we don´t heal in isolation. We are connected and we can feel that when we are in the process of overcoming our trauma. That is why I, Michele Rosenthal have written my memoir on how I have overcome my trauma.
My book will inspire you and help you to awaken to life. To again be able to laugh and to cry, to love and to be grateful.Yes, be grateful for all and everything that life has to offer you. You will even be grateful for the trauma that has brought you to understand what is important in life.

I , Michele Rosenthal, am a trauma survivor who struggled with posttraumatic stress disorder for over 25 years – I know what it’s like to feel the stress of painful memories. I also know what it takes to let those memories go and build a life of meaning, purpose and joy. My powerful memoir, Before the World Intruded: Conquering the Past and Creating the Future, is a bold and moving account of healing, resilience and personal discovery.

As a matter of fact, Before the World Intruded tells the story of Michele’s quest to triumph over the past — and the very unexpected way she did it. You can read a summary of the book here: http://www.beforetheworldintruded.com.

In Michele’s book you will discover how to:

1.Conquer the past, engage in the present and create the future
2.Use the power of joy to transform pain and suffering
3.Make the choice to have courage
4.Access inner strength during life’s most challenging moments
5.Construct a post-trauma identity
Reviewers of the book say:

“Whenever I feel sad that I’ve finished a book, I know I’ve been transformed by its pages. Michele’s story is incredibly moving, and beautifully written. I’m a lover of words and her prose is rich, descriptive and fluid off the tongue.” ~Deborah Serani, PsyD, Author of Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter on the Path To Hope and Healing

Michele is a courageous heroine, but she’s also very accessible. She explores the darkest days of her life with a brave, open heart, tirelessly learning painful lessons, which she shares with an engaging vulnerability. When she finally dances into a life free of trauma, we dance alongside Michele happily. I loved her generosity and humanity in this important, beautiful book.
~ Priscilla Warner, author, Learning to Breathe – My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life

“Before the World Intruded is a transporting story of trauma and recovery. An addictively readable memoir that carries the reader along —from [the story of] a child’s exposure to a life-threatening illness, through years of post-traumatic stress, to a grown-up woman’s euphoric recovery. By the end of the book you will be crying and laughing at once, and applauding Michele Rosenthal for her courage.” Jessica Stern, Expert on trauma and terror, Author of Denial: A Memoir of Terror and Terror in the Name of God.

“The twenty-six year journey beautifully described in Before the World Intruded shows how deeply rooted trauma can become. Much can be learned by reading this book. Most importantly, Michele Rosenthal had the courage to seek an escape from the inescapable—and that is a choice that anyone afflicted with traumatic memories must make every day.” Ron Ruden, MD, PhD, author, When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures
Sometimes a book comes along that’s so inspiring, different and insightful that once you pick it up you can’t put it down. Michele’s book is unforgettable and I’m very pleased to be supporting the launch of her special memoir by contributing a free gift. Check out the great complimentary resources (almost $2,000) you’ll receive when you buy the book between April 25 – May 2: http://yourlifeaftertrauma.com/trauma-project-give-back/partners/

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I higly recommend to buy the book. It will give you many insights and help you to understand life better. If you cannot click the above link, please copy and paste it into your browser. When purchasing the book, you will get many bonuses that amount to almost 2,000 dollars.

In this courageous look at what it takes to overcome the pain of the past, Michele shares her journey to joy through recovery from enormous fear, anxiety, depression, sadness and posttraumatic stress disorder.

If you’re tired of feeling weighed down, stalled and stuck, click here to read more about the book and start your own journey toward conquering the past and creating the future:

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Conquering the Past and Creating the Future, A Memoir, is one woman’s quest to triumph over trauma — and the very unexpected way she did it.
In this courageous look at what it takes to overcome the pain of the past, Michele shares her journey to joy through recovery from enormous fear, anxiety, depression, sadness and posttraumatic stress disorder.
If you’re tired of feeling weighed down, stalled and stuck, click here to read more about the book and start your own journey toward conquering the past and creating the future:

http://www.beforetheworldintruded.com

As a special bonus, if you purchase Michele’s memoir between April 25 – May 2 you will receive almost $2,000 in free gifts to help you take back control, release the past, regain your confidence and begin creating a life you love.

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As we already said, there are many natural cures to help people who suffer from anxiety. Many of these cures take into account your body, others help you more with your mind.
Let us focus on your body. It offers so many possibilities. Most people ignore them and it is a pity.
Last time we spoke about pressing the top of your fingers.
Today I would like to talk about your breathing.
Have you ever thought that your breath is the connection between your body and your mind? Without your breath you could not survive. What is strange about your breath is the fact that most people do not breathe properly. Their breathing is superficial. Watch yourself and you will see whether your breathing is deep or superficial.
Deep breathing helps the body to get more oxygen. More than what is usually gets. When an anxiety attack is taking place, the breathing gets hectic, superficial. Unless you are able to control it. You can learn to do just that.
Learn it now, so that when anxiety shows up, you can just switch to deep breathing. Deep breathing will immediately calm your nervous system. Please do it now. Take a deep breath, inhaling through your nose. feel how your lungs are filled with fresh and sparkling air. Then exhale slowly through your mouth. You feel how the air comes out from your lungs. .Then inhale again through your nose, exhale through your mouth. Try to say thanks for each and every breath. This helps you to fix gratitude in your system. I suggest that you do the breathing exercise every day, at the beginning may be just for a couple of minutes,. then you can increase the duration of this breathing exercise. You will feel much fresher if you breathe this way.
When breathing with slow and deep gentle breaths, your whole system benefits from it. You get calmer and calmer. Your nervous system gets what it needs to do its work properly.
Your immune system gets stronger, your brain gets more oxygen and works better.
You see, you can only win. Anxiety shows up when you are tense, when you fear something. With better breathing your tension gets loser or it even disappears. Even if you work hard and get stress related to work, if you just switch your breathing to a slow rhythm, you will immediately feel better. You see, it’s easy. Another step towards an anxiety free life. Take it.now!

First of all, be aware that the most important vitamins your body needs when it is anxious, are those of the B-group.
They all have a strong impact on your psyche, on your mental state and on your nervous system.
Don’t forget that anxiety may be a normal reaction in stressful situations. It only becomes a problem if you feel it all day long. Then it is no longer a normal reaction but has become a habit. Your anxiety may become the fear of an anxiety attack. and so on and so forth.
Then it becomes an unwanted reaction and perpetuates itself. It has to come to an end. Otherwise you might harm yourself in your overall health.
In any case, anxiety is not a good companion. A part from a healthy way of living, you need to give your body the vitamins that it needs to protect you against the negative effects of your anxiety.
The best vitamins are those of the B-group and I am going to show you why:
Every single vitamin of this group plays a particular part in maintaining your nervous system in good health.
Vitamin B1: It is also called thiamine. This vitamin improves your mood. It is important in keeping the heart and the nervous system run normally.
A lack of this vitamin can cause irritability. Sometimes it also influences the energy level.
Vitamin B2 is also called riboflavin. It is required by the body to produce anti-stress hormones. It also helps to release energy stored in food. Furthermore, it is needed for the metabolism of proteins.
Vitamin B3. Another name for this vitamin is niacin. Its deficiency causes mental instability. Anxiety and stress can cause skin-related problems. This vitamin provides a protection against skin-problems and inflammation.
Vitamin B5. Again, this vitamin helps the body produce anti-stress hormones.
As anxiety is strongly related to stress, the lack of these vitamins could cause your anxiety to show up more often.
Vitamin B6 also know as pyridoxine has a role in keeping your nervous system functioning properly. If you are lacking of a sufficient coverage of B6, you might experience anxiety or even depression. Insomnia is also related to its lack as is irritability.

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Vitamin B12 is playing a big role in providing the necessary brain chemicals that make you feel good. This vitamin is also essential for the production of red blood cells.
There exist two other types of vitamin B that are not yet taken into consideration and I therefore am not able to comment on.
You see, every single vitamin B is involved in the functioning of the nervous system which on its part is involved in the good mood or in irritability.
Most of these vitamins are available in their natural form. They can be found in the food. If you are a vegan, you have to take B12 as a supplement because this vitamin is mainly present in meat or in other animal proteins. There are many sources for the whole group of B vitamins. They go from germs, to peanuts, to pork and brown rice for the B1, to milk, yoghurt, avocados, beef liver for the B2, from chicken, potatoes, sunflower seeds for B3, from eggs, avocados, nuts, green vegetables for the B5, from bananas, fish, chicken, seeds in general and cabbage for the vitamin B6 to all animal proteins for the vitamin B12.
You can certainly cover your needs in vitamin B if you take into consideration the various food stuff available in your area. By eating the right food you can protect yourself against anxiety. If you already suffer from anxiety, you can lessen its frequency or intensity by eating the appropriate food.

There are many simple exercises that help us to stay better mentally, physically and spiritually. Many of them are so simple that they are usually overlooked. Who would ever have thought that our fingers present all our meridians, that is all of the energy channels that run in our body?
By simply massaging your fingers, you can change your mental state, your physical health and your spiritual well being.
The fabulous truth about this is that you can do this massage wherever you are. Nobody will get aware of it. It is a natural movement.
Let us look at the various fingers and their importance. To tell you the truth, they are all important. It depends on what you are looking for, you will treat the finger that gives you the result you want to reach.
The first finger is your thumb. You can rub its tip on both sides and you will breathe with more ease. This is very important at the moment of an anxiety attack. This small movement gives you an immediate relief. Better breathing helps you also to get a better mental state.
The little finger helps you in case of low blood pressure and the sensation of passing out. You can press the edge of the nail at the inner side of the little finger. Press hard. It hurts a bit but the result is immediate. Once you get aware that your heart has regained its normal beating, which is immediate, you feel good. This feeling good also contributes to a better mental state. It helps you to relax immediately.
The middle finger is also a good help. If you rub it on both sides, you can improve your blood pressure. By massaging it from top towards the hand you lower your blood pressure, by massaging it from the hand upwards to the end of the finger, you increase your blood pressure. Do this movement for at least 8 minutes a day. You massage alternately the little finger and the middle finger, starting with your left hand.
If you have a diabetes or you know that your pancreas creates you some problem, massage your ring finger and your index finger. Do it accordingly to what I just said about the blood pressure. If you want to increase the pancreas’s work, you massage the fingers from the hands upwards to the top and vice-versa if you want it to work less.
The above examples are also valid for emergencies whereas you can use every finger to improve your overall health.
A part from the fingers, where there are other exercises you can use, (I might talk about them on another occasion) try to massage your ears from top to the bottom. By doing so, you will help all your organs to function well. In fact, on the outer ear, every single organ is present and can be stimulated.
It is really fantastic that Mother Nature has put at our disposal so many simple movements that can help us keep healthy and happy.
You may want to work on your fingers and on your ears as many times as you like. All of these exercises help you improve your mental state and give you many benefits for your body.

If I were to spill my guts about my panic and anxiety history you might say it sounds like I was schitzophrenic. Actually I told somone a while ago just how bad I was and that is exactly what he said; “sounds like you were schitzophrenic”. I even had frightening feelings of body dismorphia and could not sleep.

I want to tell everyone here somthing. I will NOT tell about how bad I was in gross detail because all it will do, ultimately, is freak you out and make you think “my god how terrifying” and that is the last thing you need right now. You do not need to read about my story and then translate it into your own personal fears at this very moment, though I understand how theraputic it can be. Many years ago I was all over the internet joining anxiety groups and shared everything, but little did I realize that was part of what was purpetuating the condition.

The Linden Method saved my life. Check out lindenmethod.com. Anxiety and panic are a NON ISSUE. Ill be honest with you all, I HATE sounding like a damn salesman but I really dont have a choice. I would not be so ardent about showing people this method if it hadnt literally saved my life. I thought I was cursed for life, seriously. I couldnt sleep, had terrifying feelings and sensations all over my body, had very macabre and distrubing thoughts, but THEY DO NOT MATTER ANYMORE. They simply do not exist and I will not get into the very gross and disturbing details of my anxiety/panic past. I just want to talk about my well and balanced PRESENT and tell you, honestly, that you can do it! Please believe me.

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The Linden Method is like a step up from CBT, though it does use the same techniques on a fundamental level. The method I used doesn’t allow you to “put it off” or get feelings like “Im too scared to do this, I give up”. There are a lot of parts to the method but its overall methodology is very simple and scientific. It focuses mainly on the amygdala and Charles’ discovery that this small organ in the brain is one of the main culprits in panic/anxiety conditions and once you completely “reprogram” this organ it is impossible to relapse. This taken with the many health and other tips in the pack make for a perfect arsenal. It took me ohhhhh… about 6 months to get to what I would call 90% well where I didnt need the method anymore. It was just hard wired into me and after about a year I was like “anxiety, what anxiety?”. THis doesnt mean that I dont get scared anymore like if I have a nightmare or somthing haha. All the natural and built in safety aspects of anxiety are still there, just not the purpetual 24/7 switched on anxiety.

Another thing that really helped in the method was learning Qi Kung which is very gentle but effective exorsize. It really helps get the blood and oxygen flowing and makes you feel like a rock! I started working again and doing Qi Kung every morning made me feel like I could tackle any sort of physical work easily. It just makes you feel better all around.

Another thing I should mention about this great method is how quickly it begins to work. Within 3 days I was panic attack free. I remember my last panic attack and realizing “This will never happen again”, and it didn’t. This for me was one of the most amazing parts of the method. Once I commited myself to the CD called the “panic eliminator” I was panic free in about 6 hours. When you first listen to this CD you might think, like I did, “this is crazy, does he really want me to do this?” After a few days of letting the information sink in I decided to dive into the actual practice that it tells you to do and BOOM, done!

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It is hard for people to understand when I say I cured myself from panic and anxiety completely using just one method. I think because it quite trully is too good to believe to be true. Like “there is just no way” hahaha. I was taken aback myself when I discovered the Linden Method at lindemethod.com and actually called the center and asked them “is this true? Has this method really cured over 80,000 people with anxiety and panic?”. She said very simply “yes, we have an amazing success rate”. Hell, I had nothing to lose! I have already spent thousands upon thousands of dollars on both conventional and unconventional therapies like Reiki and meditation, medical doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, ER visits, and many different kinds of prescription drugs. I was desperate and ready to try anything because NOTHING was working, at least not in a curing capacity.

I can tell you this, I am 100% anxiety and panic attack free. When I look at how I was it is hard to believe that THAT is where my life used to be. I, still to this day, find it miraculous that I cured myself from all the symptoms, sensations, disturbing thoughts, insomnia etc etc. I had just about every thing one could have “wrong” with them with these conditions but I do understand that we are all different. Some people get pain in their limbs while others dont, some people have scary sensations in their brain (like I did) and others dont but it doesnt mean that we are different.

There are many faces that anxiety and panic can take and some people I have found have cured themselves of anxiety and panic jsut by changing their diet, or even just changing their job! I can only tell you what worked for me and 80,000 other poeple, and Charles Linden states right at the beginning of his method that “you either decide to do this or not to do it” and it is as simple as that. I really didn’t have a choice, I mean this is my life! If somone gives me the choice between the possibility of curing myself of this condition permanently or to continue living with it the rest of my life I’ll gladly take the former. And guess what, I did it and so can you!

It is nothing short of miraculous what happened to me. I mean I could seriously write a book about it.