The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

Latest Episodes:

443: Mini Coaching Session with ACP Listener Donna Sep 30, 2018

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In today's episode, Gina conducts a mini coaching session with ACP listener Donna. Donna describes her experience of anxiety and behaviors related to OCD and how she came to find the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. Gina proceeds to offer her wisdom and guidance much as she would a client in a one-on-one coaching session. Listen in for tips that may help you improve your experience with anxiety.

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What is anxiety?

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When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. -Ma Jaya Satu

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442: Anxiety and Attachment 4 Ways To Let Go A Little Easier Sep 26, 2018

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In this episode, Gina discusses how attachment to the world, our experience and various entities can substantially impact (increase) our anxiety. Gina draws a clear distinction between attachment and acceptance and suggests that acceptance is the very opposite of attachment! Gina offers a number of methods to make acceptance easier and lessen the burden of attachment in our lives.

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What is anxiety?

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ~George Bernard Shaw

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441: Understanding Negativity Bias and Anxiety Sep 23, 2018

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In today's episode Gina discusses negativity bias in the context of anxiety further (touched on in the previous podcast). The evolutionary perspective of our history and present state of functioning are used to provide useful insights into why we can be afflicted with anxiety and how to improve the situation we find ourselves in. The hereditary component of anxiety is also discussed.

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What is anxiety?

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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

-James Baldwin

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440: Why Is Anxiety So Common? Sep 19, 2018

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In this episode, Gina discusses some of the basics of anxiety and anxiety diagnoses. The pervasiveness of anxiety among the population of the contemporary world is touched on as well as the origins of anxiety from an evolutionary perspective. Negativity bias is discussed in this context. Gina makes the recommendation of keeping a journal of things we are grateful for on a daily basis to combat the tendency to reinforce the negativity we experience.

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What is anxiety?

Quote:

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope.

-Thomas Merton

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439: Heart Rate Monitoring and Health Anxiety Sep 16, 2018

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In this episode, Gina explores the issue of self-monitoring with health care equipment for persons with anxiety. Anxiety and panic are thought to account for one in five visits to the emergency room and are often mistaken for heart attacks. Gina advises on whether or not persons with anxiety should be using medical self-monitoring devices outside of that prescribed by health care professionals and recommends finding a health care provider you can trust and work with.

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What is anxiety?

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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find. -Ann Patchett

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438: Mini Coaching Session With ACP Listener Jane Sep 12, 2018

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In this episode, Coach Gina shares a mini coaching session with ACP listener Jane. Jane has been experiencing anxiety relating to loss and has been listening to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast for some time. Gina discusses some of the specific instances of Jane's experience of anxiety as well as numerous effective coping methods and activities Jane has found helpful.

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What is anxiety?

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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy. -Abraham Maslow

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437: Using Courage To Guide Your Way Out Of Anxiety Sep 09, 2018

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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.

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The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. -Thucydides

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436: Volunteer VS Victim Mindset and Anxiety Sep 05, 2018

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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.

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What is anxiety?

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The best way out is always through. ―Robert Frost

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435: 4 Forms Of Peace To Ease Anxiety Sep 02, 2018

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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

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What is anxiety?

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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

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434: Mini Coaching Session With ACP Listener Jessica Aug 29, 2018

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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.

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What is anxiety?

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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

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