Free from Anxiety: Therapeutic Practices to Help You Feel Your Worth and Let Go of Fear

The book will teach you to distinguish signals of real trauma from the past from disturbing fantasies that are fueled by fear. A practicing psychologist with extensive experience and a broad audience shows how, step by step, to work with anxiety states.

Alina Ishchanova is a consulting psychologist with a higher specialized education, author of a blog with 25,000 subscribers, and a specialist with more than six years of private practice.

Often, people carry inside themselves a “hidden suitcase” for years—made up of resentments, unspoken fears, mistakes, and agonizing doubts about their own worth. Over time, this heaviness begins to feel familiar and even natural, even though it is precisely what keeps us stuck and prevents us from moving forward freely.

“Free from Anxiety” is an invitation to gently unpack and neutralize what causes pain. The book does not ask you to ignore suffering—it helps separate real trauma experience from self-perpetuating fears. There is no room for self-criticism here: instead, you get a clear breakdown of which experiences truly warn you about what matters, and which ones turn out to be an illusion of a tired psyche. You will be able to ease chronic anxiety, leave behind the burden of false beliefs, and understand which fears it’s time to let go of—and which fears can be transformed into support for growth and change.

You will learn not to “fight” anxiety, but to unpack it and free yourself from what’s unnecessary. You will stop living in the role of a bearer of your own fear—and regain space for ease, confidence, and a steady sense of your own value.