Marg Hux Therapy

We are living in a time when there is genuinely a lot to feel anxious about.  Anxiety may range from a persistent sense that something is not okay, to moments of overwhelming fear.  Wherever you are on that spectrum, it is real, and it is exhausting. 

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What It Feels Like

 

Anxiety often shows up in your whole being – mind, body and emotions. In your mind, there’s worry, racing thoughts, relentless "what if" loops, a tendency to catastrophize, difficulty tolerating uncertainty.  In your body, the nervous system is stuck in fight-or-flight, and you may feel muscle tension, shallow breathing, a tight chest or racing heart. Emotionally, a sense of fear, dread or unease, perhaps feeling irritable or overwhelmed. And in how you function — avoiding situations, withdrawing, perhaps trouble sleeping.

 

The focus of the fear and worry can vary.  It may be the world situation, or health, relationships, work, a fear of flying or of leaving the house.  Although these seem very different, your body and deeper mind are in a state of alarm, and your conscious mind searches for the reason. The focus becomes the explanation — but it isn't really the source.​​​

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​Where It Comes From

 

Anxiety at its core comes from a feeling of fear, of being unsafe, disconnected from our Higher Self and Source.    

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A pattern of anxiety often has roots in earlier experience. Family patterns, whether we felt genuinely safe and seen, how we adapted to stay safe shapes our nervous system's baseline.  When we don't feel safe within, we tend to look outward.  Some lose touch with their own feelings, people-pleasing, tending to everyone else's needs. Others are very aware of their own needs and try to find help outside.  Both are forms of self-abandonment and both keep us looking in a direction where lasting calm can't really be found. [Link: self-abandonment piece]​​​​​​​

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How We Work Together

 

Healing from anxiety is about developing a different relationship with yourself — calmer, more grounded, more trusting of your own experience.

We begin with a safe, accepting space to share what is happening and to start making sense of it together.  Awareness itself is often where change begins. [Link: Awareness is Healing blog]

 

Talk therapy brings awareness to the burdens you’ve been carrying, patterns keeping anxiety in place.  At the level of emotion, we do the relational work. Learning to know what you actually feel and to hold yourself with compassion. Building authentic ways of communicating, of saying no, of taking up the space that is rightfully yours. Learning to love yourself. Not as a concept but as a lived practice.  We use CBT to explore and challenge distorted thinking.  [Link: talk therapies page].  

 

Because anxiety lives in the body as much as the mind, I also use EFT tapping, a gentle somatic approach that works directly with the nervous system to release anxiety's physical grip. Many clients are surprised by how quickly and gently shift can happen.  [Link: somatic/tapping page]

 

Where helpful, we can also explore deeper roots through meditative and hypnotic approaches, allowing gentle access to earlier experiences and inner patterns.  We work with what is deepest and highest in you to find pain and invite in peace.  [Link: parts of self/hypnosis page]

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What becomes possible

 

Clients often describe feeling more settled in themselves — less reactive, more present, better able to meet life without bracing for the worst. The goal is not a life without difficulty, but a life in which you feel safe enough in yourself to engage with it fully.