Podcast Episodes Catalog
Sept. 17, 2023
961: From Random to Recognizable Discovering the Roots of Anxiety
Gina responds to a listener email commenting on his own struggle with anxiety-inducing thoughts. The listener suggests the common thread running through the most distressing thoughts he has is that they involve future (often…
Sept. 13, 2023
960: Understanding the Differences Introversion, Shyness, and Social Anxiety Disorder
Gina discusses the differences between key terms describing people with varying degrees of anxiety: Introversion, Shyness and Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). There is generally a spectrum of intensity of anxiety relating to …
Sept. 10, 2023
959: Harnessing Exercise to Tame Anxiety
Gina discusses the importance of exercise in the anxiety recovery journey. Exercise can be a complex topic for anxiety sufferers as it can very often trigger anxiety! The key to overcoming exercise induced anxiety lies in …
Sept. 6, 2023
958: Growing Out of Anxiety - Embracing the Journey to a Brighter Self
Gina discusses the journey of anxiety recovery from a different perspective: one that is open to the possibility that our trouble with chronic anxiety and panic may actually serve us as a profound instrument of growth and te…
Sept. 3, 2023
957: A Breathing Anchor for Your Anxious Mind
Gina shares a guided meditation with listeners that focuses on using the breath as an anchor. The meditation unfolds over time with guidance to return awareness to the breath, thereby maintaining mindfulness throughout. Im…
Aug. 30, 2023
956: Facing Anxiety Head On - Unraveling Its Many Expressions
Gina discusses the medical and psychological definitions of anxiety as found in the DSM. While healing from anxiety does not require these special categorizations mainstream healthcare attaches to it, it can be useful to un…
Aug. 27, 2023
955: Compassion in Action: Managing Anxiety, Yours and Theirs
Gina discusses how to better handle the anxiety of other who we interact with during our day. From children in our care to supervisors at work, knowing how to handle the anxiety and upset of others can help us to avoid our …
Aug. 23, 2023
954: Examining The Spectrum Of Thought
Gina discusses the spectrum of thoughts from anxious negative thinking, to positive thinking. Between negative and positive thinking lies neutral, mindful thinking. The importance of neutral and positive thinking are discu…
Aug. 20, 2023
953: How Interpretation Plays A Role In Stress And Anxiety
Gina discusses how we can use deliberate interpretation to steer our response to various life events and stimuli in the environment in a way that benefits us psychologically. If we don't take active measures to proactively …
Aug. 16, 2023
952: Reducing Anxious Mind Chatter By Clearing Stuck Energy In Your Body
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…
Aug. 13, 2023
951: From Frustration and Fear to Fulfillment: The Authentic Life Approach
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…
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…