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. By doing so, we can become more familiar with our selves and our inner reactions to various stimuli. This leads to improved awareness and preparation for what ever may come into our experience. We become stronger and less likel...
Aug 02, 2023•19 min•Ep. 948
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 around our sleep hygine is recommended. Putting the journal to use is also suggested. Listen in for more information on the topic of anxiety and aging! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome...
Jul 30, 2023•21 min•Ep. 947
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 and become more resilient to your anxiety-responses, listen in 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 Anxiety Coaches Pod...
Jul 26, 2023•20 min•Ep. 946
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 well, such as depression. Learn that dissociation is not dangerous and comfort yourself that it will pass and it is not a sign of some severe mental pathology. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for...
Jul 23, 2023•20 min•Ep. 945
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 are experiencing is really dangerous can help us reduce lizard brain activation and thereby reduce our anxiety. Listen in for tips on how to better manage your lizard brain and reduce your anxiety-panic today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the l...
Jul 19, 2023•20 min•Ep. 944
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 and Gina provides a number of tips for utilizing the ability of surrender to what is to help us improve our lives today. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ ...
Jul 16, 2023•16 min•Ep. 943
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. Don't get bogged down by the little annoyances in life. Use these strategies and start feeling happier and more peaceful today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.c...
Jul 12, 2023•19 min•Ep. 942
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 self-knowledge and health related knowledge we have picked up in our lives, including through internet research. Listen in for the good news about the human body's awesome capacity for resilience and learn how to better tame your health and symptom related think...
Jul 09, 2023•21 min•Ep. 941
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 Weekes' approach to anxiety recovery and improve your own anxiety recovery today! Hope and Help for Your Nerves https://amzn.to/3pmRxNj Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxie...
Jul 05, 2023•19 min•Ep. 940
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 to the air travel process and studying and implementing relaxation techniques, this guide will help make air travel possible for you. Listen in to these numerous techniques to prepare yourself for air travel and feel more calm in the skies during your next ...
Jul 02, 2023•17 min•Ep. 939
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 heath benefits. Listen in today and discover how grounding may help alleviate your anxiety symptoms! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for...
Jun 28, 2023•19 min•Ep. 938
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 interpret these sensations and how to eliminate them with lifestyle changes! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for support...
Jun 25, 2023•22 min•Ep. 937
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 on their own personal experiences with anxiety. Listen in and gain greater understanding of your anxiety today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsor...
Jun 21, 2023•18 min•Ep. 936
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 use the beneficial properties of having water in your environment, even if you don't live near any large bodies of water! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoac...
Jun 18, 2023•21 min•Ep. 935
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 love can streamline and optimize how we show our love and support in relationships. Listen in a make your relationships run more smoothly and reduce anxiety at the same time! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our ...
Jun 14, 2023•20 min•Ep. 934
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 they arise, label them and return our awareness to the breath. Included is a guided meditation that helps introduce listeners to meditation in general and the noting practice as well. Listen in and expand your mindfulness practice today! Pl...
Jun 11, 2023•21 min•Ep. 933
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 ask yourself to know if you are codependent. Resources for learning more about codependency are also shared in this podcast. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespod...
Jun 07, 2023•21 min•Ep. 932
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. Recognizing and acknowledging the thoughts as they come and persisting in mindfulness practice (living in the present moment) are among the included suggestions. Listen in for more advice on how to handle this common problem! Please visit our Sponsor P...
Jun 04, 2023•20 min•Ep. 931
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 about the past that increases our anxiety to the breaking point. Letting go of thoughts about the past and the future will allow us to immerse in the present moment. Listen to this meditation to help unlock access to the treasure of the present moment. Please visit o...
May 31, 2023•15 min•Ep. 930
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 you can take to increase the amount of spaciousness in your life 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 su...
May 28, 2023•19 min•Ep. 929
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 meditation will work for you! Listen in and move deeper into anxiety recovery by starting a new meditation 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...
May 24, 2023•22 min•Ep. 928
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 regardless of your circumstances. Self-blame for adverse life circumstances can be maladaptive. Listen in for tips on how to ease up on yourself and feel better today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our aweso...
May 21, 2023•17 min•Ep. 927
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 you get started with Stoicism. Learn a new way of understanding your life and the world and become more resilient today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/spo...
May 17, 2023•20 min•Ep. 926
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, we can prevent the anxiety from snowballing into a greater and greater intensity that often culminates in a panic attack. A number of strategies for becoming more comfortable with health symptoms and the related thoughts that arise that wil...
May 14, 2023•22 min•Ep. 925
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 to breathe more through your nose and do so more slowly and reduce your anxiety 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 Anxiety Co...
May 10, 2023•20 min•Ep. 924
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 steps for implementing this process are included. Get started 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 Anxiety Coac...
May 07, 2023•20 min•Ep. 923
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 steps are shared to help you implement radical acceptance in your life and in turn reduce your anxiety. Tara Brach's book: Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha https://amzn.to/41W3gAd Please visit our Sponsor Page...
May 03, 2023•19 min•Ep. 922
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 consciousness. Anxiety triggers are contrasted with happiness triggers to help you know what to focus on to start increasing the best things in your life today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://...
Apr 30, 2023•18 min•Ep. 921
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 marketplace. Listen in to discover what magnesium supplement may be best for you to try today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you f...
Apr 26, 2023•18 min•Ep. 920
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 us feel better and function better in our day to day lives. Episodes mentioned in today's show: EP 580 CONQUERING ANXIETY WITH AFFIRMATIONS https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/580-conquering-anxiety-with-affirmations EP 561 11 REASONS TO ...
Apr 23, 2023•15 min•Ep. 919
