Anxiety: The Way In. The Way Out.

Revised Edition (2025)

“I recognise a cold safety in thinking too much. It protects, but it isolates, like sleeping inside armour that never quite comes off.”

We are often taught to treat anxiety as an invasion—a foreign disruption to be fought, silenced, or medicated away. In this revised edition, Simon Robinson proposes a different approach: treating anxiety as a structure we built for safety that has overgrown its purpose.

Anxiety: The Way In. The Way Out. is not a list of techniques to banish fear, but a guide to understanding it. By tracing the “Way In”—acknowledging the protective mechanisms of overthinking and the body’s rapid, wordless reactions—we can find the “Way Out,” moving from a state of rigid defence to one of softened, grounded presence.

A Visual Introduction

Inside the Book

The revised edition combines the raw immediacy of the lived experience with a gentle, structural understanding of how fear operates in the mind and body.

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