Are you lying awake at night thinking about surgery?

Do your thoughts keep drifting towards "what if?" scenarios?

Perhaps you find yourself repeatedly searching online for reassurance, imagining worst-case outcomes, or noticing your body reacting long before the actual day arrives.

If so, you're not alone.

Surgery anxiety can feel overwhelming. Even when you understand logically that treatment is there to help, your mind and body may still respond with fear, uncertainty, tension, and constant anticipation.

The good news is that your mind and body are responding exactly as a human nervous system is designed to respond when it perceives a threat.

Panic to Prepared is a practical, compassionate guide designed to help you understand why surgery anxiety feels so powerful and, more importantly, what you can do about it.

Inside the book you'll discover:

• Why the brain and body react so strongly before surgery

• How anxiety affects the nervous system

• The Stress Bucket and why overwhelm builds so easily

• Simple breathing and grounding techniques that calm the body

• How sleep affects anxiety and emotional resilience

• The role of self-hypnosis and guided relaxation

• How to stop rehearsing fear and begin rehearsing calm

• Practical ways to build confidence and cope more effectively before treatment

This is not a book about forcing positive thinking.

It is about understanding your mind, calming your nervous system, and learning practical tools that help you move towards surgery with greater calm, confidence, and control.

Expected release: July 2026