About Linda Connors
Founder of The Still Ground and Anxiety Coach with over twenty years’ experience
For more than twenty years I have worked with people navigating anxiety, overthinking, and the internal pressure that often accompanies demanding lives.
Many of the people I support appear capable and composed on the outside. Internally, however, their nervous system rarely feels fully settled.
The mind keeps analysing, the body remains tense, and switching off becomes difficult.
My work focuses on helping people understand how anxiety operates in the mind and body, and how a different relationship with it can gradually restore clarity, steadiness, and self-trust.
If you’re curious whether this work might help, you’re welcome to arrange a short conversation.
Why This Work Matters to Me
My interest in anxiety is not purely professional. I have experienced it personally.
At different points in my life anxiety appeared both as intense overwhelm and as a quieter tension beneath the surface that made it difficult to fully relax or feel present.
Alongside my professional training, I have also engaged in my own coaching and therapeutic work. That process helped me recognise patterns, blind spots, and the ways the mind and nervous system learn to respond to pressure.
This personal experience continues to shape the way I approach my work today, with curiosity, empathy, and a deep respect for the complexity of the human system.
My Perspective on Anxiety
I do not see anxiety as something that must be eliminated.
Anxiety is part of being human.
What often creates ongoing struggle is the way our system learns to respond to it over time.
Patterns of overthinking, self-monitoring, and nervous system activation can become deeply embedded. Sometimes these patterns develop through life experiences or emotional wounds. At other times they emerge gradually through years of responsibility, pressure, and the habit of living primarily in the mind.
My work helps people understand these patterns and gradually change their relationship with them.
As the nervous system begins to settle and self-trust strengthens, anxiety no longer needs to dominate the internal landscape.
A different way of meeting life begins to emerge.
Training and Influences
My approach draws from a range of disciplines that explore the relationship between mind, body, identity, and personal development.
Over the years I have trained in therapeutic hypnotherapy, meditation and contemplative practices, the Enneagram, love-centred coaching, and Success Intelligence. I have also studied developmental frameworks such as the Hero’s Journey and completed advanced training through the Sounds True Inner MBA.
Rather than applying these approaches as separate techniques, I integrate their insights into a way of working that is grounded, practical, and focused on meaningful change.
Experience
Over 20 years working with anxiety, mindset, and the mind–body relationship
More than 15,000 hours of coaching and therapeutic work
Host of the Still Ground Podcast
Supporting individuals across a wide range of professions and life stages
Who I Often Work With
Many of the people I work with carry significant responsibility in their professional or personal lives.
From the outside they are often seen as thoughtful, capable, and reliable. Internally they may experience persistent overthinking, tension in the body, or a nervous system that rarely feels fully settled.
They are not looking for quick fixes. They are looking for deeper understanding and a steadier way of relating to themselves and the challenges of life.
How I Work
The work we do together is thoughtful and structured, but it also unfolds at a pace that respects your nervous system.
There is space to reflect, to understand what is happening in your system, and to develop practical ways of responding differently to anxiety and overthinking.
This work is not about quick fixes or forcing change. It is about building steadiness in a way that feels natural and sustainable.
A Conversation
If what you have read here resonates, the next step is a conversation.
A 20-minute consultation offers a confidential space to talk about what you are experiencing and to explore whether working together may be helpful for you.
Many people arrive at this conversation unsure whether their anxiety is something they should seek support for. That uncertainty is completely welcome here.
There is no obligation to proceed. The conversation simply allows us to see whether this work feels like the right fit.