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

Being awake in the middle of the night can be unnerving. There are 7 tips in today's episode to help you get the best rest possible even if you wake and can't get back to sleep! 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: It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. -John Steinbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina shares her knowledge and experience of aromatherapy and essential oils in the context of anxiety. Gina suggests a whole range of oils you can try today and gets specific with five oils. Additionally, Gina describes how you can go about using these oils to help improve your experience today! ACP episode 300 with Aromatherapist Liz Fulcher: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/300-aromatherapist-liz-fulchers-anxiety-healing-journey PubMed article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19962288 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: Healing begins with an aromatic bath and daily massage.  — Hippocrates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina shares a question from a listener in Russia relating to the breath and anxiety. Gina speaks about her own experience with the breath during the anxious period of her life and how we can use the breath to help control and ameliorate anxiety. Gina recommends using our meditation time to focus on the breath and take advantage of its powerful influence on our overall experience. 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: When your chest is open and you're breathing deeply, it lifts your spirits. -Mandy Ingber Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina shares a letter sent to her by an ACP listener and former guest on the show, Michelle. Michelle relates to Gina a success story about a recent long distance trip she took with her family by car. Gina uses this letter as an example of the value of faith in the process of clearing anxiety and hopes this wisdom reaches all of her listeners. Episode 466: Mini Coaching Session with ACP Listener Michelle: https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/466-mini-coaching-session-with-acp-listener-michelle Support today's show sponsor and protect your files! Receive a fully featured 15-day no-risk free trial at: Backblaze.com/acp 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: My wish is ever strong that you find enough patience within you and enough simplicity to have faith. May you gain more and more trust in what is challenging and confidence in the soli

In today's episode, Gina shares her knowledge of nutrition and herbs in the context of anxiety. Gina recommends foods and herbs that help alleviate and reduce anxiety while also indicating what foods and herbs to avoid to keep from making anxiety worse. The foods and herbs are discussed not only in the context of anxiety but how they can benefit overall health. 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: Bodies always tell the truth. They give us hints of how to listen for it, and to recognize it when we hear or see it.  ―Robin Rose Bennett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina shares her knowledge and wisdom of laughter. Laughter has numerous health benefits for all people can can be especially important for people suffering with anxiety. Gina shares a number of these physical and psychological benefits of laughter, as well as how to bring more laughter into your life. 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:  Laughter is carbonated holiness. -Anne Lamott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina shares information about EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and tapping. Tapping helps with negative thoughts and emotions by combining positive affirmations with the body's meridian system (acupuncture points). Listen in for a step by step guide and get started tapping and clearing your guilt, shame and anxiety today! Tapping Expert Gene Monterstelli Ep 179 http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/fbce3xvin10kyofx7x1wi7clpn6bqa 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: When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. – Rumi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina guides listeners through a contemplative meditation exercise. In this exercise, we look back at a recent episode of anxiety and consider what thoughts and environmental factors affected us and how we reacted. Learn more about your anxiety through self-inquiry with Gina's guidance and support. Meditation from Ron Siegel https://www.mindfulness-solution.com/index.html 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 have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid. -William Faulkner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina talks about the importance of acceptance and change in healing anxiety. In particular, Gina discusses the benefits of allowing our anxiety experience to unfold, in contrast to fighting the anxiety and trying (often desperately) to make it stop. The fear of and fight against the anxiety is exactly what keeps anxiety sufferers in the loop of anxiety-panic. Listen in for suggestions on how to prevent this anxiety loop from taking over your life. 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 am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. -Louisa May Alcott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina discusses avoidance and aversion in the context of anxiety. Included in this discussion is an emphasis on the importance of how we interpret signals and information that we are perceiving and how very often we are able to choose whether or not we are threatened by a particular thing. Anxiety sufferers tend to be biased toward overestimating the threat of things. Listen in for tips on how to overcome this tendency. 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: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.  -Marie Curie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina has a guest from the ACP tribe: Kelli. Kelli was a full ACP group coaching member, then a mini member and is now leaving after having progressed substantially in her healing journey and largely cleared her anxiety. Listen in to hear Kelli's story of how she suffered with anxiety and how she found help, hope and healing with Gina and the Anxiety Coaches Podcast group coaching membership program. 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: Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care. -Jerry Cantrell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina discusses a blog post by Leo Babauta about solitude and its importance in our lives. Using this post, Gina helps connect the dots between our cultivation and embrace of solitude and our healing and recovery from stress and anxiety. Link to Leo's entire post https://zenhabits.net/nonsolitude/ 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: Now, more than ever, we need our solitude. Being alone gives us the power to regulate and adjust our lives. It can teach us fortitude and the ability to satisfy our own needs. A restorer of energy, the stillness of alone experiences provides us with much-needed rest. It brings forth our longing to explore, our curiosity about the unknown, our will to be an individual, our hopes for freedom. Alone time is fuel for life. —Dr. Ester Buchholz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of cultivating mindfulness in order to heal anxiety using a Blinkist of Jon Kabat-Zinn's Wherever You Go There You Are. Gina shares a number of methods for "being" in the moment rather than "doing" and thereby increasing your mindfulness and your ability to heal 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: Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. This kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of the present-moment reality. It wakes u up to the fact that our lives unfold only in moments If we are not fully present for many of those moments, we may not only miss what is most valuable in our lives but also fail to realize the richness and the depth of our possibilities for growth and transformation. -

In today's episode Gina discusses how stress and anxiety affect our eating habits. Along with describing some of the physiology involved in the stress response, Gina offers listeners methods and tools to bring mindfulness to bear on the situation. Journaling in particular, guided by questions Gina offers in this podcast, can be particularly helpful. Link to Group Coaching http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/group-coaching Amazon Link to Savor by Thich Nhat Hanh https://amzn.to/2IgxDwY 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: Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future; live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. –Thich Nhat Hanh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina discusses a topic that has come up in the ACP group coaching membership program recently, the idea of the highly sensitive person. Gina goes through a long list of signs that you may indeed be a highly sensitive person (very common among anxiety sufferers), and offers some suggestions for soothing yourself and improving your overall experience. Link to the Highly Sensitive Refuge and the 21 signs of an HSP https://highlysensitiverefuge.com/ Link to Elaine Aron's book The Highly Sensitive Person https://amzn.to/2GLL9X0 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: Sensitive people like a slower pace of life. We like pondering all our options before making a decision and regularly reflecting on our experiences. We hate busy schedules and rushing from one event to the next. —Jenn Granneman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina shares a mini coaching session with listeners. Today's client is Susan, who has suffered with anxiety for some time, observing its adverse affects on her work life and personal relationships. While Susan has only just started with a mostly irregular meditation practice, she finds much relief in walking. Coach Gina offers some more suggestions for Susan, including the possibility of blending both meditation and walking for beneficial repose. 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: Patience is not just the ability to wait, it’s how we behave while we’re waiting. -Joyce Meyer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Medications are often the first offering to people who ask for help with anxiety and panic. Today Gina talks about the decision to use drugs and explores Making an informed decision How medications are not getting to the root of the problem Why some patients are taken off medications for therapeutic treatment Get Tara'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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina conducts a mini coaching session with ACP listener Kristine. In this session, Kristine talks about her experience with anxiety and particular situations in which she experiences it most: driving, air travel and work meetings. Coach Gina shares some helpful tips, useful to Kristine and the wider ACP audience alike! 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: When we understand how precious each moment is, we can treat each breath, each moment, as a newborn baby. -Michele McDonald Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina shares with listeners ten tips for responding to life with gratefulness rather than fear. The source of these suggestions is an article by Kristi Nelson linked below. Using the mental state of gratitude can help extricate oneself from pain and anxiety in remarkable fashion. Listen in for these ten practical tips! Kristi Nelson article  Ten True Things About Gratefulness https://gratefulness.org/blog/ten-true-things-about-gratefulness-a-conversation-with-kristi-nelson/ 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 root of joy is gratefulness … For it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. -Brother David Steindl-Rast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina answers a question from a member of the ACP Group Coaching membership program. The group member asks: how do I just let things be? Gina explores one of her favorite answers to this question through the use of the work of Eckhart Tolle, derived from text obtained through the sponsor of today's show: Blinkist. This answer revolves around being in the present moment, the Now. 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 cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now. –Eckhart Tolle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices