The Anxiety Coaches Podcast - Relief From Anxiety, Panic, And Ptsd

Today, Coach Gina takes a look at how we drop into isolation and how it can work against us as we move through the phases of clearing anxiety-panic.  Today's tip for making progress is to go on a weekly adventure: museum, zoo, train ride, etc, over time you can go to bigger things (such as a concert). A part time job, a church, a hobby, all could be useful.   Quote:  It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives. -THOMAS MERTON  To learn more go to: Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Coach Gina explores the importance of shifting out of anxiety focused living. If you are seeing things through an attitude of gratitude lens, your experience of the world is by default much more peaceful. Your thoughts can act as self-fulfilling prophecies, especially with expectations of anxiety (based on plans for future actions or environments). Not everyone is aware of their expectations for anxiety and that they help precipitate anxious states. Action steps to change the anxiety lens you are looking though: 1) Awareness: you need to be aware you are doing it and being so will remove the power from the lens 2) Relaxation: some kind of daily meditation or relaxation is a critical and very helpful first step that can change your brain and view your environment differently 3) Don't just take off the lens of anxiety: replace it with something better (gratitude, peace, happy thoughts) Quote:  I focus on perspective and gratitude. -Gary Vaynerchuk  To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://w

 Relaxation! If you think you can't do it listen in for some super easy ideas for relaxing no matter where you are. Using your body as the means to convey the message that all is well. Quote:  Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are. -Pema Chödrön  To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 What to do when you are faced with your medications no longer working? Everything we do here at Anxiety Coaches Podcast can be done if you are on or not on medications. Today Gina answers a question a listener sent to us on the Send Us a Voicemail Tab on the website. Send us YOUR question and Gina may answer it on the show! Resource Mentioned: Hope and Help For Your Nerves http://amzn.to/2zBLury Quote:  The hope that is left after all your hopes are gone -- that is pure hope, rooted in the heart. -BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST  To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where is your focus? Listen in today and hear how a focus on gratitude can be a salve to your soul and move you away from fearful thinking. -Four action steps to take to use gratitude to help with anxiety 1) Journaling 2) Be consistent (make a good habit out of it) 3) Be easy on yourself 4) Don't be superficial Quote:  Gratitude brings us home to ourselves. -Guri Mehta Resource Mentioned: Joy On Demand http://amzn.to/2yxu38v    To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. If you would like to leave a question or a comment go to the homepage of our website and tell us!   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  To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Use your digital detox as an awareness practice! We love our screens and they serve us well let's keep it that way with awareness.  Article mentioned in today's episode Digital Detox  Quote:  One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress. – Viggo Mortensen  To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Many people do not understand anxiety, even anxiety sufferers do not understand anxiety. In this episode, Gina discusses this issue and how to bring the topic up with friends and family. Seven action steps you can take when telling people about your anxiety: 1) Don't be afraid to tell people 2) Be clear that you are not seeking help from people 3) Don't be too serious about it 4) Let them know you realize it will be hard for them to understand 5) Reassure them that the anxiety does not mean you are fragile and must be excluded from activities 6) Be open to questions 7) Let them know nobody would choose to live this way and that you do not want to live with anxiety Quote:  What a wonderful privilege to have the weaknesses of a man and the serenity of a god! -Seneca  To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have more access to media today than ever before. It's up to us to decide what we let in and what we believe! The negative bias of most media is anxiety producing, to say the least, listen in and take control over your media. How to avoid catastrophic reactions: 1) Limit how often we watch news reports 2) Look at reputable information (not just any and all press) 3) Base things on truth and not just your feelings Quote:  Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. -Jim Morrison  To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Negative and anxious thoughts can be dealt with by bringing happiness into the equation! Today Gina reviews a post by Dr Joe Mercola on how to be happier. Quote:  Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Links Mentioned In Today's Episode: Dr. Joe Mercolas' post on happiness http://bit.ly/2igXHrk  To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/         Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You have anxiety moving through you, you feel anxiety! You are not anxiety. -Action steps to not define yourself by anxiety and maintain your self 1) Acceptance of the anxiety state: its ok and you're allowed to experience it, and eventually move on 2) Mindfulness: using relaxation and meditation to improve your state 3) To actually take and make a process out of the differentiation between "I am anxious" and "I feel anxious" 4) Spend time laughing, petting your pets, being grateful (do something to remind yourself that you are more than your anxious state) Quote:  Never confuse yourself with visions of an entire lifetime at once. -Marcus Aurelius  To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Which came first the anger or the anxiety. Calm them both with these 5 tips. 5 tips for how to handle calming down anger and anxiety: 1) Accept reality 2) Allow others to be who they are and don't try to force them to be who you think they should be 3) Don't let your happiness depend on other people and situations that you cannot control 4) Put on the brakes (count slow breaths, or take a timeout) 5) Change your inner dialog: what are you saying to yourself? Stay positive! Quote:  Anger and fear are often expressed in our attempts to control something. -Thom Rutledge  To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A short meditation to use whenever you need a mindful check-in. This is also a great meditation to use as you increase your time during your practice. Quote: At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills. - Ringo Starr   To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Calm your Dr Office visit anxiety with these 5 tips. White Coat Syndrome is that uneasy feeling and spike in stress hormones while to anticipate your physician appointment. Quote:  As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps to wire the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn’t just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself, honey. This is hardcore science. -Dr. Christiane Northrup To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being awake in the middle of the night can be unnerving. There are 7 tips in today's episode to help you get the best rest possible even if you wake and can't get back to sleep! Quote:  It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. John Steinbeck To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the most asked questions in the group is will the panic attacks make me go crazy? The good news is No! Listen in and find out why. Quote:  The best cure for the body is a quiet mind - Napoleon Bonaparte To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How is it that our mind can cause so much pain and anxiety? Today we look at somatic disorders and TMS (The Mind-body Syndrome). Quote:  The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.-Carl Rogers Resources Mentioned: Dr. John Sarno's The Divided Mind From Amazon: http://amzn.to/2yQ6yrQ From Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleACP (free with Audible's one-month free trial...keep the book!)  To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Expectations and goals when do they help and when do they hurt? Listen in for the value of being aware of when you expectations are dragging you towards the wormhole of anxiety-panic. Quote:  I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you're not in it to live up to mine.-Bruce Lee   To learn more go to: What is anxiety? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get comfortable for a few moments of guided meditation while seeing the body from a different perspective. We take a look at the thoughts feelings and sensations as they simply pass through the mind and the body. "How To" Meditation Podcasts: https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/309-formal-and-informal-meditations-for-anxiety and https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/164-how-to-ease-into-a-formal-meditation-practice-for-anxiety?rq=meditation To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Attachment keeps us from healing and clearing our anxiety-panic listen in today to learn the 4 practices to get unattached! Quote: A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done. -Ram Das Resources Mentioned:  4 practices to help ease the hold of attachment post https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/attachment Meditation Podcasts: https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/309-formal-and-informal-meditations-for-anxiety and https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/episodes/164-how-to-ease-into-a-formal-meditation-practice-for-anxiety?rq=meditation To learn more go to: What is anxiety? http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/what-is-anxiety/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices