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Overcoming Panic

Learn how panic works in your body, why avoidance makes it worse, and how to break the fear cycle. By the end, you'll have concrete tools to face panic and start reclaiming the situations it's taken from you.

Overcoming Panic journey overview: the day-by-day plan toward a goal
The guide opening a day of Overcoming Panic with a check-in question
A Overcoming Panic reflection exchange with the guide
A Overcoming Panic journey in progress, on day two of the arc

What you'll actually take away

Clearer language for what's been hard to name. A record, in your own words, of how your thinking shifts across the 7 days. And a practice you can keep returning to — the journey gets you started, your own journal keeps the work alive after.

Ideas you can actually use

You'll learn how panic actually works in the body and brain. The fear-of-fear loop, why avoidance strengthens it, why exposure weakens it. The research is told through real studies (David Barlow, David Clark, Paul Salkovskis) and real cases, not a textbook. By Day 7 you'll have a working map of your own panic, not someone else's theory.

The Overcoming Panic guide opening a day in conversation
A Overcoming Panic teaching moment paired with a reflection prompt

Where real change happens

Every day pairs short lessons with two to four journal prompts designed to pull the ideas into your own life. Writing is where research becomes change. Your entries are protected by zero-knowledge encryption, readable only by you, never by us. Be honest without a filter.

A space that keeps growing with you

The journey gets you started. After that, KindMind becomes a place you can keep returning to: an encrypted journal for working things out, guided reflections when you're stuck, daily check-ins to notice what's shifting, and lists for the messy middle of life. Stay as long as it helps.

A Overcoming Panic journey progressing day by day
Garrett and Lindsay at the coast during sunset
Garrett and Lindsay under a willow tree
Garrett and Lindsay with champagne by the ocean
Garrett with his dog
Garrett and a friend zip lining in the trees
Garrett and a friend zip lining selfie
Lindsay kissing Garrett on a boat
Garrett in a leather jacket

Many of these photos co-star my wife, Lindsay.

12 years in, just getting started

I'm Garrett. Meditator, surfer, and software engineer based out of Oregon. I've been making KindMind since 2014, on a mission to help people understand their own minds and treat them a little kinder. Twelve years in, still indie, still personal, still all in. Read the story.

Overcoming Panic, day by day

7 short daily sessions. Self-paced. Pause and pick back up anytime.

  1. Day 1The Panic Loop
  2. Day 2Disarming Anxious Thoughts
  3. Day 3Accepting the Sensations
  4. Day 4Leaning In
  5. Day 5Redirecting Your Attention
  6. Day 6Expanding Your World Again
  7. Day 7Your Personal Toolkit

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