Hello and welcome to It's just a feeling

My name is Michelle. I created It’s just a feeling over 24 years ago after suffering from severe anxiety and panic symptoms myself. Even after all of these years, my reasons for doing this work remain the same:

“To help other people to understand what is happening to them and to help them to understand how they may be unknowingly making themselves worse, rather than better. I stop other people from falling into the same decline that I did”

May I wish you a very warm welcome to my website.

Supporting others became really important to me after I suffered severe anxiety and panic myself. I struggled to find the answers I needed to help me to make sense of what was happening to me.  

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Michelle Vickers

Personal Growth Training

‘Knowledge is power’ is a common phrase but there is undeniably truth to the ability to feel calmer and safer within ourselves when we understand what something means. This is basically because we understand it more in relation to what it is and what it may mean to our own experiences. Once we understand something we change our perception of it which in turn can support us as we work through the difficulty we are having.

Anxiety Awareness
(Understanding anxious symptoms)

Anxiety Awareness

Are you feeling anxious or experiencing panic attacks?
Let me show you how to reduce your fears yourself , by understanding what anxiety is and is happening to you!
I know that it is possible for you to regain your quality of life & that you are very capable of working through anxious symptoms!

THIS COURSE WILL BE AVAILABLE DURING NOVEMBER

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Anxiety Strategies
(Self-Management of anxious symptoms)

The anxiety strategies course will provide tools for you to gain confidence in managing and reducing the intensity of your anxious feelings. The content aim is to help you to build a personal toolbox of strategies so that you are able to find confidence to navigate your symptoms.

THIS COURSE WILL BE AVAILABLE DURING NOVEMBER

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The Fear Monster

Book Series

The Fear Monster® Part 1

I am very excited to announce that my book series will be available very soon. I am going to teach you everything I know about navigating an anxious journey, from that first fearful feeling, to the point you are able to live more freely and beyond. I am going to use all of my knowledge from navigating my own journey to help you to understand yours.

I do believe that the time now is exactly right to introduce you to the Fear Monster® and all he stands for. I wish I could have done this sooner as my work with him has always felt incomplete, but you will come to understand why that has not been possible until now.

The Fear Monster® is an amazing but complex character you may think you understand him now, but you would be very wrong! I hope for you to come to see that he has so many dimensions to him, some of which may feel frightening, but others show his amazing capacity to help you. It has taken me twenty four years, along with the navigating of some incredible and unforeseen life events to understand him as I am able to now. 

The books are going to follow a personal journey. This is important so that I am able to take you through the entire process of working with anxiety as I have learnt how. The Fear Monster® is reflective of my life, because he is born from my very real and personal fear journey .

Register your interest to purchase part one, the first book of the three book series.

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Follow my Vlog on Youtube

Its just a feeling

Its just a feeling
Waking up super anxious and not being able to make sense of why this happens can be frightening for anxiety sufferers. Here are my thoughts on why this happens and what you can do.
In this vlog post I offer some thoughts around setbacks.
I am excited to introduce my new online Fear Monster ® Course! The Fear Monster Concept ® Workshop is a video presentation that I have created an deliver personally. It is now available to buy online and to work through at your own pace in your own surroundings. The course is suitable for those: -Who may have experienced or feel stuck in anxious feeling’s and wish for an alternative perspective that may help them to work with this in a more effective way? -Who may be supporting someone who is experiencing anxiety? -Who would like to learn more about anxious feelings in general? To purchase the course, or find out more visit - https://michellevickers.thinkific.com/courses/fear-monster-concept-workshop My other websites: My online resource for help with anxiety and panic disorders: https://itsjustafeeling.co.uk/ My professional counselling website: https://michellevickers.co.uk/
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It's just a feeling - Audio MP3's

I have created and produced a series of MP3 downloads for you to purchase and listen to at your own leisure, in your own time.

  • MP3 1 ‘Audio help with Panic Attacks’
  • MP3 2 ‘Audio help with Agoraphobia’
  • MP3 3 ‘ Audio help with Social Anxiety’

It is my hope for you to find the content both reflective and informative and may I thank you for your purchase

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Michelle Vickers

About the author

I’m Michelle. My passion is to create and then continuously develop this website originated from my own experiences of Anxiety and Panic symptoms and my difficulty in accessing and finding the information that I needed in order to make sense of what was happening to me.

That, together with my absolute refusal to believe that there was no hope, lead me on a journey of self-discovery that would inspire me to share what I came to understand with others to stop them from falling into the same decline I did.

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Testimonials

I am always happy to hear from anyone feels that the information displayed on It’s just a feeling has supported them in some way. Please find below a few examples of testimonials that I am very proud to receive:

"It's sort of out of my character to reach out to you, but I just want to let you know that your website is the absolute very best on the internet for helping with anxiety. I don't suffer like I used to, but every now and then I'll get a relapse. And all I have to do is simply visit your site for a quick reminder of what's happening and how I'm making it worse. Believe me, like most I've been to the very end of Google, desperately trying to find out what was wrong with me. And there's not a site out there that accurately describes it like yours. So please never take it down. ha. You're doing great work and you're literally saving people. I'm sitting here in tears typing this and I'm a 40 something year old, tough guy, covered in tattoos. haha."
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"Oh dear, why have I yet again spent so much time looking at so many options online to enable me to cope with another bout of crippling anxiety??? Again, here I am back on the only website which offers sound, sympathetic and readable advice offered by someone who knows. Thank you."
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"I haven’t visited your site for well over 12 months now, but in the 3 1/2 years previous I visited your site many times and read your articles over and over again. Now I own my business and I’m doing well. Today I’ve travelled to xxxxxx to get stock from the warehouse and then had lunch in xxxxxxxx with my wife. I tell you this because I never thought this would have been possible. Over 4 years ago I was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and was in a really bad place . Reflecting on my day today I started to write a list of people who I considered saved my life, I say this because over the last 4 years there have been many occasions when I wanted to die. I don’t need to explain to you what I’ve been through or why on many occasions I considered taking my own life. I just wanted you to now that you are one of the people who I considered helped me to save my life. Your excellent advice on your website gave me hope and encouragement, when most people around me had no clue what I was going through. Every time a setback happened I went straight back to your site to read through the information you provided. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the excellent work you do. Me my family are eternally grateful to you."
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"Personally, these blogs changed my life, I really felt such a relief after reading it, I now understand how the mind works and am no longer scared of my own thoughts. IT WORKS! I am a psychologist and thought that I would be able to work through this myself but the most helpful thing has been speaking and hearing from others about their experiences."
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"I cannot put into words how much Michelle and her website helped me through what was a very frightening time in my life. After a life changing event I suffered a severe panic attack and became locked in the fear cycle. I saw no way out in the initial few weeks but after reading through Its Just A Feeling I began to understand why and what I was going through and slowly I started to get back to the person I once was. I know I would not have been able to get through it without Michelle and her website. I am thankful every day for the work she does and the fact that I stumbled across the website in such early stages of what I can only describe as a living nightmare. Thank you again Michelle for all your help and support."
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"I just wanted to say thank you for your website. I suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and I have found the information and insights very useful while in the midst of a recent bout. Its empowering to hear the condition described so aptly from someone who has personal experience and knowledge."
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"I love your website because it is so holistic and teaches us that anxiety can be our teacher for the rest of our lives - and even though recovery will come in time (as all things pass) - there still has to be a change of mind and behaviours."
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"I just wanted to say thank you with all my heart I am so grateful for the perspective you gave on obsessive thoughts & anxiety."
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"Thank you for your website. I have been looking for something like this for years. Thank you for all your hard work."
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