What if this headache isn’t stress?
What if this chest pain is the beginning of something?
What if the doctors missed it?

In this episode, we go deep into the psychology and neuroscience behind the fear of the “what if” disease, the illness that hasn’t been diagnosed, but feels like it’s quietly developing in the background.

This is not a surface-level conversation about health anxiety. We break down:

• How the brain acts as a prediction machine and why it overestimates threat
• The role of intolerance of uncertainty in chronic health fears
• Why normal medical reassurance doesn’t “stick”
• How heightened interoception makes sensations feel louder and more alarming
• The science behind somatosensory amplification
• Why reassurance-seeking strengthens the anxiety loop
• What exposure to uncertainty actually looks like in real life

If you’ve ever felt trapped in the cycle of Googling, body-scanning, seeking reassurance, or fearing a rare or missed diagnosis, this episode will help you understand what’s happening under the surface.

The goal isn’t to dismiss your fear.
It’s to understand it, so it stops controlling you.

You don’t need perfect certainty to be safe.
And you don’t need a diagnosis to explain every sensation.

This episode is about learning to live in probability instead of catastrophic possibility.

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If your anxiety spikes before your period…
If your thoughts feel darker, louder, or more convincing…
If you suddenly feel like you’ve “undone” all your progress…

This meditation is for you.

In the luteal phase of your cycle, progesterone and estrogen shift — and your nervous system becomes more sensitive. That sensitivity can amplify anxiety, intrusive thoughts, emotional intensity, and self-doubt.

This doesn’t mean you’re broken.
It doesn’t mean you’re back at square one.
It means your hormones are shifting.

This guided meditation helps you:

Regulate your nervous system during hormone changes

Separate temporary intensity from identity

Stop making permanent conclusions in a temporary state

Build trust with your cyclical body

Ride the wave instead of fighting it

This is not about pushing through or pretending you’re fine.
It’s about meeting this phase with awareness, compassion, and steadiness.

Listen when anxiety feels louder before your period.
Listen when you feel unlike yourself.
Listen when you need the reminder:

This is a phase.
And it will pass.

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Feeling anxious about money can feel heavy, but understanding your body's signals and adopting mental and behavioral tools are key! In this episode, The Chicks explore personal experiences, practical strategies, and mindset shifts to help you find calm amid chaos and build a healthier relationship with money and your emotional well-being.

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This week’s Meditation Monday explores how “should” thoughts fuel anxiety and perfectionism...especially for high-functioning women who feel pressure to be further along, doing more, or feeling differently. Learn how to replace pressure with permission and self-compassion. If you’ve been hard on yourself lately, this episode is a soft place to land.

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Ever have moments where everything feels like too much, emotionally, mentally, physically and you can’t quite explain why?

This episode is a soft place to land.

In this gentle reset, we talk about what overstimulation actually is, why emotional waves can show up out of nowhere, and how to support your nervous system without forcing yourself to “calm down” or figure everything out.

This is a hybrid episode, part understanding, part grounding, designed to help you feel a little more steady when you’re overwhelmed, emotionally raw, or just exhausted from holding it together.

In this episode, we cover:

What overstimulation really means (and why it’s not a failure)

Why emotions don’t always need a story or explanation

How to create a sense of safety before trying to calm your body

Gentle grounding and nervous system resets you can do anywhere

Reassuring your body without feeding anxiety or reassurance-seeking

Letting your system settle in its own time

You don’t need to fix anything while listening to this.
You don’t need to feel better by the end.

Just let this episode be a pause, a reminder that you’re allowed to slow down, soften, and take the rest of the day gently.

Save this one for the moments when everything feels like too much.

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If you struggle with health anxiety or body hyper-focus, you know how quickly a sensation can turn into fear.
A tight muscle, a flutter, a strange feeling and suddenly your mind is scanning, analyzing, and reacting as if something is wrong.

This guided meditation is designed to interrupt that cycle.

Rather than trying to calm yourself through reassurance or distraction, this practice helps you do something more effective: learn to notice physical sensations without reacting to them.

Using principles from nervous system regulation, interoceptive exposure, and cognitive defusion, this meditation teaches your body and brain a new association, that sensations can exist without meaning danger.

In this meditation, you’ll practice:

Observing physical sensations without labeling them as threats

Separating sensations from anxious thoughts

Reducing body hyper-monitoring

Allowing discomfort without resistance

Teaching your nervous system safety through experience, not reassurance

This is not a relaxation only meditation.
It’s a skill-building practice meant to retrain your response to bodily sensations over time.

Listen when you feel stuck in your body, hyper-aware of sensations, or caught in the fear → reaction loop.
The goal isn’t to make sensations disappear, it’s to change how you respond to them.

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If you’ve ever felt stuck in your thoughts-overanalyzing, spiraling, or assuming every anxious thought must mean something...this episode is for you. The Chicks are breaking down one of the most important CBT skills for anxiety: learning to detach from your thoughts instead of believing them.

You’ll learn how to observe your thoughts as mental events—not facts—and how this shift alone can reduce anxiety, rumination, and emotional overwhelm. This isn’t about stopping thoughts or “thinking positively.” It’s about learning how to change your relationship with your thoughts so they have less power over your nervous system.

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This short meditation is for after a panic attack when the intense wave has passed, but your body still feels shaken, tired, or unsure. Panic can leave behind leftover fear, tension, and confusion. This practice is not about calming down fast or “fixing” anything. It’s about helping your body feel safe again.

In this 5-minute meditation, you’ll be gently guided to:

Reassure your nervous system that the danger has passed

Ground back into your body without forcing relaxation

Offer yourself kindness instead of judgment

Rest after a moment that took a lot out of you

This meditation is meant to feel like someone sitting beside you saying:
You made it through. You’re safe now.

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You’ve come a long way.
You’re functioning again.
Life feels more normal.

So why does it still feel like you’re waiting for anxiety to come back?

In this episode, we talk about the stage of healing no one prepares you for the fear that lingers after anxiety has eased. The quiet hyper-vigilance. The constant self-monitoring. The thought of, “What if I end up there again?”

If you’re no longer in panic, but still living with fear in the background, this episode is for you.

In this episode, we explore:

Why fear can remain even after anxiety improves

The difference between being anxious and being afraid of anxiety

How your nervous system remembers past distress — even during calm

Why healing doesn’t mean anxiety will never show up again

What real safety actually comes from (and it’s not certainty)

How to trust yourself again after a hard season

This conversation isn’t about “fixing” yourself.
It’s about understanding why this fear exists and learning how to move forward without letting it control your life.

If you’ve ever thought, “I’m better… but I don’t feel safe yet,” you’re not alone and nothing has gone wrong.

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Waiting can be one of the hardest parts of anxiety. Waiting for answers, results, clarity, reassurance or simply for things to feel better.

This 10-minute guided meditation is designed for those in-between moments, when your mind keeps racing ahead and your body feels stuck in anticipation. Instead of spiraling into worst-case scenarios, this practice helps you stay grounded in the present while you wait.

In this meditation, you’ll be guided to:

Sit with uncertainty without panic

Calm the nervous system during waiting periods

Release mental rehearsal and “what if” thoughts

Let your body stand down from constant alert

Find steadiness even without answers

This meditation is perfect to listen to while waiting on test results, decisions, messages, or any situation where anxiety convinces you something bad is coming.

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