In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener question regarding whether or not true recovery from anxiety-panic is possible. Fear not, ACP listeners, as the outlook is bright. Recovery from anxiety-panic is possible. Listen in for Gina's optimistic thoughts and experience with her own anxiety recovery and also coaching others into deep, long lasting anxiety recovery. BetterHelp Better Help is bringing you thousands of counselors for your therapy needs and 10% off your first month! https://bet...
Sep 25, 2022•17 min•Ep. 859
In today's episode, Gina discusses symptom of inner peace number 10: frequent attacks of smiling through the heart. In addition to discussing this specific idea, the benefits of actually smiling with your face deliberately are discussed. Smiling can improve our brain functioning. A number of exercises are included to help you increase and improve your smiling today! This episode is brought to you by EverlyWell Check out the healthy EverlyWell offer for listeners of the show, EverlyWell is offeri...
Sep 21, 2022•19 min•Ep. 858
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...
Sep 18, 2022•19 min•Ep. 857
In today's episode, Gina discusses beneficial habits to be learned and practiced to reduce your experience of anxiety. Five habits in particular are discussed that will help you improve your condition, including: having a direction for yourself and allowing yourself to be vulnerable and compassionate towards yourself and others. Listen in as Gina discusses these habits and three more! Find even more peace and calm with our Supercast premium access membership! https://anxietycoaches.supercast.com...
Sep 14, 2022•19 min•Ep. 856
In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of self-compassion, especially in the face of stress and anxiety. Mindfulness and self-kindness are among the chief ways we can implement self-compassion. Listen in for specific verbal prompts that will help keep you mind in a self-supportive state, rather than a harmful, self-denigrating state. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp Better Help brings thousands of counselors for your therapy needs and 10% off your first month! https://betterhelp.com...
Sep 11, 2022•17 min•Ep. 855
In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of cultivating a healthy mindset to help reduce and eliminate anxiety over time. Using core self-healing practices we advocate so heavily here at ACP, such as meditation and affirmation, you can grow your own healthy mindset and strengthen your calmness and focus. Listen in to find out what a healthy mindset is and how to develop one! This episode is brought to you by Calm For listeners of the show, Calm is offering a special limited-time promotion of...
Sep 07, 2022•18 min•Ep. 854
In today's episode, Gina discusses an article from Leo Babauta about the importance of keeping a tidy living space. Clutter can contribute to our anxiety and general disarray in our lives. Suggestions for decluttering extend into keeping our personal and work plans for the future organized. Listen in for helpful tips today! This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp Better Help is bringing you thousands of counselors for your therapy needs and 10% off your first month! https://betterhelp.com/acp di...
Sep 04, 2022•19 min•Ep. 853
In today's episode, Gina shares simple strategies for overcoming panic. From thinking practices (and regular meditation practice) to physiological practices, such as slow deliberate breathing when panic begins to appear, these strategies are bound to help you beat your panic attacks! Listen in to gain strength over your anxiety-panic today! EverlyWell Check out the healthy Everlywell offer for listeners of the show, Everlywell is offering a special discount of 20% off an at-home lab test at http...
Aug 31, 2022•18 min•Ep. 852
In this episode, Gina discusses the importance of being present for the process of relieving stress and anxiety. Gina points out undesirable factors that inhibit our stress and anxiety relief, including: attachment, excessive forward thinking (future focused), imaginary thoughts and negative expectations. Gina suggests four action steps to be in the present and cultivate mindfulness: 1) Observe events without judging them (anxiety stems from judgment) 2) Integrate mindfulness activities into you...
Aug 28, 2022•15 min•Ep. 851
In today's episode, Gina presents nine anxiety reducing ways of living that Leo Babauta posted on his blog. From setting one's intentions early on, to creating more space, and listening to what life is calling for you to do, these suggestions are sure to help you move more deliberately and regain your peace. Link to Leo's post https://zenhabits.net/deliberate/ Grab an awesome audio book for FREE, like The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial To learn more go t...
Aug 24, 2022•18 min•Ep. 850
In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance positive thinking can have for our anxiety recovery. A number of powerful positive thinking prompts are provided. Listen in, start thinking more positively and reduce your anxiety today! Ned Become the best version of yourself and get 15% off Ned products with code ACP. Go to https://helloned.com/ACP or enter code ACP at checkout. BetterHelp Better Help is bringing you thousands of counselors for your therapy needs and 10% off your first month! h...
Aug 21, 2022•14 min•Ep. 849
In today's episode, Gina discusses intrusive thoughts, what they are and how to move past them. Intrusive thoughts are often brought on by additional stress and those suffering from anxiety are often more vulnerable to them. These thoughts often involve disturbing content relating to those we care most about (and ourselves). Listen in for tips on how to minimize the disturbance caused by these thoughts! This episode is brought to you by Calm For listeners of the show, Calm is offering a special ...
Aug 17, 2022•20 min•Ep. 848
In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question regarding untidiness in the environment, cleaning and anxiety. Gina draws from her own personal experience with this problem and how her perception of dirtiness in the home could be influenced by the level of stress and anxiety she was experiencing. Solutions to this issue are recommended, including stopping and checking the impulse to clean and using breathing to restore a level of peace and calm before proceeding. BetterHelp Better Help is b...
Aug 14, 2022•20 min•Ep. 847
In today's episode, Gina discusses the causes of negative self-talk, especially for the anxious, and shares techniques for reducing and eliminating such self-talk. Replacing such negative self-talk with affirmative self-talk can be very helpful. Several examples of both negative and positive self-talk are included as are strategies for reducing the negative thoughts and strengthening the positive thoughts. EverlyWell Check out the healthy Everlywell offer for listeners of the show, Everlywell is...
Aug 10, 2022•18 min•Ep. 846
In today's episode, Gina shares strategies for how to deal with anxious expectations. Of particular interest in this episode are the powerful journal exercises that can help turn your expectations into a force of great positivity in your life. Use the power of your expectations to steer yourself towards the good things in life and watch how you expand the overall positivity and abundance available to you. Ned Become the best version of yourself and get 15% off Ned products with code ACP. Go to h...
Aug 07, 2022•18 min•Ep. 845
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://...
Aug 03, 2022•22 min•Ep. 844
In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of practicing meditation for improving our strength of mind and reducing intrusive thoughts and other anxiety related mental noise. Steps for setting up a core meditation routine are reviewed. The benefits of a regular meditation practice are reviewed. Listen in and improve your meditation practice today! Better Help is bringing you thousands of counselors for your therapy needs and 10% off your first month! https://betterhelp.com/acp discount co...
Jul 31, 2022•17 min•Ep. 843
In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of rest for our overall well-being and resistance to excessive anxiety. Understanding that getting enough rest time is critical to our overall health and well-being can help ease any sense of guilt we may have regarding making rest time for ourselves. Of course, adding mindfulness to our rest time can make it even more effective for anxiety-soothing purposes. Self-reflection questions are included at the end of the show. Calm For listeners of the...
Jul 27, 2022•18 min•Ep. 842
In today's episode, Gina shares eight possible solutions for morning anxiety. Waking up earlier is one of the first tips and helps enable one to enact some of the other solutions more readily. Our frequent friends meditation and exercise are included, as is the ever so important of increasing time offline. Listen in to hear the rest of these invaluable tips and reduce morning anxiety today! BetterHelp Better Help is bringing you thousands of counselors for your therapy needs and 10% off your fir...
Jul 24, 2022•17 min•Ep. 841
In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of breathing and grounding to help establish a sense of peace and calm. A number of breathing focused affirmations are provided to help us utilize this ever-present tool available to us. Finally a number of self-reflection questions are provided to help us better understand what upsets us and how grounding and breathing help us to feel better. Ned Become the best version of yourself and get 15% off Ned products with code ACP. Go to https://helloned.co...
Jul 20, 2022•16 min•Ep. 840
In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question regarding agoraphobia and using alcohol as an anxiety treatment. Social anxiety is touched upon before a discussion of the perils of alcohol use for the anxiety sufferer. In the long run, alcohol makes anxiety worse. Simple, practical tips for staying calm when out in the world are included. Athletic Greens is giving you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is ...
Jul 17, 2022•18 min•Ep. 839
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. Find even more peace and calm with our Supercast premium ...
Jul 13, 2022•24 min•Ep. 838
In today's episode, Gina discusses behaviors that are harmful to our lives and increase our stress and anxiety. The importance of reducing these behaviors is discussed, as are ways to go about doing so. Listen in to find out what kinds of thoughts and behaviors you should work to eliminate from your life and improve your quality of life today! To learn more go to: https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One Coac...
Jul 10, 2022•22 min•Ep. 837
In today's episode, Gina presents on a paradoxical topic: that self-care practices could actually be contributing to keeping your anxiety level high! Use your gift of reasoning to examine your anxiety and anxiety-care situation through a different lens. Check your self-care practices and throw out those that may not really be helping you and focus in on those that are giving you relief. Listen in for advice on how to do this! Find even more peace and calm with our Supercast premium access member...
Jul 06, 2022•17 min•Ep. 836
In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question regarding anxiety, exercise and skipped heartbeats. Some of the physiology behind the sensation of skipped heartbeats is discussed as well as how adrenaline released during exercise can make the occurrence more likely. The safety and how to handle this experience is also covered. Link mentioned in the show for more information on PVCs and exercise https://www.livestrong.com/article/426515-frequent-pvcs-during-exercises/ Book mentioned by Kelly...
Jul 03, 2022•18 min•Ep. 835
In today's episode, Gina shares some helpful affirmations you can use to float through any stress that comes your way. Initially, the affirmations are mentioned and discussed. Later, Gina slows down the affirmations and reads them as a brief guided meditation. Listen in to add these affirmations to your anxiety-reduction repertoire! Find even more peace and calm with our Supercast premium access membership! https://anxietycoaches.supercast.com/ Here's what's included for $5/month: ❤ New Ad-Free ...
Jun 29, 2022•19 min•Ep. 834
In today's show, Gina shares nine common myths that people hold regarding anxiety. From details about the physiological consequences of anxiety to how (and how not to) treat anxiety, dispelling these myths will make you more knowledgeable about your anxiety and help you to cope more effectively. Here's what's included for $5/month: ❤ New Ad-Free episodes every Sunday and Wednesday ❤ Access to the entire Ad-free back-catalog with over 600 episodes ❤ Premium meditations recorded with you in mind ❤...
Jun 26, 2022•18 min•Ep. 833
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...
Jun 22, 2022•19 min•Ep. 832
In today's episode, Gina discusses the great benefits of solitude and alone time. Being alone allows one to reflect on their present condition, recharge emotionally, and make plans for improvements in one's life. Listen in to learn the benefits and being alone and how to take some special alone time for yourself! Find even more peace and calm with our Supercast premium access membership! https://anxietycoaches.supercast.com/ Here's what's included for $5/month: ❤ New Ad-Free episodes every Sunda...
Jun 19, 2022•20 min•Ep. 831
In today's episode, Gina discusses the critical topic of technology-induced stress and how to better manage it. A multi-step process is shared, including self-reflective components, to better understand how technology increases stress in our lives. Suggestions for easy to implement changes in our various technology settings will help us ease the stress technology delivers to easily into our lives! Find even more peace and calm with our Supercast premium access membership! https://anxietycoaches....
Jun 15, 2022•15 min•Ep. 830
