Lie back.Listen.Recover.
For Anxiety, OCD, PTSD, agoraphobia, emetophobia, panic attacks, eating disorders and all related conditions—with total balance and wellbeing as the destination.
If fear, intrusive thoughts, trauma or persistent alarm has made your world smaller, this is for you.
You may wake already checking how you feel. A sensation appears, and within seconds you are monitoring it, questioning it, or trying to make it stop.
You might avoid places, search endlessly for reassurance, rehearse conversations, fear being alone, or wonder why you cannot simply think your way out of it. Even during calm moments, part of you may be waiting for the thought, sensation, fear or alarm to return.
Your day becomes organised around avoiding the alarm. You are tired of therapies, techniques, worksheets, relaxation, and breathing drills becoming futile daily tasks.
The Goal
The goal is not to spend your life managing symptoms. It is for fear and persistent alarm to stop managing your life.
Imagine noticing a sensation without immediately fearing it.
Leaving home without calculating how quickly you could return.
Going through an ordinary day without monitoring and managing your condition being the main event.
Making room for your experience.
Every condition has its own profound impact on daily life. STAND DOWN recognises the distinct exhaustion of OCD, the hypervigilance of PTSD, the shrinking world of agoraphobia, the intense physical symptoms of panic disorder, and the quiet suffering of health anxiety, social anxiety, emetophobia, and phobias.
While these conditions are not identical, they are often sustained by a shared state of persistent alarm. By addressing the root mechanism, the broader destination becomes clear: total balance and wellbeing.
Panic Disorder
Panic attacks and fear of bodily sensations
Agoraphobia
Fear and avoidance of places or situations
Generalised Anxiety
Persistent worry and hypervigilance
Social Anxiety
Fear, monitoring, and avoidance around other people
Health Anxiety
Fearful checking and interpretation of symptoms
OCD and Pure O
Intrusive thoughts, checking, and reassurance cycles
Emetophobia
Fear of vomiting, nausea, or losing control
PTSD
Persistent alarm, hypervigilance, and fear following trauma
Derealisation
Feeling detached from yourself or your surroundings
Fear of Dying
Fear of death, bodily sensations, or losing control
Eating Disorders
Anxiety connected with food or eating
Postnatal Anxiety
Anxiety and intrusive thoughts post-birth
An elegant, continuous path to recovery.
STAND DOWN asks you to listen from the beginning, in order. The change comes from understanding the mechanism, not from performing an exercise correctly.
No worksheets
Nothing to practise, journal, or track. No mood scores, streaks, or breathing drills.
No homework
You don’t have to perform anything while you listen. Just lie back and absorb the understanding.
Listen at your own pace
An unfolding audio journey that remembers where you left off. Move forward when you feel ready.
How the journey unfolds
Made for listening, not scrolling.
STAND DOWN runs as a private web app. Add it to your phone’s home screen to listen securely. No app-store search or downloads required.
- Home Screen AccessWorks seamlessly on your phone, tablet, or computer through the browser.
- Automatic SavingYour place is continuously saved. Open the app and jump right back into your current session.
- Private & ProtectedAccess is tied to one registered device to protect your recovery space. No offline audio files or shared accounts.
Meet Ask Chuck.
When a question comes up while you listen, you can take it to Chuck. Ask about the programme, the alarm response, or what you are noticing as you move through the recordings.
Ask Chuck is a private member conversation designed to help you stay with the work, keep perspective, and keep moving towards ordinary life.
Chuck draws on a deep understanding of the physiology, psychology, neurology, and endocrinology involved in anxiety-related conditions.
Available only inside the protected listening area. Ask Chuck is not an emergency service, a diagnosis, or a replacement for professional care.
Questions are part of the journey.
A separate collection of guided visualisations.
Alongside the complete STAND DOWN programme, your purchase includes six private guided recordings designed for deep rest and reassurance.
Available from their own menu inside the protected listening app. They are distinct from the main recovery journey.
A research-led organisation focused on anxiety recovery.
STAND DOWN comes from the Institute of Applied Psychophysiology, established in 1996 to develop and deliver Charles Linden’s recovery methodology internationally.
The Institute was formerly known as the Charles Linden Institute. Its published account says the name changed to reflect Applied Psychophysiology as a distinct professional discipline, while the organisation, methodology, research, and outcomes remained continuous.
Read about the InstituteWhat the Institute has built
Its work includes a published neurobiological theory of anxiety recovery, a formal position statement on Applied Psychophysiology, and a research and practitioner network dedicated to anxiety-condition recovery.
STAND DOWN distils that body of work into a private listening programme—designed to build understanding of the alarm response rather than add another layer of coping tasks.
When you are ready.
Begin the complete audio programme and six bonus visualisations for a single payment of £99. You receive 12 months of access, securely linked to one device. No subscriptions. No auto-renewal.