Ellen Isaksen takes us along with her on her journey through a non-traditional life filled with adventure and pain and life affirming experiences. Ellen suffers from a severe form of agoraphobia that keeps her basically housebound, but not out of the game of life. While her story may not have the typical end we anticipate in a book about overcoming a disability, overcoming a disability is what she achieved. Ellen learned and now teaches us how to co-exist with a condition that requires both respect and creativity. "Behind These Eyes" is an intensely compelling memoir that reads like an...

Once again Ellen Isaksen, author of Behind These Eyes: One Agoraphobic's Journey To A Meaningful Life delves into the subject of anxiety disorders. In her new handbook, Coexisting With Agoraphobia, Anxiety & Panic Attacks, she offers her personal knowledge of coping strategies in dealing with this challenging part of her life. While she certainly believes that there are cures and recovery, she also knows that dealing with anxiety symptoms can be very distressing and offers invaluable information in coping with them while in the process of healing. This book is particularly helpful to those...