Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,

change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what motivates

them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and

inspire, so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional

goals. Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. Today I am joined by Cameron

Betty, a mental health practitioner who utilizes neurolinguistic programming, movement therapy,

mindfulness and hypnosis in his work as a transformational life coach. Cameron is also the

author of the anxiety antidote,

how awareness and action can lead to self-control and inner peace. Welcome to the podcast, Cameron.

How are you? I'm very well, Adrian. How are you today? I'm good. It's so good to reconnect.

We have known each other for a very, very long time years and years and years ago.

It's great to reconnect,

and I'm really looking forward to having this conversation with you. I'm sure the listeners are going to gain so much from your wisdom, knowledge and also your approach as well.

I'm excited to share with you. So firstly, so the topic of anxiety is what we're going to be

talking about today. Now, firstly, I think the first place I wanted to start is that we often use the word anxiety.

I'm sure most people probably hear that word every single day.

And I think it's used interchangeably with other words like stress, worry, even depression.

We just kind of lump all these things together and just say, oh, anxiety.

So I think a great place to start would be actually to give us an understanding in your terms of

the definition of what anxiety is and what it isn't.

Sure. Yes, you're completely right. The word anxiety has in many ways become a umbrella term for

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