The Anxiety Podcast

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TAP 147 - Ben Greenfield on Heart Rate Variability, Adrenal Fatigue, Fitness For Life & Cold Water Oct 18, 2016

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Summary:

In this episode I speak to Ben Greenfield about all sorts of ways to reduce stress and improve your health. We talk about heart rate variability, adrenal fatigue, how you can incorporate fitness into your life and we touch on getting into cold water.

Ben Greenfield is an ex-bodybuilder, Ironman triathlete, Spartan racer, coach, speaker and author of the New York Times Bestseller "Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health and Life" (http://www.BeyondTrainingBook.com).

In 2008, Ben was voted as NSCA's Personal Trainer of the year and in 2013 and 2014 was named by Greatist as one of the top 100 Most Influential People In Health And Fitness.

Ben blogs and podcasts at http://www.BenGreenfieldFitness.com, and resides in Spokane, WA with his wife and twin boys.

Links:

One of the books Ben mentions "True to Form" https://www.amazon.com/True-Form-Foundation-Training-Sustained/dp/0062315315

Ben's Heart Rate Variability App: https://greenfieldfitnesssystems.com/product/naturebeat-heart-rate-variability-tracker/

Podcast episode on how to use HRV: https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/2014/09/how-to-use-hrv/

Ben's book "Beyond Training": http://beyondtrainingbook.com/

In this particular episode you will learn:

- Ben talks about how he tracks his respiratory rate and starts his day with deep breathing

- How Ben uses a essential oil diffuser

- What heart rate variability is and how that works

- How we need to stop looking at screens for too long as it can strain the eyes

- Ben discusses some testing that he uses

- What is adrenal fatigue and how could it be affecting you

- How much is too much when it comes to exercise

- What type of exercise should we be doing

- What Ben's week of exercise looks like

- How Ben incorporates exercise into his life every day

- We discuss the benefits of cold water exposure

- "You increase your bodies ability to be able to handle stress"

TAP 146 - 7 Ways To Disconnect Oct 16, 2016

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Summary:

In this episode I talk about some tactics you can use to disconnect from being online. Being connected all the time increases levels of anxiety and stress. These are things I've tried and found to be very beneficial.

Links:

To get my Toolkit to Overcome Anxiety go to - http://timjpcollins.com/free

Please click here to leave a review -http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1031117023

In this particular episode you will learn:

7 Ways To Disconnect:

1 - Set a time in the evening when you'll switch off your phone

2 - Avoid switching on your phone first thing in the morning

3 - Eat the frog - Get your most important task done first

4 - Set aside time for uninterrupted work

5 - Signal to yourself and to others that you're busy (large headphones)

6 - Move social media apps off of the home page of your screen + install the block newsfeed app on your computer

7 - Set expectations on how you'll respond to people

Bonus - Trying writing out messages by hand and then either texting or emailing them

TAP 145 - Stop Trying To Be Perfect Oct 13, 2016

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Summary:

In this episode I talk about how many anxiety sufferers are perfectionists. I get into talking about how we need to lower our expectations and just start. As someone wise said "done is better than perfect."

Links:

To get my Toolkit to Overcome Anxiety go to - http://timjpcollins.com/free

Please click here to leave a review -http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1031117023

In this particular episode you will learn:

- How trying to be perfect comes with a lot of pressure

- How I'd second guess myself when recording the podcast

- When I started the podcast I wasn't ready

- Why you should just start anyway

- Why you should lower your expectations

- That you just need to proceed in spite of things never being perfect

- How many people either want it to be perfect or they don't start

- Caring so much about what other people think will cause you to stand still

- How the stars are never aligned 100%

- "Done is better than perfect"

- "If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product/ service/ thing, you've launched too late"

TAP 144 - Cyndi O'Meara - What's With Wheat? Oct 11, 2016

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Summary:

In this episode I speak to Cyndi O'Meara about how wheat affects us. We get into farming, cultures and how they eat, physical & mental health, monocultures and most importantly what you can do about it.

Cyndi O'Meara is an internationally acclaimed nutritionist, author, documentary maker and founder of Changing Habits, a health and nutrition business. She has been researching and challenging diet conventions to inspire people to make smarter food choices for more than 30 years.

Changing Habits, started in 1990 with Cyndi's regular nutritional newspaper column. In 1998 Cyndi self-published Changing Habits Changing Lives, which is an international best-seller, selling over 60,000 copies to date and translated into 3 languages.

This year Cyndi launched a documentary 'What's With Wheat' which investigates the growing epidemic of wheat intolerance and why after eating wheat for thousands of years, it has been linked to so many health problems.

The documentary features 14 global experts in science, research, health and well-being from Australia, United States, England, America, New Zealand and India including Dr Perlmutter, Sarah Ballantyne, Dr Terry Wahls, Dr Natasha Campbell McBride, and Dr Vandina Shiva who shed the light on how the harvesting and processing of wheat has changed over the years.

The documentary 'What's With Wheat' warns that modern agricultural practices of wheat growing, the incresased use of chemicals and pesticides on crops has produced a product that is making people more susceptible to disease.

Over 150,000 people globally saw it within the first week of its launch.

Links:

What's with Wheat Trailer & More Info: https://whatswithwheat.com/

In this particular episode you will learn:

- How Cyndi took control of her own diet to overcome all of the issues she was having including anxiety

- Cyndi noticed that her anxiety was stoked by wheat

- "Health is not separated by the neck"

- Cyndi talks about how we would gain and lose weight seasonally essentially to continue the species

- Why alcohol affect some people more than others

- How cultures have adapted to their local diets around the world

- How Dr Kelloggs impacted eating habits

- How Ancel Keys demonized fat and pushed low fat diets. Making sugar a dominant food source

- What are monocultures

- What is Glyphosate, how is it used and what it does to us

- "We've exchanged infectious disease for chronic disease"

- Cyndi explains what the neural tree is

- What you can do to get started

TAP 143 - #asktimjp How Do I Stop Having Self-Limiting Beliefs? Oct 09, 2016

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Summary:

In this episode I talk about how we tend to focus on the negative things that have happened in our lives. By book marking these limiting beliefs we creative a narrative which doesn't serve us. But we can change it, I discuss how we actually get to choose.

Links:

To get my Toolkit to Overcome Anxiety go to - http://timjpcollins.com/free

Please click here to leave a review -http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1031117023

In this particular episode you will learn:

- Why we focus on the negative things that happen to us

- How anxiety puts limiting beliefs on steroids

- I discuss some examples of me keeping track only of times when I failed

- How I thought I was a fraud and could get exposed at any time

- How setbacks can affect our confidence

- How there is possibility for change

- You don't have to believe it 100% to start today

Seth Godin Quotes:

"The narrative is up to you, if it isn't working, why are you using it?"

"The narrative isn't done to you, the narrative is something you choose, change the narrative and change the game."

- Pick the brave moments to focus on

- Why you need to trust the process

TAP 142 - Growing Through Adversity Oct 06, 2016

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Summary:

In this episode I talk about how we can grow through adversity. I discuss a video I watched on youtube about how lobsters grow through being uncomfortable, and what we can learn from them.

Links:

Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski On Responding To Stress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aDXM5H-Fuw

To get my Toolkit to Overcome Anxiety go to - http://timjpcollins.com/free

Please click here to leave a review - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1031117023

In this particular episode you will learn:

- How lobsters get confined and under pressure and that's what causes them to cast off their small shell and grow

- How we ourselves can recognize adversity as an opportunity to grow

- If lobsters had doctors they wouldn't grow

- How we can attempt to avoid adversity by taking medications

- Why we need to address the adversity instead of bypassing it

- We have the opportunity to view challenges as something positive

TAP 141 - Matt Powell - Open In Case Of Life - 8 Concepts To Change Your Future Oct 04, 2016

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Summary:

In this episode I speak to Matt Powell about 8 concepts to change your future. Drawing on his vast experience in the martial arts world, he's able to give some insight that is incredibly valuable and leads to a solid conversation.

Links:

Open in Case of Life PDF: http://pastless.net/MatthewPowellsOpenincaseof.pdf

Matts book: https://www.amazon.com/Undo-undo-your-past-future/dp/098832167X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475542912&sr=1-1&keywords=undo

In this particular episode you will learn:

- How Matt has taken lessons he learnt in the martial arts world and is able to use that to help people in their lives

In Case of Life - 8 concepts to change your future

1 - Bad Communication

- Stop Being Right

- Stop Positioning

- Stop Being Right, start finding consensus

2 - Uncertainty about the future

- The siren song of the past

- Change your reference point

- Be secure in your reference point

3 - Feeling anxious

- Unsettled

- Develop the contrast

- Spasm

- Chase how good tomorrow can be

4 - Not having a choice

- Your most powerful weapon

- When being two faced is a good thing

- Engage your own two-face

5 - Being Labeled

- You choose to be powerless

- Purpose > Label

- Removing a label

6 - "I didn't ask for this to happen"

- You have control, if you exercise it

7 - Being indecisive

- The root of decision: decide

8 - Feeling lost in life

- Finding purpose

- True north

- Navigating the big and small world

TAP 140 - Why Online Support Groups Make Anxiety Worse Oct 02, 2016

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Summary:

In this episode I talk about why online support groups can make anxiety worse. I talk about how we often go looking for solutions and come away with more worries than we started with. I also suggest what you might want to look for in a good group.

Links:

To get my Toolkit to Overcome Anxiety go to - http://timjpcollins.com/free

Please click here to leave a review - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1031117023

In this particular episode you will learn:

- How groups can often put things in your head you hadn't even thought of yet

- Why groups should be a positive place to share what's going on. Where they can be vulnerable in a safe environment

- Why some people don't actually want the help

- Why you need to take care of yourself first and being triggered by others will slow the process

- If you're in a group that is not serving you, leave

- I talk about putting on your own oxygen mask first

- There are no magic solutions out there

TAP 139 - Why You Should Embrace Boredom Sep 29, 2016

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Summary:

In this episode I talk about why we should embrace boredom. I discuss how today there are so many ways to be distracted that it's more important than ever to not be. I also explain how embracing boredom is like embracing anxiety.

Links:

To get my Toolkit to Overcome Anxiety go to - http://timjpcollins.com/free

Please click here to leave a review - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1031117023

Cal Newports Books: http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/

In this particular episode you will learn:

- Why we constantly get distracted by novel stimuli

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Ellen Parr

- There are benefits from boredom in terms of creativity

- Consider that you may be bypassing feelings altogether

- When in your life are you actually 100% present?

- What does it mean to have a crutch person

- Why embracing boredom is like embracing anxiety

TAP 138 - Jake Heilbrunn on Why College Causes Anxiety Sep 27, 2016

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To get my Toolkit to Overcome Anxiety go to - http://timjpcollins.com/free

Please click here to leave a review - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1031117023

Summary:

In this episode I speak to Jake Heilbrunn how he dropped out of college at 18 due to anxiety and pressure. The expectations made him feel out of place and led to some physical stress. He then decided to go backpacking in central america.

Links:

Jake's site: http://www.jakeheilbrunn.com/

Jake's book: https://www.amazon.com/Off-Beaten-Trail-Soul-Searching-Journey/dp/0997761202/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1473947184&sr=8-4&keywords=off+the+beaten+trail

In this particular episode you will learn:

- How Jake broke out in rashes when he started college

- What made Jake quit college and go backpacking at the age of 18

- Why Jake decided to travel without a cell phone

- How a conversation with a career councillor allowed Jake the permission to go

She asked him 2 questions:

"If you left school to go traveling what's the worst that could happen"

"What's the best thing that could happen if you go"