Podcast Episodes Catalog
Nov. 19, 2023
979: Redefining Anxiety Treatment Breathwork's Vital Role
Gina discusses the immense value of a variety of breathing techniques for anxiety recovery and mental health in general. Mainstream healthcare services fail to recommend these low cost, research backed breathing techniques …
Nov. 15, 2023
978: Compassion Meditation A Key to Stress Reduction
Gina discusses the many benefits of a Compassion Meditation practice. These benefits include reduced stress and anxiety, self-soothing and enhanced emotional resilience. A step by step guide on how to practice compassion m…
Nov. 12, 2023
977: Overwhelming Anxiety Strategies for Coping and Distraction
Gina discusses key strategies for coping with intense anxiety. Radical acceptance and realizing our power in the present moment in particular are discussed. The appropriate use of distraction is also considered, and it is …
Nov. 8, 2023
976: Anxiety at the Table How Mealtime Stress Affects Our Lives
Gina discusses the importance of maintaining a peaceful, harmonious mealtime to help alleviate stress and enhance anxiety recovery. Mealtimes can be a major source of stress and anxiety for many, especially with spouses and…
Nov. 5, 2023
975: Unseen Anxiety The Lingering Impact of Alcohol Even When Not Drinking
Gina discusses alcohol and how it can affect people with anxiety. Alcohol has a wide range of effects and can affect different individuals in different ways. One interesting paradox with alcohol is how it can suppress cort…
Nov. 1, 2023
974: The Transformative Benefits of Sharing Your Anxiety Healing Journey
Gina discusses the usefulness of sharing with others various aspects of your anxiety healing journey. Sharing the healing tools you have learned to cope and reduce your anxiety can help reinforce this knowledge in you, in a…
Oct. 29, 2023
973: Calming the Storm Within 15 Strategies for Stress-Free Living
Gina discusses a range of strategies to help you cultivate a stress-free life. These strategies are often easy to implement and can help keep any anxiety at a minimum. From building up your personal psycho-physical resilie…
Oct. 25, 2023
972: Finding Peace in the Present Moment: A Listener's Journey
Gina discusses a listener's email commenting on a previous episode about living in the present moment. This previous episode was in response to a listener question about aging and uncertainty, particularly in regard to medi…
Oct. 22, 2023
971: How Subconscious Anxiety Behaviors Impact You
Gina discusses the importance of the subconscious for our overall mental wellness. We can discount stress and other things in such a way that we are oblivious to the causes of anxiety symptoms emerging in our lives. Denial, …
Oct. 18, 2023
970: Sanctuary Trauma and Anxiety: When Safe Spaces Turn Distressing
Gina discusses the concept of sanctuary trauma, a form of trauma that occurs when an individual's safe space becomes a location of further trauma. Trauma is often involved in the development of mental health problems, inclu…
Oct. 15, 2023
969: Unmasking the Silent Stressors: How Anxiety Behaviors Drive Stress
Gina discusses common anxiety related behaviors that lead to increased stress and therefore, increased anxiety. Things like avoidance, procrastination and overthinking are behaviors that can easily exacerbate our stress and…
Oct. 11, 2023
968: Healing Metaphors How Nature's Lessons Illuminate Mental Health
Gina discusses metaphors and how to use them to understand mental health and healing. Particular healing metaphors from listener emails are included for illustrative purposes. Exercise for conceiving of your own positive m…
Oct. 8, 2023
967: Unlocking Your Soul's Healing Potential With Stillness
Gina discusses strategies for enabling your soul's inherent capacity to provide you with healing. Through increasing our time reflecting on and embracing stillness, we can increase and activate our innate healing abilities.…
Oct. 4, 2023
966: The Flip Side Of Anxiety's What If's
Gina discusses the tendency of the anxious mind to present individuals with terrifying "what if's". By so doing the anxious mind works itself up further and drives the body into fearful overdrive. In addition to deflating …
Oct. 1, 2023
965: Where Does All The Stress Go
Gina discusses what happens to stress that accumulates in our minds and bodies as we go about our lives. If we do not take time out to provide ourselves with a variety of self-care techniques, we may find this stress buildi…
Sept. 27, 2023
964: Anxiety's Modus Operandi Overestimating Threats, Underestimating Abilities
Gina focuses in on one of anxiety's most common modes of operation: exaggerating threats while underestimating one's ability to respond to such threats. With an understanding of this tendency, those suffering from anxiety c…
Sept. 24, 2023
963: Listener Epiphany About Feeling Safe In The Present Moment
Gina responds to a listener email that shares a realization relating to her safety and wellness in the present moment in the face of anxiety. The listener has clearly come to an understanding of some of the core principles …
Sept. 20, 2023
962: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Anxiety Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
Gina discusses the value of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and acupuncture for treating chronic anxiety. Many people in the West may not be familiar with how TCM and acupuncture works. This episode clarifies the approa…
Sept. 17, 2023
961: From Random to Recognizable Discovering the Roots of Anxiety
Gina responds to a listener email commenting on his own struggle with anxiety-inducing thoughts. The listener suggests the common thread running through the most distressing thoughts he has is that they involve future (often…
Sept. 13, 2023
960: Understanding the Differences Introversion, Shyness, and Social Anxiety Disorder
Gina discusses the differences between key terms describing people with varying degrees of anxiety: Introversion, Shyness and Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). There is generally a spectrum of intensity of anxiety relating to …
Sept. 10, 2023
959: Harnessing Exercise to Tame Anxiety
Gina discusses the importance of exercise in the anxiety recovery journey. Exercise can be a complex topic for anxiety sufferers as it can very often trigger anxiety! The key to overcoming exercise induced anxiety lies in …
Sept. 6, 2023
958: Growing Out of Anxiety - Embracing the Journey to a Brighter Self
Gina discusses the journey of anxiety recovery from a different perspective: one that is open to the possibility that our trouble with chronic anxiety and panic may actually serve us as a profound instrument of growth and te…
Sept. 3, 2023
957: A Breathing Anchor for Your Anxious Mind
Gina shares a guided meditation with listeners that focuses on using the breath as an anchor. The meditation unfolds over time with guidance to return awareness to the breath, thereby maintaining mindfulness throughout. Im…
Aug. 30, 2023
956: Facing Anxiety Head On - Unraveling Its Many Expressions
Gina discusses the medical and psychological definitions of anxiety as found in the DSM. While healing from anxiety does not require these special categorizations mainstream healthcare attaches to it, it can be useful to un…