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25th Nov 2025

Pause Before You React: A Simple Tool for High-Functioning Anxiety

Today, we dive into a simple high-functioning anxiety tool, the pause. One breath, one grounding moment, one intentional choice. You’ll learn a simple step-by-step tool you can use anytime your anxiety spikes. A simple reset for women who carry a lot, move fast, feel everything deeply, and want a moment of relief.

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PEACE with Anxiety: Heal High functioning Anxiety and Overthinking
Irene Evangelou, Hypnotherapist, Counsellor & mum, shares science-based strategies and tips for Anxiety, Stress, Overthinking, Overwhelm, People-pleasing, Perfectionism and Self-doubt.

Peace with Anxiety is not about ”fixing” you; it’s about learning how to heal anxiety naturally and helping high-achieving women like you to live their lives feeling Calm and Confident with a grounded nervous system.

You can book a one-on-one hypnotherapy session with me here - https://irene-evangelou-therapy.thrivecart.com/reset-and-reclaim/

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Irene Evangelou

1. I'm a Hypnotherapist, counsellor, baby-mum, podcast host, recovering perfectionist, big fan of cold coffee, metal music, deep conversations, and anything with chocolate ☕️🍫

2. I grew up in Greece and moved to Australia at 18 chasing a life that felt more like me.

3. For years I lived with high-functioning anxiety, hyper-responsibility, hypervigilance, overthinking and people-pleasing. Those patterns shaped me, they’re still part of my story, but now they guide me rather than control me.

4. There was always a duality in me: the girl who wanted to be kind and helpful, and the woman who wanted to succeed and explore her potential.

5. I studied psychology because I’m endlessly curious about why people do what they do, then continued my post-grad in counselling and hypnotherapy after my own therapy changed everything for me.

6. The diagnostic model doesn’t fully fit how I understand anxiety or self-worth; I see anxious patterns as protective strategies learned in childhood, not labels that define a person. That perspective shapes how I work.

7. I specialised in forensic psychology/counselling out of a passion for social and criminal justice, and I’ve worked in community settings because helping people is my core value.

8. I’ve been in therapy myself, it taught me how to slow down, listen in, and feel safe being myself. That life-changing experience is why I retrained as a therapist.

9. My mental health was a real challenge in my teens and twenties; I manage it now through ongoing therapy, lifestyle choices, and lots of self-awareness.

10. I truly want to help women break out of the cycles they learned in childhood; anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, so they can discover who they truly are and feel calm, confident, and safe in their own presence.

You might know me from the Peace with Anxiety podcast or my short, no-fluff mini-courses.

I’m also creating new ways to support you beyond 1:1 therapy, if you want updates, sign up to my newsletter in the link in bio.

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