In today's episode, Gina discusses techniques that will enable you to use easy to implement changes in your body (such as through exercise, breathing, eating, rest and sleep) to affect your mind and alleviate your anxiety symptoms. These techniques are easy to use and will offer you results! 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 Podcas...
Sep 22, 2024•16 min•Ep. 1067
In today's episode, Gina provides a helpful guide for how to navigate social media and discussions with others, especially in regard to the topic of politics. Politics is a divisive topic, especially in our present day information environment. Use these techniques to become more resilient to the stress of navigating this difficult environment and eliminate the related anxiety and worry. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxiety...
Sep 18, 2024•19 min•Ep. 1066
In today's episode, Gina concludes her discussion of the differences between thoughts, emotions and feelings and how to use this knowledge to make progress clearing chronic anxiety. Five exercises are provided to help you explore what you are experiencing and how to change your thoughts to make better sense of it all and to find more peace and calm. Get your journals out and take notes, these exercises will take you a long way in your anxiety recovery journey! Please visit our Sponsor Page to fi...
Sep 15, 2024•20 min•Ep. 1065
In today's episode, Gina defines clearly and discusses the differences between thoughts, emotions and feelings, and how these psychological factors affect our anxiety. Through understanding these aspects of how our mind works, we become endowed with a great power to reduce our anxiety at will and direct our lives in direction of our choosing. Listen in and understand the differences between thoughts, emotions and feelings, and use this understanding to reduce and eliminate anxiety! Please visit ...
Sep 11, 2024•18 min•Ep. 1064
In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener email with a new episode about anxiety in children. A number of suggestions are included for better understanding anxiety in children as well as steps that can be taken to reduce the anxiety and build strong, healthy psyches. Listen in for anxiety reducing tips that are easy to implement with children and are also highly applicable with adults! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.thean...
Sep 08, 2024•20 min•Ep. 1063
In today's episode, Gina concludes her commentary on how negative thinking corrupts our mental wellness and increases our anxiety. Accepting that negative thoughts will come to us and that we have the ability to decide how we respond to these thoughts can go a long way to diffusing their capacity to undermine our peace and stability. Listen in and learn how to switch to a more positive focus and limit the power of negative thoughts! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes f...
Sep 04, 2024•19 min•Ep. 1062
In today's episode, Gina discusses the adverse effects of negative thinking on our mental health. Not only does negative thinking contribute to the severity of our anxiety and reduce our ability to cope, it also reduces our general health and saps our energy. Listen in to learn more about how negative thinking hurts us and how you can avoid it! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for ...
Sep 01, 2024•18 min•Ep. 1061
In today's episode, Gina discusses the physiological side of anxiety and how to use our knowledge of the body to heal and clear our anxiety. A number of specific suggestions are offered for minimizing the physical effects of anxiety on the body. A number of physical causes of anxiety are identified and suggestions made for avoiding them! 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...
Aug 28, 2024•19 min•Ep. 1060
In today's episode, Gina continues her discussion of the circle of influence and how to use this concept to your advantage when learning to control and reduce your anxiety. Specific examples of how you can apply the concept of the circle of influence are focused on. For example, how to use the concept of the circle of influence for social anxiety, financial stress, health anxiety and relationship issues are specifically addressed. Listen in and start putting the concept of the circle of influenc...
Aug 25, 2024•20 min•Ep. 1059
In today's episode, Gina discusses the circle of influence, popularized by Stephen Covey, and how it can be an effective tool to manage and control anxiety. The circle of influence refers to the set of factors in our lives that we have influence over (things we can control). This contrasts with the set of factors in our lives which we cannot control: the circle of concern. Listen in to come to better understand these concepts and how to use them in your life to help minimize anxiety. Book from t...
Aug 21, 2024•21 min•Ep. 1058
In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance in believing in your ability to effect change in your life and overcome anxiety. We are often overwhelmed with thoughts of disempowerment and believe we cannot help ourselves. Shifting this mindset can be a powerful catalyst for initiating the changes we want to see in our lives and our selves. Listen in and learn how to take these critical first steps towards clearing your anxiety. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes fo...
Aug 18, 2024•18 min•Ep. 1057
In today's episode, Gina discusses the role of diet in our overall mental wellbeing. From eliminations (like caffeine and refined sugar) to additions (like a long list of whole vegetables), a number of dietary changes that can be highly beneficial to those suffering with anxiety are included. Listen in and learn how to adjust your diet for optimal mental health and reduced anxiety today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxiet...
Aug 14, 2024•21 min•Ep. 1056
In today's episode, Gina shares a series of affirmations and a mindfulness meditation to transform your consciousness into one of peace and calm. Using this lovely series of affirmations and meditation, you will prepare yourself for an easy, peaceful sleep. Take advantage of these ready to use peace promoting affirmations and then drift off to sleep with the enchanting meditation. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoache...
Aug 11, 2024•19 min•Ep. 1055
In today's episode, Gina discusses a powerful secret weapon for reducing anxiety: the practice of delayed gratification. Practicing deferring an immediate reward for a later (and often greater) reward later on has many benefits, including improved financial security, improved relationships and improved physical and mental health. Listen in for tips on how to strengthen your practice of delayed gratification and start feeling better today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and c...
Aug 07, 2024•18 min•Ep. 1054
In today's episode, Gina provides a number of tips on how you can stay calm and centered even in anxiety provoking situations. These tips are easy to implement and include steps such as identifying your triggers, making a plan and staying in the present moment. These action steps will help bring you to a more calm, centered and controlled state so that you will be able to live as you wish, no longer living in fear of the anxiety response. Listen in today. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find al...
Aug 04, 2024•20 min•Ep. 1053
In today's episode, Gina shares ten strategies to help clear anxiety through the power of inspiration. The benefits of inspiration to the anxiety clearing journey are discussed, including shifting mindset and increased happiness. The strategies for increasing inspiration are diverse and unique and include forest bathing, cold showers (one of Gina's favorites) and animal therapy. Listen in and get inspired today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponso...
Jul 31, 2024•23 min•Ep. 1052
In today's episode, Gina discusses nine practical ways to reduce stress. These methods largely revolve around decluttering one's life and increasing the space one has around themselves both physically and mentally. Listen in for the specific tips 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 Podcast. FREE MUST-HAVE RESOURCE FOR Calming Your Anxious Mind...
Jul 28, 2024•20 min•Ep. 1051
In today's episode, Gina discusses anxiety and depression in the context of the stress induced by the uncertainty we are all facing in the world today. The symptoms of anxiety and depression are discussed and compared. Techniques to improve these conditions in the face of the uncertainty of the COVID-19 epidemic 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...
Jul 24, 2024•19 min•Ep. 1050
In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question about overcoming stage fright. A number of specific tools are touched upon that will be helpful for anxiety around performance and public speaking, including behaviors such as power poses, repetition and practice, visualization and other mindfulness techniques. Using these suggestions, listeners experiencing performance and presentation related anxiety will improve their ability to excel under what can be high pressure circumstances. Listen in...
Jul 21, 2024•20 min•Ep. 1049
In today's episode, Gina discusses taking advantage of the seasonal changes of the summer to implement a new program of self -care. Take this opportunity to discover the benefits of the warmer, sunnier weather for your health and mental wellness. Included are a number of practices for taking advantage of the summer as your personal growth and renewal time, get started today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodca...
Jul 17, 2024•21 min•Ep. 1048
In today's episode, Gina further reveals the practice of letting time pass, the fourth step in the Claire Weekes process for clearing anxiety. Letting time pass is a key component of the process that really enables the other steps in the process to work their magic. Compounded with mindfulness, acceptance, self-care and positive self-regard, letting lime pass becomes a potent antidote to the suffering anxiety disorders bring us. Listen in and complete your mastery of the four part Claire Weekes ...
Jul 14, 2024•20 min•Ep. 1047
In today's episode, Gina discusses the fourth step in Claire Weekes' anxiety recovery protocol: letting time pass. Having patience in the anxiety recovery process is an important component in allowing the healing process to occur. This episode will help you to understand the importance of trusting the process and how to succeed in letting time pass, even after long periods of suffering on the edge of anxiety. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors!...
Jul 10, 2024•20 min•Ep. 1046
In today's episode, Gina guides listeners through a meditation about the power we have inherent in our being to provide ourselves with self-nourishment. Take a time-out to sit in peaceful reflection and gather inner strength. Let this meditation guide you to the inner peace and calm you can provide yourself with. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! ht tps://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for supporting The Anxiety Coaches ...
Jul 07, 2024•18 min•Ep. 1045
In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener question about children suffering with anxiety and specifically how this can create extra stress and difficulty in the morning. Creating a morning routine can help make children's preparations for the school day easier and create less stress and anxiety in their lives. Listen in for tips on how to streamline the morning routine for children and help make their lives (and your own) easier! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and code...
Jul 03, 2024•19 min•Ep. 1044
In today's episode, Gina discusses people pleasing, a phenomenon that commonly accompanies anxiety. Many people with anxiety have a deep sense of empathy and caring for others. This caring can become so strong that individuals can neglect their own self-care to try to help (and please) others. Listen in to learn more about people pleasing, how to define appropriate boundaries and maintain sufficient (if not outstanding) self-care. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for...
Jun 30, 2024•18 min•Ep. 1043
In today's episode, Gina discusses the ancient philosophy of stoicism and how it influenced and helped her with her own journey through anxiety. Epictetus' works in particular are discussed. Five steps are outlined for how to implement stoicism to reduce the suffering you may experience from anxiety. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.t heanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for supporting The Anxiety Coaches Podcast. FREE...
Jun 26, 2024•18 min•Ep. 1042
In today's episode, Gina discusses how to improve your distress tolerance and thereby become more resilient in the face of stress and anxiety. A journaling exercise is included that will help you better understand how you respond to stress and where you can improve. Learning to respond to stress with better competence will help you overcome anxiety. Listen in to learn better stress coping strategies today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! h ...
Jun 23, 2024•19 min•Ep. 1041
Sharing a preview of the Say More podcast, where, in a special series, Boston Globe columnist Shirley Leung is opening up the conversation about stress and burnout to help listeners feel less alone and inspired to get help. In this episode, computer scientist and bestselling author Cal Newport says we’ve been thinking about productivity all wrong. Shirley talks to Cal about the ways the modern office worker is primed for professional burnout, how hybrid work makes it worse, and what we can do ab...
Jun 20, 2024•28 min•Ep. 1152
In today's episode, Gina shares a listener's story about her journey overcoming anxiety through the tools and processes shared here on the show. The listener "Dee", has certainly done many things right, as far as making positive changes in her life to expand and enhance her anxiety recovery journey. Listen in to hear a wonderful success story of someone who has used the tools recommended here on the Anxiety Coaches Podcast and gain insight into how you may do the same. Please visit our Sponsor P...
Jun 19, 2024•19 min•Ep. 1040
In today's episode, Gina discusses intrusive thoughts. This is a critical anxiety symptom that can often cause anxiety to become much worse as the thoughts progress and are misinterpreted by the individual experiencing them. Listen in to learn what causes intrusive thoughts and how to overcome them! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! ht tps://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for supporting The Anxiety Coaches Podcast. FREE ...
Jun 16, 2024•21 min•Ep. 1039
