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

In this episode, Gina describes how to use courage to guide yourself out of anxiety. Courage is the capacity to move ahead despite feelings of despair. Gina revisits the topic of volunteer vs victim mindset from podcast 436, and talks about how great athletes and artists still experience substantial fear. Gina describes how to start using your courage today. 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  What is anxiety? Quote: The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. -Thucydides Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of assuming a volunteer mindset in contrast to a victim mindset. The victim mindset is characterized by the idea that the feelings, sensations and thoughts we encounter are being done to us, and that we have no choice and no power in the matter. The volunteer mindset is characterized by a willingness to face and accept the challenges that our lives in the world bring to us. Gina offers suggestions for making the transition from victim mindset to volunteer mindset. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Quote: The best way out is always through. ―Robert Frost Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Gina shares with listeners an article from Rick Hanson about four different kinds of peace. Gina describes how these different kinds of peace can be used to ease anxiety. The four different kinds of peace Dr. Hanson describes are: the peace of ease, the peace of tranquility, the peace of awareness, and the peace of what’s unchanging. Rick Hanson as guest on the Anxiety Coaches Podcast episode 176: https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/8vex1wj1kmeu02w0y90n0uuwc7q0wy 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  What is anxiety? Quote: I do not at all understand the mystery of grace--only that it meets us where we are but doesn't leave us where it found us. -Anne Lamott Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Coach Gina shares with listeners an example of her one-on-one coaching session with an ACP listener, Jessica. Jessica describes her life situation, the progress she has made and the areas of her life she wants to work on. Coach Gina sets out to work and offers Jessica a number of suggestions and insightful observations she makes during the call. There is much wisdom and help shared here that may benefit not only Jessica, but ACP listeners as well. 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  What is anxiety? Quote: We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. -Marcel Proust Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Gina shares with listeners a post from Leo Babauta: "How to Work With Whatever Come Up". A core part of the message is that there is value (if not outright magic!) in dropping into the discomfort of anxiety-panic rather than running away from it. Staying with the discomfort is a way to avoid feeding the fear that ultimately strengthens anxiety-panic. Leo Babauta's post at Zen Habits: https://zenhabits.net/always/ To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Quote: Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. -Phillips Brooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina shares with listeners the Serenity Prayer (popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous) and how it can help those of us suffering from anxiety. Though the prayer is thought to have been written by Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the prayer is non-denominational and even applicable for those of us who are not religious at all. The messages contained in this prayer are both personal and universal. 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  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

In this episode, Gina discusses a phenomenon known as digital apnea and how it relates to anxiety. Digital apnea occurs when we hold our breath during moments we are using our digital devices and looking at our screens. Studies have shown that humans tend to do this naturally! Gina offers some alternatives to combat the ill effects of this phenomenon, including walking and becoming more conscious of our breath and breathing patterns. Sign up for a free month of audible and get a free book: https://www.audible.com/ep/freetrial?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Link to "Distraction Addiction" by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: https://amzn.to/2LDbhXP To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Quote: Meditation is the original neuroscience, the world’s oldest conscious exploitation of neuroplasticity, and it’s a twenty-five-hundred-year-old answer to the twenty-five-year-old problem of digital distraction. ~Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Learn

In this episode, Gina offers tips and steps to help you break free when feeling like you are stuck in anxiety. Gina emphasizes that clearing anxiety is a process and not an overnight, quick fix. Talking with family or friends, being with a pet, spending time in nature are all advisable activities to help you create space in your experience. Ultimately, Gina advises listeners to create their own methods for providing themselves with this safe space that will help you eventually become free of anxiety. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Quote: In truth, the heart must crack open if the soul is to become free. And you simply cannot think your way into that. -Terry Patten Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Gina provides seven tips for those of us who are suffering from anxiety related overworking. The tips included largely revolve around the need to improve our own self-care. From increasing the role of rest and pleasure in our lives (at the expense of work!) to reevaluating our own needs and the needs of those around us, Gina's tips will surely help you get a hold of your work life and help you increase your experience of peace and calm. 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  What is anxiety? Quote: Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. -Etty Hillesum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina shares with listeners wisdom contained in a series of quotes. These quotes are sourced from literature from Al-Anon family groups, a pamphlet entitled "Just For Today". These quotes have had an important impact on Gina's own life and healing and she is happy to be able to share them with you in the podcast today.  Link to Alanon document "Just For Today": https://al-anon.org/pdf/M10.pdf ACP Group Coaching Program: https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/group-coaching/ To inquire about appearing on the show as a guest coaching client, with your chance to ask Gina a question and have a response broadcast on the podcast, send an email to: AnxietyCoachesPodcast@gmail.com To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Gina discusses a critical point within our experience of anxiety: the gap between the anxiety stimulus (environmental factor that triggers our anxiety) and our response. Gina argues that within this space lies the great power to choose how to interpret a stimulus and how to choose what our optimal response to this stimulus will be. Within this response lies an opportunity to grow, to change and to step into the best version of ourself. To inquire about appearing on the show as a guest coaching client, with your chance to ask Gina a question and have a response broadcast on the podcast, send an email to: AnxietyCoachesPodcast@gmail.com To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  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. -Victor Frankl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m

In this episode, Gina covers three methods to end anxious habits and stop their future development. The first method is building awareness of the habits. The second method is to make periodic changes in our behavior that modifies the patterns of the habits (and generally staying flexible). The third method is to take the opposite action to what the habitual behavior entails. To inquire about appearing on the show as a guest coaching client, with your chance to ask Gina a question and have a response broadcast on the podcast, send an email to: AnxietyCoachesPodcast@gmail.com 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  What is anxiety? Quote: We don’t know what life will bring, so it is what we bring to life that matters. -Patricia Campbell Carlson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Morning anxiety has a myriad of causes -join in today and learn what you can do to soothe this anxiety challenge. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Quote: Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. - Buddha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Gina discusses the importance of color in our environment and how it can affect our mind and anxiety. Gina incorporates some research conducted at the University of British Columbia that indicates blue can help facilitate creative activities while red can enhance activities requiring strong focus and attention to detail. Green can help enhance alertness and keep one aware for an extended period of time. To inquire about appearing on the show as a guest coaching client, with your chance to ask Gina a question and have a response broadcast on the podcast, send an email to: AnxietyCoachesPodcast@gmail.com 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  What is anxiety? Quote: My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. -Oliver Sacks Learn more about y

In this episode, Gina shares five useful tips to find relief from anxiety while driving an automobile. Gina recommends conscious breathing, being kind to oneself in thought and deed (providing yourself with what you need) and being kind to the other drivers in thought and deed(!). Listen in for help during the stress of driving! To inquire about appearing on the show as a guest coaching client, with your chance to ask Gina a question and have a response broadcast on the podcast, send an email to: AnxietyCoachesPodcast@gmail.com To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Quote: When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you. -Adyashanti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Gina describes a technique in which anxiety sufferers take advantage of the discomfort they experience in order to know the constant peace resident within them. According to this wisdom, turning toward the discomfort is where the anxiety sufferer's power lies. Gina further advises to stay aware of the language used in self-talk, staying present and experiencing the joy in every moment, no matter what. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Quote: When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. -Marcus Aurelius Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Gina discusses stress and stress overload. The signs of stress, the sources of stress, the effects of stress and key ways to manage stress. Everyone has exposure to stress inducing factors in their lives (money, work, relationships, etc.) and these factors exacerbate a range of symptoms (anxiety, hopelessness, loneliness, etc.). Having a set of stress management techniques is essential to our overall well-being. 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  What is anxiety? Quote: Great necessities call out great virtues. -Abigail Adams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, Gina outlines five useful ways to avoid anxiety, or in other words, to have an anti-anxiety mind. At the core of these suggestions lies a duality of emotion that we can use to guide ourselves: open-mindedness, flexibility and curiosity on one hand, and closed-mindedness, rigidity and frustration on the other hand. Using the techniques suggested in this podcast, we can cultivate a flexibility and open-mindedness that can help us resolve our anxious state. 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  What is anxiety? Quote: Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. -LIN YUTANG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Gina discusses stress and three stages by which people respond to stress, originally identified by stress researcher Hans Selye: Alarm, Resistance and Exhaustion. Gina goes on to describe a number of steps by which we can manage our stress mindfully. The use of writing is noted as particularly useful in our efforts to improve our response to stress. To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Quote: If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry. ~Dalai Lama   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today Gina opens the subject up around anxiety and caffeine consumption. Learn the reasons why caffeine is not your friend while clearing your anxiety-panic. Later this month we will be exploring some amazing substitutes for the beloved caffeine :) Links Mentioned in the Episode: Caffeine and medications:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzycohen/ Carolyn Dean ep 182  http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/182-magnesium-miracle-and-anxiety-interview-with-carolyn-dean-md-nd Neurotransmitters ep 170 http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/170-brain-chemistry-lifestyle-tips-for-anxiety To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/  Quote: We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. -Joseph Campbell  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices