Dennis Simsek
@TheAnxietyGuy1 · 250 k subscribers
🤝
Befriend Your Anxiety: 7 Days with The Anxiety Guy
Go from fighting every symptom to feeling safe in your own body, with one video and one concrete mission per day.
📅 7 days🎯 12 missions🎬 5 videos by Dennis Simsek✨ Free
Accept the Challenge 🚀
The content is free to read. To track your progress and keep your streak you need a free account.
Fighting anxiety is what keeps it loud. Over 7 days you'll learn to meet your symptoms without a battle, catch the sneaky checking habits that feed the fear, and retrain your nervous system to feel safe again — guided by Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy. Each day: one video and one small, doable mission under 15 minutes. By day 7, you'll have your own daily keep-anxiety-low routine that you built, tested, and can actually stick to.
Your week at a glance
- Day 1🎬 Watch how to calm symptoms without fighting them · ✍️ Name your fight response and pick your first tool
- Day 2🎬 Spot the anxiety habits you don't know you're doing · 📓 Open your checking-habit log
- Day 3🔁 Catch and release your checking habits all day
- Day 4🎬 Learn the 6 nervous system shifts toward safety · ✅ Build your safety toolkit
- Day 5🎬 Do the guided meditation to silence the voice of fear · 🔁 Run your toolkit in the wild
- Day 6🎬 Watch the 5 daily non-negotiables for low anxiety · ✍️ Draft your personal keep-anxiety-low routine
- Day 7🎯 Final challenge: one full day as a friend, not a fighter
Day by day, in detail
Day 1🎬 ✍️ Watch how to calm symptoms without fighting them +1 mission⌄
✍️ Name your fight response and pick your first tool
✍️ Be honest: what do you usually do when a symptom shows up — tense against it, google it, escape the situation, demand it goes away? Write down your go-to fight response. Then pick ONE of the four ways from the video and commit to using it the very next time a symptom appears today.
Day 2🎬 📓 Spot the anxiety habits you don't know you're doing +1 mission⌄
🎬 Spot the anxiety habits you don't know you're doing
📓 Open your checking-habit log
📓 This log is your main tool for the week. Every time you catch yourself body-scanning, googling symptoms, asking for reassurance, or any habit from the video, come back here and jot it down. No judgment — you can't drop a habit you can't see. Catching it IS the win.
Day 3🔁 Catch and release your checking habits all day⌄
🔁 Catch and release your checking habits all day
🔁 Every time I caught a checking habit today, I logged it and gently redirected instead of following it
Day 4🎬 ✅ Learn the 6 nervous system shifts toward safety +1 mission⌄
🎬 Learn the 6 nervous system shifts toward safety
✅ Build your safety toolkit
- I picked the 2 shifts from the video that fit my life best
- I practiced each one once today, even though I felt fine
- I wrote down my early-warning sign: how I know my body is bracing for a fight
- I set my if-then rule: "If I notice that sign, then my first move is…"
Day 5🎬 🔁 Do the guided meditation to silence the voice of fear +1 mission⌄
🎬 Do the guided meditation to silence the voice of fear
🔁 Run your toolkit in the wild
🔁 I logged my checking moments today and used one nervous-system shift or the meditation the moment anxiety showed up
Day 6🎬 ✍️ Watch the 5 daily non-negotiables for low anxiety +1 mission⌄
🎬 Watch the 5 daily non-negotiables for low anxiety
✍️ Draft your personal keep-anxiety-low routine
✍️ Look back at your log and this week's tools. Which of the 5 daily practices from today's video will you actually keep? Which shift or tool worked best when symptoms hit? Write your routine as a short daily plan: morning, during the day, and what you do the moment you catch yourself checking or fighting.
Day 7🎯 Final challenge: one full day as a friend, not a fighter⌄
🎯 Final challenge: one full day as a friend, not a fighter
🎯 Live one entire day on your new routine — meeting every symptom without a fight.
Today is the test drive. Follow the routine you wrote yesterday from morning to night. When a symptom or a checking urge shows up — and it will — treat it like a nervous system asking for safety, not an enemy to defeat: use your shift, your meditation, or simply drop the check and carry on. At the end of the day, leave your proof: how many times you chose befriending over fighting, and how your body feels compared to day 1. That's your evidence it works. 💪
Sign in and accept the Challenge to leave your review.
More Wellbeing challenges
🫁Calm Your Anxious Body in 7 DaysPaige Pradko · 12 missions🧠7 Days of DBT Skills with Self-Help ToonsSelf-Help Toons · 12 missions🧠Master Intrusive Thoughts: 7 Days with Mark FreemanMark Freeman · 12 missions🧭7 Days to Self-Trust with Heidi PriebeHeidi Priebe · 12 missions🧠Stop Overthinking in 7 Days with Julia KristinaJulia Kristina Mah · 12 missions🧠Break the OCD Loop in 7 Days with Matt CoddeMatt Codde · 12 missions
Wellbeing →Ready to actually do it?
Accept the Challenge and Duer walks you through it mission by mission: progress, streak and journal.