Podcast Episodes Catalog
Aug. 9, 2023
950: The Importance of Recognizing Thinking Traps for Managing Anxiety Part 2
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…
Aug. 6, 2023
949: The Importance of Recognizing Thinking Traps for Managing Anxiety Part 1
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…
Aug. 2, 2023
948: Transforming Stress and Anxiety by Embracing Feeling Tones
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…
July 30, 2023
947: Procrastination and Anxiety in Older Adults Listener Q and A
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…
July 26, 2023
946: Mindful Hormesis: Embracing Stress for Mental Well-Being
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…
July 23, 2023
945: Dissociation: Coping Mechanism for Overwhelming Emotions
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…
July 19, 2023
944: Manage The Lizard Brain
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 …
July 16, 2023
943: Classic ACP Anxiety Control And Surrender
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 …
July 12, 2023
942: 7 Simple Strategies for Less Stress in Life
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…
July 9, 2023
941: Healing from Health Anxiety: Trusting Your Body's Resilience Listener Q and A
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…
July 5, 2023
940: Understanding Anxiety via Claire Weekes: A Compassionate Perspective on Healing
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…
July 2, 2023
939: Flying with Confidence: Practical Steps to Overcome Your Fear
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 …
June 28, 2023
938: Finding Stability and Serenity: The Role of Grounding in Managing Anxiety
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…
June 25, 2023
937: Throat Symptoms: Anxiety's Influence on Globus Sensation and LPR
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 …
June 21, 2023
936: Transforming Fear into Strength Traversing Anxiety's Steep Challenges
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…
June 18, 2023
935 Nature's Therapy: How Being Near Water Eases Anxiety
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…
June 14, 2023
934: How the Five Love Languages Can Ease Anxiety in Relationships
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…
June 11, 2023
933: Exploring the Noting Practice in Meditation
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…
June 7, 2023
932: The Anxiety-Codependency Connection
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…
June 4, 2023
931: Recognizing and Managing Scary Anxious Thoughts Listener Q and A
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…
May 31, 2023
930: Dropping The Bags of Worries about the Future and Regrets about the Past a Guided Meditation
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…
May 28, 2023
929: How Spaciousness Can Reduce Anxiety and Stress
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…
May 24, 2023
928: From Skepticism to Serenity: Exploring Meditation Techniques That Suit You
Gina shares with listeners a wide variety of different meditation practices in hopes that one will be suitable for you! From seated to walking, guided to silent and many others, at least one of these forms of meditation wil…
May 21, 2023
927: Nurturing Positive Self-Worth Despite Anxiety's Challenges
Gina discusses the miracle that cultivating positive self-worth and positive self-talk can be for long term mental health. A number of specific strategies are included for helping to cultivate and maintain a sense of positi…