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"Really, really helpful and very informative".

Feedback from Robin, who had early access to the "Rhythms" course, one of the full set of 12 Epicentering courses you'll get for free.

Unsolicited comments from "depression tips" streams I've done: (click to open in new window)

Hello and welcome to Epicentering!

Who Is Neil?

Background and depression struggle:

I'm a former cancer research scientist (Ph.D., University of Dundee) who spent many many years struggling with severe depression and anxiety.

I didn't know what was wrong with me and it took my life to fall apart and for me to be asked for a divorce before I finally sought help and worked out what the problem was and then started therapy to try to tackle it.

Recovery efforts:

I've been in therapy for five years now and as my curiosity, vitality and energy started coming back, I started to be able to think more clearly. I wanted to understand what was at the heart of depression and anxiety.

I basically put my scientist hat back on and went back to work! As a result of the studying I've done over the past five years with all the psychological work and emotional work from my therapist, plus all the books I've read on depression and anxiety, the podcasts I've listened to, the research papers I've read, I've come to have an understanding of what causes depression and anxiety and how we can successfully heal from it.

My desire to help others:

I've built my sustained solid recovery on this body of work and from it I've recorded 12 different courses that together I call Epicentering. I'm giving those courses away for free now because I want to give back.

I want to turn around and help people who are still struggling with depression and anxiety by offering these support materials for their recovery journey.

Caring for your mental health:

I think it's really important that anyone who's struggling with their mental health gets help from a professional such as help from their doctor or their GP in the first instance. But in addition to that help, there's no reason why you can't use the supportive materials of the courses in Epicentering to also provide you with some understanding and possible solutions as to what's going on for you.

How Epicentering can help:

There are 12 different courses within Epicentering. I used elements from each of those courses to support me on my recovery journey because I came from such a severe depression and it took me such a long time to work my way out of it.

You may not come from such a severe level of depression so you may not need to go through each of these 12 courses.

There are 313 lessons that I created in order to explain the concepts behind these 12 courses, but if you have mild depression, maybe you look at just the sleep course or the nutrition course and that may bolster your system enough to recover from mild depression. So I don't want you to get overwhelmed by the fact that there's 12 courses and 313 lessons, that's basically on me because I'm a bit of a perfectionist and a bit of a completionist. And with my science hat on, I wanted to provide people with the full picture.

But you may not need to take on board every single part of Epicentering. You may just use some of the support materials and find that helpful.

What the free Epicentering courses cover:

So some of the courses include psychology such as exploring our Beliefs, exploring our past in the Timelines course, exploring our Feelings and how to reconnect with feelings and see them as messages and not as things to be avoided.

There's also a course on Stress, a course on Support how we can support ourselves internally and gain support from people in the environment externally. There's a course on Mindfulness because that's central to recovery and that if you're not mindfully aware of what's going on, your thoughts, your feelings and your feedback from your body and things like that, then it's really hard to work with your feelings and work with your thoughts if you're unaware of them. The mindfulness is important.

There's also courses on Sleep, exercise which I prefer to call Movement, Nutrition, Nature and Rhythms.

Take this one step with me:

Click here to instantly access the information for free and you'll have access to all those Epicentering courses fully indexed and fully searchable. So you can quickly search everything I share about healing from depression and anxiety, or work through the courses sequentially, lesson by lesson, course by course. It's entirely up to you. It's a free resource that I hope helps you with your depression and anxiety journey.

Or if you're using it on behalf of someone else who is struggling to work through their depression and anxiety, I hope it helps in that situation too. Thank you for watching.