The Transforming Anxiety Podcast

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...

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...

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...

Ever get totally caught up in the to-do list and wind up lost in a sea of going and doing and just completely forget that you're ALIVE?! Yup, me too. This week, on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast , I want us all to hit *pause* and remember: this. is. LIFE. We're living it . And... there's an invitation in this pause to move, with intention, towards those places where you feel the MOST alive . I g...

Fun times...today we're talking about CONFLICT over on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast. But then, we talk about all sorts of fun stuff around here: anxiety, family drama, feelings, the messiness of life, emotional health...I mean, we were overdue for a chat about conflict, no? 🙃 Here's how I thought we'd do this one: I'll share with you 2 different approaches I take with conflict to support myse...

It's hot, hot, hot here in Kansas City, so I wanted to offer something this week on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast to help cool things down. I work with SO many clients who are experiencing some form of burnout: at work, at home, with their families, even with their friends. And what's happening is that they're holding on *so tightly* to whatever they're doing that they're building tension...phy...

How are you doing? I hope summer is treating you well...although I know the news and events just keep hitting + the pandemic that just. won't. end. I hope your heart is doing alright in the midst of all of this. I know it's a lot. That's why we're here...to drop in and take care of ourselves. Even for a few minutes each week with the podcast. With awareness. With compassion and kindness. This week...

There's anxiety...and then there's the ANXIETY of anxiety . The anxiety on top of anxiety. The anxiety we feel about anxiety. Y'know what I mean? This is a wild ride. It's a multi-layered, tornado spin of pure adrenaline. We're going to talk about it today on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast because even though it's no good, it's VERY common. And normalizing this experience, knowing and reminding...

Happy SUMMER! It's officially here and I'm on vacation this week. I'm visiting my home-away-from-home, Chicago, and right now I'm probably walking along Lake Michigan with an iced coffee in hand, hanging out with my adopted city, visiting my old apartment, and making sure some of my favorite places (like Ann Sather's, Unabridged Books, and Intelligentsia) are still there.  Annnnyway, this week, si...

One of the most valuable things we, as people who tend towards anxiety, can learn to do is regulate our nervous systems .  Why? Feeling anxious ups the adrenaline and cortisol in your system. And you become a bit of a pressure cooker, constantly turning up the volume with more to-do lists, more people-pleasing, and more perfectionism. Regulating your nervous system on purpose is like hitting the r...

I know you've noticed that all day, every day, your mind is talking to you. It has ideas, stories, and opinions. And those ideas, stories, and opinions are pretty much the *same* ones from yesterday...and the day before...and the day before that. And just like the songs on the radio, if you hear something often enough, you start humming along. You start singing the words. Basically: you fall for i...

I'm sure you've noticed the never-ending nature of life. More emails, more laundry, more projects, more dinners to cook...and then clean up after. We're all in an infinity loop of doing and going. Yet, we're also stuck in this weird trap of believing that somehow, someday, we'll be caught up. That we'll have achieved, accomplished, and completed enough that we can finally sit down and relax. I wan...

I recently finished reading Jane Goodall's newest book, The Book About Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times and I got to thinking... we should talk about hope . Because no matter what your personal experience with anxiety looks like, no matter whether anxiety is something new to you or a very old companion, no matter how often anxiety ebbs and flows in your life, there's a common thing that bri...

Q for you: how do you show up? How do you show up with your family? How do you show up at work? How do you show up with your friends? How do you show up for the things you enjoy, the causes you believe in, and the activities that you engage in? ...a lot of us are *barely* showing up. And I don't mean we aren't getting stuff done. Look around. We 👏 are 👏 DOING 👏 IT.  But are you there for your l...

Quick poll: on a scale of 1 - 10 (1 being not at all, 10 being totally tuned in), how readily are you paying attention to YOURSELF? Uh huh...most of us are saying a big fat, "umm..." to that one and, if we're honest, landing closer to the 1 than the 10 on that scale. This week on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast we're going to talk about it. Listening to your body is something I mention in passing...

If you've been hanging around with me for a while, you know I talk a *lot* about acceptance (if you're new, buckle up...it's a very common theme here). But I've bumped into something interesting in my own personal work and I wanted to bring it to the podcast and explore it with you and that's: acceptance vs. apathy . The thing with acceptance is that we don't have to LIKE it in order to ACCEPT it....

Anyone else feel like they're trying to be Wonderwoman on a daily basis? 🙋‍♀️ The pace we (try) to keep is *insane*. We are rushing from here to there pretty much nonstop. We go from this thing to that thing and when we arrive we think, " huh, I don't even remember the drive over ." We are very rarely HERE. And you know what? That's the only place we're rushing. It's only ever MORE here. THERE is...

We find patterns everywhere in nature: waves, stripes, spirals, and symmetries are just a few patterns we find in plants and animals. And wouldn't you know it, we humans are natural beings. And we love a good pattern, too, don't we? This week on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast we're going to explore patterns...more specifically how we tend to repeat our patterns .  I want to explore with you wher...

Anxious people often hear things like: Calm down! Don't worry so much... Oh, just relax. Let it go... *sigh* Yeah, WE KNOW! Amiright?! If we could calm down, quit worrying, relax, and let it go, we so totally would. No argument there. It's more a matter of HOW TO, yeah? The stumbling blocks on the way to calming down, relaxing, and letting it go are what we struggle with. This week's episode of Th...

I have a very technical, official episode of The Transforming Anxiety Podcast for you this week. (Ha, no I don't. That's a joke.) But what this episode lacks in formality it makes up for in USEFULNESS. We're talking about Relationship Math today. And well, listen, I don't know if the title "relationship math" does this one justice. We're talking about the rule of thirds: how pretty much across the...

One of the hottest topics with my clients is self-trust ...it doesn't matter if you want to break old habits (i.e. overdrinking, staying up too late, feeling anxious) or clean up your (physical / mental / emotional / financial) health routine or simply feel good in your own skin, whatever it is you want for yourself that you don't currently have? It requires self-trust. So this week on The Transfo...

We're going to do something a little different this week on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast...I want to have a conversation with you about something I'm personally working on. This is not unique to me at all; it's something I suspect is the work ahead of many of us. And that is: Being Yourself . How do we do this? What does it even MEAN to "be yourself?" Because we all live in a world where we're...