The Clarity Companion: Anxiety

Anxiety doesn't always look like panic. Sometimes it looks like high performance and telling everyone you're fine.

I'm Dr. Thomas A. Vance, a licensed mental health clinician, and I live with anxiety too. I wrote this journal for the high achiever who is doing everything right on the outside and quietly coming undone on the inside. It's also for anyone who grew up being told to pray about it, push through it, or keep it to themselves.

It started with something I heard again and again when I encouraged people to journal: "I don't know what to write." So this one gives you a place to start, and you can move through it at your own pace. You don't have to complete every prompt. One honest sentence may be enough.

What's inside

• How Anxiety Shows Up for You, a self-check you answer with Not me, Sounds familiar, or This is me. There's no score, and it isn't a diagnostic tool.
• Six themes, from Recognize to Reclaim, each with its own tool, like Pause and Listen and Name the Pattern.
• Sixty-second practices for the moments when the journal is across the room.
• Reflection prompts at the end of every theme.
• A Where I Started page, and a closing ritual that brings you back to it.

What you may begin to notice

• Recognizing anxiety earlier, and understanding how it shows up in your body.
• Questioning thoughts you once accepted automatically.
• A stronger relationship with your own judgment and self-trust.

The details

• Soft-touch vegan leather hardcover in Midnight Green, with gold foil and gold corners
• 103 pages of 100gsm cream paper, printed in full color
• Thread-sewn binding that lies flat, with a gold ribbon bookmark
• 5.4 × 8.4 inches
• Complimentary shipping on U.S. orders

For the person everyone else is counting on

It's a good gift for the friend who checks on everybody and rarely gets checked on.

The Clarity Companion: Anxiety is an educational and reflective resource. It isn't psychotherapy, and it doesn't provide diagnosis, treatment, medical advice, or crisis support. If anxiety is affecting your sleep, work, relationships, or sense of safety, please reach out to a licensed mental health professional or your healthcare provider. If you're in immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department. In the U.S., you can also call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.