Podcast Episodes Catalog
Oct. 18, 2023
970: Sanctuary Trauma and Anxiety: When Safe Spaces Turn Distressing
Gina discusses the concept of sanctuary trauma, a form of trauma that occurs when an individual's safe space becomes a location of further trauma. Trauma is often involved in the development of mental health problems, including anxiety. Listen in for details about sanctuary trauma, including its …
Oct. 15, 2023
969: Unmasking the Silent Stressors: How Anxiety Behaviors Drive Stress
Gina discusses common anxiety related behaviors that lead to increased stress and therefore, increased anxiety. Things like avoidance, procrastination and overthinking are behaviors that can easily exacerbate our stress and anxiety. Listen in for a wide range of different behaviors that put us at…
Oct. 11, 2023
968: Healing Metaphors How Nature's Lessons Illuminate Mental Health
Gina discusses metaphors and how to use them to understand mental health and healing. Particular healing metaphors from listener emails are included for illustrative purposes. Exercise for conceiving of your own positive metaphors for healing are also provided.
Oct. 8, 2023
967: Unlocking Your Soul's Healing Potential With Stillness
Gina discusses strategies for enabling your soul's inherent capacity to provide you with healing. Through increasing our time reflecting on and embracing stillness, we can increase and activate our innate healing abilities. Listen in for ideas about how stillness can set the stage for improved he…
Oct. 4, 2023
966: The Flip Side Of Anxiety's What If's
Gina discusses the tendency of the anxious mind to present individuals with terrifying "what if's". By so doing the anxious mind works itself up further and drives the body into fearful overdrive. In addition to deflating many of the most common "what if's", a unique solution is offered: present…
Oct. 1, 2023
965: Where Does All The Stress Go
Gina discusses what happens to stress that accumulates in our minds and bodies as we go about our lives. If we do not take time out to provide ourselves with a variety of self-care techniques, we may find this stress building up and causing adverse health consequences, in addition to chronic anxie…
Sept. 27, 2023
964: Anxiety's Modus Operandi Overestimating Threats, Underestimating Abilities
Gina focuses in on one of anxiety's most common modes of operation: exaggerating threats while underestimating one's ability to respond to such threats. With an understanding of this tendency, those suffering from anxiety can reverse this tendency and come to see themselves as stronger and more th…
Sept. 24, 2023
963: Listener Epiphany About Feeling Safe In The Present Moment
Gina responds to a listener email that shares a realization relating to her safety and wellness in the present moment in the face of anxiety. The listener has clearly come to an understanding of some of the core principles shared here on the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, particularly relating to the se…
Sept. 20, 2023
962: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Anxiety Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
Gina discusses the value of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and acupuncture for treating chronic anxiety. Many people in the West may not be familiar with how TCM and acupuncture works. This episode clarifies the approach to treating illness and maintaining wellness that TCM practitioners use …
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 catastrophic) events that have not yet come to pass. Listen in to see how…
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 social interactions with other people and these terms are used to describe …
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 taking small, gradual steps towards greater exercise achievement. Listen i…
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 teaching. Getting back to our old self, or who we used to be before we encou…
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. Improve your peace of mind and meditation skill with this simple guided medit…
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 understand how the medical industry approaches anxiety assessment. Learn abo…
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 own catastrophic anxiety-panic reactions. Listen in for advice on how to b…
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 discussed as are strategies for encouraging this more benevolent areas of the sp…
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 interpret the various factors in our environment, we will continue to succu…
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 through gentle manipulation of the other. Through breathing, exercise and ot…
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 reevaluating relationships and identifying other aspects of our lives that have a det…
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 included. Listen in and use the knowledge of thought traps to improve you…
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 events in our lives. Sharing our thoughts traps or conducting self-analysis thr…
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 categorize our conscious experiences. By doing so, we can become more familiar wit…
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 drink and taking extra care around our sleep hygine is recommended. Putti…