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 the natural pharmacy that resides within your body and feel better today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for supporting The Anxie...
Apr 19, 2023•21 min•Ep. 918
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 contribute to heart palpitation susceptibility can be very helpful. Learn how to reduce heart palpitations and handle them with more ease and comfort today. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesom...
Apr 16, 2023•22 min•Ep. 917
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 situations. Once we can master this process, we can tame our anxiety and emerge stronger, healthier individuals. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/s...
Apr 12, 2023•21 min•Ep. 916
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 tolerate the discomfort of our anxiety are some of the ways you can get on top of your intrusive thinking. Listen in for all the details! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsor...
Apr 09, 2023•19 min•Ep. 915
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 listeners to try! Listen in for a new strategy to tackle your anxiety, including giving it a name and interacting with it on your own terms. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespo...
Apr 05, 2023•18 min•Ep. 914
In today's episode, Gina shares a guided meditation intended to help you drift effortlessly and peacefully to sleep. Listen to Gina's calming, soothing voice as she softly decribes a simple process for falling to sleep. A soft background track of gentle music is included. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for supporting The Anxiety Coaches Podcast. Episodes mentioned in the episode ...
Apr 02, 2023•15 min•Ep. 910
In today's episode, Gina discusses a critical part of the brain involved in how sensory information affects your anxiety. Known as the reticular activating system or RAS, this brain system can be implicated in both hyperarousal and dysfunctional lack of arousal and awareness. Listen in to learn how to enhance your peace and calm through a better understanding of how this brain system affects your experience. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! ...
Mar 29, 2023•18 min•Ep. 912
In today's episode, Gina shares a number of self-care practices from a variety of different life categories. This list is truly comprehensive and there may be self-care suggestions that you have yet to hear in this episode. From intellectual and environmental, to social and cultural, you are bound to find some self-care gems in this episode to help you start living better today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachesp...
Mar 26, 2023•21 min•Ep. 911
In today's episode, Gina discusses how the brain reacts to threats and how we can use this knowledge to enhance our resilience. Threats in our environment activate the amygdala which in turn actives our bodily fight or flight response. This can include a hormonal cascade that will enhance our ability to run away from or fight against a threat. Typically, the amygdala overestimates the danger and we are left anxious and upset. Listen in for tips on how to defuse an overactive amygdala and live mo...
Mar 22, 2023•20 min•Ep. 910
In today's episode, Gina shares six strategies for staying positive even in negative social environments. Staying aloof and focusing on your self are some of the ways we can protect ourselves in such situations. Seeking out others with more positive ways of being can also go a long way in brightening our own lives. Listen in for all the tips and start feeling better! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/s...
Mar 19, 2023•18 min•Ep. 909
In today's episode, Gina discusses using our thoughts and our bodies to interrupt the anxiety process in the brain. Remembering that everything we are thinking is not necessarily true and seeking out facts is critical. Learn to ride out the cascade of stress hormones anxiety has triggered in you with conscious breathing and restore logical reasoning. Find more peace today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast...
Mar 15, 2023•19 min•Ep. 908
In today's episode, Gina shares eleven different practices for living in the present moment. Using these techniques, anyone can cultivate a deeper connection with themselves, the environment and the present moment. Letting go of the past and avoiding placing our attention on the future can have profound benefits for our overall sense of well-being. Listen in and learn to cultivate a better sense of yourself and the environment around you in the present moment! Please visit our Sponsor Page to fi...
Mar 12, 2023•18 min•Ep. 907
In today's episode, Gina shares an easy to use process for incorporating peaceful, mindful moments into your day. Specifically, this customizable practice begins in the morning shortly after waking. Even the busiest listeners will be able to implement this practice with ease. Listen in and increase your mindfulness practice today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for supporting The...
Mar 08, 2023•17 min•Ep. 906
In today's episode, Gina discusses common over the counter and prescription medications that can cause anxiety symptoms. This is essential knowledge for anyone suffering from anxiety as overcoming your anxiety could be as simple as terminating a non-essential drug. Listen in to find out which of the most common drugs may be causing your anxiety! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for...
Mar 05, 2023•19 min•Ep. 805
In today's episode, Gina discusses a number of ways to tame your response to sleepless moments in the middle of the night. Through reducing our stress response to those moments in which we find ourselves awoken from sleep long before our day begins we can reduce the adverse consequences these sleepless moments have on our health and well-being. Listen in for tips on managing your sleep and sleepless moments today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome spon...
Mar 01, 2023•20 min•Ep. 904
In today's episode, Gina discusses how to let go of the victim mentality that is so often associated with chronic anxiety. Identifying as a victim can have significant effects on our ability to succeed and change our lives. Five strategies for letting go of the victim mentality and gaining new power in your life are shared. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for supporting The Anxiet...
Feb 26, 2023•18 min•Ep. 903
In today's episode, Gina shares five steps to help you better handle the harmful thoughts anxiety leads us to think. Using these methods, we can better defend ourselves from the self-depreciating thoughts anxiety targets us with and also learn to prevent the thoughts altogether over time. Listen in and begin to take back your self-worth and self-esteem today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/...
Feb 22, 2023•19 min•Ep. 902
In today's episode, Gina discusses the benefits of short instances of controlled stress on our bodies and our minds. A specific technique in particular is shared that can work wonders for your long term health and well-being. Learn how to reduce stress, improve immunity and circulation and increase your overall heartiness in as little as 30 seconds a day! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Tha...
Feb 19, 2023•18 min•Ep. 901
In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of facing and feeling the emotional difficulties we encounter to grow and heal in our lives. This episode draws heavily on an article from Dr. David Hanscom concerning the importance of processing emotional pain to fully integrate and overcome such pain (and keep it from reemerging in other pathological forms later in our lives). Listen in for remarkable insight into why it is so important to feel the difficult emotions we so desperately try to a...
Feb 15, 2023•19 min•Ep. 900
In today's episode, Gina discusses how our struggles with anxiety and stress can bring fruits to us later in life. Through our struggle with these often immense difficulties, we grow to become stronger, wiser and more capable human beings. Listen in to gain a greater understanding as to how our experience with anxiety can make us stronger people! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you fo...
Feb 12, 2023•18 min•Ep. 899
In today's episode, Gina discusses the immense power that hope holds for us in terms of our mental health and overall success and wellness in life. Listen in for scientific research backed knowledge about the near panacea hope can be for you in your daily struggle with anxiety and general life challenges. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for supporting The Anxiety Coaches Podcast. ...
Feb 08, 2023•17 min•Ep. 898
In today's episode, Gina is here to help you realize that despite your discomfort and negative monkey-mind thinking, you are ok and that there is nothing wrong with you. Our anxiety is constantly telling us we are broken and that there is something profoundly wrong with us, but these are thoughts induced by the anxiety fire raging through our bodies and nervous systems. When we can recognize and understand this, we can make great strides with feeling better and progressing with our anxiety recov...
Feb 05, 2023•16 min•Ep. 897
In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question regarding anxiety and tremors (bodily shaking). The listener specifically suffered with essential tremors and was largely healed by the protocols suggested on the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. The episode content is extended to the bulk of anxiety sufferers as these symptoms are related to other anxiety symptoms including shaking, trembling, the jitters and other bodily sensations. Listen in for advice on how to overcome these symptoms today! Pleas...
Feb 01, 2023•18 min•Ep. 896
We’re sharing a preview of another podcast we love, The Happiness Lab. On the Happiness Lab, Yale professor and human cognition expert Dr. Laurie Santos explores all the ways we get our happiness wrong and what we can do to really feel better. She walks through the latest evidence-based strategies for improving your mental health, sharing practical advice on what will really bring more joy. In her latest New Year season of The Happiness Lab, Laurie tackles how to listen to the inner voice of wha...
Jan 30, 2023•11 min•Ep. 1153
In today's episode, Gina discusses the concept of circle of control and how we can use it to steady and tame our anxiety. Focusing on what we can control, and letting go of the things we cannot control, can lead to a reduction in anxiety naturally. A number of affirmations are provided to help facilitate the process of focusing on our circle of control at the expense of the things we cannot control. Listen in today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sp...
Jan 29, 2023•14 min•Ep. 895
In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of gratitude in our anxiety recovery journey and shares a number of findings regarding how and why gratitude helps so much. Included are recommendations for how to increase the amount of gratitude in your life. Listen in to learn how gratitude can help you in your anxiety recovery today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for supporti...
Jan 25, 2023•18 min•Ep. 894
In today's episode, Gina discusses how to find and keep your sense of peace and calm during trying times of uncertainty and often disturbing news. From eating healthy, exercising and getting enough rest to what things to avoid, a range of recommendations are included. Listen in for tips on how to cheer up even during the most dark and disturbing of times. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Tha...
Jan 22, 2023•21 min•Ep. 893
In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener question regarding feeling sick and having a serious anxiety response. Aside from getting cleared by a healthcare provider, Gina recommends 'dropping the rope' and to discontinue feeding the anxiety cycle. This is particularly important when we are not feeling well. The process by which the mind creates thoughts that are often highly unrealistic in response to various symptoms and feelings is discussed, as are ways to put out this storm of scary, o...
Jan 18, 2023•17 min•Ep. 892
In today's episode, Gina discusses how to use kindness and good will to clear anxiety. The kindness spoken of is not limited to the sort you only show to others. Through developing a profound kindness to ourselves, we can better spread kindness throughout the world. By becoming more kind, our anxiety becomes less pronounced. Listen in to find out how kindness can help with your anxiety and how to become more kind today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesom...
Jan 15, 2023•19 min•Ep. 891
In today's episode, Gina discusses the signs and symptoms of panic attacks as well as theories about their causes. You know when you are experiencing panic attacks and this episode includes nine ways of how to cope with them. These methods include many of the core ACP teachings such as breathing, letting time pass and working with a coach or therapist. Other unusual strategies are included as well, including exposing yourself to mild discomfort. Listen in and begin to cope better today! Please v...
Jan 11, 2023•20 min•Ep. 890
