How to Break Free From Anxiety | How To Academy

Thu, 20 March 2025

7:30 pm - 8:45 pm GMT

How to Break Free From Anxiety

Owen O’Kane

Do you believe anxiety will keep you safe? Are you ‘anxious about not being anxious’? Psychotherapist Owen O’Kane is here to help change your relationship with anxiety for good.

Feeling anxious is part of being human; sometimes it can even be necessary or useful. But what about when anxiety takes over? When you feel like it’s too often dictating your life?

Have you ever considered that you might be addicted to anxiety?

Psychotherapist and Sunday Times bestselling author of Ten to Zen and How to Be Your Own Therapist Owen O’Kane is here to help. In this live on stage event, he will explore how we all unwittingly build habits around our anxiety. This, he will argue, is how we become addicted – the behaviours and thought patterns that help us feel safe in the short term ultimately serve to perpetuate it.

Put simply, we get hooked.

The answer? Break the cycle.

How?

  1. Recognize: You must understand your anxiety and identify your triggers before you can start to unpick it.
  2. Tackle: Discover vital techniques for breaking the underlying habits and patterns.
  3. Move forward: Learn strategies for navigating setbacks or relapses on the road ahead.

This live event will help you understand your anxiety from the perspective of addiction, identifying your triggers and learning how to break your habits so you can actively replace them with new, more productive behaviours for a calmer, happier life.

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Owen O’Kane

Psychotherapist and Sunday Times bestseller

Owen O’Kane is a specialist psychotherapist and one of the UK’s leading mental health experts. He is a former NHS mental health clinical lead and the Sunday Times bestselling author of books including Ten to Zen and How To Be Your Own Therapist. Owen has a gift when it comes to making complex psychological and mental health information accessible and understandable. Owen speaks regularly at festivals and conferences, and is an experienced media contributor. He is a script advisor for BBC Drama on psychological matters and has appeared on podcasts such as Happy Place and The High Performance Podcast. He is the resident expert on BBC Radio 5 Live, helping listeners manage their day-to-day fears. Owen grew up in Belfast and now resides in West London with his partner and dog.