I always knew I was "special." My mom would always repeat this to me and it made me feel like one day I'd make it big. Well, it turns out that she was right. I was special; just not in the way that she imagined. Deep down I always knew what I really was. And it can all be boiled down into a single word: anxious.

Even as a kid it was obvious to me that adventure wasn't exactly my thing. My problem with abnormal anxiety didn't become clear though until I was 19 years old. That's when I had my first panic attack.

That night started a decade's long journey of fear and research that culminated in my blog Anxietyguru.net. It took me what felt like forever, but eventually I learned enough about abnormal anxiety to completely eliminate it from my life.

Now I write, podcast, and help others with their anxiety.