The Transforming Anxiety Podcast

Ohhhh I have something so FUN for you this week: my dear friend, Becky Vollmer , has a new book out in the world (birthed on January 3, 2023) and I brought her on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast   to talk all about it. Becky is like that wise, sassy, older sister who is full of encouragement and shares her hard-earned life lessons, and she's heavy on the love part of "tough love." Her book reads...

I have something really important for you this week on   The Transforming Anxiety Podcast   : we're going to talk about   breathing for anxiety   . For sure, someone somewhere along the way has suggested you "take a deep breath" when they noticed you were feeling anxious or overwhelmed. You've likely handed out this advice yourself; it's almost a knee-jerk response when we see someone is upset. "O...

Now that winter is upon us and we're into the cold, dark, quiet of the season I thought we'd explore this together. Winter is a time of year, but it's also something that we experience in our lives: those fallow, dormant, even painful periods of wintering that we all cycle through. Plenty of people throw energy against winter, hating the wintry weather and dreading the long, dark nights. But this...

Well this is fun...this week is episode #200 (!) of   The Transforming Anxiety Podcast   ! That's 200 conversations, 200 times we've hung out together, 200 weeks, of transforming anxiety. First of all: thank you. Thank you for showing up and being here with me. Thank you for sharing the show with your friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences w...

Welp, it's that time of year. When we all get serious about New Year's resolutions, plans for 2023, and goals. But I have an idea and want to explore it with you on this week's episode of   The Transforming Anxiety Podcast   : how about a   no goal new year   ? We are SO obsessed with more, better, faster, further. We think the only measure of our worth is what we can achieve, accomplish, and prod...

We're doing it...we almost made it to the end of 2022. Can you believe it? I know we always say that because humans seem to be mesmerized by time passing, but honestly, in this case, I almost can't believe it. What we've all been through, the tumult of this moment in history, is so intense. Our nervous systems are on fire. And...we're doing it. Hard, messy, icky though it may be, we. are. doing. i...

This one goes out to the version of you that is IN IT...that is having the worst time, feeling the most intense feelings, and can barely imagine how things will ever feel okay or normal again. I hear you. I see you. I've been there. And this week's episode of   The Transforming Anxiety Podcast   speaks directly to THIS moment:   when you're in it   . This is a pretty heavy heart-to-heart. Keep thi...

On this week's episode of   The Transforming Anxiety Podcast   I want to challenge the notion that   outer order creates inner calm...because maybe NOT   . I mean...have you seen Monica on Friends? Have you ever been around someone who is a complete neat freak? Are YOU kinda sorta obsessed with tidiness? Is it working to create that *inner calm* promised with the whole "outer order" fantasy? Just...

This week on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast   we're going to explore   protecting your headspace   . Think of your mind as a plot of land, all the real estate that you have in your mind, just like a city. When we aren't paying attention, the real estate in our minds get rented out to low-level thoughts, phone notifications, and other people's ideas about what we should do. We gotta be better ste...

The holidays are almost here and that means a lot of get-togethers and family time. So I thought it might be helpful to explore   mindful communication   on this week's episode of   The Transforming Anxiety Podcast   . Mindful communication pulls in, yup, elements of mindfulness and gives us a framework to think about how we're communicating. Because: communication is so ordinary, yet so powerful...

This week on   The Transforming Anxiety Podcast   we're discussing thoughts, but in a way we've never talked about it before: we're going to explore   the quality of your thinking   . Here's what I mean. We talk a lot about WHAT you think about. And how your thoughts affects your emotions, your actions, and how your life goes overall. But this week we're going to talk about the content, the focus,...

Now, for this week's episode of The Transforming Anxiety Podcast, we're talking about anxiety, specifically how  ​ anxiety is okay​ ​ . Because there's an underlying assumption that anxiety is bad, that it's something to be avoided, that we need to resist it. This is how we react to it. Even in our conversations about transforming anxiety, there's the unspoken idea that we'd want to because: anxie...

This week on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast we're going back to the basics; we're going to talk about the foundation of you . A foundation is the lowest level of a structure, the load-bearing support that holds everything up. And THAT is what I want to consider with you today. What is *your* lowest level? The part of you that's below ground, totally behind the scenes, holding everything up? When...

Well, this sounds super fun. Let's talk about feeling UNCOMFORTABLE on purpose, yeah? 🙃 But there's a reason for this... The key to doing / getting / achieving / feeling pretty much *anything* you want? It's on the other side of some discomfort. If you want to do something new, you're going to have to feel uncomfortable. If it were totally easy and obvious how to do that thing, you'd already have...

Now, despite the word "efficiency" in the title of this week's episode of The Transforming Anxiety Podcast , this is NOT a discussion about time management, life hacks, and getting more done. In fact, this is about the *opposite* of that stuff. We're talking about protecting your efficiency today. So, let's back up. I had a moment on a tall mountain in Colorado during a long hike when I thought to...

As you go through the motions of your day, it's easy to lose track of the bigger picture. We get so mired in our to-do lists, the work deadlines, the kids' activities, and just trying to keep our heads above water, that we can completely miss the larger perspective. Or any perspective, really. Everything starts to feel important. Little things add up and we get stressed out. Overwhelm comes in wav...

Well, it's no secret that life can be hard. In all of its amazingness, life throws in plenty of challenges, difficulties, and pain. And I see the suffering life hands us in 2 ways : there's the suffering that creates more suffering. And the suffering that creates *freedom*. When something bad happens we can choose to be with that pain, we can feel what it feels like to have something bad happen. O...

  Has anyone ever told you to "be the bigger person?" Or to look for the "silver lining?" Yeah, these are helpful ideas. Valuable concepts. Things I teach my kids even. I can be the bigger person and show patience, compassion, and kindness. I can find the silver lining in a tough situation. Sure. But sometimes? Sometimes I don't want to. Today on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast we're going to tal...

Y'know on your phone how you can set your notifications to ping you in real-time, so that every time you get an email it pops up on your screen? Orrrrr you can set it so that you have to open the app and actually *check* your email to see what's new? Yeah, that's kinda sorta what we're talking about today on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast. Because we do this with: our to-do lists, requests from...

Most of us have a tendency to mentally time-travel into the future and, while we're there, tell wild stories about how everything is going to HORRIBLY wrong. You know what I mean? The project is going to bomb The savings account is going to shrink to nothing The friends / kids / partner are going to find out I have no idea what I'm doing and leave me alone and destitute Our minds fill our attentio...

I'm baaaack! And oh it feels good to be with you, bringing you a brand-new episode of The Transforming Anxiety Podcast . And ha, we're going to kick it off with a killer topic; we're diving back in talking about why it doesn't suck . Which...well, let me explain. 😂 There's a lot of data backing the importance and benefits of practicing gratitude. Grateful people tend to be physically healthier, m...

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August is here! And I'm traveling like a pre-COVID jetsetter this month. So I'm going to practice what I preach and go a little easy on myself...and I'm hoping that this proves supportive and valuable for both of us. 🤗 First of all: make SURE you're subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts so that you don't miss the upcoming bonus series, a little something I'm calling Mindful Mondays . I desig...

Welcome to a 4-part series that I'm doing through The Transforming Anxiety Podcast feed called: Mindfulness Monday . Each Monday from August 8 - August 29 we're going to explore a different aspect of mindfulness meditation. By now, no doubt you've heard about the benefits of meditation. Maybe you've tried it yourself, but it hasn't stuck...or maybe you're not sure where to start. Whatever your exp...

August is here! And I'm traveling like a pre-COVID jetsetter this month. So I'm going to practice what I preach and go a little easy on myself...and I'm hoping that this proves supportive and valuable for both of us. 🤗  First of all: make SURE you're subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts so that you don't miss the upcoming bonus series, a little something I'm calling Mindful Mondays . I desi...