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Open Change

Samuel Eddy, MSc Psychology, B Bus
Sam helps clients recovery from anxiety and related disorders including panic, OCD, GAD, and agoraphobia.

Based on his Anxiety Cure Videos series on YouTube, Sam offers individual coaching and group masterclasses. Open Change Workplace Wellbeing & Burnout Prevention Education. Samuel is a professional workplace Educator, Neuroplasticity Practioner and creator of the Stress Temperature workplace wellbeing model. He educates workplaces and coaches individuals to reduce stress, prevent burnout and boost wellbeing through his unique models, personal experience of burnout and the principles of Neuroplasticity. After an extensive corporate leadership career, Samuel completed a Master of Science, Psychology and is a certified Mental Health First Aider. Clients include ANZ, Westpac, RACGP, Asahi, KPMG, Deakin University, Mitchell Shire Council and Australian Nurse & Midwife Federation (ANMF)

15/12/2025

Are your mindfulness tools actually making your anxiety worse?

Here's the truth: breathing exercises, meditation, and grounding techniques are powerful... but most people use them the wrong way.

When you use these tools to try to GET RID OF anxiety, you're actually:
❌ Taking the anxiety too seriously
❌ Reinforcing the fear around it
❌ Suppressing instead of allowing

The right approach? Use these tools as anchors... something to focus on WHILE you allow the nervous system to settle naturally.

You're not pushing the anxiety away. You're giving your mind something to do while the adrenaline burns itself out.

It's not about new techniques. It's about a new mindset: allowing instead of fighting.

Have you been using mindfulness tools to fight your anxiety instead of support yourself through it?
Watch the full anxiety healing series in our bio to learn the allowing approach.

12/12/2025

Parenting an anxious child can feel overwhelming... especially when you're not sure what to say or how to help.

Here are 3 steps that can change everything:

1️⃣ Slow down - Breathe slow. Talk slow. Give them the time and space they need.
2️⃣ Acknowledge their feelings - Let them know their fear is real. Their distress is real. You see them.
1️⃣ Slow down - Breathe slowly. Talk slow. Give them the time and space they need.

You can't rush this process. But you can be there. And that makes all the difference.
Have you ever tried this approach with your child? What helped them feel safe?

Watch the full video and anxiety series in our bio for more practical guidance.

09/12/2025

Final masterclass for the year! Join me to establish your daily anxiety recovery plan to help see you through Christmas and into the new year.

Booking https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/daily-anxiety-protocol-for-recovery-tickets-1977325394483?aff=oddtdtcreator

Learn daily practices to help you recover from and other related states.

08/12/2025

You wake up and before you even open your eyes, the stress is already there. Your chest feels tight. Your mind starts racing. And the day hasn't even started yet.

Here's what's really happening:

Your body releases cortisol every morning to help you wake up... it's completely normal. But if you have a sensitized nervous system (which many anxiety sufferers do), that cortisol spike can trigger anxiety symptoms.

You're not broken.

You're not imagining it.

Your body is just reacting more intensely to a natural process.

The key isn't to fight it or panic about it... it's to understand it, slow down, and gently move through it.
Have you experienced morning anxiety? What does it feel like for you?

Drop a comment below and let's talk about it. 💬

Watch the full anxiety series in our bio to learn more tools for healing.

05/12/2025

There's a fine line between helpful reassurance and desperate reassurance-seeking.

If you're watching anxiety content just to feel okay in the moment... you're using it as a crutch. You get a little relief, your anxiety drops temporarily, and then it comes right back because you haven't practiced anything.

But if you're watching to LEARN, to practice, and to remind yourself of what you already know? That's when transformation happens.

Repetition rewires the brain. Hearing the same truths over and over helps you internalize them... until eventually, you don't need the videos anymore. You become your own teacher.

The goal isn't to depend on external reassurance forever. It's to take the learnings and become your own coach.

Have you noticed the difference between these two types of reassurance in your own recovery?

Watch the full anxiety cure playlist to learn how to practice effectively... link in bio.

01/12/2025

Here's the truth: caffeine can mimic anxiety symptoms. It can make your heart race, amp up your thoughts, and activate your nervous system.

But that doesn't mean you need to quit coffee... OR force yourself to drink it as some kind of exposure challenge.

The real question is: how does it affect YOU?

If coffee makes you feel worse, try decaf. If it doesn't bother you, enjoy it. But don't turn your morning ritual into an anxiety experiment. That just reinforces the false belief that anxiety is something serious you need to conquer.

Anxiety is uncomfortable... not dangerous. You don't need to prove anything to it.
So drink coffee because you genuinely love the taste and the ritual. Not because you're trying to cope with fear.

Have you noticed a connection between caffeine and your anxiety levels? Let me know below.
Watch the full anxiety cure playlist... link in bio.

28/11/2025

Recovery isn't just about the mental work... it's also about giving your nervous system what it needs to heal.

Recovery isn't just about the mental work... It's also about giving your nervous system what it needs to heal.

These 3 foundations won't cure anxiety on their own, but they make everything else work better:

✅ Nutrition & Movement – Fresh food, protein, and even just a daily walk release endorphins and burn off tension
✅ Stay Engaged – Keep doing the things that lift your spirit. See friends. Go to dinner. Don't let anxiety shrink your life.
✅ Balance – Find the sweet spot between activity and rest. Too much of either can stress your system.

Think of these as the groundwork. When your body feels safe and nourished, your mind can do the deeper healing work.

What's one small thing you're doing today to support your nervous system?

Watch the full anxiety cure playlist in our bio to dive deeper into real recovery.

24/11/2025

Anxiety recovery isn’t a straight line... and it’s not something you’re meant to do alone.

Anxiety Recovery Coaching gives you the space, guidance, and reminders you need while your nervous system relearns safety.

Because the journey can feel confusing… especially on the tough days.

That’s why support matters.

Someone to help you understand what’s happening in your body.

Someone to guide you through patterns you might not notice on your own.

Someone to remind you you’re not going backwards... you’re healing.

Have you ever felt like your progress “disappeared” overnight… only to realize later it was just part of the process?

Watch the full anxiety recovery playlist in our bio to understand these moments with more clarity.

21/11/2025

Medication changes can make your anxiety feel worse... not because you’re going backwards, but because your nervous system is adjusting.

When your system is sensitive, even small shifts can feel like a threat. You might notice agitation, restlessness, or heightened awareness.
But these reactions don’t mean something is wrong.
They’re simply signals that your body is recalibrating.

You’re not failing.
You’re not “too sensitive.”
Your nervous system is responding exactly as it’s designed to.

Have you ever felt a surge of anxiety after adjusting your medication?

Watch the full anxiety cure playlist in our bio to understand what’s happening beneath the surface.

19/11/2025

You think you're accepting your anxiety… but are you actually resisting it?
One of the biggest traps in anxiety recovery is disguised resistance... when we say we're allowing anxiety, but we're really just waiting for it to leave.

Here's the truth:
✅ Acceptance isn't about making symptoms go away
✅ It's not about feeling better faster
✅ It's not measured by how calm you are today

Real acceptance means letting anxiety be there... for as long as it wants... without needing it to mean anything.

Because when you stop judging your progress by your symptoms, that's when real healing begins.
Have you ever caught yourself "accepting" anxiety… but secretly just waiting for it to stop?

Watch the full video to learn the 5 most common ways we resist while thinking we're accepting... link in bio.

12/11/2025

“How can I stop these thoughts?”
That’s the question everyone asks when they’re caught in the anxiety loop.

But the truth is... you don’t have to stop them.
Because thoughts aren’t the problem.
A tired, sensitized nervous system is.

But the truth is... You don’t have to stop them. Even ordinary thoughts feel threatening. The key is to allow them... not fight them.

Behind rumination is just energy waiting to move through you.
When you stop resisting, your body naturally calms and desensitizes... and recovery follows.

Have you noticed that your thoughts calm down when you stop trying to control them?

10/11/2025

If you’ve been feeling constantly tired... not just sleepy, but drained... there’s a reason.

When anxiety or depression take hold, your body shifts into protection mode.
Your nervous system stays on alert, your mind never truly rests, and over time, your energy runs out.

This is called depletion... and it’s not your fault.
It’s your body’s way of saying: “I’ve been on high alert for too long.”

True recovery doesn’t come from pushing harder.
It comes from restoring safety to your body, step by step.

Have you noticed how emotional stress drains your energy?
Share your experience below 👇

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Docklands, VIC

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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https://openchange.com.au/anxiety-coaching/, https://openchange.com.au/anxiety-tool-shop/

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Corporate Wellness & Executive Coaching

Open Change Life & Executive Coaching When employees are healthy and happy there are enormous benefits for them and the business they work for. Healthy employees are more productive, they are more engaged in the jobs, they take less sick days and they work more effectively with customers.

In simple terms, if you are happy and healthy at work, you will do a better job, keep customers satisfied and enjoy what you do!

Open Change Corporate Wellbeing Programs

Open Change offers employers and organisations a workplace wellbeing program that focuses on improving employees mental health and overall wellbeing. The program is delivered in three distinct parts to enable effective change:

Awareness

Understanding

Change

Session 1: Awareness

Learn to identify workplace stress and common triggers

Maintaining health and wellbeing in our busy world can be difficult with the increased demands in our work and personal lives. When stresses of life increase our physical and mental health can suffer reducing our sense of wellbeing.

In the awareness session, I discuss how stress impacts our mental and physical wellbeing. I cover common mental health issues including anxiety and depression and explore common workplace triggers for stress and how we can become more aware of them.

I also cover traditional and alternative paths to wellness including how GP’s, psychologists and other therapist help people improve their mental health to demonstrate what seeking this help means in practice.

Session 2: Understanding

Learn how stress can affect our health and wellbeing

Once we become aware of our own mental health levels and the levels of those around us, we are able to deepen our understanding of wellness and wellbeing.

Using examples from our own personal and professional lives, this session will increase understanding of how stress can affect both our mental and physical health. We will then discuss simple and practical tools and strategies that are easy to implement and will help employees make positive change.

Session 3: Change

Make the changes for genuine, long-term wellbeing

When we become aware of and understand the keys to improved mental health and wellbeing, change is possible but this doesn’t mean it is easy. Many of us fail to make the changes we want in our life, even with the best intention.

In this session, we use real-life examples to learn why change is hard, the reasons people often revert to old ways of being, and learn tools to help us keep moving forward during setbacks in order to stay on track to improved mental health and wellbeing.

Coaching

I also offer individual and group coaching to employees who would benefit from ongoing support as they move towards improved levels of mental health and wellbeing in their personal and professional lives.