Here’s Nic, have a listen:

He’s straight forward, easy to understand and talks about going beyond the

debilitating problems of anxiety and panic attacks.

We asked Nic to be featured on Sleep With The Experts for two reasons.  Firstly he is a medical researcher and editor of an international medical journal, and secondly, he personally suffered from and overcome anxiety and panic disorder.

I know, through my years of listening to people just like you, that anxiety and panic are  the reasons some people can’t sleep, never fall asleep fast and are desperate to know how to fall asleep.

We invited him on to the series as a sleep expert for these reasons. 

You’ll also find out about Nic’s extensive research into benzodiazepines during his period of searching for his solutions.

Nic Lucas’s expertise for Week 3 of Sleep With The Experts was Anxiety.

What’s the great thing about Nic’s take on Anxiety?  He is a medical researcher, and editor AS WELL AS  a success case study on anxiety.  So what he had to tell us was excellent, and practically based.   

Anxiety is widespread and affects people from all walks of life.

It affects your day, and your nights.  Understanding that anxiety is more than often a behavioral problem than a medical problem can be the first step toward recovery.

Nic Lucas - Anxiety and Sleep Disorders

Nic Lucas is a public health researcher at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney where he is undertaking his PhD in the reliability of diagnostic tests.  He has a masters degree in health science, a masters degree in pain medicine, and a grad. dip. in clinical epidemiology.  He has lectured here in Australia and internationally on pain medicine, neurobiology and research methods and he is an editor of an international scientific journal.  He is also a qualified osteopath – and has been in private practice for 10 years, treating people who primarily present with physical pain.

In his late twenties, Nic developed panic disorder, and then generalised anxiety disorder and was affected by this problem for 4-5 years.  During this time he did not take medication and received no formal psychological therapy.  

He has been free of anxiety for 7 years and has written a book and developed an online program for anxiety sufferers.  This was prompted in part by the large number of patients Nic sees in his private practice who confide to having ‘anxiety’ for the first time – and who have never sought help.  Nic calls these, “the invisible sufferers of anxiety”.

This webinar had an amazing response from the audience, especially those who were secretly suffering from anxiety and/or panic.

Nic built hope for the listeners, and ways to get passed anxiety and panic – straight from his own personal experience.

What amazed me personally was the level of complex research that Nic had done around all aspects of anxiety – the drugs, the solutions, the evidence-based studies, the myths debunked!

His personal, open and frank style, dealing with the hardships and the personal challenges was both warm and practical.

I hope you enjoy Nic’s take on going beyond anxiety and panic.

If they are your problems, this may be your sleep solution.

Elizabeth

The ground-breaking Sleep With The Experts webinar series was broadcast from Sydney Australia commencing July 2009.
The 9 week training program featured 7 guest experts, and delivered world-class information on natural sleep strategies including:

* The 50+ food additives and chemicals that are associated with sleep problems, including disturbed sleep, anxiety, depression, bed-wetting, snoring, sleep apnea, ADHD, nightmares, sleep walking, sleep talking, etc. The information was provided by nominee for Australian of the Year, Sue Dengate.
* Anxiety and how to overcome it – presented by Nic Lucas, medical researcher and editor of an international medical publication, who cured his own anxiety without medication.
* Emotions that keep you awake. Presented by Domenica Papalia, 17 years experience as a pharmacist, combined with 12 qualifications in natural and energy healing.
* Melatonin, serotonin, the vagus nerve; the autonomic and the enteric nervous systems. Stress reduction strategies. Geraldine Gallagher, international lecturer and 5 times President of the NSW Kinesiology Association.
*Better Sleep by Overcoming your Sensitive Reaction Syndrome. The Neuro-Training perspective, presented by the founder Andrew Verity. Verity is an international teacher and consultant to the alternative health and kinesiology industry. His 36 years in alternative health included iridology, kinesiology, homeopathy, Cheirology, Psycho-somatic analysis and applied personology.
* Sleep Music, presented by Angela Sciberras, Bachelor of Arts Music with honours in Ethnomusicology, Kinesiologist/Neuro-Trainer and Therapeutic Musician (International Healing Musicians Program USA).
* Anxiety and stress relief using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Rod Sherwin, twitter’s TheTappingMan, teaches EFT from the basics to practitioner training. He combines his 8 years experience with a wealth of other health modalities.
* What’s your Insomnia Type? It’s the subject of Elizabeth Shannon’s upcoming book, where she distils industry information and matches natural solutions to each of the insomnia types.

Hope you enjoy it, it’s coming very soon.

Kindest regards

Elizabeth