The Anxiety Coaches Podcast - Relief From Anxiety, Panic, And Ptsd

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question about self care and how to engage in the practice with limited time and energy. Gina answers the question, drawing from a recent post by Leo Babauta. In the post, the importance of self care is described and three clear steps to implementing self care are defined.Zen Habits Self Love posthttps://zenhabits.net/self-love/Great Book for further exploring anxiety, stress and care of the body!Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illnesshttps://amzn.to/32ETGnfTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:We need a spiritual path and we need to be able to bring it to life and not just admire it from a distance… or, keep postponing things…. it’s going to be so great when I’m 20 and I can just meditate all the time. Or, once the kids are out of the house, I will

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina discusses the R.A.I.N. practice used to help find relief during anxious moments. The acronym was recently adjusted and is considered improved. Listen in as Gina describes how you can use this process of Recognize, Allow, Investigate with gentle attention and Nurture, to help yourself during high anxiety moments!Older R.A.I.N. episode 167https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/167-clearing-stress-and-anxiety-with-rainRadical Acceptancehttps://www.amazon.com/Radical-Acceptance-Tara-Brach-ebook/dp/B000FC2NHG/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1506823845&sr=1-1&keywords=radical+acceptance&linkCode=sl1&tag=acp001-20&linkId=d1aac0c00baf9d77dec786a07d3b9609To learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.-Tara Brach Learn more about

In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener question about uncertainty and anxiety related to travel she plans to undertake. Gina offers her well reasoned thoughts about how plans for the future can cause us anxiety in the present and how we can best overcome this challenge.Get Tara Brach's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly/AudibleACPTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.-Pema Chodron Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina discusses the distinction between parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems and how to use our understanding of these systems to help us regulate our response to stress and anxiety provoking circumstances. Gina identifies a number of symptoms associated with our sympathetic nervous system response as well as methods to get us back to our peaceful, rest and digest state.To learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.- Tom Robbins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, learn what your Wise Mind is and how to access its intuitive anxiety-panic healing messages. Gina guides you through a quick meditation locating your wise mind which is perhaps not where you expected!Get Tara Brach's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly/AudibleACPTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. -Peace Pilgrim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina explores the critical topic of personal boundaries and how weak or otherwise poorly established boundaries can lead to chronic anxiety. Gina offers listeners a number of good practices for maintaining strong and healthy boundaries, ensuring the best mental health and social clarity possible.Link to Boundaries by Dr. Henery Cloud and Dr. John Townsendhttps://amzn.to/2Iz5v6cTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.-from Boundaries by Dr. Henery Cloud and Dr. John Townsend Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question left on the ACP website about stopping benzodiazepine medication (Xanax). The listener is concerned about the withdrawal process and how she should go about stopping the medication. Gina advises how to go about stopping the medication (with the help of the prescribing physician) and what to expect as far an anxiety and withdrawal symptoms are concerned.Get Tara Brach's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly/AudibleACPTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.— Harriet Beecher Stowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at h

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina reviews a number of different life situations and circumstances that often contribute to stress and anxiety. Gina discusses some of her own personal experiences with stressful situations in this episode and shares with listeners how to cope with the need for control and the common reality of so many things in our situation being beyond our control.Listen to Episode 279 and 406 for more help with change and anxietyep 279https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/279-4-tips-to-get-through-the-anxiety-of-changeep 406https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/406-feeling-less-anxious-with-changeTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow.– Jennifer Niven Learn more about your ad choices. Vi

In today's episode, Gina discusses the significance of understanding and living within your circle of influence for reducing your anxiety. Knowing what is within your control and what is not in your control can help you immensely. Gina offers suggestions for improving your understanding of what you do and do not control, and how to let go of the need to control things you cannot control.To learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control—myself. -Stephen Covey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina discusses reassurance and how useful it can be to drop any need for reassurance from others. Anxiety and stress can lead to disturbing sensations and after getting checked by our health care provider, getting comfortable with the idea that stress and anxiety are causing these sensations will be highly useful in overcoming them. Listen in for suggestions on how to do this today!Get Tara Brach's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly/AudibleACPTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. -Dorothy M. Neddermeyer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina discusses the many healing virtues of the ayurvedic herb ashwaganda. Gina recommends taking this herb for stress and anxiety as long as you are not pregnant, breastfeeding, or taking sedative drugs. Gina suggests a few different products and forms of the herb for easy consumption.Amazon Link to Raja's Cuphttps://amzn.to/2MNUemJLink To Full Dr Mercola Articlehttp://bit.ly/2Fe0Uo5To learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine. -Henry David Thoreau Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina offers listeners a guided meditation practice that is intended to provide an example of a formal floating practice. In the previous episode, Gina answered a listener question regarding floating practice and here provides an example of just that. Listen in to receive an easy to use template for your own floating practice today!Get Tara Brach's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly/AudibleACPTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.-Robert Louis Stevenson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question about the differences between understanding the process of floating and the actual implementation of floating techniques. Gina well understands these differences as she has witnessed many clients who easily retain firm understanding of floating techniques yet who struggle to implement them in their daily practice. Listen in for Gina's tips to help jump-start your floating practice today!Previous episode mentioned in today's show to help the body practice relaxing https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/211Listen to the body Scan mentioned in this episodehttps://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/body-scanTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.-Eknath Easwaran Learn more a

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina discusses the important distinction between first fear and second fear in the realm of anxiety experience. Sufferers of anxiety may not have total control over the first fear (initial fear-inducing stimuli) but we have much influence over our experience of the second fear (our reaction to the first fear). Listen in for Gina's thoughts, analysis and tips to help minimize your experience of the second fear!Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit audible.com/coachgina or text coachgina to 500500.To learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. —Viktor Frankl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina talks about developing a flexibility of mind to help us overcome our anxiety and strengthen our resolve against future flare ups of anxiety. The anxious mind tends to be rigid and not flexible. Listen in for suggestions on how to stay flexible and reduce rigidity in your mind!HOW TO BE YOURSELFQuiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social AnxietyEllen Hendriksen, Ph.D.http://bit.ly/htbyanxiety To learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.–Frank Zappa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina answers a speakpipe question from an ACP listener. The listener inquires with Gina about the possibility that the acute anxiety the listener is experiencing may stem from grief related to the loss of his mother. Gina offers her thoughtful analysis of the possible causes and offers a number of suggestions for implementing possible solutions for the listener to improve his situation with anxiety.HOW TO BE YOURSELFQuiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social AnxietyEllen Hendriksen, Ph.D.http://bit.ly/htbyanxietyTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:It's so curious: One can resist tears and behave very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly bloomed or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything c

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina discusses a useful technique for reducing our experience of anxiety. By using our awareness of our most unwanted feelings to fully embrace and experience these feelings, we can circumvent our anxiety. Listen in as Gina describes the feelings and how to go about embracing them for your long term benefit!HOW TO BE YOURSELFQuiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social AnxietyEllen Hendriksen, Ph.D.http://bit.ly/htbyanxiety.ted talk linkJoan Rosenberghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKy19WzkPxETo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t.–Jeanette Winterson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at http

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina discusses fear in the context of the physical nervous system. Claire Weekes' fear-adrenaline-fear cycle is explored, as well as the understanding of anxiety as a state of over-sensitization. Gina offers tips and suggestions to help listeners break out of this cycle and prevent it from happening.To learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. -Judith M. Knowlton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina helps shed light in the darkness that people who suffer with highly chronic anxiety often experience. There is hope for you, even in the darkest of these times. Through Gina's reassurance and advice, learn how to lift yourself up out of what can seem like unending despair.Get Tara Brach's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly/AudibleACPTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. -Christopher Reeve Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question left for her on Speak Pipe, through the ACP website. Adrianne asks about why her anxiety returns during times when she is feeling good and otherwise comfortable. Gina answers this question and provides suggestions for how to improve one's response to the anxiety when it does happen. Increase your understanding of why anxiety strikes by listening in to this podcast!To learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.-Henry Ford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.