No Time to Panic: How I Curbed My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks by Matt Gutman

BATB score: 8.5/10 💙

*reader discretion advised* this book on anxiety and panic attacks can trigger anxiety and panic attacks 🫨

Best to: as a national correspondent queued to be on LIVE television in five, four, [mouth reads] three, two, one; are your hands sweaty? is your heart rate rising? is your mouth quivering? why is the perfection stigma so psychologically decapitating?

Best for: anyone who can relate to this quote > “Why was it that I seemed to be more afraid of the prospect of social rejection than a physical life-ending experience.”

Best as: Matt Gutman’s journey of healing > normalize crying, breath works, psychedelics, mushrooms, ayahuasca, ketamine, CBT, etc

BATB lingering thought: “not trying so hard to be perfect, giving yourself a break, has actually been shown to help you do better at reaching your goals.”

Best quotes: “Where a good segment might leave you feeling satisfied and elated, a subpar performance left you stoop-shouldered and deflated.”

“I release control, and surrender to the flow of love, that will heal me.”

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”