The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

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.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:People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ~George Bernard Shaw 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 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.To learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program What is anxiety?Quote:Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.-James Baldwin 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 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.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 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 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 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.To learn more go to:http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program What is anxiety?Quote:Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find. -Ann Patchett 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, 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.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 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 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 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.