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    Alternative Health

    The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

    The Anxiety Coaches Podcast brings you a relaxing and inspiring show sharing lifestyle changes to calm your nervous system and help you heal Anxiety, Panic, Stress, and PTSD for life!

    We Bring you two episodes every week. There is no need to walk this path alone. Subscribe for a relaxing, informative, and inspiring time and start your journey into more peace and calm today.

    Find meditations, info about stress, anxiety, healthy living, and more at https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com

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    1270: How to Start Living Again: Even When You Feel Anxious Aug 09, 2026
    Show notes

    In today's episode, Gina discusses another core Claire Weekes anxiety clearing concept: facing. It is important to remember we can keep on living even when anxious feelings are present. Being able to turn towards either sensations or situations that make us uncomfortable and live through them is a key component to facing and to clearing anxiety in general. Listen in to learn more about Claire Weekes' facing and improve your anxiety clearing progress today!


    Stillpoint Fridays is my once-a-week Friday note — a slower, more personal reflection that’s different from what I share on the podcast.

    If you’d like a quiet place to land as the week winds down, you can join here: http://eepurl.com/bR2F9P or on our website anxietycoachespodcast.com and sign up for the newsletter.


    Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/


    Website https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com


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    Learn more about anxiety What is anxiety?


    Free Guided Meditation for Calming Your Anxious Mind 10-Minute Body-Scan Meditation for Anxiety


    Quote:


    You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’


    -Eleanor Roosevelt




    Chapters

    0:27 Welcome Back to Gentle Living

    2:18 Living Before Anxiety Leaves

    6:48 Willingness and Values

    11:35 Do Life Gently

    13:08 Confidence Follows Action

    16:18 Relearning Safety

    18:46 Reclaiming Life Slowly

    22:29 Eleanor Roosevelt’s Courage


    Summary

    In this episode we continue exploring Dr. Claire Weekes’ approach to anxiety recovery and focus on the idea that life cannot always wait for anxiety to disappear. We discuss willingness, values, and the importance of taking gentle action even while uncomfortable feelings are present.We look at the common habit of postponing life until we feel calmer, more confident, or more rested, and how this can gradually shrink our world.


    We explain that recovery does not require getting rid of anxiety first, but learning to participate in life with anxiety along for the ride.We discuss Claire Weekes’ term “facing,” which we describe as gently turning toward feared sensations or situations instead of avoiding them. We contrast this with forcing, white-knuckling, or fighting anxiety, and emphasize that the goal is to move forward in manageable steps.We then connect this to values, describing values as qualities such as connection, kindness, health, creativity, or service.


    We show how values can guide small actions, such as meeting a friend briefly, walking for a few minutes, or returning to a hobby, without needing perfect comfort.We also talk about confidence, explaining that it usually follows action rather than coming before it. We note that each small, willing step gives the nervous system new evidence that discomfort can be carried, and that healing and living can happen together.


    #Anxiety #AnxietyCoachesPodcast #GinaRyan #DrClaireWeekes #ClaireWeekes #MentalHealth #AnxietyRecovery #FacingFear #ExposureTherapy #GentleExposure #ApproachBehavior #Willingness #ValuesBasedLiving #NervousSystemHealing #OvercomingAnxiety #PanicAttackRecovery #HealthAnxiety #Agoraphobia #IntrusiveThoughts #BuildingConfidence #SelfCompassion #Mindfulness #MentalWellness #SelfCare #EmotionalHealing #ACTTherapy #StressRelief #SelfGrowth #InnerPeace #HealingIsNotLinear #LivingWithAnxiety #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #OvercomingAvoidance #SmallSteps BigChanges #GentleLiving #MindsetShift #EleanorRooseveltQuotes #AnxietyRelief #InnerCalm #ACP

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    1269: How To Break The Habit Of Fear And Retrain Your Anxious Brain Aug 05, 2026
    Show notes

    In today's episode, Gina discusses Claire Weekes' idea of "the habit of fear" and how anxiety is often largely a learned pattern of sensations, interpretation of these sensations and exaggerated emotional reactions to these sensations and interpretations. Learning to reinterpret anxiety related bodily sensations as not necessarily threatening or dangerous can go a long way to helping us in our anxiety recovery. Listen in and strengthen your ability to interpret bodily sensations and environmental factors in ways that do not signal danger to your body-mind and become more resilient and less anxious today!


    Stillpoint Fridays is my once-a-week Friday note — a slower, more personal reflection that’s different from what I share on the podcast.

    If you’d like a quiet place to land as the week winds down, you can join here: http://eepurl.com/bR2F9P or on our website anxietycoachespodcast.com and sign up for the newsletter.


    Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/


    Website https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com


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    Learn more about anxiety What is anxiety?


    Free Guided Meditation for Calming Your Anxious Mind 10-Minute Body-Scan Meditation for Anxiety


    Quote:


    Do not be bluffed by your feelings.


    -Claire Weekes



    Chapters

    0:27 Habit of Fear

    6:14 Don’t Be Bluffed

    7:42 Predictive Brain Explained

    12:47 New Paths of Recovery

    18:04 Learning, Not Just Knowing

    22:12 Practical Steps to Respond

    25:41 Anxiety Returning Again


    Summary

    In this episode we explore Claire Weekes’ idea of the “habit of fear” and how anxiety can become a learned pattern through repetition. We discuss how fear may start with a body sensation, a frightening interpretation, and then more physical alarm, until the brain begins to expect danger from similar cues.


    We explain that the nervous system can become sensitized and that modern terms such as conditioned responses, neural pathways, and the predictive brain help describe the same process. We look at how the brain makes predictions from past experiences and how those predictions can trigger checking, bracing, avoidance, and reassurance seeking.


    We also cover Claire Weekes’s reminder to “not be bluffed by your feelings,” meaning that sensations can feel convincing without actually signaling danger. We discuss how short-term relief can reinforce the old fear pathway, while allowing sensations, thoughts, and uncertainty without reacting helps create a new response.Finally, we emphasize that progress is not measured by never feeling fear again. We focus on returning to ordinary life, reducing monitoring, and noticing when an old alarm is active without treating it as an emergency.


    #Anxiety #AnxietyCoachesPodcast #GinaRyan #ClaireWeeks #HabitOfFear #AnxietyRelief #PanicAttack #NervousSystem #NervousSystemRegulation #PredictiveBrain #NeuralPathways #ConditionedResponse #AnxietyRecovery #OvercomingAnxiety #AcceptanceAndCommitment #IntrusiveThoughts #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #StressRelief #Mindfulness #SelfCare #EmotionalWellness #AnxietySupport #InnerPeace #CalmYourMind #HealYourNervousSystem #BodyAwareness #Overthinking #MentalWellness #HolisticHealth #ACP

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    1268: From Symptom Monitoring to Self-Trust: The Practice of Utter Acceptance Aug 02, 2026
    Show notes

    In today's episode, Gina discusses the frequent anxiety related behavior of symptom monitoring and how to overcome it. This is another core aspect of Claire Weekes' anxiety recovery protocol: acceptance, and more emphatically, utter acceptance. Learning to become comfortable with any symptoms anxiety throws at us is very helpful for our anxiety recovery. Utter acceptance of the symptoms can help us do this. Listen in and let go of constant self-monitoring today!


    Stillpoint Fridays is my once-a-week Friday note — a slower, more personal reflection that’s different from what I share on the podcast.

    If you’d like a quiet place to land as the week winds down, you can join here: http://eepurl.com/bR2F9P or on our website anxietycoachespodcast.com and sign up for the newsletter.


    Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/


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    Learn more about anxiety What is anxiety?


    Free Guided Meditation for Calming Your Anxious Mind 10-Minute Body-Scan Meditation for Anxiety


    Quote:


    Recovery lies in the places you fear. Go to them with utter acceptance and let time pass.


    -Dr. Claire Weekes



    Chapters

    0:27 Utter Acceptance Begins

    3:48 The Monitoring Trap

    10:20 Body Scans vs Scanning

    15:48 Loosening the Checking Habit

    20:32 Trust Over Supervision


    Summary

    In this episode we focus on moving from symptom monitoring toward self-trust through Claire Weekes’ idea of utter acceptance. We explain how this differs from radical acceptance, which is about accepting reality, while utter acceptance means full permission for bodily fear without bracing, checking, or resistance.We talk about how anxiety often keeps us in a cycle of monitoring the body, seeking reassurance, and searching for explanations.


    We describe how attention to sensations like heartbeat, breathing, dizziness, or fatigue can make them feel more urgent, which then increases anxiety and creates more sensations to monitor.We also distinguish anxious body checking from mindful body scanning. A mindful scan is described as curious and non-judgmental, while anxious scanning looks for danger and tries to confirm safety.


    We note that even meditation can become a checking ritual if we use it to test whether we feel better.We then outline practical steps for reducing monitoring: noticing checking habits without judgment, pausing before checking, shifting attention outward, stopping daily comparisons, choosing one checking behavior to loosen, using permission phrases, and allowing progress to be imperfect. The episode closes by emphasizing that the opposite of monitoring is trust, and that we can notice uncertainty and still continue with daily life.


    #Anxiety #AnxietyRelief #PanicAttack #AnxietyRecovery #ClaireWeeks #UtterAcceptance #RadicalAcceptance #HealthAnxiety #Interoception #SymptomMonitoring #Mindfulness #NervousSystem #SelfTrust #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #AnxietySupport #OvercomingAnxiety #BodyScan #DBT #SelfCare #InnerPeace #StressRelief #DropTheStruggle #AnxietyCoachesPodcast #GinaRyan #EmotionalWellness #Mindset #HolisticHealing #Wellness #LetItBe #ACP

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    1267: Stop Checking Your Anxiety: Claire Weekes on Letting Time Pass Jul 29, 2026
    Show notes

    In today's episode, Gina continues her Claire Weekes series with an episode devoted to the often overlooked step in her core clearing protocol: letting time pass. Letting time pass connects importantly with acceptance and floating. The differences between "letting" time pass and "waiting for" time to pass are expanded on. Listen in and come to understand the final letting time pass step in Claire Weekes' anxiety clearing protocol and further your anxiety clearing journey today!


    Stillpoint Fridays is my once-a-week Friday note — a slower, more personal reflection that’s different from what I share on the podcast.

    If you’d like a quiet place to land as the week winds down, you can join here: http://eepurl.com/bR2F9P or on our website anxietycoachespodcast.com and sign up for the newsletter.


    Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/


    Website https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com


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    1:1 Coaching Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching


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    Learn more about anxiety What is anxiety?


    Free Guided Meditation for Calming Your Anxious Mind 10-Minute Body-Scan Meditation for Anxiety


    Quote:


    Let time pass: do not be impatient with time.


    -Claire Weekes


    Chapters

    0:27 Welcome and Series Focus

    4:13 The Meaning of Letting Time Pass

    7:54 Recovery Doesn’t Move Straight

    9:19 Safety Learning in the Brain

    14:05 Stop Symptom Checking

    15:11 Practice, Don’t Test

    17:21 No Verdict Needed

    19:46 Hidden Signs of Growth

    22:06 A Gentle Weekly Practice

    23:25 Modern Steps to Healing


    Summary

    In this episode we continue our series on Dr. Claire Weeks and focus on her direction to “let time pass.” We look at how this idea connects with acceptance, floating, and the difference between first fear and second fear, with an emphasis on patience as part of nervous system healing.


    We explore what “letting time pass” means in practice and what it is not. It is not waiting for anxiety to disappear, putting life on hold, counting symptoms, or treating recovery as a test. Instead, we keep living ordinary life while allowing sensations and thoughts to come and go without turning each moment into a measurement.


    We also discuss why checking symptoms so often can keep anxiety central. We contrast “practice” with “testing,” and we look at how measuring progress too closely can hide deeper change. Progress may show up as continuing with plans, staying in situations longer, returning to the day after a hard moment, and responding with more kindness.We connect Claire Weeks’ advice to modern ideas about threat learning and safety learning.


    Repeated experiences of surviving anxiety without catastrophe give the nervous system new information over time. We note that old alarms can still return, especially when we are tired, stressed, sick, or facing change, but this does not erase what we have learned.We close with a gentle invitation to notice checking, soften the body, and continue with what we are doing. We emphasize that healing is gradual, not linear, and that we do not need to be impatient with time.


    #Anxiety #AnxietyRecovery #ClaireWeeks #NervousSystem #MentalHealth #AnxietyRelief #Mindfulness #SelfCompassion #Neuroplasticity #PanicAttack #AnxietySupport #MentalHealthAwareness #LetTimePass #Floating #Acceptance #SymptomMonitoring #OvercomingAnxiety #NervousSystemRegulation #HealingTakesTime #InnerPeace #Calm #MentalWellness #SelfCare #Psychology #AnxietyManagement #StressRelief #SelfHelp #EmotionalWellness #MindsetShift #HealingJourney #GinaRyan #ACP #AnxietyCoachesPodcast

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    1266: What Claire Weekes Really Meant By Floating And Why It Helps Anxiety Jul 26, 2026
    Show notes

    In today's episode, Gina discusses Claire Weekes' concept of "floating" and how to best understand this step in her anxiety clearing protocol. Floating is a natural companion to the important "acceptance" step and is an essential aspect to clearing anxiety. Being able to float and not respond to the uncomfortable symptoms anxiety throws at us ensures our best path through any anxiety provoking situation. Listen in and master Claire Weekes' "floating"!


    Stillpoint Fridays is my once-a-week Friday note — a slower, more personal reflection that’s different from what I share on the podcast.

    If you’d like a quiet place to land as the week winds down, you can join here: http://eepurl.com/bR2F9P or on our website anxietycoachespodcast.com and sign up for the newsletter.


    Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/


    Website https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com


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    1:1 Coaching Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching


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    Learn more about anxiety What is anxiety?


    Free Guided Meditation for Calming Your Anxious Mind 10-Minute Body-Scan Meditation for Anxiety


    Quote:


    Do not resist the wave of fear. The less you fear it, the less it will frighten you.


    -Dr. Claire Weekes


    Chapters

    0:27 Floating and Acceptance

    4:00 What Floating Means

    8:27 Stop Adding Friction

    10:42 Nervous System Armor

    12:49 Active Willingness

    15:21 Move With the Wave

    16:17 Floating in Daily Life

    17:29 A Calm Practice

    19:03 Less Resistance, More Ease


    Summary

    In this episode we continue our series on Dr. Claire Weeks and focus on her teaching about “floating.” We explain how this term relates to acceptance, allowing sensations, and non-resistance in modern language. We frame floating as stopping the habit of fighting anxiety rather than doing something to anxiety.We use the example of learning to float in water to show how tension and effort can make it harder to stay afloat. In the same way, we describe how anxiety often leads us to brace, clamp down, and try to control symptoms, which adds more strain.


    Floating is presented as softening into the experience instead of tightening against it.We also connect the idea to nervous system responses, describing common signs like shallow breathing, clenched muscles, narrowed attention, and racing thoughts. We suggest small acts of release, such as loosening the jaw, unclenching the hands, and easing tension by just a small amount. Floating is described as active willingness, not passivity.We compare this approach to images like Chinese finger traps, quicksand, and waves in the ocean, where struggle makes the situation worse and cooperation is more effective.


    We then offer simple language to use in difficult moments, such as noticing that sensations are present and returning attention to the next breath or next step.We close with a short practice of relaxing the face, shoulders, hands, and breathing, and imagining resting on calm water. We end by emphasizing that healing comes from changing our relationship with fear, not from winning a battle against it.


    #Anxiety #AnxietyRelief #PanicAttacks #ClaireWeeks #FloatingThroughAnxiety #NervousSystem #NervousSystemRegulation #MentalHealth #Mindfulness #Acceptance #RadicalAcceptance #SomaticHealing #AnxietyRecovery #AnxietyCoachesPodcast #GinaRyan #StressRelief #SelfCare #EmotionalRegulation #FightOrFlight #MentalWellness #PeaceAndCalm #HealingJourney #OvercomingAnxiety #StressManagement #SomaticPractices #MindfulLiving #LettingGo #SelfCompassion #InnerPeace #MentalHealthAwareness #ACP

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    1265: Acceptance Vs Resistance: The Claire Weekes Method For Calming Anxiety Jul 22, 2026
    Show notes

    In today's episode, Gina discusses one of Claire Weekes' most important topics in her anxiety recovery methodology: acceptance. Through liberal application of Weekes' acceptance, individuals with anxiety will improve their anxiety recovery journey. Embracing acceptance of life circumstances automatically reduces resistance. Resistance to what is in our lives is a significant source of our suffering (anxiety related and otherwise). Listen in an strengthen your acceptance practice today!


    Stillpoint Fridays is my once-a-week Friday note — a slower, more personal reflection that’s different from what I share on the podcast.

    If you’d like a quiet place to land as the week winds down, you can join here: http://eepurl.com/bR2F9P or on our website anxietycoachespodcast.com and sign up for the newsletter.


    Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/


    Website https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com


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    Learn more about anxiety What is anxiety?


    Free Guided Meditation for Calming Your Anxious Mind 10-Minute Body-Scan Meditation for Anxiety


    Quote:


    You are the sky. Everything else- it's just the weather.


    -Pema Chödrön


    Chapters

    0:27 Welcome to Anxiety Coaches Podcast

    1:16 Understanding Acceptance

    8:56 What Acceptance Is Not

    10:00 Acceptance in Daily Life

    13:23 Floating Through Anxiety

    15:34 A Simple Acceptance Practice

    18:21 Closing Reflection


    Summary

    In this episode, we continue our discussion of Dr. Claire Weekes’s approach to anxiety, focusing on the meaning of acceptance. We explain that acceptance does not mean giving up, approving of anxiety, or resigning ourselves to it. Instead, it means stopping the struggle with what is already happening in the present moment.


    We distinguish between disliking anxiety and fighting it. We note that resistance can add another layer of fear and stress, while willingness can soften the nervous system. We describe acceptance as a posture rather than a feeling, and we use examples such as dizziness, intrusive thoughts, and a racing heart to show the difference between resistance and acceptance in daily life.


    We also connect Claire Weekes’s teaching with Pema Chödrön’s ideas about staying present and not hardening against discomfort. We describe acceptance as a form of “floating” through sensations without trying to force them away. This is presented as a way to reduce the second fear and to support nervous system retraining.


    We end with practical language and a brief micro-practice: pausing, relaxing the shoulders and jaw, breathing normally, and using willingness phrases such as “I’m willing to let this be here” or “I can float through this moment.” We emphasize that acceptance is a skill that becomes easier with repetition and that it allows healing without adding unnecessary suffering.


    #Anxiety #AnxietyRelief #PanicAttacks #ClaireWeeks #DrClaireWeeks #AnxietyRecovery #MentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #NervousSystemHealing #Mindfulness #Acceptance #PemaChodron #SelfCompassion #AnxietySupport #OvercomingAnxiety #StressRelief #InnerPeace #MentalWellness #AnxietyCoachesPodcast #GinaRyan #FloatingThroughAnxiety #HealingJourney #SelfCare #MindsetShift #DropTheStruggle #PanicDisorder #HealthAnxiety #Agoraphobia #FightOrFlight #NervousSystemRegulation #VagusNerve #SomaticHealing #ACTTherapy #CognitiveBehavioralTherapy #Overthinking #IntrusiveThoughts #SelfHelp #EmotionalHealing #HolisticHealth #MentalHealthPodcast #PodcastEpisode #WellnessPodcast #MindBodyConnection #CalmYourMind #StressManagement #AnxietyTips #MentalHealthCommunity #NonResistance #InnerCalm #Empathy #ACP

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    1264: How Claire Weekes Explained Anxiety: First Fear, Second Fear and Real Recovery Jul 19, 2026
    Show notes

    In today's episode, Gina discusses an important component of Claire Weekes' conception of anxiety: first fear and second fear. First fear is the body's initial alarm response to a threat or other aversive stimulus in the environment. We cannot control first fear. Second fear includes the thoughts and interpretations of the first fear. It is with second fear that anxiety grows into an intense, unpleasant, chronic syndrome. It is also with second fear that we can influence if not outright control our response. Listen in to learn more about this distinction and how to gain better control over second fear and start to eliminate your anxiety today!


    Stillpoint Fridays is my once-a-week Friday note — a slower, more personal reflection that’s different from what I share on the podcast.

    If you’d like a quiet place to land as the week winds down, you can join here: http://eepurl.com/bR2F9P or on our website anxietycoachespodcast.com and sign up for the newsletter.


    Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/


    Website https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com


    Join our community Group Coaching Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program


    1:1 Coaching Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching


    If you prefer to listen AD-FREE, try our Supercast premium access membership:


    Learn more about anxiety What is anxiety?


    Free Guided Meditation for Calming Your Anxious Mind 10-Minute Body-Scan Meditation for Anxiety


    Quote:


    The experience is not nearly as important as your reaction to the experience. Do not add second fear


    -Claire Weekes




    Chapters

    0:27 First and Second Fear

    3:04 Two Arrows of Suffering

    5:06 What First Fear Means

    7:43 Understanding Second Fear

    11:33 Claire Weeks' Four Steps

    13:31 Riding the Anxiety Wave

    15:13 How Second Fear Grows

    16:41 A New Recovery Lens

    18:29 Freedom Through Practice


    Summary

    In this episode, we explore Claire Weekes’ teaching on first fear, second fear, and recovery from anxiety. We discuss how a sudden anxious or panicky reaction is an automatic bodily response, while the added fear about that reaction is what often increases distress.


    We explain first fear as the body’s immediate alarm response, with physical sensations such as racing heart, tight chest, dizziness, or shakiness. We note that this response happens before conscious thought and is part of the nervous system’s automatic protective function.


    We then focus on second fear, described as the thoughts and interpretations added on top of the initial sensation, such as “what if this gets worse” or “something is wrong with me.” We compare this to the Buddhist parable of two arrows, where the first arrow is the original discomfort and the second is the added reaction that causes more suffering.


    We also outline Claire Weekes’ four steps: face, accept, float, and let time pass. These steps are presented as a way to stop adding fear to fear, allow sensations to rise and fall, and give the nervous system time to settle.


    Finally, we describe how this approach can apply in everyday situations such as panic in a store, intrusive thoughts, dizziness, or fear of another panic attack. The main point is that recovery comes from changing our relationship to the sensations rather than trying to eliminate them completely.


    #FirstFear #SecondFear #ClaireWeeks #FearOfTheFear #ParableOfTwoArrows #TwoArrows #CatastrophicThinking #SecondaryAnxiety #AutomaticResponse #NervousSystemRegulation #FightOrFlight #AdrenalineBurnout #BrainRetraining #SomaticExperiencing #FaceAcceptFloat #LetTimePass #AnxietyRecovery #PanicAttackRecovery #AnxietyRelief #OvercomingAnxiety #PanicDisorder #AgoraphobiaRecovery #HealthAnxiety #IntrusiveThoughts #MindfulnessForAnxiety #NervousSystemHealing #AnxietySupport #PanicRelief #HealingAnxiety #AnxietyTips #NervousSystemReset #SomaticTracking #AnxietyWarrior #MindfulLiving #SelfCompassion #BeGentleWithYourself #RadicalAcceptance #NonResistance #LettingGo #MindBodyConnection #PeaceAndCalm #EmotionalResilience #BuddhistTeachings #MentalWellness #InnerPeace #MentalHealthMatters #AnxietyCoachesPodcast #GinaRyan #ACPPodcast #MentalHealthPodcast #AnxietyCoaches #WellnessPodcast #PodcastMetadata

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    1263: Claire Weekes Was Right: What We Know About Anxiety Recovery Today Jul 15, 2026
    Show notes

    In today;s episode, Gina introduces a new series she is doing on the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, devoted to helping update Claire Weekes' anxiety recovery methods to our contemporary vocabulary and world. Specifically in this episode, the point that anxiety recovery is not about eliminating fear but adapting how we come to meet fear, is emphasized. Listen in for more discussion about Claire Weekes' work and what to expect in upcoming episodes!


    Stillpoint Fridays is my once-a-week Friday note — a slower, more personal reflection that’s different from what I share on the podcast.

    If you’d like a quiet place to land as the week winds down, you can join here: http://eepurl.com/bR2F9P or on our website anxietycoachespodcast.com and sign up for the newsletter.


    Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/


    Website https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com


    Join our community Group Coaching Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program


    1:1 Coaching Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching


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    Learn more about anxiety What is anxiety?


    Free Guided Meditation for Calming Your Anxious Mind 10-Minute Body-Scan Meditation for Anxiety


    Quote:


    Recovery lies in the way we meet fear, not in the absence of fear.


    -Claire Weekes


    Chapters

    0:27 Claire Weeks Rediscovered


    Summary

    In this episode, we begin a new series revisiting the work of Dr. Claire Weekes and her ideas about anxiety recovery. We discuss why her books have been influential over the years and how her observations continue to fit with later language about nervous system regulation, neuroplasticity, and trauma-informed care.


    We focus on the idea that recovery is not about eliminating fear, but about how we meet it. We introduce some of Weekes’ terms in modern language, including “nervous illness” as a broad description for anxiety, panic, health anxiety, and chronic stress-related symptoms.


    We also address a common misunderstanding of Weekes’ advice. Rather than treating “face, accept, float, and let time pass” as a checklist or technique, we frame them as a different relationship to experience. The emphasis is on stopping the fight with anxiety and learning not to treat every symptom as an emergency.


    We connect this to modern neuroscience by explaining that repeated alarm teaches the nervous system to keep noticing the same sensations and thoughts. We then outline topics we will explore in future episodes, including first fear and second fear, acceptance, floating, letting time pass, and why reassurance and self-monitoring can keep anxiety going.


    The episode closes with a reflection on asking, “How do I want to relate to this moment?” instead of “What technique should I use?” We return to the idea that recovery unfolds gradually as we become less afraid of our own experience.


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    1262: Classic ACP Listener Q And A: How To Relax In A Social Situation Jul 12, 2026
    Show notes

    Today's episode we have a listener question from the Send Voicemail Tab on our website. Kellie asks about how to deal with building anxiety when in a social setting.


    Stillpoint Fridays is my once-a-week Friday note — a slower, more personal reflection that’s different from what I share on the podcast.

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    Learn more about anxiety What is anxiety?


    Free Guided Meditation for Calming Your Anxious Mind 10-Minute Body-Scan Meditation for 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


    Chapters

    0:27 SpeakPipe Question

    3:31 Social Anxiety Tools

    7:22 Relax the Body

    12:46 Stop Adding Fuel

    16:20 Shake It Out

    19:06 Proust’s Wisdom


    Summary

    In this episode, we speak about a listener question from Kelly, who describes living with long-term anxiety that has affected work, driving, being alone, and social situations. We focus on what to do when anxiety rises in the middle of everyday settings where it is not practical to step away and process it privately.


    We explain that the main practice is to prepare in quieter moments, especially during meditation or other practice time, so acceptance and “floating” become more familiar. When anxiety shows up in the moment, we suggest noticing the body’s signals and using physical relaxation as a cue of safety.


    We describe simple techniques such as tensing and releasing muscles, relaxing the shoulders, jaw, hands, feet, and legs, and using small movements or shaking out tension when appropriate. The point is to send the brain a message that there is no immediate danger, rather than trying to force away thoughts.


    We also address the tendency to add a second layer of distress by worrying about how we look, whether others notice, or whether we can get through the situation. We encourage noticing that extra self-criticism and not feeding it, since that can intensify the anxiety.


    Finally, we emphasize that repeated practice makes these responses easier to access in daily life. The episode closes with a quote about discovering wisdom through our own journey.


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    1261: Gentle Affirmations For Anxiety: Urgency And Feeling Behind In Life Jul 08, 2026
    Show notes

    In today's episode, Gina shares a number of affirmations designed especially for when we are feeling anxiety around time pressure, urgency and the feeling of being behind in our lives. Repeating these affirmations to ourselves throughout the day can take advantage of a shaping and adaptation process our body and mind undergo based on what we give our attention. Use these affirmations throughout the day and begin to adapt your mind and body to a better, more peaceful life today!


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    Quote:


    The trouble is, you think you have time.


    -Jack Kornfield




    Chapters

    0:27 Affirmations and Anxiety

    4:48 Bridge Thoughts for Calm

    8:05 Gentle Phrases to Try

    10:58 Summer Slows the Pace

    14:09 Repeat to Reassure


    Summary

    In this episode we talk about affirmations and how we can use them in a more grounded way, especially when we feel time pressure, urgency, and a constant sense of being behind. We explain that our mind is already repeating messages all day, and that many of those messages increase tension in the body.


    We discuss why affirmations are not meant to deny reality or force overly positive statements. Instead, we use them to gently shift attention toward thoughts that the nervous system can actually स्वीकार or tolerate, because repeated attention can shape perception and the body’s response.


    We focus on starting with believable phrases that feel possible rather than overwhelming. Examples include taking things one moment at a time, being with a feeling and still breathing, or learning to slow down. We describe these as bridge thoughts that soften internal pressure instead of creating more resistance.


    We also talk about practicing this in daily life without treating it like another task. The aim is to notice urgency when it shows up, introduce steadier thoughts, and create a little more space between reactions. We close with a set of gentle affirmations and encourage noticing how they feel in the body.


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