The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

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.comJoin 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.comJoin 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/8vex1wj1kmeu02w0y90n0uuwc7q0wyGrab 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 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.comJoin 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.comJoin 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.comJoin 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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=PDTGBPD060314004RLink to "Distraction Addiction" by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: https://amzn.to/2LDbhXPTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin 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 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.

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.comJoin 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.comJoin 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.pdfACP 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.comTo learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program What is anxiety?  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.