Podcast Episodes Catalog
May 3, 2023
922: Managing Anxiety, Difficult Emotions and Situations with Radical Acceptance
Gina discusses radical acceptance and how we can use this practice to reduce the severity and adverse consequences of anxiety. Radical acceptance is about accepting reality as it is without judgement or resistance. A number of practical steps are shared to help you implement radical acceptance in…
April 30, 2023
921: Knowing Your Happiness and Anxiety Triggers Can Improve Your Life
Gina discusses the importance of focusing on the things that bring happiness and positivity into our lives. By focusing on the things and thoughts that bring us happiness, we bring more benevolent things into our lives and consciousness. Anxiety triggers are contrasted with happiness triggers to …
April 26, 2023
920: Magnesium: A Miracle Mineral for Managing Anxiety
Gina shares knowledge about the useful mineral supplement magnesium. The general benefits of this essential mineral for our minds and bodies are discussed as are the differences between the many various forms that are available in the marketplace. Listen in to discover what magnesium supplement m…
April 23, 2023
919: Classic ACP How To Not Be So Hard On Yourself And Keep Anxiety At Bay
Gina discusses the role of self-criticism in making our anxiety worse and offers a range of practices we can employ today to silence these self-critical voices. Over time we can encourage a new, self-compassionate voice to help us feel better and function better in our day to day lives.
April 19, 2023
918: Exploring the Feel-Good Chemicals in Our Bodies
In today's episode, Gina discusses the chemicals in our body that contribute to our sense of well-being. Serotonin, dopamine, endorphins and oxytocin are all touched upon and how to increase these feel-good chemicals is share...
April 16, 2023
917: Understanding Heart Palpitations Caused by Anxiety
Gina draws heavily from her own personal experience and discusses heart palpitations caused by anxiety. There are many things that can cause heart palpitations in association with anxiety, many that are very common. Eliminating behaviors that may contribute to heart palpitation susceptibility can…
April 12, 2023
916: Breaking the Cycle: How to Choose a Healthy Response to Anxiety
Gina discusses how to develop the ability to choose a healthy response to anxiety when it presents itself. Developing our mindfulness mediation practice will help enable us to choose healthy thoughts in response to our anxiety provoking situations. Once we can master this process, we can tame our…
April 9, 2023
915: OCD or Looping thoughts Listener Q and A
Gina answers a listener question regarding OCD related intrusive, looping thinking. Gina goes through a number of strategies for coping with and solving the issue of obsessive compulsive thinking. Strengthening our mindfulness practice and being willing to tolerate the discomfort of our anxiety a…
April 5, 2023
914: The Benefits of Naming Your Anxiety Developing Self-Awareness and Compassion
Gina responds to a report from a listener regarding naming anxiety with a human name (in this case Betty) and interacting with her anxiety using this name. This strategy is praised, expanded upon and recommended for all listeners to try! Listen in for a new strategy to tackle your anxiety, includ…
April 2, 2023
913: Ocean of Tranquility Guided Sleep Meditation
Gina shares a guided meditation intended to help you drift effortlessly and peacefully to sleep. Listen to Gina's calming, soothing voice as she softly decribes a simple process for falling to sleep. A soft background track of gentle music is included.
March 29, 2023
912: The Power of Gratitude: How It Affects the Reticular Activating System
Gina discusses a critical part of the brain involved in how sensory information affects your anxiety. Known as the reticular activating system or RAS, this brain system can be implicated in both hyperarousal and dysfunctional lack of arousal and awareness. Listen in to learn how to enhance your p…
March 26, 2023
911: Caring for Your Mind: The Vitality of Self-Care
Gina shares a number of self-care practices from a variety of different life categories. This list is truly comprehensive and there may be self-care suggestions that you have yet to hear in this episode. From intellectual and environmental, to social and cultural, you are bound to find some self-…
March 22, 2023
910: Understanding the Stress Response: How Your Brain Reacts to Threats
Gina discusses how the brain reacts to threats and how we can use this knowledge to enhance our resilience. Threats in our environment activate the amygdala which in turn actives our bodily fight or flight response. This can include a hormonal cascade that will enhance our ability to run away fro…
March 19, 2023
909: 6 Ways to Stay Positive When Everyone Else is Negative
In today's episode, Gina shares six strategies for staying positive even in negative social environments. Staying aloof and focusing on your self are some of the ways we can protect ourselves in such situations. Seeking out o...
March 15, 2023
908: Anxious Body Anxious Mind
Gina discusses using our thoughts and our bodies to interrupt the anxiety process in the brain. Remembering that everything we are thinking is not necessarily true and seeking out facts is critical. Learn to ride out the cascade of stress hormones anxiety has triggered in you with conscious breat…
March 12, 2023
907: 11 Ways to Live in the Moment
Gina shares eleven different practices for living in the present moment. Using these techniques, anyone can cultivate a deeper connection with themselves, the environment and the present moment. Letting go of the past and avoiding placing our attention on the future can have profound benefits for…
March 8, 2023
906: 10 Minute Peaceful Morning Mini Practice
Gina shares an easy to use process for incorporating peaceful, mindful moments into your day. Specifically, this customizable practice begins in the morning shortly after waking. Even the busiest listeners will be able to implement this practice with ease. Listen in and increase your mindfulness…
March 5, 2023
905: Over The Counter Medications and Anxiety
In today's episode, Gina discusses common over the counter and prescription medications that can cause anxiety symptoms. This is essential knowledge for anyone suffering from anxiety as overcoming your anxiety could be as simple as terminating a non-essential drug. Listen in to find out which of th…
March 1, 2023
904: Strategies for Reducing Stress About Sleep
Gina discusses a number of ways to tame your response to sleepless moments in the middle of the night. Through reducing our stress response to those moments in which we find ourselves awoken from sleep long before our day begins we can reduce the adverse consequences these sleepless moments have o…
Feb. 26, 2023
903: Let Go Of Anxious Victim Mentality
Gina discusses how to let go of the victim mentality that is so often associated with chronic anxiety. Identifying as a victim can have significant effects on our ability to succeed and change our lives. Five strategies for letting go of the victim mentality and gaining new power in your life are…
Feb. 22, 2023
902: Handling the Negative Messages Anxiety Speaks
Gina shares five steps to help you better handle the harmful thoughts anxiety leads us to think. Using these methods, we can better defend ourselves from the self-depreciating thoughts anxiety targets us with and also learn to prevent the thoughts altogether over time. Listen in and begin to take…
Feb. 19, 2023
901: Positive Stress For Better Health
Gina discusses the benefits of short instances of controlled stress on our bodies and our minds. A specific technique in particular is shared that can work wonders for your long term health and well-being. Learn how to reduce stress, improve immunity and circulation and increase your overall hear…
Feb. 15, 2023
900: Anxiety Feel It To Heal It
Gina discusses the importance of facing and feeling the emotional difficulties we encounter to grow and heal in our lives. This episode draws heavily on an article from Dr. David Hanscom concerning the importance of processing emotional pain to fully integrate and overcome such pain (and keep it fr…
Feb. 12, 2023
899: The Struggle Can Be the Reward
Gina discusses how our struggles with anxiety and stress can bring fruits to us later in life. Through our struggle with these often immense difficulties, we grow to become stronger, wiser and more capable human beings. Listen in to gain a greater understanding as to how our experience with anxiety…