Hi. I'm Geoff and this is my story - the quick version...

Before anxiety entered my life, I was free...

In my twenties, the world felt wide open. I chased adventure across continents - sailing, surfing warm waves, skiing deep powder, living abroad.

Shortly after my thirtieth birthday, that carefree world imploded.

Without warning, my chest tightened, my heart raced. Reality felt thin and unreal. I thought I was going insane.

It was my first panic attack.

Then it happened again. And again. Panic attacks quickly began consuming my life - within months, I had to quit my job and move home with my parents. The expansive life I had lived had been reduced to a fragile existence governed by fear. I was lost and hopeless...

After a year and a half of relentless anxiety, I was empty. Exhausted. Running on fumes.

Desperate, I bought a stack of self-help books. One suggested surrendering to a higher power. I rejected the idea immediately. I didn’t want God. I didn’t want religion. I didn’t want surrender.

I just wanted my life back. But I was terrified, broken, and out of options.

So believing in nothing but my own desperation, I dropped to my knees and - unconvinced and unbelieving - whispered words I had just read: “Thy will, not mine.”

Instantly, the anxiety vanished. A deep calm flooded in.

After a year and a half of torment, I was at peace. Total peace.

I soon found myself exploring an inner path I had no idea existed and had never intended to take.

What began as desperation turned into a twenty-five-year journey to understand anxiety at its roots - and discover how we can transform it into lasting inner peace.

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Over time the deep peace I initially experienced slowly faded and anxiety occasionally returned - but I wasn’t lost anymore. I had tools: yoga, meditation, therapy, inner work.

My anxiety softened. My mind grew quieter. I began experiencing deeper peace again.

And then many years later Covid arrived.

As an asthmatic, I was suddenly high risk. An invisible threat was everywhere, and an intense tsunami of anxiety surged back into my life - raw and overwhelming.

After all those years of practice. All that work.

What the hell? It was almost like I was thirty years old all over again.

I did everything I had learned, yet the anxiety still burned. That’s when an unsettling realization appeared: mindfulness alone wasn’t enough to heal it. The map I had trusted had run out of roads.

The stakes became clear: Was lasting peace actually possible? Or would overwhelming anxiety always return?

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A year later, during a silent meditation retreat while enduring intense physical pain and fear, the answer suddenly appeared: beneath my mindfulness was a deep subtle resistance to the anxiety itself.

When I stopped fighting it and began introducing safety and compassion into my body, everything shifted.

A year later, during a six-week silent retreat I entered while completely heartbroken from a relationship ending, that discovery profoundly deepened.

Sitting with overwhelming grief, fear, and old childhood wounds - with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, I realized something profoundly life-altering: we have the power to create a new inner world - one of peace, spaciousness, and quiet power - that not only heals our anxiety, but that can become our new reality. An inner world that anxiety may have buried, but never erased.

That discovery changed my life. I no longer wait for peace to arrive—I know how to cultivate it from within.

And today, I teach others how to transform their relationship with anxiety and create an inner world of greater safety, resilience, and ease. My work is informed not only by what those retreats taught me, but also by over twenty-five years of study, training, and practice. My background includes immersive study of Eastern traditions, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher training, trauma-informed healing practices, and professional certification through the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. I have authored two books on mindful living and my teachings are currently being used by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to help veterans with PTSD.

My course Anxious No More has supported over 2,000 people in transforming their relationship with anxiety - and to helping them see that anxiety is not an obstacle to inner peace, but the doorway to it…

Please reach out for a free 30 minute consultation session to see if we are a good fit and how I can help.

You can find freedom from anxiety - you can find a life of greater peace and power.

And you deserve it...

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