How to heal yourself from anxiety is an honest, useful and informative guide to generalised anxiety.

How to Heal Yourself from Anxiety When No One Else Can by Amy B Scher
Book Review by Dawn Thomas

253 Pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Release Date: February 8, 2019

Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction (Adult)

This was an interesting book and with the current health situation my anxiety is high. There were several ideas with exercises that I thought were helpful. The information on chakras reinforced ideas that are always good to remember. I learned more tapping techniques. If you are looking for new ways or reinforce old ways to deal with anxiety,

This is a wonderful informative book, explaining anxiety and giving exercises to help heal it, in the world we live in today anxiety is massive for all age groups, I do believe the solution is a personal journey for each individual, we need more tools like this book to help us forward.

I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review. I got this book because there are time I try to ask for help when I am feeling a little off and people I talk to make it worse. So I saw this when I was looking for books to request for my blog. I have had it for a few months and it not something you can just do in a day. It takes time to make the techniques that are present in the book because routine. I did find some things in the book that did work for me and it made me feel like I was doing the right thing for me. I know not everything in this book will work for everyone.

It would be an understatement to say I loved this book and it helped my anxiety.

This book is designed to assist us in identifying anxiety and its symptoms. Once identified, it offers practical solutions and exercises to alleviate it.

The premise is when other things (such as deep breaths, yoga and long walks) are not enough, work through this book. It provides a workbook too guide you through this process.

I have had anxiety for my entire life but was not diagnosed until a few years ago. I wasn’t sure this book would be of any help since nothing so far had erased the rapid heartbeat, increased irritation or desire to turn within I felt in stressful situations. Wow was I wrong!

I was astounded to learn that many physical symptoms not usually associated can be caused by anxiety. It can manifest as:
• Negative, compulsive or obsessive thoughts
• Needing to be in control of life and others
• Inability to relax
• Difficulty making decisions
• Being too hard on yourself (self-critical)
• Resistance to allowing others to help
• Feeling shaky or unstable
• Feeling sad, angry, or pretty much any other emotion
• Being moody
• Inability to concentrate
• Digestive upset
• Heartburn
• Fatigue
• Sensitivity to lights, EMFs, etc.
• Pretty much any physical symptom

I enjoyed learning about the E standing test and the squish test as two of the examples of understanding how your body is talking to you. The Chakra Tapping and daily grounding (the “practice of connecting yourself to both the Earth’s North and South Poles”) are two things I try to do each morning.

I found the most interesting section to be about the Fight, Flight, or Freak Out Response. The Freak Out response is being overwhelmed “which causes people to feel stuck in a frozen state, unable to help themselves.” This causes self-sabotage. The book provided techniques to combat this response. This chapter is truly invaluable.


I received an ARC from Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This in no way affects my opinion or rating of this book.

Was accepted but it then would not let me download. It just disappeared from the Start Reading tab. Disappointing!

Honest and in-depth advice for reaching your full potential. This advice is presented in easy to follow language that can be broken up and applied in pieces at a time.

In this book, Amy Scher discusses her theory of how unresolved emotions and limiting beliefs cause anxiety and provides energy healing techniques to clear those emotions and beliefs. The techniques described in this book are apparently very similar to what she described in her previous book (which I have not read), but this book is focused specifically on anxiety. It offers many examples and tapping scripts to help you understand how to apply these techniques to healing anxiety.

Much of her work is derivative of other healers’ work (she cites Donna Eden but doesn’t mention many other sources), but every healer has a slightly different approach, and perhaps Ms. Scher’s presentation will be just what you need to heal your anxiety. The book is written in a very friendly, encouraging tone (although all of the exclamations made me think of a cheerleader who has had too much coffee). I found the text a little too conversational, but that’s a matter of personal preference.

I am not a fan of kinesiology (muscle testing), which is used quite extensively in this approach (although alternatives are provided). I do like the author’s 5-step healing approach, and I think some of her suggested techniques can be helpful for anxiety. If you are curious about energy healing, this book provides a good introduction to the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and similar techniques the author claims she developed herself. I liked the descriptions of the tapping points with associated meridians and emotional associations, and I appreciated the sample tapping scripts provided.

I’m a big advocate of self-healing. If you suffer from anxiety and don’t already have good methods of self-healing, this is worth trying. Be aware that you will probably need to make a commitment to do the exercises daily to see a significant improvement. I would give this 3.5 stars if I could, but I can’t, so I am rounding up to 4 stars.

I was provided an unproofed ARC through NetGalley that I volunteered to review. Because I have not seen the final published version, I cannot comment on the final editing and formatting. The ARC had so many editing and formatting problems that it was very difficult to read, but hopefully those errors have been resolved in the published version.

This book is full of wonderful ways to rid you of anxiety. My anxiety can be crippling at times. I intend to implement a great many of these techniques.

This book had helpful content but the Kindle format was really difficult to read. It seemed like the letters T and F were omitted from a lot of text so it came across as gibberish. Reading between the lines I found an uplifting book with lots of good techniques.

"How to Heal Yourself from Anxiety When No One Else Can" is a must-read for any anxiety sufferer. Bestselling author Scher ("How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can") is a wonderful writer who knows her subject firsthand, and what I loved about her book was that she didn't write about the same-old, same-old bandaids solutions to dealing with anxiety such as yoga, deep breaths, etc. (No offense to yogis or breatharians!) She shares her own techniques and her take on EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and she offers true hope to anxiety sufferers. I'm thrilled she wrote this book as it has helped me and it will help countless others. Thank you, Amy Scher, for writing this book!

Anxiety has been an issue for me since I was very young. It only improved after years of hard work, treatment and sometimes medication.

When I reach out to people in our community I find a staggering number of people suffer from Anxiety in one form or another. And like me, most have tried a wide range of solutions to overcome this challenge in their lives. Often turning to medication which replaces one set of problems with others.

Amy B. Scher has written a very compassionate and insightful work with this book that speaks knowingly to those of us who have contended with anxiety. She explores solutions that took many of us many years of searching to find and implement. She provides insights that could save anxiety sufferers years of trial and error and exploration in a format that is accessible and easy to digest.

We need more work done in the areas of everyday and widely common psychological issues. Amy has created a work here that provides solutions that are something any of us can try and benefit from. I would recommend this as a great read for anyone contending with anxiety or anyone who has a loved one who is.

I very much enjoyed this book.

I have terrible anxiety from a car accident where I was clinically dead for a short time. My anxiety is crippling at times. Medicines do not help. I was excited to see this book and have tried some of the exercises which have helped. I will be trying all of them. When I read that one exercise is letting go of the things or baggage that keep the anxiety from being cured, it made so much sense. Letting go of something that causes you to be paralyzed will be an amazing thing. This is written in the book and is such a great thought "Anxiety is not the problem, it is the result of the real problems , unresolved emotional energies". This is paraphrased, but I think it says so much. I can't say enough about this book. I received this book from Net Galley and Llewellyn Worldwide for a honest review and no compensation otherwise.The opinions expressed are my own.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read this book.
I have had anxiety for years and I have read numerous books on how to handle my anxiety. I was hoping that this book could be the one that actually helped me. All it did was repeat the same thing every other self help book said to do. I know that this book could actually be extremely helpful for someone who has mild anxiety because it has a great deal of helpful information. I would recommend it to anyone who is experiencing anxiety attacks because it may just work for them.

It was a book which wasn't really what I was expecting. However it was well written and didn't drag. I am not sure I will be trying the techniques presented in the book given that it was mostly EFT and similar ones. The views of the author were still useful for me to some extent.

I received a free copy from Netgalley. This doesn't affect my opinion in any way.

The author an “energy therapist,” shares "hands-on tips" and techniques she believes will help the anxious person heal. Perhaps she has better success in person with clients, but after trying some of the exercises and finding them useless at best and annoying at worst, I was so disappointed that I didn't even finish reading the book.