The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener email that shares a realization relating to her safety and wellness in the present moment in the face of anxiety. The listener has clearly come to an understanding of some of the core principles shared here on the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, particularly relating to the separation that exists between our existence in the present moments and the thoughts...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and acupuncture for treating chronic anxiety. Many people in the West may not be familiar with how TCM and acupuncture works. This episode clarifies the approach to treating illness and maintaining wellness that TCM practitioners use in their practices. Listen in and discover a whole new set of treatment options tha...

In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener email commenting on his own struggle with anxiety-inducing thoughts. The listener suggests the common thread running through the most distressing thoughts he has is that they involve future (often catastrophic) events that have not yet come to pass. Listen in to see how to best respond to such thinking and learn to overcome a major anxiety creating p...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the differences between key terms describing people with varying degrees of anxiety: Introversion, Shyness and Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). There is generally a spectrum of intensity of anxiety relating to social interactions with other people and these terms are used to describe various areas of this intensity. Listen in to better understand if any of these te...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of exercise in the anxiety recovery journey. Exercise can be a complex topic for anxiety sufferers as it can very often trigger anxiety! The key to overcoming exercise induced anxiety lies in taking small, gradual steps towards greater exercise achievement. Listen in for helpful advice on how to integrate more exercise into your life and improve yo...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the journey of anxiety recovery from a different perspective: one that is open to the possibility that our trouble with chronic anxiety and panic may actually serve us as a profound instrument of growth and teaching. Getting back to our old self, or who we used to be before we encountered chronic anxiety-panic may not be what we truly want as our healing goal. It...

In today's episode, Gina shares a guided meditation with listeners that focuses on using the breath as an anchor. The meditation unfolds over time with guidance to return awareness to the breath, thereby maintaining mindfulness throughout. Improve your peace of mind and meditation skill with this simple guided meditation. Listen in today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and cod...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the medical and psychological definitions of anxiety as found in the DSM. While healing from anxiety does not require these special categorizations mainstream healthcare attaches to it, it can be useful to understand how the medical industry approaches anxiety assessment. Learn about mainstream definitions of anxiety and how this knowledge may help you on your an...

In today's episode, Gina discusses how to better handle the anxiety of other who we interact with during our day. From children in our care to supervisors at work, knowing how to handle the anxiety and upset of others can help us to avoid our own catastrophic anxiety-panic reactions. Listen in for advice on how to best approach others who may be struggling with their own anxiety and remain calm yo...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the spectrum of thoughts from anxious negative thinking, to positive thinking. Between negative and positive thinking lies neutral, mindful thinking. The importance of neutral and positive thinking are discussed as are strategies for encouraging this more benevolent areas of the spectrum of thoughts. Listen in and begin to steer your thoughts towards neutral for...

In today's episode, Gina discusses how we can use deliberate interpretation to steer our response to various life events and stimuli in the environment in a way that benefits us psychologically. If we don't take active measures to proactively interpret the various factors in our environment, we will continue to succumb to our fear based anxiety response. Listen in for strategies to interpret thing...

In today's episode, Gina reveals key principles to help reduce cyclical anxiety driven thinking through clearing out old, stuck energy in the body. The mind and body are highly related to each other and we can improve the functioning of one through gentle manipulation of the other. Through breathing, exercise and other techniques, we can help clear out energy in our bodies and thereby clear out di...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of living an authentic life and how increasing our personal authenticity can lead to deeper fulfillment in our lives. Strategies for increasing our authenticity are shared, including reevaluating relationships and identifying other aspects of our lives that have a detrimental impact on our sense of happiness. Authentic living can improve our lives...

In today's episode, Gina continues her discussion of thought traps and their role in anxiety. The discussion focuses on specific thought traps and their individual caveats. How these thought traps adversely affect us and how to avoid them are included. Listen in and use the knowledge of thought traps to improve your thinking skills and minimize the role thoughts play in your anxiety! Please visit...

In today's episode, Gina discusses anxiety thinking traps and how to use knowledge of these thinking traps to improve our anxiety management and anxiety elimination. Thinking traps can arise as a natural response to stressful or negative events in our lives. Sharing our thoughts traps or conducting self-analysis through journaling are some of the first steps to gaining better understanding of thes...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the Buddhist concept of feeling tones and how this knowledge can enhance our mindfulness practice and speed our anxiety recovery. Pleasant, unpleasant and neutral are basic categories by which we may categorize our conscious experiences. By doing so, we can become more familiar with our selves and our inner reactions to various stimuli. This leads to improved awa...

In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener question regarding anxiety, aging and procrastination. This listener in particular seems to struggle with procrastination in retirement and this exacerbates her anxiety. Watching what we eat and drink and taking extra care around our sleep hygine is recommended. Putting the journal to use is also suggested. Listen in for more information on the topic...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the many benefits of hormesis. In the case of anxiety healing and prevention, hormesis involves using small bits of stress to help strengthen our minds and bodies. Learn how to become more adaptive to stress and become more resilient to your anxiety-responses, listen in today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors!...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the relatively common anxiety symptom of dissociation and how to better cope with this distressing experience. Dissociation and derealization are not limited as symptoms to anxiety disorders but occur with other mental health conditions as well, such as depression. Learn that dissociation is not dangerous and comfort yourself that it will pass and it is not a sig...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the lizard brain (the amygdala) and how we can use our capacity for higher reasoning to manage and direct the lizard brain to our advantage. Checking in with ourselves and assessing whether the discomfort we are experiencing is really dangerous can help us reduce lizard brain activation and thereby reduce our anxiety. Listen in for tips on how to better manage yo...

In today's episode, Gina the dynamics between the experience of need for control over our lives, anxiety and the use of the miraculous technique of surrender to help us calm and overcome anxiety. Byron Katie's thought and work is discussed and Gina provides a number of tips for utilizing the ability of surrender to what is to help us improve our lives today. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find a...

In today's episode, Gina discusses seven easy to implement strategies to reduce stress in your life and thereby lessen your anxiety. These are important, logical tools that can have a miraculous impact on improving the overall ease of your life. Don't get bogged down by the little annoyances in life. Use these strategies and start feeling happier and more peaceful today! Please visit our Sponsor P...

In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener question regarding health anxiety. There is often much knowledge in our minds regarding our own personal history and how it can relate to health. Anxiety can often take advantage of our own self-knowledge and health related knowledge we have picked up in our lives, including through internet research. Listen in for the good news about the human body'...

In today's episode, Gina reviews Claire Weekes' work on anxiety recovery. Weekes' basic program of facing, accepting, floating and letting time pass is a potent game plan for many individuals' anxiety recovery journey. Listen in to learn more about Claire Weekes' approach to anxiety recovery and improve your own anxiety recovery today! Hope and Help for Your Nerves https://amzn.to/3pmRxNj Please v...

In today's episode, Gina provides a step by step guide on how to overcome the anxiety we may be facing surrounding air travel. From understanding our fear and gathering knowledge about the process of air travel to gradually exposing ourselves to the air travel process and studying and implementing relaxation techniques, this guide will help make air travel possible for you. Listen in to these nume...