Open Change

Open Change Samuel Eddy, MSc Psychology, B Bus
Sam helps clients recovery from anxiety and related disorders including panic, OCD, GAD, and agoraphobia.

Based on his Anxiety Cure Videos series on YouTube, Sam offers individual coaching and group masterclasses. Open Change Workplace Wellbeing & Burnout Prevention Education. Samuel is a professional workplace Educator, Neuroplasticity Practioner and creator of the Stress Temperature workplace wellbeing model. He educates workplaces and coaches individuals to reduce stress, prevent burnout and boost

wellbeing through his unique models, personal experience of burnout and the principles of Neuroplasticity. After an extensive corporate leadership career, Samuel completed a Master of Science, Psychology and is a certified Mental Health First Aider. Clients include ANZ, Westpac, RACGP, Asahi, KPMG, Deakin University, Mitchell Shire Council and Australian Nurse & Midwife Federation (ANMF)

03/06/2026

Anxiety doesn't just affect you; it affects the people around you, too.

When your nervous system is fired up, ordinary friction feels personal. Someone says something minor and you're already in fight mode. You snap. You pull away. You feel guilty. Then it happens again next week.

That's not a character flaw. That's what anxiety does, it turns everyday friction into something that feels threatening.

The piece most people miss: every difficult emotion has fear underneath it. Anger, guilt, resentment, even frustration... dig down and fear is usually what's sitting there. And what's at the root of fear? Anxiety.

When you start working with that, really working with it rather than managing symptoms, something shifts. You stop being at the mercy of every hard moment. Reactions shrink. Warmth comes back.

Have you ever looked back at a relationship conflict and realized your anxiety was running the show?

Drop a comment... more people are dealing with this quietly than you'd think.

Full anxiety cure playlist in our bio.

02/06/2026

Perfectionism isn't a personality trait. It's a survival skill you forgot to put down.

Most people carry it like a label, "I've always been this way." And that makes sense. It's been there so long it feels like part of you.

But it didn't start there. It started as a response. Life was stressful, unpredictable, maybe unsafe, and perfectionism helped you manage that. It kept you on top of things. It kept you okay.

The problem is it doesn't switch off. And now it's trying to protect you from things that don't actually need protecting.

You can unlearn it. Not through grinding harder, but through understanding what's underneath, and slowly giving your nervous system a reason to stand down.

Have you ever noticed how much energy perfectionism costs you, even on a calm day?

Watch the full series in our bio and start looking at your patterns differently.

01/06/2026

Imposter syndrome isn't who you are. It's a bluff your nervous system learned to run.

At some point, usually young, your brain picked up a habit: when stress hits, flood the system with self-doubt. You're not good enough. You'll be found out. You can't keep up. It felt like protection once.
Now it just fires every time the adrenaline spikes.

The way out isn't to fix your personality. It's to recognize what's driving the loop, stress, and calm the system that keeps feeding it. When the adrenaline settles, the bluff collapses.

Have you ever noticed that your imposter syndrome gets worse when you're already burnt out or overwhelmed?

Watch the full anxiety cure playlist in our bio.

29/05/2026

A setback doesn't mean you're back at square one.

It means life just handed you a new situation to practice in.

Different symptoms. Different fears. Different circumstances. All of them chances to prove to yourself that you can get through it... not because the anxiety disappeared, but because you moved through it anyway.

That's where real confidence comes from. Not from avoiding the hard moments. From surviving them.
Have you ever come out the other side of a setback and felt stronger for it? Share below... someone else needs to hear it.

Watch the full anxiety recovery playlist in our bio.

25/05/2026

Here's something most people with anxiety don't realize.

That racing heart, that adrenaline rush... your nervous system isn't breaking. It's doing exactly what it was built to do.

Fight-or-flight works like exercise. Your heart pumps harder, your breathing speeds up, and when you let it run its full course without interference? That cycle is actually healing.

The trouble is, most of us don't let it finish. We panic about the panic. We try to stop the symptoms before they get worse. And that back-and-forth... accelerator and brake at the same time — is exactly where sensitization sets in.

Allowing it is the harder path. But it's the right one.

Have you ever caught yourself trying to fight off a symptom instead of letting it pass?

Full playlist in bio if you want to go deeper on this.

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22/05/2026

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21/05/2026

Getting a diagnosis can feel like a weight off your shoulders.

Someone finally put a name to it. You're not imagining things. Other people have felt this too.
That part? It's genuinely useful.

The problem comes when the label stops being a starting point and becomes the whole story. When "I have depression" quietly turns into "this is just who I am now," recovery stalls. Not because change is impossible, but because you've stopped believing it is.

What actually helps long-term is getting curious about the specifics. Your patterns. Your triggers. The situations and environments that pull you under. When you can trace those threads, the diagnosis starts to matter less... and your actual life starts to matter more.

Has a label ever made you feel more stuck than supported?

Full recovery series in our bio.

19/05/2026

Staying busy isn't the same as getting better.

If you're high-functioning, you probably know this feeling: anxiety gets bad, you slow down, start using the tools, feel some relief... then jump straight back into your normal pace. Work fills up the days. You stop thinking about it.

And for a while, that feels fine.

Then it comes back. And you're confused, because you thought you were doing okay.

Here's what actually happened: you shifted from recovery into coping. The busy schedule kept you distracted... which helps... but distraction alone doesn't desensitize your nervous system.

Recovery needs a little bit of space. Not a retreat, not hours of journaling. Just enough presence to let the process actually work.

Have you ever felt like you were "too busy" to properly deal with your anxiety?

Full anxiety cure playlist is in our bio.

18/05/2026

Your body doesn't know the difference between a lion and a deadline.

That's not an exaggeration. A panic attack is literally your fight-or-flight system firing when there's no physical threat. The same surge of energy your body would use to run from real danger... showing up while you're just sitting at your desk.

It's not weakness. It's not you losing your mind. It's your nervous system doing exactly what it was built to do, just at the wrong time.

And here's what helps more than anything: understanding it. When you know what's actually happening, the fear of the fear starts to fade. You can let your body go loose. You can ride it out instead of fighting it.
Have you ever had a panic attack that seemed to come out of nowhere?

Full series in our bio... Sam breaks down exactly what's going on and how to work through it.

15/05/2026

Here's something most people don't realize about catastrophic thinking.

It's not a personality flaw. It's not weak thinking. It's your nervous system... specifically adrenaline... dragging your mind toward the worst possible outcome and then refusing to let your body calm down.

You think: "What if I have an accident? What if something goes wrong?" And then you check in with your body, hoping for that reassuring calm feeling. Instead? Nothing. Just more tension. More dread.

That's why reassurance rarely works... from other people or from yourself. The body's too sensitized to receive it.

The spiral isn't about the thoughts themselves. It's about a nervous system that's stuck in overdrive.
When you understand that, the path forward gets clearer: slow down, go loose, stop trying to think your way out of a feeling.

Have you ever caught yourself in a worst-case spiral even when you knew, logically, it was unlikely?
Watch the full anxiety cure playlist linked in our bio.

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