The Anxiety Coaches Podcast - Relief From Anxiety, Panic, And Ptsd

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina offers listeners a guided meditation practice that is intended to provide an example of a formal floating practice. In the previous episode, Gina answered a listener question regarding floating practice and here provides an example of just that. Listen in to receive an easy to use template for your own floating practice today! Get Tara Brach's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly/AudibleACP To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. -Robert Louis Stevenson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question about the differences between understanding the process of floating and the actual implementation of floating techniques. Gina well understands these differences as she has witnessed many clients who easily retain firm understanding of floating techniques yet who struggle to implement them in their daily practice. Listen in for Gina's tips to help jump-start your floating practice today! Previous episode mentioned in today's show to help the body practice relaxing https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/211 Listen to the body Scan mentioned in this episode https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/body-scan To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. -Eknath Easwaran

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina discusses the important distinction between first fear and second fear in the realm of anxiety experience. Sufferers of anxiety may not have total control over the first fear (initial fear-inducing stimuli) but we have much influence over our experience of the second fear (our reaction to the first fear). Listen in for Gina's thoughts, analysis and tips to help minimize your experience of the second fear! Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit audible.com/coachgina or text coachgina to 500500. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. —Viktor Frankl Learn more about your ad choices. Visi

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina talks about developing a flexibility of mind to help us overcome our anxiety and strengthen our resolve against future flare ups of anxiety. The anxious mind tends to be rigid and not flexible. Listen in for suggestions on how to stay flexible and reduce rigidity in your mind! HOW TO BE YOURSELF Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety Ellen Hendriksen, Ph.D. http://bit.ly/htbyanxiety  To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open. –Frank Zappa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina answers a speakpipe question from an ACP listener. The listener inquires with Gina about the possibility that the acute anxiety the listener is experiencing may stem from grief related to the loss of his mother. Gina offers her thoughtful analysis of the possible causes and offers a number of suggestions for implementing possible solutions for the listener to improve his situation with anxiety. HOW TO BE YOURSELF Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety Ellen Hendriksen, Ph.D. http://bit.ly/htbyanxiety To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: It's so curious: One can resist tears and behave very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly bloomed or a letter slips from a drawer... and

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina discusses a useful technique for reducing our experience of anxiety. By using our awareness of our most unwanted feelings to fully embrace and experience these feelings, we can circumvent our anxiety. Listen in as Gina describes the feelings and how to go about embracing them for your long term benefit! HOW TO BE YOURSELF Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety Ellen Hendriksen, Ph.D. http://bit.ly/htbyanxiety . ted talk link Joan Rosenberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKy19WzkPxE To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t. –Jeanette Winterson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina discusses fear in the context of the physical nervous system. Claire Weekes' fear-adrenaline-fear cycle is explored, as well as the understanding of anxiety as a state of over-sensitization. Gina offers tips and suggestions to help listeners break out of this cycle and prevent it from happening. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude. -Judith M. Knowlton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina helps shed light in the darkness that people who suffer with highly chronic anxiety often experience. There is hope for you, even in the darkest of these times. Through Gina's reassurance and advice, learn how to lift yourself up out of what can seem like unending despair. Get Tara Brach's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly/AudibleACP To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. -Christopher Reeve Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question left for her on Speak Pipe, through the ACP website. Adrianne asks about why her anxiety returns during times when she is feeling good and otherwise comfortable. Gina answers this question and provides suggestions for how to improve one's response to the anxiety when it does happen. Increase your understanding of why anxiety strikes by listening in to this podcast! To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go. -Henry Ford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina discusses our conception of our personal identity and the importance of not allowing anxiety to exert excessive influence over this conception. Ego and anxiety are closely related and get along well. Gina shares some tools to help us transcend the influence of these forces over how we understand ourselves. Grab an awesome audio book for FREE, like The Power Of Now  by Eckhart Tolle www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial  To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight. -John Bradshaw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina discusses the nature of the avoidance behavior that accompanies anxiety sufferers throughout their experience. Gina focuses on the importance of minimizing avoidance behavior when we are experiencing anxiety and how doing so will help speed our recovery from anxiety. Listen in for advice on how to avoid avoiding! Get Tara Brach's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly/AudibleACP To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. -R.D. Laing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina shares steps for adapting to any particular fears we may have and how to become more confident and comfortable by doing so. Through patience and self kindness, following these tips can lead to great changes in your life! The S.A.F.E. Empowerment System https://gumroad.com/a/256095347 Or https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/resources To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers. -May Sarton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina shares her knowledge of the subconscious mind with listeners. Particularly in the context of anxiety and stress, Gina describes the differences between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. Gina addresses the inherent capacity of the mind to process even the most uncomfortable emotions and describes how we can best allow it to do so. Grab an awesome audio book for FREE, like The Power Of Now  by Eckhart Tolle www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial   To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them. -Paramahansa Yogananda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina identifies four root behaviors that cause anxiety and how you can avoid these behaviors to allow more peaceful, harmonious living. Gina recommends benevolent, helpful behaviors you can use to replace the negative, harmful behaviors. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz https://amzn.to/2GJxuPO To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. –Aristotle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina speaks on the importance of feeling our feelings. Using the light of our awareness, we can bring uncomfortable emotions to the surface and keep them from infecting our psyches more deeply and causing us greater distress and other issues over time. Link to Steve Ozanich Mind Body Syndrome Ep 266: https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/266-the-mindbody-syndrome-with-steve-ozanich?rq=266   To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: No feeling is final. -Rainer Maria Rilke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina discusses the role of alcohol in our experience of anxiety. Alcohol can contribute tremendously to our experience of anxiety and can cause panic attacks. Listen in for advice on how to limit the adverse affects of alcohol on your anxiety! To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass. -Timber Hawkeye Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina discusses using a mindfulness mantra for anxiety. Mantra can be used during our mindfulness practices and can also be used throughout the day to help regain composure and comfort during the most difficult moments we may experience. Gina offers four useful tips for using a mantra to help ease anxiety. Get Tara Brach's Book Radical Acceptance on Audible (free with a free trial month!) http://bit.ly/AudibleACP To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Mantra 'a word or group of words that are believed by someone to have spiritual or psychological power. It is described as "That which protects the mind".' -Jan Gonda Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina uses the season of Spring to discuss renewal and replenishment as a strategy to ease anxiety. Gina suggests allying with nature and nurturing ourselves through a number of activities detailed in the episode. Learn how to better nurture yourself today! To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: The body must be nourished, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We're spiritually starved in this culture -not underfed but undernourished. -Carol Hornig Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina shares a mini coaching session with ACP listener Lindsay. Lindsay describes her own personal struggle with anxiety, how she came to find the podcast and how the tools she has learned has helped her overcome much of her struggle with anxiety. Listen in for a sample of what Gina has to offer! Grab an awesome audio book for FREE, like The Power Of Now  by Eckhart Tolle www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial  To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. -Helen Keller Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices