Podcast Episodes Catalog
July 11, 2018
420: 5 Ways To Steer Clear Of Anxiety
Gina outlines five useful ways to avoid anxiety, or in other words, to have an anti-anxiety mind. At the core of these suggestions lies a duality of emotion that we can use to guide ourselves: open-mindedness, flexibility and curiosity on one hand, and closed-mindedness, rigidity and frustration on…
July 8, 2018
419: Understanding Stress And Its Stages
Gina discusses stress and three stages by which people respond to stress, originally identified by stress researcher Hans Selye: Alarm, Resistance and Exhaustion.
July 4, 2018
418: Classic ACP Caffeine and Anxiety Awareness
Today Gina opens the subject up around anxiety and caffeine consumption. Learn the reasons why caffeine is not your friend while clearing your anxiety-panic.
July 1, 2018
417: Anxiety and Unintended Weight Loss Listener Q and A
Gina answers a listener question about anxiety and unintended weight loss. Gina reviews reasons for weight loss with anxiety and initially recommends ruling out medical causes (often relating to thyroid functioning).
June 27, 2018
416: 4 Tips to Deal With Dizzy and Lightheaded Feelings
Gina offers listeners advice for how to better cope with the experience of lightheaded and dizzy feelings. Central to the experience of lightheadedness and dizziness during episodes of high anxiety is how we breathe.
June 24, 2018
415: Do Your Attachments Add To Your Anxiety and Panic
Gina guides listeners through the question of whether or not our attachment to our thoughts and desires exacerbate our experience of anxiety and panic.
June 20, 2018
414: How You Can Read Your Way Back To Peace And Calm
Gina speaks about the benefits of reading for those of us who suffer with anxiety. Inspired by an article by Chris Kresser, Gina describes the benefits of reading, including: reduction of stress and increase of relaxation.
June 17, 2018
413: Can Anxiety Show Up As Depersonalization Listener Q and A
Gina responds to a listener question about anxiety manifesting as depersonalization (the feeling of not being your self or not being in your own body or of only floating along side your body).
June 13, 2018
412: 4 Ways of Being Present and Relieving Stress and Anxiety
Gina discusses the importance of being present for the process of relieving stress and anxiety.
June 10, 2018
411: Releasing repressed Emotions for TMS and Anxiety
Gina answers a listener question regarding repressed emotions and anxiety thought to be related to TMS (The Mindbody Syndrome).
June 6, 2018
410: Grief and Anxiety Listener Q and A Speakpipe
Gina responds to a listener question regarding grief and anxiety. Gina offers strategies for coping with the generally disturbing combination of grief and anxiety, particularly in the case of losing someone close to you.
June 3, 2018
409: Meditation for Better Sleep
Gina discusses the use of mindfulness meditation for improved nightly sleep. Gina brings to our attention an article by Dr. Joseph Mercola that covers basic meditation techniques as well as tips for making our bedtime environment as conducive to sleep as possible.
May 30, 2018
408: Pressure and Anxiety
Gina discusses the tendency many anxiety sufferers have to place additional pressure on themselves in their lives. Gina offers listeners the opportunity to take off this additional pressure we put on ourselves.
May 27, 2018
407: Listener Q and A When Your Worst Fear Happens
Gina answers a listener question about what to do when you worst fear actually happens to you. In the case of this listener, the fears in focus relate to health. Gina recommends a few particular strategies when facing great anxiety relating to specific fears and are not limited to the domain of hea…
May 23, 2018
406: Feeling Less Anxious With Change
Gina talks about how to deal with an unavoidable part of our existence in the world: change. Many people suffer from increased anxiety relating to the uncertainty they experience when facing major changes in their lives.
May 20, 2018
405: Dealing With Setbacks Listener Audio Q
Gina answers a listener question about dealing with setbacks in the struggle with anxiety. This listener in particular is seeking advice regarding symptoms that have become inflamed after a medication adjustment from her physician.
May 16, 2018
404: Interview with Meditation Teacher Sharon Salzberg
Gina interviews author and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg. Sharon shares her insights into anxiety and fear and how mindfulness and meditation can be of benefit to those struggling with these forces.
May 13, 2018
403: What Anxiety Bumps In The Road Look Like
Gina speaks about bumps in the road over the course of recovery and healing from anxiety. Remembering to nurture ourselves and give ourselves the space we need to recover, even during moments that seem like reversals in progress or other times that seem like we are straying off course, is very impo…
May 9, 2018
402: Hope's Role In Clearing Anxiety
Gina describes the importance of the role of hope in our recovery from anxiety-panic. Hope can be a fundamental tool that enables us to gather the resources it takes to make our situations improve.
May 6, 2018
401: 4 Herbs For Stress And Anxiety
Gina goes through an article by Dr. Mercola describing the many benefits of four adrenal-supporting, adaptogenic herbs. Listen in to check whether you may benefit from adding one of these healing herbs to your anxiety-reduction toolkit.
May 2, 2018
400: Finding Joy Beyond Discomfort
Gina offers listeners a series of questions they can ask themselves and suggestions they can implement during their experience of the discomfort associated with anxiety and panic.
April 29, 2018
399: Insomnia and Anxiety Listener Q and A
Gina explores a great listener question submitted via the speak pipe on the ACP website regarding insomnia and anxiety.
April 25, 2018
398: Letter to Anxiety Listener Q and A
Gina reads a letter from a listener who wrote her anxiety itself a letter. The letter describes her experience of the anxiety, the fight-or-flight response, the wise-mind and how these forces interact and influence her life.
April 22, 2018
397: Classic ACP Anxiety and The Opinions Of Others
Today Gina answers a question about anxiety around the opinions of others. Join in for the why and how to find peace!