The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question about infertility and anticipatory anxiety. While this specific question revolves around a pregnancy issue, this episode will be useful to anyone experiencing high stress and anticipatory anxiety. Claire Weekes' Face, Accept, Float and Let Time Pass process is reviewed and tips for helping apply this procedure are shared. Listen in for practical...

In today's episode, Gina shares with listeners a recent skill sheet from the ACP Group Coaching Membership program, guiding listeners through a simple process of creating a sacred space for peace and calm. Developing and utilizing this inner space instead of other more mundane forms of distraction can help heal anxiety for the long run. Listen in and start cultivating your space of peace and calm...

In today's episode, Gina discusses how we can get over anxiety around any illness we may be experiencing. Sickness can be highly anxiety provoking and how we think about ourselves and the illness and discomfort we have can have a big influence on our overall experience and even how quickly we can heal ourselves. Included are a number of mini-meditations to help you reframe your illness and think o...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of being willing and able to experience emotions that are not always particularly pleasant. The issue of false beliefs about difficult emotions is identified. If we can understand that these faulty, worrisome beliefs are faulty, we can more easily come to accept and experience difficult emotions. Listen in to learn to become more comfortable with t...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the important topic of how multitasking can contribute substantially to our anxiety. Contemporary technology such as the phone and PC compound the threat of multitasking in our lives as our attention is so easily pulled in many directions all at once. Listen in to learn how multitasking hurts our state of mind and how to reduce our tendency to multitask. This epi...

In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener question regarding whether or not true recovery from anxiety-panic is possible. Fear not, ACP listeners, as the outlook is bright. Recovery from anxiety-panic is possible. Listen in for Gina's optimistic thoughts and experience with her own anxiety recovery and also coaching others into deep, long lasting anxiety recovery. BetterHelp Better Help is b...

In today's episode, Gina discusses symptom of inner peace number 10: frequent attacks of smiling through the heart. In addition to discussing this specific idea, the benefits of actually smiling with your face deliberately are discussed. Smiling can improve our brain functioning. A number of exercises are included to help you increase and improve your smiling today! This episode is brought to you...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of cultivating mindfulness in order to heal anxiety using a Blinkist of Jon Kabat-Zinn's Wherever You Go There You Are. Gina shares a number of methods for "being" in the moment rather than "doing" and thereby increasing your mindfulness and your ability to heal your anxiety. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Gro...

In today's episode, Gina discusses beneficial habits to be learned and practiced to reduce your experience of anxiety. Five habits in particular are discussed that will help you improve your condition, including: having a direction for yourself and allowing yourself to be vulnerable and compassionate towards yourself and others. Listen in as Gina discusses these habits and three more! Find even mo...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of self-compassion, especially in the face of stress and anxiety. Mindfulness and self-kindness are among the chief ways we can implement self-compassion. Listen in for specific verbal prompts that will help keep you mind in a self-supportive state, rather than a harmful, self-denigrating state. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp Better Help brings...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of cultivating a healthy mindset to help reduce and eliminate anxiety over time. Using core self-healing practices we advocate so heavily here at ACP, such as meditation and affirmation, you can grow your own healthy mindset and strengthen your calmness and focus. Listen in to find out what a healthy mindset is and how to develop one! This episode is br...

In today's episode, Gina discusses an article from Leo Babauta about the importance of keeping a tidy living space. Clutter can contribute to our anxiety and general disarray in our lives. Suggestions for decluttering extend into keeping our personal and work plans for the future organized. Listen in for helpful tips today! This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp Better Help is bringing you thousa...

In today's episode, Gina shares simple strategies for overcoming panic. From thinking practices (and regular meditation practice) to physiological practices, such as slow deliberate breathing when panic begins to appear, these strategies are bound to help you beat your panic attacks! Listen in to gain strength over your anxiety-panic today! EverlyWell Check out the healthy Everlywell offer for lis...

In this episode, Gina discusses the importance of being present for the process of relieving stress and anxiety. Gina points out undesirable factors that inhibit our stress and anxiety relief, including: attachment, excessive forward thinking (future focused), imaginary thoughts and negative expectations. Gina suggests four action steps to be in the present and cultivate mindfulness: 1) Observe ev...

In today's episode, Gina presents nine anxiety reducing ways of living that Leo Babauta posted on his blog. From setting one's intentions early on, to creating more space, and listening to what life is calling for you to do, these suggestions are sure to help you move more deliberately and regain your peace. Link to Leo's post https://zenhabits.net/deliberate/ Grab an awesome audio book for FREE,...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance positive thinking can have for our anxiety recovery. A number of powerful positive thinking prompts are provided. Listen in, start thinking more positively and reduce your anxiety today! Ned Become the best version of yourself and get 15% off Ned products with code ACP. Go to https://helloned.com/ACP or enter code ACP at checkout. BetterHelp Better...

In today's episode, Gina discusses intrusive thoughts, what they are and how to move past them. Intrusive thoughts are often brought on by additional stress and those suffering from anxiety are often more vulnerable to them. These thoughts often involve disturbing content relating to those we care most about (and ourselves). Listen in for tips on how to minimize the disturbance caused by these tho...

In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question regarding untidiness in the environment, cleaning and anxiety. Gina draws from her own personal experience with this problem and how her perception of dirtiness in the home could be influenced by the level of stress and anxiety she was experiencing. Solutions to this issue are recommended, including stopping and checking the impulse to clean and...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the causes of negative self-talk, especially for the anxious, and shares techniques for reducing and eliminating such self-talk. Replacing such negative self-talk with affirmative self-talk can be very helpful. Several examples of both negative and positive self-talk are included as are strategies for reducing the negative thoughts and strengthening the positive...

In today's episode, Gina shares strategies for how to deal with anxious expectations. Of particular interest in this episode are the powerful journal exercises that can help turn your expectations into a force of great positivity in your life. Use the power of your expectations to steer yourself towards the good things in life and watch how you expand the overall positivity and abundance available...

In today's episode, Gina talks about the importance of acceptance and change in healing anxiety. In particular, Gina discusses the benefits of allowing our anxiety experience to unfold, in contrast to fighting the anxiety and trying (often desperately) to make it stop. The fear of and fight against the anxiety is exactly what keeps anxiety sufferers in the loop of anxiety-panic. Listen in for sugg...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of practicing meditation for improving our strength of mind and reducing intrusive thoughts and other anxiety related mental noise. Steps for setting up a core meditation routine are reviewed. The benefits of a regular meditation practice are reviewed. Listen in and improve your meditation practice today! Better Help is bringing you thousands of co...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of rest for our overall well-being and resistance to excessive anxiety. Understanding that getting enough rest time is critical to our overall health and well-being can help ease any sense of guilt we may have regarding making rest time for ourselves. Of course, adding mindfulness to our rest time can make it even more effective for anxiety-soothin...

In today's episode, Gina shares eight possible solutions for morning anxiety. Waking up earlier is one of the first tips and helps enable one to enact some of the other solutions more readily. Our frequent friends meditation and exercise are included, as is the ever so important of increasing time offline. Listen in to hear the rest of these invaluable tips and reduce morning anxiety today! Better...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of breathing and grounding to help establish a sense of peace and calm. A number of breathing focused affirmations are provided to help us utilize this ever-present tool available to us. Finally a number of self-reflection questions are provided to help us better understand what upsets us and how grounding and breathing help us to feel better. Ned Becom...