The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

In today's episode, Gina discusses the useful heath and wellness practice of grounding. The essentially free and generally easy practice of putting your body in contact with the earth (such as by walking barefoot on the grass) can have surprising heath benefits. Listen in today and discover how grounding may help alleviate your anxiety symptoms! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the lump in the throat and other anxiety-related throat symptoms. These disturbing symptoms can exacerbate anxiety and cause unnecessary physical and mental suffering in those who experience them. Listen in for advice on how to interpret these sensations and how to eliminate them with lifestyle changes! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and code...

In today's episode, Gina shares a practice of using a metaphor to better understand and explain our struggles with anxiety. A specific metaphor of a mountain is provided within the episode. Listeners are encouraged do develop their own metaphors based on their own personal experiences with anxiety. Listen in and gain greater understanding of your anxiety today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to fin...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the beneficial, healing properties of the perception of water. Water colors, water sounds and water environments are documented to have beneficial properties for mental health and well-being. Listen in for insight on how you can use the beneficial properties of having water in your environment, even if you don't live near any large bodies of water! Please visit o...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the five love languages people prioritize in different ways so listeners can optimize their relationships and in turn reduce anxiety. Understanding how you prefer to be loved and how your significant others prefer to be love can streamline and optimize how we show our love and support in relationships. Listen in a make your relationships run more smoothly and red...

In today's episode, Gina discusses a mindfulness technique known as the noting practice. With this technique, useful during meditation and also as we extend our meditation practice out into our daily consciousness, we take notice of thoughts and sensations as they arise, label them and return our awareness to the breath. Included is a guided meditation that helps introduce listeners to meditation...

In today's episode, Gina discusses codependency and how it is often associated with chronic anxiety. Codependency can easily lead to anxiety and a number of reasons why are shared. The characteristics of codependency are included as are questions you can ask yourself to know if you are codependent. Resources for learning more about codependency are also shared in this podcast. Please visit our Spo...

In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question about how to handle scary thoughts caused by her anxiety. For this listener, meditation is often difficult because the scary thoughts intrude and disturb her while trying to focus on the breath. Recognizing and acknowledging the thoughts as they come and persisting in mindfulness practice (living in the present moment) are among the included sug...

In today's episode, Gina shares a guided mediation with listeners with a theme of dropping the thoughts that trouble you most to better help you experience peace in the present moment. It is often worries about the future and regret about the past that increases our anxiety to the breaking point. Letting go of thoughts about the past and the future will allow us to immerse in the present moment. L...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the many ways incorporating more spaciousness in your life can reduce anxiety and stress. How more spaciousness can improve your life, including more freedom to explore and more harmony and balance, is discussed. Constructive steps you can take to increase the amount of spaciousness in your life is included. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and...

In today's episode, Gina shares with listeners a wide variety of different meditation practices in hopes that one will be suitable for you! From seated to walking, guided to silent and many others, at least one of these forms of meditation will work for you! Listen in and move deeper into anxiety recovery by starting a new meditation practice today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the li...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the miracle that cultivating positive self-worth and positive self-talk can be for long term mental health. A number of specific strategies are included for helping to cultivate and maintain a sense of positive self worth regardless of your circumstances. Self-blame for adverse life circumstances can be maladaptive. Listen in for tips on how to ease up on yoursel...

In today's episode, Gina offers listeners an introduction to Stoic philosophy that will be of particular value to helping overcome anxiety. Six key principles of Stoic philosophy are identified and discussed as are four books you can read to help you get started with Stoicism. Learn a new way of understanding your life and the world and become more resilient today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to...

In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question about health anxiety. A useful strategy for coping with health anxiety is shared: the art of waiting and seeing. By becoming more comfortable with the physiological symptoms that so often accompany anxiety, we can prevent the anxiety from snowballing into a greater and greater intensity that often culminates in a panic attack. A number of strate...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of how we breathe in our experience of and recovery from anxiety. Learn the basics of breathing and why slowing down the breath can do wonders for calming our nervous system. Learn how to breathe more through your nose and do so more slowly and reduce your anxiety today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome...

In today's episode, Gina discusses mental clutter and how learning to let go can be highly beneficial for our mental health. Five reasons letting go of unneeded thoughts and worries can be beneficial are discussed. Additionally, a number of practical steps for implementing this process are included. Get started today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sp...

In today's episode, Gina discusses radical acceptance and how we can use this practice to reduce the severity and adverse consequences of anxiety. Radical acceptance is about accepting reality as it is without judgement or resistance. A number of practical steps are shared to help you implement radical acceptance in your life and in turn reduce your anxiety. Tara Brach's book: Radical Acceptance:...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of focusing on the things that bring happiness and positivity into our lives. By focusing on the things and thoughts that bring us happiness, we bring more benevolent things into our lives and consciousness. Anxiety triggers are contrasted with happiness triggers to help you know what to focus on to start increasing the best things in your life tod...

In today's episode, Gina shares knowledge about the useful mineral supplement magnesium. The general benefits of this essential mineral for our minds and bodies are discussed as are the differences between the many various forms that are available in the marketplace. Listen in to discover what magnesium supplement may be best for you to try today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the link...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the role of self-criticism in making our anxiety worse and offers a range of practices we can employ today to silence these self-critical voices. Over time we can encourage a new, self-compassionate voice to help us feel better and function better in our day to day lives. Episodes mentioned in today's show: EP 580 CONQUERING ANXIETY WITH AFFIRMATIONS https://www....

In today's episode, Gina discusses the chemicals in our body that contribute to our sense of well-being. Serotonin, dopamine, endorphins and oxytocin are all touched upon and how to increase these feel-good chemicals is shared. Listen in and jump start the natural pharmacy that resides within your body and feel better today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awe...

In today's episode, Gina draws heavily from her own personal experience and discusses heart palpitations caused by anxiety. There are many things that can cause heart palpitations in association with anxiety, many that are very common. Eliminating behaviors that may contribute to heart palpitation susceptibility can be very helpful. Learn how to reduce heart palpitations and handle them with more...

In today's episode, Gina discusses how to develop the ability to choose a healthy response to anxiety when it presents itself. Developing our mindfulness mediation practice will help enable us to choose healthy thoughts in response to our anxiety provoking situations. Once we can master this process, we can tame our anxiety and emerge stronger, healthier individuals. Please visit our Sponsor Page...

In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question regarding OCD related intrusive, looping thinking. Gina goes through a number of strategies for coping with and solving the issue of obsessive compulsive thinking. Strengthening our mindfulness practice and being willing to tolerate the discomfort of our anxiety are some of the ways you can get on top of your intrusive thinking. Listen in for al...

In today's episode, Gina responds to a report from a listener regarding naming anxiety with a human name (in this case Betty) and interacting with her anxiety using this name. This strategy is praised, expanded upon and recommended for all listeners to try! Listen in for a new strategy to tackle your anxiety, including giving it a name and interacting with it on your own terms. Please visit our Sp...