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

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.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. -Marie Curie 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.

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.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.-Jerry Cantrell 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.

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 posthttps://zenhabits.net/nonsolitude/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:Now, more than ever, we need our solitude. Being alone gives us the power to regulate and adjust our lives. It can teach us fortitude and the ability to satisfy our own needs. A restorer of energy, the stillness of alone experiences provides us with much-needed rest. It brings forth our longing to explore, our curiosity about the unknown, our will to be an individual, our hopes for freedom. Alone time is fuel for life. —Dr. Ester Buchholz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https

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.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. This kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of the present-moment reality. It wakes u up to the fact that our lives unfold only in moments If we are not fully present for many of those moments, we may not only miss what is most valuable in our lives but also fail to realize the richness and the depth of our possibilities for growth and transformation. -Jon Kabat-Zinn Learn m

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 Coachinghttp://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/group-coachingAmazon Link to Savor by Thich Nhat Hanhhttps://amzn.to/2IgxDwYTo 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:Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future; live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.–Thich Nhat Hanh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at htt

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 HSPhttps://highlysensitiverefuge.com/Link to Elaine Aron's book The Highly Sensitive Person https://amzn.to/2GLL9X0To 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:Sensitive people like a slower pace of life. We like pondering all our options before making a decision and regularly reflecting on our experiences. We hate busy schedules and rushing from one event to the next. —Jenn Granneman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy

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://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Patience is not just the ability to wait, it’s how we behave while we’re waiting. -Joyce Meyer 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.

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/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? 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.

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.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:When we understand how precious each moment is, we can treat each breath, each moment, as a newborn baby.-Michele McDonald 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.

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 Gratefulnesshttps://gratefulness.org/blog/ten-true-things-about-gratefulness-a-conversation-with-kristi-nelson/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:The root of joy is gratefulness … For it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. -Brother David Steindl-Rast 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.

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.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.–Eckhart Tolle 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.

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/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.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Think about it: heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the US and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes without drugs or surgery. -Dea

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.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Listen to your life...touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments and life itself is grace. -Frederick Buechner 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.

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/coachginaor text coachgina to 500500Episode 307 on the vagus nerve:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/307-stimulate-your-vagus-nerve-to-reduce-your-anxietyTo 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:Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.-Chinese Proverb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notic

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=167To 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:Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it's important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. -Shakti Gawain 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.

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.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.-Albert Schweitzer 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.

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 Eckhart Tolle www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial 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:Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.-Thomas Merton 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.

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.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:Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. -Lao Tzu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19

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/episodes/311-anxiety-release-through-writinghttp://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/262-journal-writing-and-gratitude-for-healing-anxietyTo 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 simple. It’s what we believe about life that complicates it. —Byron Katie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California P

In today's episode, Gina shares a guided meditation with listeners of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In this meditation, Gina guides listeners through a loving look back at the past year and a hopeful look forward into the next year, all while staying centered in and aware of the present moment. Tune in for a refreshing opportunity for contemplative meditation practice.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.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:I am not what happened to me. I am whatever I choose to become. —Carl Jung 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.