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In this episode, I talk about something that I genuinely believe is missing from so many health anxiety recovery journeys.

When we're struggling, it's so easy to think the answer is more information. We read another article, listen to another podcast, watch another video or search for that one breakthrough that will finally make us feel safe. I know that because I did exactly the same thing.

But what I've learned, both through my own recovery and from coaching hundreds of clients, is that we often overlook the very foundations that help our brain and body feel safe in the first place.

Your brain and your body are constantly communicating with one another. If you're exhausted, dehydrated, under-fuelled, stressed and running on empty, your nervous system is already on high alert. When that's the case, it's so much harder to regulate fear, think rationally and respond calmly to physical sensations.

That's why recovery isn't just about changing your thoughts. It's about looking after the body that's carrying those thoughts too.

In this episode, I'm sharing the simple but incredibly powerful fundamentals that have helped me and so many of my clients. We talk about improving your sleep routine, eating regularly so your blood sugar stays stable, staying hydrated, moving your body in a way that reduces stress hormones and rebuilds trust, getting outside for fresh air and natural light to regulate your nervous system, connecting with other people instead of isolating yourself, and making space for joy, hobbies and the things that remind you that life is about so much more than your health anxiety.

I also talk about one of the biggest traps I see people fall into: turning recovery into a full-time job. When every waking moment is spent analysing symptoms, consuming recovery content or trying to "fix" yourself, your brain never gets the message that you're actually safe. Sometimes the most healing thing you can do is step away from recovery and go and live your life.

I'll also leave you with some simple daily self-care check-in questions that shift your focus away from how you feel and onto what you've done to support yourself. Because recovery isn't measured by whether you felt anxious today. It's measured by the choices you made despite the anxiety.

My biggest hope is that this episode reminds you that safety doesn't come from finding certainty or getting one more piece of reassurance. It comes from how you live your life every single day and the small actions that tell your brain, over and over again, "I'm safe."

If you enjoy this episode, I'd be so grateful if you could follow the podcast, leave a review and share it with someone who needs to hear it. And if you're ready to take the next step in your recovery, I'd love to support you through my coaching programmes and recovery tools.

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In this episode, I'm talking about one of the biggest challenges I see in people with health anxiety....waiting for medical test results. If you've ever found yourself constantly checking your phone, refreshing your patient portal, Googling symptoms, or imagining the worst while you wait, this episode is for you.

I explain why our anxious brains struggle so much with uncertainty, how they automatically fill in the blanks with worst-case scenarios, and why it's not actually reassurance we're searching for....it's certainty, and that's something none of us can ever have.

I'll also share some practical tools that I use with my clients to help break the cycle, including how to separate facts from fear, stop mentally rehearsing bad news, reduce checking behaviours, keep living your life while you wait, and start rebuilding trust in yourself instead of relying on reassurance.

Recovery isn't about eliminating uncertainty....it's about teaching your nervous system that uncertainty doesn't automatically mean danger. If you're waiting for results right now, I hope this episode helps you feel a little calmer, a little more in control, and reminds you that you are far more capable of coping than your anxious mind would have you believe.

If you'd like some extra support, I've linked my Recovery Guides in the show notes below, and as always, you can get in touch with me if you'd like to find out more about working together.

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If you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.

Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.uk

Purchase my Health Anxiety Recovery Guides - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today:

https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety

Hear what my clients are saying about me:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8o

Get in touch:

email me: [email protected]

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In this episode, I talk about how modern technology has completely changed the experience of living with health anxiety. As someone who has recovered from severe health anxiety myself, I share why Google, AI, social media and wearable health trackers can unintentionally keep us stuck in the fear cycle, even though they're designed to help.

I explain why we're rarely searching for information...we're actually searching for relief and certainty...and why that reassurance never lasts. Instead, every Google search, AI question or symptom check teaches the brain that there must be a genuine threat, keeping the body's alarm system switched on.

We also explore how social media algorithms can flood your feed with illness stories, making rare events feel common, and how wearable technology can encourage you to misinterpret completely normal changes in your body.

Most importantly, I want to reassure you that recovery is still absolutely possible. I share practical ways to change your relationship with uncertainty, become more aware of your phone and checking habits, pause the urge to search, reduce digital triggers, curate your social media feeds and begin using technology as a helpful tool rather than a source of emotional safety.

If you've ever found yourself trapped in endless Googling, asking AI for reassurance, obsessing over your smartwatch or feeling overwhelmed by health content online, this episode will help you understand why...and, more importantly, how to start breaking free.

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If you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.

Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.uk

Purchase my Health Anxiety Recovery Guides - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today:

https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety

Hear what my clients are saying about me:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8o

Get in touch:

email me: [email protected]

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In this episode, I'm talking about something that changed everything in my own recovery from health anxiety: understanding that the places and situations we fear aren't usually the real problem. Whether it's supermarkets, restaurants, flying, hot weather, or even leaving the house, it's often the fear story our brain has attached to those experiences that keeps us stuck.

I'll explain how the brain learns to associate certain situations with danger, why your amygdala can't tell the difference between a real threat and a perceived one, and how this creates the fight-or-flight response that makes anxiety feel so convincing.

We'll explore the common fear narratives behind health anxiety, from catastrophic "what if" thinking to fears that your body will betray you or that you won't cope. I'll also share why avoidance strengthens these beliefs and keeps the anxiety cycle going.

Finally, I'll walk you through three practical steps that helped me break free: learning to recognise the fear story, asking more accurate questions instead of feeding worst-case scenarios, and regulating your nervous system before trying to challenge anxious thoughts. If you're ready to stop letting fear dictate your life and start rebuilding trust in your body, this episode is for you

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If you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.

Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.uk

Purchase my Health Anxiety Recovery Guides - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today:

https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety

Hear what my clients are saying about me:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8o

Get in touch:

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In this podcast episode, I talk about something that stops so many people from moving forward with health anxiety, and that is resistance.

The truth is, anxiety often feels more familiar than freedom. As strange as it sounds, the patterns we've repeated for years can start to feel safe. The checking, the Googling, the appointments, the constant searching for answers. They become part of our normal.

I see this all the time with clients. They tell themselves they'll start recovery after one more test, after one more appointment, when they feel more confident, when life is less stressful, or when they finally have certainty about their health. But what often looks like a lack of motivation or discipline is actually resistance.

One of the biggest things I share in this episode is the difference between preparing to recover and actually recovering.

Preparing looks like researching, analysing, listening to podcasts, reading books, booking appointments and gathering information. It feels productive, but it's still keeping you in the waiting room of recovery.

Recovery begins when you start taking action despite the fear.

It starts when you stop checking. When you resist the urge to Google. When you sit with uncertainty instead of trying to solve it. When you choose to trust yourself even though every part of you wants reassurance.

So many people think they need confidence before they take action. But confidence doesn't come first. Confidence is built by taking action. Trust is built by taking action.

Recovery isn't about getting rid of every symptom or reaching a point where you feel completely certain. It's about learning to live alongside uncertainty without letting it control your life.

As you listen to this episode, I want you to ask yourself one question:

Where is resistance showing up for me right now?

Because often the thing you're resisting most is the very thing that will move you forward.

And sometimes resistance isn't a sign to stop.

It's a sign that you're standing right on the edge of change.

And on the other side of that change is freedom.

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If you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.

Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.uk

Purchase my Health Anxiety Recovery Guides - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today:

https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety

Hear what my clients are saying about me:

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Get in touch:

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In this episode, I talk about my own journey with health anxiety after my diagnosis in 2018 and how it completely changed the way I related to my body. I share how fear, symptom scanning and the need for certainty slowly took over my life, and why nobody explaining the nervous system side of health anxiety left me feeling stuck for years.

I also talk about one of the biggest shifts in my recovery… learning that trusting my body did not mean constantly monitoring it.

For so long, I believed that staying safe meant staying hyper aware. Checking sensations, scanning my body and constantly looking for reassurance. But what I eventually realised is that this level of surveillance was actually a sign that trust had already been lost.

I share how the nervous system can learn fear so deeply that the body begins reacting automatically before conscious thoughts even appear, because the body remembers. And how real healing for me came from slowly teaching myself that safety wasn’t found in constant checking… but in allowing my body to exist without being on high alert all the time.

This episode is for anyone who feels exhausted by the fear cycle and wants to start rebuilding trust with themselves again.

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If you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.

Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.uk

Purchase my Health Anxiety Recovery Guides - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today:

https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety

Hear what my clients are saying about me:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8o

Get in touch:

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In this calming guided visualisation, I gently guide you through a moment of safety, softness, and nervous system regulation for those struggling with health anxiety. Together, we explore breathwork, body awareness, and visualisation to help you reconnect with trust in your body rather than fear.

Through a peaceful safe-space journey, compassionate affirmations, and soothing relaxation techniques, this episode is designed to help you step away from constant monitoring, calm the fear response, and remind yourself that not every sensation is an emergency.

This is a space to pause, soften, and begin rebuilding trust with your mind and body ... one moment at a time.

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If you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.

Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.uk

Purchase my Health Anxiety Recovery Guides - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today:

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Hear what my clients are saying about me:

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Get in touch:

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In this episode, I sit down with Lesley Turner, a somatic practitioner and intuitive coach who previously worked for 11 years as a naturopathic doctor before finding her calling. 

We explore what somatics really means, moving away from logic and into the body to notice sensations, emotions, memories, images, or even phrases that may be connected to symptoms. Lesley talks about the importance of slowing down, approaching the body with compassion, and using simple “allow” statements rather than trying to fix or push things away.

We also discuss the idea that anxiety and physical symptoms aren’t random, and how they can often reflect deeper emotional or energetic roots. Lesley shares her perspective on trauma too, not as something literally stored in the body, but as patterns created within the nervous system, often shaped during early childhood between the ages of 0 and 7.

We talk about anxiety as a protective response, how it can actually feel safer to stay anxious, and why rebuilding self trust comes from learning not to abandon yourself or your emotions.

Lesley shares common themes she sees in her clients, including overwhelm, perimenopause, and what she describes as carrying “suitcases” that don’t belong to you, often inherited patterns or expectations from family.

You can contact Lesley here:

@thelesleyturner

www.lesleyturner.ca

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If you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.

Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.uk

Purchase my Health Anxiety Recovery Guides - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today:

https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety

Hear what my clients are saying about me:

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Get in touch:

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In this episode, I share my own experience as a former health anxiety sufferer turned coach, and break down one of the biggest patterns I see keeping people stuck… the urgent need for immediate answers.

I talk about how the world we live in has conditioned us to expect instant information at the touch of a button, and how this trains the brain to treat normal bodily sensations as problems to solve. This is what drives behaviours like Googling, checking, and seeking reassurance… things that might soothe you in the moment, but actually reinforce fear and keep the cycle going.

I explain how health anxiety often doesn’t disappear with reassurance, but instead shifts from one symptom to another, and I share a real client example of how daily body-checking can become exhausting and all-consuming.

This episode is a reminder that there is no quick fix. Real recovery comes from retraining your brain and nervous system through consistent practice.

I walk you through the key shift that changes everything… learning to tolerate uncertainty, creating space between sensation and response, and focusing on present-moment safety instead of urgency.

I also share simple ways to start doing this in your day-to-day life, using grounding, breathwork, and attention shifts to help you step out of the cycle and rebuild trust in your body.

Connect & Work With Me

If you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.

Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.uk

Purchase my Health Anxiety Recovery Guides - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today:

https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety

Hear what my clients are saying about me:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8o

Get in touch:

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In this episode I sit down with Gemma Kelly, a women’s wellness and breathwork coach. Gemma shares how her own experience of health anxiety after finding a breast lump led her to discover box breathing, which then sparked a deep dive into breathwork training and daily practice. 

We talk about how breath awareness is such a foundational tool for regulating the nervous system, helping shift the body from a state of fear into safety, and how you can use those small “in-between” moments like driving or waiting to actually practise this in real life. 

Gemma explains the benefits of nasal breathing and how mouth breathing can be linked to stress, snoring, and reduced oxygenation. We also touch on the fact that some breath-hold techniques can feel triggering, especially for those with trauma, asthma, or past breathing-related experiences, and why it’s so important to work with trauma-informed, qualified facilitators in what is currently an unregulated space. 

Gemma also shares her “Capacity Reset” 12-week process, which combines stabilisation, nervous system regulation, movement, nutrition, and breathwork, along with details about her breathwork sessions and her Capacity Podcast. 

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If you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.

Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.uk

Purchase my Health Anxiety Recovery Guides - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today:

https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety

Hear what my clients are saying about me:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8o

Get in touch:

email me: [email protected]

Work with me Via 1:1 Trust & Thrive Programme or Via My 16 Week Healing Hub Group Coaching Program 

 Follow along on Social Media @thehealthanxietycoach
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