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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)

25/06/2026

When panic rises, the first instinct is to fight it.

That response makes it last longer.

The five things I tell clients when that surge starts have nothing to do with stopping it. They're about knowing what panic is.

It's a spike of adrenaline, not danger. The sharper it comes on, the faster it leaves.

Slow the body down and stay as loose as you can. Your brain watches what the body does. When the body gets quiet, the brain starts to read that as safe.

Have you ever noticed that fighting the panic makes it last longer?

Watch the full anxiety cure playlist in our bio to understand what's going on in those moments.

23/06/2026

A lot of people tell me they meditate every morning but still can't shake the anxiety.

What's usually missing is what happens after the morning.

Recovery needs practice in the moments anxiety shows up. On the train. At your desk.

When you get a flash of panic, take a breath and remind yourself it's just adrenaline. Unpleasant, not dangerous. Then let it pass.

Do this consistently, and you start building new neural pathways. Your brain learns it doesn't need to fight the feeling. Over time, allowing becomes your default.

One morning practice is a good foundation. It's not enough on its own.

Do you have a practice for when anxiety hits during the day, or is your focus mainly on mornings?

Watch the full anxiety cure playlist in our bio.

19/06/2026

I get asked this a lot: can ChatGPT really help with anxiety recovery?

Yes, if you use it the right way.

I tried it myself. I asked ChatGPT what I say about heart palpitations and anxiety. The answer was decent. It mentioned soothing an overactive fight or flight response and brought up triggers like caffeine, dehydration and poor sleep.

Good information. But information was never the problem for most people.

The real test is what you do after you read the answer. Are you using it to build your own wisdom, or to avoid doing the work? Are you closing the chat and going to practise, or stuck refreshing the conversation hoping for a different answer?

AI can support your recovery. It can't do your recovery for you.

Have you ever used ChatGPT or Google to try and work out your anxiety? Did it help, or send you down another spiral?

Watch the full anxiety cure playlist in our bio for more on this.

18/06/2026

Most people trying to recover from anxiety are making it harder on themselves, without realising it.
Here's what I mean.

The more you chase recovery, the more seriously you treat anxiety. And the more seriously you treat it, the more sensitized you stay. You end up stuck in a loop that keeps feeding itself.

Building on Dr. Claire Weekes's work, what I've found is that the goal can't be recovery itself. The goal is happiness. Stringing together more moments of feeling good. Not fighting. Not checking your symptoms every hour.

Because here's the paradox: the less you care about recovery, the closer you probably are to it.
Once you're genuinely happy, anxiety isn't the focus anymore. And that absence of focus is what recovery looks like.

Have you noticed your anxiety gets worse the harder you try to control it?

Watch the full anxiety cure playlist in our bio to understand why.

16/06/2026

Your instinct when anxiety hits is to fix it. That instinct makes it worse.

When your body floods with adrenaline, it feels like something is seriously wrong. So you push harder. Try to solve it. Add more tension to a body that's already overwhelmed.

Sam's three tips sound simple. Two of them kind of are. The third is what most people can't bring themselves to do: letting anxiety happen without fighting it.

That's the one that counts.

When anxiety spikes, do you push through it or try to let it pass?

Full anxiety cure playlist is in our bio.

15/06/2026

Ever notice how anger can hit before you've even had a chance to think? That's not random. It's often a nervous system that's exhausted and defaulting straight to fight.

Most of us learned this pattern without choosing it. Under stress, the body goes to fight first. It's not a flaw in you. It's what your nervous system learned to do to keep you safe.

You don't have to act on every angry impulse. Notice it. Slow down. Let your body settle before you react.
You're not broken for feeling this way. You're running on empty. And that's something you can work with.

When was the last time you looked back on an angry moment and realised it was really exhaustion talking?

Watch the full anxiety cure playlist in our bio to learn how to work with your nervous system instead of against it.

12/06/2026

If I had to sum up what coaching looks like in practice, it comes down to two things, over and over.
The first is understanding. If you've ever caught yourself thinking "is this actually just sensitization, or is something else going on," that's not failing at recovery. That's a normal part of it. The clearer that gets, the steadier everything else feels.

The second one trips people up more. You understand anxiety, you know it's not dangerous, and that understanding brings real relief.

Then fear shows up anyway, and the understanding doesn't always come with you in that moment. That's the part that actually needs practice.

Which one sounds more like where you're at right now: still working out if this is really sensitization, or you get it in theory but struggle to apply it when fear hits?

Watch the full anxiety cure playlist in our bio to hear more on this.

08/06/2026

A lot of people with anxiety are convinced the symptoms are physically damaging them.

The racing heart. The adrenaline surges. It feels wrong, so something must be breaking.

It's not.

Your fight-or-flight response works like exercise. The body moves through a cycle. That cycle is supposed to happen.

The problem is what comes after that feeling. Bracing against it. Trying to cut it short. One foot on the gas, one foot on the brake. That resistance is what keeps the nervous system sensitized and the anxiety loop running.

Letting symptoms finish their cycle, without fighting them, is more healing than most people realise.
Have you ever felt like anxiety was physically doing damage... even when nothing was medically wrong?
Watch the full anxiety cure playlist in our bio.

05/06/2026

For the longest time, I was bracing against every thought that came up.

Meditation helped. But nothing really shifted, until I found Claire Weekes' work and heard something I wasn't ready for:

"This isn't serious."

I'd had panic attacks. I'd been hypersensitized for months. The idea of just letting the thoughts happen felt completely foreign.

But I tried it. The next day, when they started coming, I didn't run. I let them.
They came, one after another. And I wasn't panicking.

That was the day it clicked. You don't recover by fighting harder. You recover by stopping the fight.

Have you ever tried letting anxiety happen instead of resisting it? What did you notice?

Full anxiety cure playlist in our bio 👆

New Masterclass (finally) available! How much should you practice? Are you too busy? Do you need more healthy distractio...
05/06/2026

New Masterclass (finally) available! How much should you practice? Are you too busy? Do you need more healthy distractions?

These important questions are all asked and answers in this Masterclass which was recorded with a live QA throughout:

https://openchange.com.au/anxiety-tool-shop

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