Gina reveals key principles to help reduce cyclical anxiety driven thinking through clearing out old, stuck energy in the body. The mind and body are highly related to each other and we can improve the functioning of one th…
Gina discusses the importance of living an authentic life and how increasing our personal authenticity can lead to deeper fulfillment in our lives. Strategies for increasing our authenticity are shared, including reevaluati…
Gina continues her discussion of thought traps and their role in anxiety. The discussion focuses on specific thought traps and their individual caveats. How these thought traps adversely affect us and how to avoid them are…
Gina discusses anxiety thinking traps and how to use knowledge of these thinking traps to improve our anxiety management and anxiety elimination. Thinking traps can arise as a natural response to stressful or negative event…
Gina discusses the Buddhist concept of feeling tones and how this knowledge can enhance our mindfulness practice and speed our anxiety recovery. Pleasant, unpleasant and neutral are basic categories by which we may categori…
Gina responds to a listener question regarding anxiety, aging and procrastination. This listener in particular seems to struggle with procrastination in retirement and this exacerbates her anxiety. Watching what we eat and…
Gina discusses the many benefits of hormesis. In the case of anxiety healing and prevention, hormesis involves using small bits of stress to help strengthen our minds and bodies. Learn how to become more adaptive to stress…
Gina discusses the relatively common anxiety symptom of dissociation and how to better cope with this distressing experience. Dissociation and derealization are not limited as symptoms to anxiety disorders but occur with oth…
Gina discusses the lizard brain (the amygdala) and how we can use our capacity for higher reasoning to manage and direct the lizard brain to our advantage. Checking in with ourselves and assessing whether the discomfort we …
Gina the dynamics between the experience of need for control over our lives, anxiety and the use of the miraculous technique of surrender to help us calm and overcome anxiety. Byron Katie's thought and work is discussed and …
Gina discusses seven easy to implement strategies to reduce stress in your life and thereby lessen your anxiety. These are important, logical tools that can have a miraculous impact on improving the overall ease of your lif…
Gina responds to a listener question regarding health anxiety. There is often much knowledge in our minds regarding our own personal history and how it can relate to health. Anxiety can often take advantage of our own self…
Gina reviews Claire Weekes' work on anxiety recovery. Weekes' basic program of facing, accepting, floating and letting time pass is a potent game plan for many individuals' anxiety recovery journey. Listen in to learn more…
Gina provides a step by step guide on how to overcome the anxiety we may be facing surrounding air travel. From understanding our fear and gathering knowledge about the process of air travel to gradually exposing ourselves …
Gina discusses the useful heath and wellness practice of grounding. The essentially free and generally easy practice of putting your body in contact with the earth (such as by walking barefoot on the grass) can have surpris…
Gina discusses the lump in the throat and other anxiety-related throat symptoms. These disturbing symptoms can exacerbate anxiety and cause unnecessary physical and mental suffering in those who experience them. Listen in …
Gina shares a practice of using a metaphor to better understand and explain our struggles with anxiety. A specific metaphor of a mountain is provided within the episode. Listeners are encouraged do develpo their own metaph…
Gina discusses the beneficial, healing properties of the perception of water. Water colors, water sounds and water environments are documented to have beneficial properties for mental health and well-being. Listen in for i…
Gina discusses the five love languages people prioritize in different ways so listeners can optimize their relationships and in turn reduce anxiety. Understanding how you prefer to be loved and how your significant others p…
Gina discusses a mindfulness technique known as the noting practice. With this technique, useful during meditation and also as we extend our meditation practice out into our daily consciousness, we take notice of thoughts a…
Gina discusses codependency and how it is often associated with chronic anxiety. Codependency can easily lead to anxiety and a number of reasons why are shared. The characteristics of codependency are included as are quest…
Gina answers a listener question about how to handle scary thoughts caused by her anxiety. For this listener, meditation is often difficult because the scary thoughts intrude and disturb her while trying to focus on the bre…
Gina shares a guided mediation with listeners with a theme of dropping the thoughts that trouble you most to better help you experience peace in the present moment. It is often worries about the future and regret about the p…
Gina discusses the many ways incorporating more spaciousness in your life can reduce anxiety and stress. How more spaciousness can improve your life, including more freedom to explore and more harmony and balance, is discus…