Podcast Episodes Catalog
March 23, 2025
1126: Struggling with Anxiety: These Affirmations for Safety Strength and Peace Can Help
Gina touches on a special category of affirmations: those designed for safety, strength and peace. These affirmations can help strengthen neural pathways that promote calmness and stability. By reciting affirmations, we actually change our brain and make it more resilient. Listen in and become s…
March 19, 2025
1125: Most People Have No Idea This Helps with Stress: The Power of Grounding
Gina discusses how to ground oneself into the environment and the present moment in order to better cope with stress and anxiety. More specifically, the "freeze state" is discussed, also known as being in a dorsal vagal state. The grounding techniques shared in this episode help gently activate t…
March 16, 2025
1124: Finding Glimmers: A Polyvagal Guide to Inner Safety with Deb Dana Part 3
Gina shares the third and final part of her interview with Deb Dana, LCSW, author of The Glimmer Journal. This episode will teach you how to take advantage of your innate capacity to heal by delivering powerful signals of safety and joy to your nervous system. Listen in and start finding more gli…
March 12, 2025
1123: Finding Glimmers: A Polyvagal Guide to Inner Safety with Deb Dana Part 2
Gina shares part two of her interview with Deb Dana, LCSW, clinician and author who has applied polyvagal theory to help clients suffering with complex trauma and other anxiety related problems. Deb shares more of her own story and wisdom in this part of her interview. Listen in for actionable in…
March 9, 2025
1122: Finding Glimmers: A Polyvagal Guide to Inner Safety with Deb Dana Part 1
Gina interviews Deb Dana, LCSW, a clinician and author who has implemented polyvagal theory to help heal individuals suffering with complex trauma. Polyvagal theory is highly applicable to individuals suffering with anxiety and Deb's knowledge and experience shine through in this interview to help…
March 5, 2025
1121: Most People Try to Control Their Thoughts: Here's Why That Backfires
Gina shares a key strategy for handling unwanted thoughts: allowance (acceptance). Though contrary to our common expectations, allowing unwanted thoughts to be present in our mind is the very antidote to their power to make our anxiety worse. Trying to control the mind and the unwanted thoughts c…
March 2, 2025
1120: Introduction to The Pause Practice: Training Yourself to Slow Down And Reset
Gina shares a pleasant guided meditation to help slow your mind and discover more peace and stillness in the present moment. Use this episode as an opportunity to pause, reflect and reset for enhanced resilience moving forward. Discovering the power of stillness, which you have access to essentia…
Feb. 26, 2025
1119: Your Mind's Role in Anxiety: Recognizing and Changing Thought Patterns
Gina covers some powerful tips for changing thought patterns that contribute to our anxiety formation. Through understanding how our mind can so easily gravitate to negative thoughts, thoughts that we are so often absolutely certain are true, we can change them and steer ourselves towards better th…
Feb. 23, 2025
1118: Classic ACP 7 Ways to Reduce Everyday Stress For More Peace and Calm
Gina offers seven ways to keep the everyday, common stressors from causing us too much upset and harm. From basic organization and making use of lists to scheduling time for rest, relaxation and meditation, you are bound to find some useful ideas in this episode!
Feb. 19, 2025
1117 Breaking Through Limiting Beliefs and Anxiety Using Neuroscience With John Assaraf Part 3
Gina shares the third and final part of her interview with mindset expert John Assaraf. John shares some powerful exercises for initiating positive change in one's life and reversing the natural tendency for people to live with mostly negative thoughts. Use these tips to fill your life with posit…
Feb. 16, 2025
1116: Breaking Through Limiting Beliefs and Anxiety Using Neuroscience With John Assaraf Part 2
Gina shares part 2 of her interview with neuroscience and success expert John Assaraf. The exercises John shares in this episode can help you take substantial strides in your anxiety recovery journey. These lessons can be applied in other areas of life as well, including business and relationship…
Feb. 12, 2025
1115: Breaking Through Limiting Beliefs and Anxiety Using Neuroscience With John Assaraf Part 1
Gina shares part one of an interview she conducted with John Assaraf, a world renowned mindset and success expert. John has published numerous books and appeared in numerous films including "The Secret". Listen in as John and Gina begin to unpack some valuable wisdom that can help you succeed in …
Feb. 9, 2025
1114: Most People Let Their Thoughts Run Wild - This Meditation Helps You Find Calm
Gina shares a very calming guided meditation designed to help you realize a peaceful state quickly. Anchoring your awareness to your breath can allow you to come to know more space in your mind. Coming to realize that thoughts are not necessarily true and do not have the capacity to harm us, can …
Feb. 5, 2025
1113: The Worst Thing About Anxiety: Believing Every Thought
Gina covers a common tendency in individuals suffering with anxiety: the tendency to believe even the most outlandish, negative thoughts. An easy to implement key to anxiety recovery is realizing so many of the thoughts our anxiety driven monkey-mind throws at us are not true. Becoming more direc…
Feb. 2, 2025
1112: Classic ACP Do You Have High Functioning Anxiety
Gina discusses the topic of high functioning anxiety and how many people living with anxiety also live busy, impactful lives. There are both positive and negative features to this form of anxiety. Find out what the characteristics of this category of anxiety are and whether or not it applies to you…
Jan. 29, 2025
1111: Neuroscience Meets Anxiety: A Conversation with TJ Power on The Dose Effect
Gina concludes her interview with TJ Power, author of The DOSE Effect. Learn more about how to balance your neurochemistry through proactive, natural behaviors such as: spending time in the sunlight, out in natural settings and connecting with others in person. The ability to heal our brains and …
Jan. 26, 2025
1110: Neuroscience Meets Anxiety: A Conversation with TJ Power on The Dose Effect Part 1
Gina interviews TJ Power author of The DOSE Effect, a book about the mind-body-hormonal connection and how to optimize brain health through balancing our brain chemistry. Get inspired to take action by enhancing your neurological health and by doing so, reduce anxiety and become more resilient to …
Jan. 22, 2025
1109: How Safety Nutrients Help Break the Cycle of Anxiety
Gina discusses "safety nutrients," a concept provided by Dr. Matt Lederman, a recent guest on the show. Safety nutrients are emotional and relational experiences that contribute to a psychological and emotional sense of safety. Key safety nutrients, such as empathy and connection (as well as thre…
Jan. 19, 2025
1108: Hyperawareness, Feedback Loops, and Anxiety: Listener Q and A
Gina talks about the importance of attention for our mental state and how it can provoke cycles of hyperawareness and further increases in sensory disturbances. These cycles of sensory anomaly and increased attention lead to cycles that can spiral into severe anxiety if not outright panic. Listen…
Jan. 15, 2025
1107: Anxiety-Proof Your Life: Cultivating Resilience and Grace
Gina responds to an ACP Group Coaching member who posted an interesting word for her "one word for the year". This group member chose "resilience" for her 2025 word of the year. Gina expands on how we can all take this new year opportunity to cultivate more resilience in our lives and by doing so…
Jan. 12, 2025
1106: Classic ACP 5 Tips To Stop Encouraging Anxiety And Fear
Gina shares five ways to stop encouraging anxiety and fear from appearing in our lives. From meditation, to using our creative, problem solving abilities, these tips will help minimize the intrusion of anxiety into our lives. Listen in to learn to get a hold of your reactions to stress and minimize…
Jan. 8, 2025
1105: Empowering Yourself to Heal Anxiety Tools and Insights from Dr Matt Lederman Part 2
Gina concludes her interview with Dr. Matthew Lederman, who shares his core suggestions for healing anxiety as highlighted in his book Wellness to Wonderful. Dr. Lederman recommends getting comfortable with your feelings, including those that are aversive or unpleasant. With a better understandin…
Jan. 5, 2025
1104: Empowering Yourself to Heal Anxiety: Tools and Insights from Dr. Matt Lederman Part 1
Gina shares part one of an interview with Dr. Matt Lederman, a medical doctor with a passion for helping people achieve lasting health and happiness. Dr. Lederman has an interesting take on anxiety and shares his wisdom and experience with listeners in this interview. Gain a fresh perspective on …
Jan. 1, 2025
1103: Affirmations for a Calm Peaceful New Year
Gina shares a number of affirmations for the new year. Learn about the benefits of positive affirmations for helping clear anxiety and increasing peace and calm. These affirmations will help you strengthen your brain health, as well as help you define your self-identity. Become the person you wa…