Today’s episode is special because I’m doing things a bit differently and bringing on a friend who played a huge role in my journey to break free from anxiety, panic disorder, depression, and medication.

Kelsi and I met when our lives looked very different. We were working at a bar and partying into the early hours nearly every night. Then, on June 6, 2013, Kelsi got sober after a life-changing experience in rehab—a turning point that deeply impacted me. About a year later, I hit my own rock bottom, and watching Kelsi transform her life helped me see that there was a way out of the cycle I was stuck in.

In this episode, I’m taking you back to that messy 2011-2014 chapter of my life, when my anxiety, depression, and panic were at their peak, and I was using substances to cope. We talk about the “butterfly effect,” how one person’s journey can set off ripples in another’s, and how Kelsi’s path toward sobriety inspired my own journey toward mental health and recovery.

Today, Kelsi is a wife, a stepmom, and a business owner who helps women grow their brands online. She openly shares her story about mental health and recovery, and her DMs are always open to anyone re-evaluating their relationship with alcohol.

Connect with Kelsi on Instagram @kelsibyers

Kelsi’s Book Recommendations:

1. Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol

2. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

3. Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

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This week on The Breaking Up With Anxiety® Podcast, it's another Ask Me Anything episode where I answer a great question from you—my amazing community! Specifically, about exercise and anxiety.

The question is: "I hear you say you're a spin addict and you love spinning... is that a type of exercise you recommend for anxiety?"

Short answer… no!

In this episode, I explain why high-intensity exercises like spinning aren’t ideal if you have anxiety, especially if you're dealing with hormonal imbalances or adrenal issues. Instead, I break down how to adjust your workouts based on the four phases of your menstrual cycle. We cover which exercises are most beneficial in each phase, how to avoid over-exercising, and why strength training might be a better option for long-term mental health.

If you’ve ever wondered how to balance your workouts with your hormones and anxiety, this episode is for you. Plus, I share how I personally cycle-sync my own exercise routine!

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This week on The Breaking Up With Anxiety® Podcast, it's another Ask Me Anything episode where I answer a great question from you—my amazing community!

The question is: "Do you recommend eating before or after exercising? I’m particularly asking in the morning because I want to start intermittent fasting, but with my hormones in mind—especially during my period when I’m hungrier earlier and don’t want to put my body under stress by holding off on eating. How do you recommend getting exercise in the morning?"

Tune in to hear my response!

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In this week’s episode of The Breaking Up With Anxiety® Podcast, I’m joined by Todd, Co-Founder of Komusō!

Todd helped develop the Shift, a breathing necklace designed to help reduce stress in situations like commuting, work meetings, traveling, falling asleep, overthinking, and social anxiety.

I personally have the Classic Shift necklace in gold, and I absolutely love it. It’s inspired by 17th-century Japanese monks who used a flute to find stillness.

Before Komusō, Todd knew very little about wellness and unknowingly suffered from high-functioning anxiety. Learning about the science of breath completely transformed his daily life, from how he wakes up, eats, and drives, to how he interacts with others and sleeps. Now, Todd is dedicated to educating the world about how better breathing can be a life-changing habit.

In this episode, Todd and I chat about how we both struggled with "traditional" meditation due to anxiety and found alternative ways to incorporate breathwork into our daily routines. Todd introduces the concept of preventative vs. rescue breathing, which changed my approach to breathwork, and shares his realization that anxiety isn't a personality trait—you can retrain your brain! And so much more!

I loved this conversation, and I hope it gives you some powerful insights into how breathwork can be an effective tool for kicking anxiety to the curb.

Connect with Komusō on Instagram @komusodesign and click this link for 15% off anything on their website: https://www.komusodesign.com/THEANXIETYNUTRITIONIST

Use code: THEANXIETYNUTRITIONIST

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In this week’s episode of The Breaking Up With Anxiety Podcast, I am joined by another Breaking Up With Anxiety Program client… Brittany!

Brittany is a personal trainer whose struggles with anxiety began after experiencing a severe panic attack in an airport, which resulted in a trip to the emergency room. She ended up going on medication, even though she didn’t want to, because she was barely functioning. She couldn’t leave the house, run errands by herself, and didn’t want to be left alone because of the panic attacks. She constantly felt like she might die at any moment.  All she wanted was to feel like herself again.

Through gut testing with her functional health doctor and bioresonance testing with me, we discovered she had several parasites and multiple bacterial imbalances that were keeping her stuck in her symptoms.

Now that she’s finished her detox protocol, Brittany’s here to share her story about everything she did to break up with anxiety and finally feel like herself again! 

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This week on The Breaking Up With Anxiety™ Podcast, it's another Ask Me Anything episode where I answer questions from you—my amazing community!

In this episode, I cover a listener's question that touches on a variety of topics, including what to do if you have high levels of inflammation in your stomach, how to feel better when anxiety is really high and you're feeling weak, lightheaded, and dealing with headaches, and my thoughts on 14-day detox kits.

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts! Send me a message on Instagram after you've listened @tay.gendron

Learn more about my 4-month Breaking Up With Anxiety Program: https://www.taygendron.com/work-with-tay

Website: www.taygendron.com 

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This week on The Breaking Up With Anxiety™ Podcast, I’m joined by my coach and personal trainer, Alanna, who is a registered practical nurse and the founder of Athleisure Society!

Alanna and her team at Athleisure Society specialize in body recomposition—transforming the ratio of fat to muscle—while empowering clients with knowledge about nutrition and the strength of intentional training.

I signed up for Athleisure Society because I really wanted to better understand how to build healthy muscle, optimize my time in the gym, ensure I was lifting weights properly with good form, prevent injury, and, of course, learn more about body recomposition. 

In this episode, we cover:

I’m super excited for you to hear this conversation, and I hope it inspires you to start lifting heavy! 

Connect with Alanna on Instagram or through her website! 

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On today’s episode of The Breaking Up With Anxiety™ Podcast, I’m excited to welcome back my therapist, Chantal Wade, who I have been working with since 2016!

I invited Chantal back on the podcast because I wanted to provide a resource for anyone struggling with anxiety around food, emotional relationships with food, and disordered eating. I want to emphasize that I’m not qualified to work with anyone who has a current or history of disordered eating unless they are also working with a therapist at the same time as me.

In this episode, Chantal and I delve into the two main camps of disordered eating:

We discuss how disordered eating is not really about food, your body, or what others think of you—it’s a symptom of unhealed emotional wounds.

I hope this episode helps you, and as always, I would love to hear your thoughts! Send me a message on Instagram and let me know what you think of the episodes. I love connecting with you, and if there’s a topic you’d like me to dive into, let me know!

Connect with Chantal on Instagram or through her website! 

Resources mentioned on this episode: 

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In this week’s episode, I am joined by a client who went through my self-study Anxiety Relief Workshop Bundle—Kimberly!

Kim is an elopement, destination wedding, and family photographer who had anxiety since she was little but wasn’t diagnosed until later in life when she went through a huge life change after getting married and moving to a new city where she did not speak the language and didn’t know anyone except her husband. Then, she had babies and decided to go on medication postpartum when she realized her kids were being affected by her struggles with her mental health.

In this episode, Kim and I discuss how she used the workshop bundle to successfully come off 100mg of Zoloft, stabilize her thyroid health, and stop taking the beta blockers she was on for her racing heart. We talk about what she changed about her diet, the supplements she took,  how she built resilience to face the stresses of life without falling into full-blown panic attacks, and how she lost 30 pounds by adjusting her exercise to her cycle! 

Your lifestyle is the biggest factor in whether you can be medication-free or not, and I hope Kim’s story inspires you to do the work and take control of your mental health!

Kim’s Instagram @kimarchambaultphoto

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Today's guest on The Breaking Up With Anxiety™ Podcast is Andrew Hartman, the creator of the Time Boss Model. 

Andrew’s mission is to help people trade stress, overwhelm, and anxiety for peace, freedom, and clarity in their work and personal life. He does a lot, and I do a lot, and I want to continue to do a lot—and I know many of you listening feel the same way!

Here's a staggering statistic: 3 out of 5 people feel overwhelmed by their to-do list, and because of this, we end up wasting so much time and not making progress in our work or towards our goals, whatever those may be.

So, this episode is about exactly that—how to make massive progress in work and towards your goals without impacting your mental health. Whether you work for yourself, work for another company, are a working mom or a stay-at-home mom trying to juggle a million different things, or always feel behind—this episode is for you!

Andrew’s website and free resources: https://www.timeboss.us/resources

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