The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

♡ 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/211Listen to the body Scan mentioned in this episodehttps://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/body-scanTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ 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.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat 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. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ 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 YOURSELFQuiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social AnxietyEllen Hendriksen, Ph.D.http://bit.ly/htbyanxiety To learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ 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 YOURSELFQuiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social AnxietyEllen Hendriksen, Ph.D.http://bit.ly/htbyanxietyTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat 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 everything collapses.-Colette Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ 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 YOURSELFQuiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social AnxietyEllen Hendriksen, Ph.D.http://bit.ly/htbyanxiety.ted talk linkJoan Rosenberghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKy19WzkPxETo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ 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.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ 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/AudibleACPTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat is anxiety?Quote:Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. -Christopher Reeve Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ 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.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ 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.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

♡ 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/AudibleACPTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One CoachingWhat 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.