epicentering:

Video transcript:

"Hello and welcome to Epicentering. My name is Neil Shearing and this is Epi. Epi is the mascot for Epicentering.

The reason this website exists is to help people heal from depression and anxiety.

Back in 2020, after being asked for a divorce - which absolutely blindsided me - I went to see my doctor and said I thought I’d been having a slow-motion breakdown or something. He offered me either antidepressants or a course of talk therapy. I took the option of therapy because I figured it was me and my brain that had got me into this mess and, hopefully with some help, me and my brain would be able to get me out of this mess.

I wasn’t ruling out antidepressants on principle; I just wanted to see if therapy could work first. The telephone-based CBT course that I did - behavioural activation - really didn’t work for me. It was trying to fill my diary with things I could do during the week, whereas what I needed to do was go back in time, work out what had gone wrong with me, and fix it so that it wouldn’t happen again in the future.

So I sourced a local therapist who’s been exceptionally good and someone I’ve been working with intensively for the past five years.

Not only have I been working with him full-time, but as my curiosity and energy came back, I did my own digging into science papers, podcasts, online articles, videos, and so on, to learn everything I could about depression. I’ve taken the valuable insights from five years of intensive therapy, along with what I’ve learned from studying the biology of depression and anxiety and the psychology of depression and anxiety, and I’ve created multiple courses that I feel will help people heal holistically.

Each course is about two to three hours long. Topics include:

• Mindfulness

• Nature

• Movement / Exercise

• Support

• Stress

• Nutrition

• Timelines

•  Rhythms

• Sleep

• Feelings

• Thoughts

• Beliefs

Because I’ve been lucky enough to heal from depression and anxiety—to build a full, sustainable, durable recovery - even though between 2020 and 2025 I went through a divorce; my mum developed a variant cancer after I moved back into their house and passed away in 2023; my dad then went to pieces and I was his full-time carer until he passed away in 2024; and in 2025 I’ve been focused exclusively on creating this set of courses for people - I just want to give back.

If you’d like access to these 12 full courses on how to build a full, sustained, durable recovery from depression and anxiety—or if someone close to you has depression and you’d like to take these courses to better understand, assist, and help them—then it’s my pleasure to offer them for free on this website.

All you need to do is sign up for an account, and you’ll have instant online access to all the courses.

I know that for some people there’s a big gap between antidepressants (which don’t work for everybody) and therapy (which can be expensive and time-consuming). My aim is to help fill that gap with these freely available online courses, to help people do what I did and build a full, sustained recovery from depression and anxiety.

Thank you for watching this video. I hope you get something out of the free courses available on this website and that they help you, or someone you know, heal from depression and anxiety.

If you find them valuable, please share the website and help spread the word. Thank you."