Podcast Episodes Catalog
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 and become more resilient to your anxiety-responses, listen in today!
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 other mental health conditions as well, such as depression. Learn that dissoci…
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 are experiencing is really dangerous can help us reduce lizard brain activa…
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 Gina provides a number of tips for utilizing the ability of surrender to wh…
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 life. Don't get bogged down by the little annoyances in life. Use these stra…
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-knowledge and health related knowledge we have picked up in our lives, inc…
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 about Claire Weekes' approach to anxiety recovery and improve your own anx…
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 to the air travel process and studying and implementing relaxation techniqu…
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 surprising heath benefits. Listen in today and discover how grounding may help al…
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 for advice on how to interpret these sensations and how to eliminate them w…
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 metaphors based on their own personal experiences with anxiety. Listen in and ga…
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 insight on how you can use the beneficial properties of having water in your…
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 prefer to be love can streamline and optimize how we show our love and suppo…
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 and sensations as they arise, label them and return our awareness to the bre…
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 questions you can ask yourself to know if you are codependent. Resources for le…
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 breath. Recognizing and acknowledging the thoughts as they come and persistin…
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 past that increases our anxiety to the breaking point. Letting go of thought…
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 discussed. Constructive steps you can take to increase the amount of spaciousnes…
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 will work for you! Listen in and move deeper into anxiety recovery by startin…
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 positive self worth regardless of your circumstances. Self-blame for adverse lif…
May 17, 2023
926: Overcoming Anxiety the Stoic Way: Practical Techniques for Inner Peace
Gina offers listeners an introduction to Stoic philosophy that will be of particular value to helping overcome anxiety. Six key principles of Stoic philosophy are identified and discussed as are four books you can read to help you get started with Stoicism. Learn a new way of understanding your l…
May 14, 2023
925: The Art of Waiting and Seeing: Coping with Health Anxiety Listener Q and A
Gina answers a listener question about health anxiety. A useful strategy for coping with health anxiety is shared: the art of waiting and seeing. By becoming more comfortable with the physiological symptoms that so often accompany anxiety, we can prevent the anxiety from snowballing into a greate…
May 10, 2023
924: Why Breathing Too Much Causes Feelings of Panic
Gina discusses the importance of how we breathe in our experience of and recovery from anxiety. Learn the basics of breathing and why slowing down the breath can do wonders for calming our nervous system. Learn how to breathe more through your nose and do so more slowly and reduce your anxiety to…
May 7, 2023
923: From Anxious Mind Clutter to Calm: The Practice of Letting Go
Gina discusses mental clutter and how learning to let go can be highly beneficial for our mental health. Five reasons letting go of unneeded thoughts and worries can be beneficial are discussed. Additionally, a number of practical steps for implementing this process are included. Get started tod…