The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

In today's episode Gina explores the issues surrounding anxiety and uncertainty. Working to develop our skills of trust, surrender and self-acceptance, we can learn to release our requirement for control over our environment. Gina explains this need for control over our environment is not founded in good reasoning. Apply the skills described in this podcast and feel better today!   Link mentioned...

In this episode, Gina explores solutions to a listener question about disassociating the link that forms between situations that have caused anxiety in the past and anxiety itself. Gina's suggestions can help listeners feel safe even in environments that have triggered anxiety-panic symptoms in the past. Listen in as Gina explores tips and tools you can use today to break the cycle of anxiety-pani...

12 Common Anxiety Behaviors are the focus of Gina's episode today. Join in as the signs and red flags of anxiety are discussed. Links/resources mentioned in the episode:        Grab an awesome book like Destructive Emotions; A Scientific Dialogue with The Dalai Lama for free through Audible:  www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial Group Coaching Membership: www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/group-...

In this episode, coach Gina leads a guided meditation of loving kindness. Take a moment for yourself and enjoy the peace and joy inherently available to you at this time.   Need a good book to read on peace?  Check out   http://www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial   and grab a copy of Peace Is Every Step  by Thich Nhat Hanh   Quote: The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness o...

Gina explores the differences between counseling, coaching and therapy. There is not a right or wrong answer to the question of which type of professional helper you want to see. Social workers, counselors and psychologists subscribe to the medical model and utilize DSM labeling for insurance billing purposes. Coaching is an alternative helper to those listed above.   The International Coach Feder...

In this episode Gina Ryan answers a listener question regarding anxiety and sleep. Insomnia is unfortunately very common in adults with one in three having occasional bouts and one in ten adults suffering with chronic insomnia. One of the problems caused by insomnia is anxiety! Regardless of which came first, anxiety or insomnia, we all do better with a good night's sleep and even one good night's...

Using a mantra can be a huge calming addition to your life! But cultivating the practice of using a mantra in your meditation or quiet moments you will find it becoming a way to find your center easily and effortlessly...it just takes time :) Listen in and find some simple words and phrases to help you get started. Quote: As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and env...

Gina has an inspiring conversation with her coach George Kao! Listen in and learn how to keep your to-do list from running your life keeping you in a state of rushing, lack of self-care, and stress! George shares his wisdom on balance and joy without guilt and joyful productivity. Follow along and learn his system of capture, categorize, and calendar your ideas and to-dos to eliminate a lot of you...

Desensitization and progressive exposure can be an effective technique in improving anxiety. What we don't want to do is confuse this with white knuckling through things! Listen in for tips and tools to start desensitizing. Quote: Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it. -Brian Tracy To learn more go to: Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What...

A listener with health anxiety sent in a speak pipe recorded question. Shannon asks when we don't feel well what can we do to know it's OK to not feel well...how can we feel it's OK to be sick? If you would like to send in a question to be answered on the show visit our website homepage and click the little microphone on the right! Quote: Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how...

Coming to the realization that all one's thinking isn't true can be a major breakthrough for the anxiety clearing process! Anxiety is very loud and very demanding and we tend to jump when it speaks. Today Gina points the way to teasing out the anxious thoughts from the wise mind. Quote: When speaking about intrusive thoughts on one of our group coaching calls one member said: "Remember these are F...

Gina shares an "ah-ha" moment from a client! "When the shame is taken away, a natural learning from mistakes happens anyways - so my mind doesn't need to worry about that. This is a big piece of the anxiety recovery for me, I think! Confidence + handling uncertainty". Quote: It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. -Ornette Coleman To learn more go to: Join...

Mindfulness is much bigger than you think. If you have moments or days where you feel your mind is like a snow globe of whirling glitter, have difficulty focusing or have a life that is just too full of "to dos" you are in the right place today :) Quote: There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it. -Michael Singe...

Has Dr. Google ever given you a sense of relief and wellbeing? Maybe it's time to let this doc go for good. Join in today's episode and find the actions you can take to end this disfunctional relationship!  Anxiety will draw you to the search bar and you will have to use your awareness and your wise mind to step away from the computer.   Quote: Meditation, because some questions can't be answered...

Gratitude isn't just a nice idea it's healthy for your mind and your body. In today's episode, Gina reviews an article by Dr. Joe Mercola and his take on all the mental and physical health benefits gratitude has to offer. Quote: Gratitude is so close to the bone of life, pure and true, that it instantly stops the rational mind, and all its planning and plotting. -Regina Sara Ryan To learn more go...

If you are on off or tapering from anti-anxiety medications or antidepressants meditation you are in the right place to learn the lifestyle changes you can make for your well being! Diet, exercise, meditation, relaxation and getting reacquainted with your parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) again are the tools we teach here and you are welcome to join us! Quote When you live by accide...

Kids and adults alike exhibit many signs and symptoms when challenged with anxiety. Listen in to this episode as Gina discusses the 15 signs from an article by Karen Young on kids and anxiety. Interestingly enough these are not only experienced by kids so listen in! :)   Link to the article mentioned in today's episode: https://www.heysigmund.com/anxiety-in-children-things-kids-say-that-could-mean...

Action Steps to separate worry from problem-solving. Today Gina takes a look at the difference and how we can move into problem-solving when we find ourselves on the path to worrying. Use awareness, pausing at the crossroads, sorting out what we have control over and much more! Quote:  Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. -Corrie Ten Boom To learn more go...

Over-dependence on another can become a bad habit when entrenched in anxiety-panic. Today Gina takes a look at changes that Matana Williams took to move out of this anxious behavior. Today's Quote: Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around...

Anxiety and love and what we can do to take responsibility for our own thoughts and actions. Today Gina has returning guest Thom Rutledge for some spot-on wisdom and thoughts from Thom's new book What Love Is. If you missed his other episodes check those out too :)  285: LISTEN TO WHAT THE ANXIETY IS SAYING WITH THOM RUTLEDGE and  204: EMBRACING FEAR AND ANXIETY WITH THOM RUTLEDGE   Mentioned in t...

So many of our thoughts are subconscious or we are not aware of them and in many many ways that is a good thing. We also tend, when we are challenged with anxiety, to put many thoughts into our subconscious without any awareness of what we are thinking this is adding fuel to our anxious negative thinking.  Today Gina talks about how to use our awareness and consciousness to help erase some of that...

Living in the future and in a scary anxious future robs us twice! We lose the present moment where we are safe and sound and then we also submit ourselves to a horror "what if" in the future that is not even here.  Join in for two questions to help turn this around and get you back to present moment living. Quote:  The future has many names. For the weak it is unattainable. For the fearful it is t...

Psychology Today says Agoraphobia is translated from Greek as "fear of the marketplace," agoraphobia involves intense fear and anxiety to a real or anticipated place or situation where escape might be difficult. Gina covers some steps you can take to start walking out of agoraphobia and anxiety. Quote:  It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a mor...

Sometimes we get surprised by a surge of stress or anxiety today's episode suggests 5 simple ways to reignite your parasympathetic nervous system for peace and calm! Mentioned in today's episode: Rick Hanson was our guest on  episode 176  and my favorite book of his is   Buddha's Brain  so I highly recommend you give it a try if you are interested in neuroscience meets mindfulness!  Quote:  Breath...

If you find yourself resistant to what is and your anxiety ramping up try these 4 tips: 1) Let it go; really like holding a hot rock...let go! surrender on a tough day; stop fighting. There is no resolution in the fight so give yourself permission to stop fighting. 2) Float; doesn't require practice, and works better with less force: like an inner inactivity. Remember how to float in the water...y...