is not something which happens TO you.  You follow along, and do the exercises yourself, because that's what changes your brain.  It doesn't work if you just think about it!
• This is not therapy - it's coaching.  So it's not about digging into the murky past or retelling your story over and over (that will make it worse). It's about you changing how your brain responds right now so that you can live life the way you want to.