The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

By Gina Ryan

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The Anxiety Coaches Podcast brings you a relaxing and inspiring show sharing lifestyle changes to calm your nervous system and help you heal Anxiety, Panic, Stress, and PTSD for life!
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963: Listener Epiphany Abou...

09.24.2023

In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener email that shares a realization relating to her safety and wellness in the present moment in the face of anxiety. The listener has clearly come to an understanding of some of the ...

The Anxiety Coaches Podcast episodes:

09.24.2023 963: Listener Epiphany About Feeling Safe In The Present Moment In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener email that shares a realization relating to her safety and wellness in the present moment in the face of anxiety. The listener has clearly come to an understanding of some of the ...
09.20.2023 962: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Anxiety Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and acupuncture for treating chronic anxiety. Many people in the West may not be familiar with how TCM and acupuncture works. This episode clarifies the approach to treating ...
09.17.2023 961: From Random to Recognizable Discovering the Roots of Anxiety In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener email commenting on his own struggle with anxiety-inducing thoughts. The listener suggests the common thread running through the most distressing thoughts he has is that they involve future (often catastrophic) events that ...
09.13.2023 960: Understanding the Differences Introversion, Shyness, and Social Anxiety Disorder In today's episode, Gina discusses the differences between key terms describing people with varying degrees of anxiety: Introversion, Shyness and Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). There is generally a spectrum of intensity of anxiety relating to social interactions with other people ...
09.10.2023 959: Harnessing Exercise to Tame Anxiety In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of exercise in the anxiety recovery journey. Exercise can be a complex topic for anxiety sufferers as it can very often trigger anxiety! The key to overcoming exercise induced anxiety lies in taking ...
09.06.2023 958: Growing Out of Anxiety - Embracing the Journey to a Brighter Self In today's episode, Gina discusses the journey of anxiety recovery from a different perspective: one that is open to the possibility that our trouble with chronic anxiety and panic may actually serve us as a profound instrument of growth and ...
09.03.2023 957: A Breathing Anchor for Your Anxious Mind In today's episode, Gina shares a guided meditation with listeners that focuses on using the breath as an anchor. The meditation unfolds over time with guidance to return awareness to the breath, thereby maintaining mindfulness throughout. Improve your peace of ...
08.30.2023 956: Facing Anxiety Head On - Unraveling Its Many Expressions In today's episode, Gina discusses the medical and psychological definitions of anxiety as found in the DSM. While healing from anxiety does not require these special categorizations mainstream healthcare attaches to it, it can be useful to understand how the ...
08.27.2023 955: Compassion in Action: Managing Anxiety, Yours and Theirs In today's episode, Gina discusses how to better handle the anxiety of other who we interact with during our day. From children in our care to supervisors at work, knowing how to handle the anxiety and upset of others can ...
08.23.2023 954: Examining The Spectrum Of Thought In today's episode, Gina discusses the spectrum of thoughts from anxious negative thinking, to positive thinking. Between negative and positive thinking lies neutral, mindful thinking. The importance of neutral and positive thinking are discussed as are strategies for encouraging this ...
08.20.2023 953: How Interpretation Plays A Role In Stress And Anxiety In today's episode, Gina discusses how we can use deliberate interpretation to steer our response to various life events and stimuli in the environment in a way that benefits us psychologically. If we don't take active measures to proactively interpret ...
08.16.2023 952: Reducing Anxious Mind Chatter By Clearing Stuck Energy In Your Body In today's episode, Gina reveals key principles to help reduce cyclical anxiety driven thinking through clearing out old, stuck energy in the body. The mind and body are highly related to each other and we can improve the functioning of ...
08.13.2023 951: From Frustration and Fear to Fulfillment: The Authentic Life Approach In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of living an authentic life and how increasing our personal authenticity can lead to deeper fulfillment in our lives. Strategies for increasing our authenticity are shared, including reevaluating relationships and identifying other aspects ...
08.09.2023 950: The Importance of Recognizing Thinking Traps for Managing Anxiety Part 2 In today's episode, Gina continues her discussion of thought traps and their role in anxiety. The discussion focuses on specific thought traps and their individual caveats. How these thought traps adversely affect us and how to avoid them are included. ...
08.06.2023 949: The Importance of Recognizing Thinking Traps for Managing Anxiety Part 1 In today's episode, Gina discusses anxiety thinking traps and how to use knowledge of these thinking traps to improve our anxiety management and anxiety elimination. Thinking traps can arise as a natural response to stressful or negative events in our ...
08.02.2023 948: Transforming Stress and Anxiety by Embracing Feeling Tones In today's episode, Gina discusses the Buddhist concept of feeling tones and how this knowledge can enhance our mindfulness practice and speed our anxiety recovery. Pleasant, unpleasant and neutral are basic categories by which we may categorize our conscious experiences. ...
07.30.2023 947: Procrastination and Anxiety in Older Adults Listener Q and A In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener question regarding anxiety, aging and procrastination. This listener in particular seems to struggle with procrastination in retirement and this exacerbates her anxiety. Watching what we eat and drink and taking extra care ...
07.26.2023 946: Mindful Hormesis: Embracing Stress for Mental Well-Being In today's episode, Gina discusses the many benefits of hormesis. In the case of anxiety healing and prevention, hormesis involves using small bits of stress to help strengthen our minds and bodies. Learn how to become more adaptive to stress ...
07.23.2023 945: Dissociation: Coping Mechanism for Overwhelming Emotions In today's episode, Gina discusses the relatively common anxiety symptom of dissociation and how to better cope with this distressing experience. Dissociation and derealization are not limited as symptoms to anxiety disorders but occur with other mental health conditions as ...
07.19.2023 944: Manage The Lizard Brain In today's episode, Gina discusses the lizard brain (the amygdala) and how we can use our capacity for higher reasoning to manage and direct the lizard brain to our advantage. Checking in with ourselves and assessing whether the discomfort we ...
07.16.2023 943: Classic ACP Anxiety Control And Surrender In today's episode, Gina the dynamics between the experience of need for control over our lives, anxiety and the use of the miraculous technique of surrender to help us calm and overcome anxiety. Byron Katie's thought and work is discussed ...
07.12.2023 942: 7 Simple Strategies for Less Stress in Life In today's episode, Gina discusses seven easy to implement strategies to reduce stress in your life and thereby lessen your anxiety. These are important, logical tools that can have a miraculous impact on improving the overall ease of your life. ...
07.09.2023 941: Healing from Health Anxiety: Trusting Your Body's Resilience Listener Q and A In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener question regarding health anxiety. There is often much knowledge in our minds regarding our own personal history and how it can relate to health. Anxiety can often take advantage of our own ...
07.05.2023 940: Understanding Anxiety via Claire Weekes: A Compassionate Perspective on Healing In today's episode, Gina reviews Claire Weekes' work on anxiety recovery. Weekes' basic program of facing, accepting, floating and letting time pass is a potent game plan for many individuals' anxiety recovery journey. Listen in to learn more about Claire ...
07.02.2023 939: Flying with Confidence: Practical Steps to Overcome Your Fear In today's episode, Gina provides a step by step guide on how to overcome the anxiety we may be facing surrounding air travel. From understanding our fear and gathering knowledge about the process of air travel to gradually exposing ourselves ...
06.28.2023 938: Finding Stability and Serenity: The Role of Grounding in Managing Anxiety In today's episode, Gina discusses the useful heath and wellness practice of grounding. The essentially free and generally easy practice of putting your body in contact with the earth (such as by walking barefoot on the grass) can have surprising ...
06.25.2023 937: Throat Symptoms: Anxiety's Influence on Globus Sensation and LPR In today's episode, Gina discusses the lump in the throat and other anxiety-related throat symptoms. These disturbing symptoms can exacerbate anxiety and cause unnecessary physical and mental suffering in those who experience them. Listen in for advice on how to ...
06.21.2023 936: Transforming Fear into Strength Traversing Anxiety's Steep Challenges In today's episode, Gina shares a practice of using a metaphor to better understand and explain our struggles with anxiety. A specific metaphor of a mountain is provided within the episode. Listeners are encouraged do develop their own metaphors based ...
06.18.2023 935 Nature's Therapy: How Being Near Water Eases Anxiety In today's episode, Gina discusses the beneficial, healing properties of the perception of water. Water colors, water sounds and water environments are documented to have beneficial properties for mental health and well-being. Listen in for insight on how you can ...
06.14.2023 934: How the Five Love Languages Can Ease Anxiety in Relationships In today's episode, Gina discusses the five love languages people prioritize in different ways so listeners can optimize their relationships and in turn reduce anxiety. Understanding how you prefer to be loved and how your significant others prefer to be ...
06.11.2023 933: Exploring the Noting Practice in Meditation In today's episode, Gina discusses a mindfulness technique known as the noting practice. With this technique, useful during meditation and also as we extend our meditation practice out into our daily consciousness, we take notice of thoughts and sensations as ...
06.07.2023 932: The Anxiety-Codependency Connection In today's episode, Gina discusses codependency and how it is often associated with chronic anxiety. Codependency can easily lead to anxiety and a number of reasons why are shared. The characteristics of codependency are included as are questions you can ...
06.04.2023 931: Recognizing and Managing Scary Anxious Thoughts Listener Q and A In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question about how to handle scary thoughts caused by her anxiety. For this listener, meditation is often difficult because the scary thoughts intrude and disturb her while trying to focus on the breath. ...
05.31.2023 930: Dropping The Bags of Worries about the Future and Regrets about the Past a Guided Meditation In today's episode, Gina shares a guided mediation with listeners with a theme of dropping the thoughts that trouble you most to better help you experience peace in the present moment. It is often worries about the future and regret ...
05.28.2023 929: How Spaciousness Can Reduce Anxiety and Stress In today's episode, Gina discusses the many ways incorporating more spaciousness in your life can reduce anxiety and stress. How more spaciousness can improve your life, including more freedom to explore and more harmony and balance, is discussed. Constructive steps ...
05.24.2023 928: From Skepticism to Serenity: Exploring Meditation Techniques That Suit You In today's episode, Gina shares with listeners a wide variety of different meditation practices in hopes that one will be suitable for you! From seated to walking, guided to silent and many others, at least one of these forms of ...
05.21.2023 927: Nurturing Positive Self-Worth Despite Anxiety's Challenges In today's episode, Gina discusses the miracle that cultivating positive self-worth and positive self-talk can be for long term mental health. A number of specific strategies are included for helping to cultivate and maintain a sense of positive self worth ...
05.17.2023 926: Overcoming Anxiety the Stoic Way: Practical Techniques for Inner Peace In today's episode, Gina offers listeners an introduction to Stoic philosophy that will be of particular value to helping overcome anxiety. Six key principles of Stoic philosophy are identified and discussed as are four books you can read to help ...
05.14.2023 925: The Art of Waiting and Seeing: Coping with Health Anxiety Listener Q and A In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question about health anxiety. A useful strategy for coping with health anxiety is shared: the art of waiting and seeing. By becoming more comfortable with the physiological symptoms that so often accompany anxiety, ...
05.10.2023 924: Why Breathing Too Much Causes Feelings of Panic In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of how we breathe in our experience of and recovery from anxiety. Learn the basics of breathing and why slowing down the breath can do wonders for calming our nervous system. Learn how ...
05.07.2023 923: From Anxious Mind Clutter to Calm: The Practice of Letting Go In today's episode, Gina discusses mental clutter and how learning to let go can be highly beneficial for our mental health. Five reasons letting go of unneeded thoughts and worries can be beneficial are discussed. Additionally, a number of practical ...
05.03.2023 922: Managing Anxiety, Difficult Emotions and Situations with Radical Acceptance In today's episode, Gina discusses radical acceptance and how we can use this practice to reduce the severity and adverse consequences of anxiety. Radical acceptance is about accepting reality as it is without judgement or resistance. A number of practical ...
04.30.2023 921: Knowing Your Happiness and Anxiety Triggers Can Improve Your Life In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of focusing on the things that bring happiness and positivity into our lives. By focusing on the things and thoughts that bring us happiness, we bring more benevolent things into our lives and ...
04.26.2023 920: Magnesium: A Miracle Mineral for Managing Anxiety In today's episode, Gina shares knowledge about the useful mineral supplement magnesium. The general benefits of this essential mineral for our minds and bodies are discussed as are the differences between the many various forms that are available in the ...
04.23.2023 919: Classic ACP How To Not Be So Hard On Yourself And Keep Anxiety At Bay In today's episode, Gina discusses the role of self-criticism in making our anxiety worse and offers a range of practices we can employ today to silence these self-critical voices. Over time we can encourage a new, self-compassionate voice to help ...
04.19.2023 918: Exploring the Feel-Good Chemicals in Our Bodies In today's episode, Gina discusses the chemicals in our body that contribute to our sense of well-being. Serotonin, dopamine, endorphins and oxytocin are all touched upon and how to increase these feel-good chemicals is shared. Listen in and jump start ...
04.16.2023 917: Understanding Heart Palpitations Caused by Anxiety In today's episode, Gina draws heavily from her own personal experience and discusses heart palpitations caused by anxiety. There are many things that can cause heart palpitations in association with anxiety, many that are very common. Eliminating behaviors that may ...
04.12.2023 916: Breaking the Cycle: How to Choose a Healthy Response to Anxiety In today's episode, Gina discusses how to develop the ability to choose a healthy response to anxiety when it presents itself. Developing our mindfulness mediation practice will help enable us to choose healthy thoughts in response to our anxiety provoking ...
04.09.2023 915: OCD or Looping thoughts Listener Q and A In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question regarding OCD related intrusive, looping thinking. Gina goes through a number of strategies for coping with and solving the issue of obsessive compulsive thinking. Strengthening our mindfulness practice and being willing to ...
04.05.2023 914: The Benefits of Naming Your Anxiety Developing Self-Awareness and Compassion In today's episode, Gina responds to a report from a listener regarding naming anxiety with a human name (in this case Betty) and interacting with her anxiety using this name. This strategy is praised, expanded upon and recommended for all ...

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