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

In today's episode Gina reads a letter from a listener who wrote her anxiety itself a letter. The letter describes her experience of the anxiety, the fight-or-flight response, the wise-mind and how these forces interact and influence her life. Listen in as Gina considers the wisdom contained in the letter as well as suggestions for other listeners to write their own letters to their anxiety. Content from today's show: Hi, Gina, I discovered your podcast online and have been delving into the many episodes you have made available. I really have enjoyed listening and am learning a lot. I took your advice and decided to write a letter to my anxiety. I wanted to share it with you. Thank you for your excellent program. Dear Mr. Fight-or-flight, We’ve been roommates for a couple of years now, although you have come to live with me periodically at different times in my life. Each time you have moved in with me, you told me you were concerned about my safety and that you felt it necessary to be my protector I think it

Today Gina answers a question about anxiety around the opinions of others. Join in for the why and how to find peace! Links/resources mentioned in the episode: Grab an awesome audio book for free like Hope and Help For Your Nerves by Claire Weekes http://www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial Group Coaching Membership: http://www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/group-coaching For more information on 1:1 Anxiety Coaching email us here: anxietycoachespodcast@gmail.com Stop by the website to learn more about anxiety and to send us an audio recording or email of your Q to be played and answered on the show! http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com What is anxiety? Quote: Don't let other people's opinions burn holes in your dreams. ~Eksa Joy Bailey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Gina answers a listener question about persistent pain that exists despite medical reports indicating no physiological problems. Gina delves into the work of the late Dr. Sarno and former guest Steve Ozanich concerning The Mind-body Syndrome (also known as TMS), a frequent cause of otherwise unexplainable pain in the body. Listen in as Gina strives to help shed light on how anxiety relating to past trauma or emotional disturbance can cause pain in the body and how to heal and improve the situation.     Links from today's episode: Steve Ozanich TMS Episode 266 https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/266-the-mindbody-syndrome-with-steve-ozanich All The Rage Saved By Sarno Documentary http://alltheragedoc.com/ Dr. Sarno Books: Healing Back Pain https://amzn.to/2HhrMTV The Divided Mind https://amzn.to/2qbCLqD   Quote: The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. -Rumi To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mi

In this episode, Gina describes the immense utility of even a basic meditation practice for essentially any and all anxiety sufferers. Gina reveals a simple process by which listeners of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast may take advantage of the help available through meditation: starting with only one minute of silent meditation each day. Listen in for advice on how to start the process today!   Links to ACP meditation episodes: Episode 309 Formal and Informal Meditations For Anxiety https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/309-formal-and-informal-meditations-for-anxiety Episode 164 How to Ease Into a Formal Meditation Practice https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/164-how-to-ease-into-a-formal-meditation-practice-for-anxiety   Quote: You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. —R. Buckminster Fuller To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Memb

In this episode, Gina explores steps you can take to find relief from panic attacks and anxiety-panic symptoms. Gina found these tips in a blog post from Jamie Price (see direct link below). To summarize, the steps outlined in Jamie Price's article: How to Curb a Panic Attack 1) Investigate 2) Shift into taking deep, relaxed breaths 3) Connect to the senses 4) Visualize the release of anxious feelings as a cloud floating away in the sky   Link to Jamie Price's post: https://www.mindful.org/4-ways-curb-panic-attack/ To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Quote: We did not ask for this room or this music; we were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces toward the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty...We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance. -Stephen King Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Gina answers a listener question relating to guilt and anxiety. Tune in for the tips you need to strengthen your repose and enhance your capacity for enduring and limiting your experience of guilt and other adverse feelings relating to anxiety.   Quote: Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry --all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence. - Eckhart Tolle 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 shares with listeners the wisdom of Leo Babauta, who outlines simple steps that can be taken to become more peaceful and calm. Leo follows the advice of his calm motto: "No big deal." There are things we can do to change the situation and often times, we cannot act to change the situation. Making forward progress towards our goal when we can act and accepting our limitations when we can't act can help us to find the calmness that we seek.   Links from today's episode: https://zenhabits.net/becalm/ Quote: “No big deal.” -Leo Babauta 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 goes through ten touchstones (simple ideas) listeners of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast can use to alleviate their experience of anxiety-panic when it arises. Staying in the present moment, allowing the future to be just that: a distant moment only incidentally relevant to our experience in the present moment now, and reminding ourselves that we are safe, are just some of the ideas Gina shares with listeners in today's podcast. Need a good book to read on peace? Check out http://www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial and grab a copy of Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh   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 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 today's episode Gina explores the issues surrounding anxiety and uncertainty. Working to develop our skills of trust, surrender and self-acceptance, we can learn to release our requirement for control over our environment. Gina explains this need for control over our environment is not founded in good reasoning. Apply the skills described in this podcast and feel better today!   Link mentioned in podcast: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_stop_being_a_control_freak   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 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 explores solutions to a listener question about disassociating the link that forms between situations that have caused anxiety in the past and anxiety itself. Gina's suggestions can help listeners feel safe even in environments that have triggered anxiety-panic symptoms in the past. Listen in as Gina explores tips and tools you can use today to break the cycle of anxiety-panic.   Quote: Change your thoughts and you change the world. -Norman Vincent Peale 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

12 Common Anxiety Behaviors are the focus of Gina's episode today. Join in as the signs and red flags of anxiety are discussed. Links/resources mentioned in the episode:        Grab an awesome book like Destructive Emotions; A Scientific Dialogue with The Dalai Lama for free through Audible:  www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial Group Coaching Membership: www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/group-coaching Stop by the website to learn more about anxiety and to send us an audio recording of your Q to be played and answered on the show! Quote: Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes form your own actions.   ~Dalai Lama Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, coach Gina leads a guided meditation of loving kindness. Take a moment for yourself and enjoy the peace and joy inherently available to you at this time.   Need a good book to read on peace? Check out http://www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial  and grab a copy of Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh   Quote: The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. -Thomas Merton To learn more go to: Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gina explores the differences between counseling, coaching and therapy. There is not a right or wrong answer to the question of which type of professional helper you want to see. Social workers, counselors and psychologists subscribe to the medical model and utilize DSM labeling for insurance billing purposes. Coaching is an alternative helper to those listed above.   The International Coach Federation (largest credentialing body for coaches) defines coaching as "partnering with clients in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires them for maximizing their personal and professional potential. Professional coaches provide and ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches help people improve their performance and enhance the quality of their lives. Coaches are trained to listen, they observe, and they customize their coaching approach to individual clients needs. Coaching is largely about teaching.    Steps for finding a co

In this episode Gina Ryan answers a listener question regarding anxiety and sleep. Insomnia is unfortunately very common in adults with one in three having occasional bouts and one in ten adults suffering with chronic insomnia. One of the problems caused by insomnia is anxiety! Regardless of which came first, anxiety or insomnia, we all do better with a good night's sleep and even one good night's sleep can put us on the road to recovery.   Quote: Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find. -Ann Patchett To learn more go to: Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Using a mantra can be a huge calming addition to your life! But cultivating the practice of using a mantra in your meditation or quiet moments you will find it becoming a way to find your center easily and effortlessly...it just takes time :) Listen in and find some simple words and phrases to help you get started. Quote: As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. -Joseph Murphy   To learn more go to: Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/group-coaching/ What is anxiety? https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gina has an inspiring conversation with her coach George Kao! Listen in and learn how to keep your to-do list from running your life keeping you in a state of rushing, lack of self-care, and stress! George shares his wisdom on balance and joy without guilt and joyful productivity. Follow along and learn his system of capture, categorize, and calendar your ideas and to-dos to eliminate a lot of your stress! George says "You are going to be fine even if you don't finish your to-do list. Seek balance first." Links mentioned in the show: George's website https://www.GeorgeKao.com Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/georgekao/videos Book on Amazon Authentic Content Marketing   To learn more go to: Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Desensitization and progressive exposure can be an effective technique in improving anxiety. What we don't want to do is confuse this with white knuckling through things! Listen in for tips and tools to start desensitizing. Quote: Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it. -Brian Tracy To learn more go to: Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A listener with health anxiety sent in a speak pipe recorded question. Shannon asks when we don't feel well what can we do to know it's OK to not feel well...how can we feel it's OK to be sick? If you would like to send in a question to be answered on the show visit our website homepage and click the little microphone on the right! Quote: Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security. -John Allen Paulos To learn more go to: Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coming to the realization that all one's thinking isn't true can be a major breakthrough for the anxiety clearing process! Anxiety is very loud and very demanding and we tend to jump when it speaks. Today Gina points the way to teasing out the anxious thoughts from the wise mind. Quote: When speaking about intrusive thoughts on one of our group coaching calls one member said: "Remember these are FAKE thoughts". -ACP Group Coaching Member To learn more go to: Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gina shares an "ah-ha" moment from a client! "When the shame is taken away, a natural learning from mistakes happens anyways - so my mind doesn't need to worry about that. This is a big piece of the anxiety recovery for me, I think! Confidence + handling uncertainty". Quote: It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. -Ornette Coleman To learn more go to: Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices