💰 SUPPORT THIS PODCAST In today's episode, Gina discusses the issue of decision making and anxiety. Indecision is common among those who experience anxiety and Gina recommends a few steps for limiting indecision in your life. Become more comfortable making decisions today! To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety ? Quote: It doesn’t matter which side of the fence ...
Apr 14, 2019•21 min•Ep. 499
In today's episode, Gina shares a mini coaching session with ACP listener Lindsay. Lindsay describes her own personal struggle with anxiety, how she came to find the podcast and how the tools she has learned has helped her overcome much of her struggle with anxiety. Listen in for a sample of what Gina has to offer! Grab an awesome audio book for FREE, like The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Joi...
Apr 10, 2019•21 min•Ep. 498
Being awake in the middle of the night can be unnerving. There are 7 tips in today's episode to help you get the best rest possible even if you wake and can't get back to sleep! Get Tara Brach's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly/AudibleACP To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety ? Quote: It is a common experience that...
Apr 07, 2019•19 min•Ep. 497
In today's episode, Gina shares her knowledge and experience of aromatherapy and essential oils in the context of anxiety. Gina suggests a whole range of oils you can try today and gets specific with five oils. Additionally, Gina describes how you can go about using these oils to help improve your experience today! ACP episode 300 with Aromatherapist Liz Fulcher: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/300-aromatherapist-liz-fulchers-anxiety-healing-journey PubMed article: https://www.n...
Apr 03, 2019•20 min•Ep. 496
In today's episode, Gina shares a question from a listener in Russia relating to the breath and anxiety. Gina speaks about her own experience with the breath during the anxious period of her life and how we can use the breath to help control and ameliorate anxiety. Gina recommends using our meditation time to focus on the breath and take advantage of its powerful influence on our overall experience. Get Tara Brach's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly...
Mar 31, 2019•16 min•Ep. 495
In today's episode, Gina shares a letter sent to her by an ACP listener and former guest on the show, Michelle. Michelle relates to Gina a success story about a recent long distance trip she took with her family by car. Gina uses this letter as an example of the value of faith in the process of clearing anxiety and hopes this wisdom reaches all of her listeners. Episode 466: Mini Coaching Session with ACP Listener Michelle: https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/466-mini-coaching-sess...
Mar 27, 2019•12 min•Ep. 494
In today's episode, Gina shares her knowledge of nutrition and herbs in the context of anxiety. Gina recommends foods and herbs that help alleviate and reduce anxiety while also indicating what foods and herbs to avoid to keep from making anxiety worse. The foods and herbs are discussed not only in the context of anxiety but how they can benefit overall health. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about ou...
Mar 24, 2019•16 min•Ep. 493
In today's episode, Gina shares her knowledge and wisdom of laughter. Laughter has numerous health benefits for all people can can be especially important for people suffering with anxiety. Gina shares a number of these physical and psychological benefits of laughter, as well as how to bring more laughter into your life. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety ? Q...
Mar 20, 2019•14 min•Ep. 492
In today's episode, Gina shares information about EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and tapping. Tapping helps with negative thoughts and emotions by combining positive affirmations with the body's meridian system (acupuncture points). Listen in for a step by step guide and get started tapping and clearing your guilt, shame and anxiety today! Tapping Expert Gene Monterstelli Ep 179 http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/fbce3xvin10kyofx7x1wi7clpn6bqa To learn more go to: http://www.the...
Mar 17, 2019•17 min•Ep. 491
In today's episode, Gina guides listeners through a contemplative meditation exercise. In this exercise, we look back at a recent episode of anxiety and consider what thoughts and environmental factors affected us and how we reacted. Learn more about your anxiety through self-inquiry with Gina's guidance and support. Meditation from Ron Siegel https://www.mindfulness-solution.com/index.html To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membersh...
Mar 13, 2019•14 min•Ep. 490
In today's episode, Gina talks about the importance of acceptance and change in healing anxiety. In particular, Gina discusses the benefits of allowing our anxiety experience to unfold, in contrast to fighting the anxiety and trying (often desperately) to make it stop. The fear of and fight against the anxiety is exactly what keeps anxiety sufferers in the loop of anxiety-panic. Listen in for suggestions on how to prevent this anxiety loop from taking over your life. To learn more go to: http://...
Mar 10, 2019•21 min•Ep. 489
In today's episode, Gina discusses avoidance and aversion in the context of anxiety. Included in this discussion is an emphasis on the importance of how we interpret signals and information that we are perceiving and how very often we are able to choose whether or not we are threatened by a particular thing. Anxiety sufferers tend to be biased toward overestimating the threat of things. Listen in for tips on how to overcome this tendency. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast....
Mar 06, 2019•23 min•Ep. 488
In today's episode, Gina has a guest from the ACP tribe: Kelli. Kelli was a full ACP group coaching member, then a mini member and is now leaving after having progressed substantially in her healing journey and largely cleared her anxiety. Listen in to hear Kelli's story of how she suffered with anxiety and how she found help, hope and healing with Gina and the Anxiety Coaches Podcast group coaching membership program. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group C...
Mar 03, 2019•24 min•Ep. 487
In today's episode, Gina discusses a blog post by Leo Babauta about solitude and its importance in our lives. Using this post, Gina helps connect the dots between our cultivation and embrace of solitude and our healing and recovery from stress and anxiety. Link to Leo's entire post https://zenhabits.net/nonsolitude/ To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety ? Quote:...
Feb 27, 2019•17 min•Ep. 486
In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of cultivating mindfulness in order to heal anxiety using a Blinkist of Jon Kabat-Zinn's Wherever You Go There You Are. Gina shares a number of methods for "being" in the moment rather than "doing" and thereby increasing your mindfulness and your ability to heal your anxiety. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety...
Feb 24, 2019•17 min•Ep. 485
In today's episode Gina discusses how stress and anxiety affect our eating habits. Along with describing some of the physiology involved in the stress response, Gina offers listeners methods and tools to bring mindfulness to bear on the situation. Journaling in particular, guided by questions Gina offers in this podcast, can be particularly helpful. Link to Group Coaching http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/group-coaching Amazon Link to Savor by Thich Nhat Hanh https://amzn.to/2IgxDwY To lea...
Feb 20, 2019•16 min•Ep. 484
In today's episode, Gina discusses a topic that has come up in the ACP group coaching membership program recently, the idea of the highly sensitive person. Gina goes through a long list of signs that you may indeed be a highly sensitive person (very common among anxiety sufferers), and offers some suggestions for soothing yourself and improving your overall experience. Link to the Highly Sensitive Refuge and the 21 signs of an HSP https://highlysensitiverefuge.com/ Link to Elaine Aron's book The...
Feb 17, 2019•23 min•Ep. 483
In today's episode, Gina shares a mini coaching session with listeners. Today's client is Susan, who has suffered with anxiety for some time, observing its adverse affects on her work life and personal relationships. While Susan has only just started with a mostly irregular meditation practice, she finds much relief in walking. Coach Gina offers some more suggestions for Susan, including the possibility of blending both meditation and walking for beneficial repose. To learn more go to: http://ww...
Feb 13, 2019•22 min•Ep. 482
Medications are often the first offering to people who ask for help with anxiety and panic. Today Gina talks about the decision to use drugs and explores Making an informed decision How medications are not getting to the root of the problem Why some patients are taken off medications for therapeutic treatment Get Tara's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly/AudibleACP To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching F...
Feb 10, 2019•24 min•Ep. 1227
In today's episode, Gina conducts a mini coaching session with ACP listener Kristine. In this session, Kristine talks about her experience with anxiety and particular situations in which she experiences it most: driving, air travel and work meetings. Coach Gina shares some helpful tips, useful to Kristine and the wider ACP audience alike! Grab an awesome audio book for FREE, like The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial To learn more go to: http://www.theanxie...
Feb 06, 2019•23 min•Ep. 480
In today's episode, Gina shares with listeners ten tips for responding to life with gratefulness rather than fear. The source of these suggestions is an article by Kristi Nelson linked below. Using the mental state of gratitude can help extricate oneself from pain and anxiety in remarkable fashion. Listen in for these ten practical tips! Kristi Nelson article Ten True Things About Gratefulness https://gratefulness.org/blog/ten-true-things-about-gratefulness-a-conversation-with-kristi-nelson/ To ...
Feb 03, 2019•16 min•Ep. 479
In today's episode, Gina answers a question from a member of the ACP Group Coaching membership program. The group member asks: how do I just let things be? Gina explores one of her favorite answers to this question through the use of the work of Eckhart Tolle, derived from text obtained through the sponsor of today's show: Blinkist. This answer revolves around being in the present moment, the Now. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini M...
Jan 30, 2019•17 min•Ep. 478
In today's episode, Gina discusses how blood sugar and nutrition influence our experience of anxiety. Right eating, particularly a whole foods, plant based diet can do wonders for our health, in both body and mind. Gina discusses a medicare sponsored program of Dr. Dean Ornish relating to maintaining well-being through diet and cites a pubmed article relating to plant based diet as a treatment for diabetes. Pubmed article by McMacken and Shah: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466941...
Jan 27, 2019•23 min•Ep. 477
In today's episode, Gina shares with listeners a new meditation for anxiety: the Lake Meditation. Take a moment to get comfortable and listen in as Gina guides us through a meditation with nature imagery, breath awareness, healing and peace. Grab an awesome audio book for FREE, like The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our O...
Jan 23, 2019•16 min•Ep. 476
In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of learning to stimulate your vagus nerve, thereby enabling your body to reduce the stress and anxiety you may be experiencing. Listen in as Gina shares more than five techniques for stimulating your vagus nerve and thereby activating your parasympathetic nervous system and entering the safe, secure, "relax and digest" state of being. Get started with a 30-day trial when you go to https://www.audible.com/coachgina or text coachgina to 500500 Epis...
Jan 20, 2019•17 min•Ep. 475
In today's episode, Gina discusses anxiety's roots, including the notion of signal anxiety, which involves the anxiety we experience around the content of our own minds (thoughts). Mindfulness practices and RAIN are discussed as practices that can help us ease our experience of fear and anxiety. Episode 167 about RAIN: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/167-clearing-stress-and-anxiety-with-rain?rq=167 To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coach...
Jan 16, 2019•20 min•Ep. 474
Seasonal Affective Disorder often plays a part in triggering anxiety-panic during the long dark days of winter. Find out if you have SAD triggering your anxiety and what you can do about it today! Grab an awesome audio book for FREE, like The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety ? Quote: S...
Jan 13, 2019•16 min•Ep. 473
In today's episode, Gina conducts a mini coaching session with ACP listener Joanna. Joanna shares her particular situation with anxiety as it relates to her life. In particular, Joanna struggles with anxiety at night and has experienced considerable sleep disturbance around it. Coach Gina shares a number of helpful guiding tips for Joanna and listeners sharing some of the same issues. Listen in for the supportive guidance today! Grab an awesome audio book for FREE, like The Power Of Now by Eckha...
Jan 09, 2019•22 min•Ep. 472
In today's episode, Gina reviews the importance of time and acceptance in our anxiety clearing journey. Many people suffering from anxiety face signs and symptoms of anxiety even during periods in which they are generally feeling fine and have moved beyond their more acute anxiety stage. It is through the passing of time, self-compassion, the understanding that anxiety symptoms are not dangerous and acceptance of what is that we can overcome the lingering symptoms that anxiety has left us with. ...
Jan 06, 2019•23 min•Ep. 471
In today's episode, Gina reviews the many benefits of journaling and provides listeners with four journal prompts that are specifically tailored for intrusive thoughts and anxiety. The prompts help listeners to review their thinking and reclaim the power they have to accept thoughts or dismiss them as unhelpful. Listen in to take advantage of this powerful tool that can help you reduce and eliminate your anxiety! Links to journaling related episodes: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episo...
Jan 02, 2019•19 min•Ep. 470
