Understanding Depression Episodes

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of facing and feeling the emotional difficulties we encounter to grow and heal in our lives. This episode draws heavily on an article from Dr. David Hanscom concerning the importance of processing emotional pain to fully integrate and overcome such pain (and keep it from reemerging in other pathological forms later in our lives). Listen in for remarkable insight into why it is so important to feel the difficult emotions we so desperately try to a...

Gina discusses the immense power that hope holds for us in terms of our mental health and overall success and wellness in life. Listen in for scientific research backed knowledge about the near panacea hope can be for you in your daily struggle with anxiety and general life challenges.

In today's episode, Gina discusses the immense power that hope holds for us in terms of our mental health and overall success and wellness in life. Listen in for scientific research backed knowledge about the near panacea hope can be for you in your daily struggle with anxiety and general life challenges. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for supporting The Anxiety Coaches Podcast...

We’re sharing a preview of another podcast we love, The Happiness Lab. On the Happiness Lab, Yale professor and human cognition expert Dr. Laurie Santos explores all the ways we get our happiness wrong and what we can do to really feel better. She walks through the latest evidence-based strategies for improving your mental health, sharing practical advice on what will really bring more joy. In her latest New Year season of The Happiness Lab, Laurie tackles how to listen to the inner voice of wh...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of gratitude in our anxiety recovery journey and shares a number of findings regarding how and why gratitude helps so much. Included are recommendations for how to increase the amount of gratitude in your life. Listen in to learn how gratitude can help you in your anxiety recovery today! Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for suppor...

Gina discusses how to find and keep your sense of peace and calm during trying times of uncertainty and often disturbing news. From eating healthy, exercising and getting enough rest to what things to avoid, a range of recommendations are included. Listen in for tips on how to cheer up even during the most dark and disturbing of times.

Gina discusses how to understand feelings and emotions as useful conveyors of information. Through knowing the primordial nature of our basic emotions and using this knowledge as building blocks for our understanding of secondary emotions (generally extensions of these basic emotions) we can come to derive great benefits and self-knowledge from monitoring our emotional state. Listen in for tips on improving your emotional self-understanding and how to benefit from it!

In today's episode, Gina discusses how to understand feelings and emotions as useful conveyors of information. Through knowing the primordial nature of our basic emotions and using this knowledge as building blocks for our understanding of secondary emotions (generally extensions of these basic emotions) we can come to derive great benefits and self-knowledge from monitoring our emotional state. Listen in for tips on improving your emotional self-understanding and how to benefit from it! This p...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the differences between following your intuition and following your anxiety. Our thoughts and actions can easily be misled by anxiety. With practice, we can learn to follow our deeper intuition (or gut) and lead a more inspired, peaceful life. Listen in for suggestions on how to follow your intuition and leave anxiety behind! This episode is brought to you by Ned Become the best version of yourself and get 15% off Ned products with code ACP. Go to https://hell...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the differences between following your intuition and following your anxiety. Our thoughts and actions can easily be misled by anxiety. With practice, we can learn to follow our deeper intuition (or gut) and lead a more inspired, peaceful life. Listen in for suggestions on how to follow your intuition and leave anxiety behind! This episode is brought to you by Ned Become the best version of yourself and get 15% off Ned products with code ACP. Go to https://hell...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the power of positive affirmations for anxiety sufferers. Included are 13 specific affirmations you can use to help increase your strength and resilience in the face of chronic anxiety. Listen in for this easy to use tool that can contribute greatly to your overall wellness! This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp Better Help is bringing you thousands of counselors for your therapy needs and 10% off your first month! https://betterhelp.com/acp discount code ac...

In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question about infertility and anticipatory anxiety. While this specific question revolves around a pregnancy issue, this episode will be useful to anyone experiencing high stress and anticipatory anxiety. Claire Weekes' Face, Accept, Float and Let Time Pass process is reviewed and tips for helping apply this procedure are shared. Listen in for practical tips on taming your stress induced anxiety today! This episode is brought to you by EverlyWell Che...

In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question about infertility and anticipatory anxiety. While this specific question revolves around a pregnancy issue, this episode will be useful to anyone experiencing high stress and anticipatory anxiety. Claire Weekes' Face, Accept, Float and Let Time Pass process is reviewed and tips for helping apply this procedure are shared. Listen in for practical tips on taming your stress induced anxiety today! This episode is brought to you by EverlyWell Che...

Gina discusses how we can get over anxiety around any illness we may be experiencing. Sickness can be highly anxiety provoking and how we think about ourselves and the illness and discomfort we have can have a big influence on our overall experience and even how quickly we can heal ourselves. Included are a number of mini-meditations to help you reframe your illness and think of it in a new light.

In today's episode, Gina discusses how we can get over anxiety around any illness we may be experiencing. Sickness can be highly anxiety provoking and how we think about ourselves and the illness and discomfort we have can have a big influence on our overall experience and even how quickly we can heal ourselves. Included are a number of mini-meditations to help you reframe your illness and think of it in a new light. This episode is brought to you by Ned Become the best version of yourself and ...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of being willing and able to experience emotions that are not always particularly pleasant. The issue of false beliefs about difficult emotions is identified. If we can understand that these faulty, worrisome beliefs are faulty, we can more easily come to accept and experience difficult emotions. Listen in to learn to become more comfortable with these difficult emotions and embrace the totality of your experience today! BetterHelp Better Help i...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance of being willing and able to experience emotions that are not always particularly pleasant. The issue of false beliefs about difficult emotions is identified. If we can understand that these faulty, worrisome beliefs are faulty, we can more easily come to accept and experience difficult emotions. Listen in to learn to become more comfortable with these difficult emotions and embrace the totality of your experience today! BetterHelp Better Help i...

Gina discusses the value of self-compassion, especially in the face of stress and anxiety. Mindfulness and self-kindess are among the chief ways we can implement self-compassion. Listen in for specific verbal prompts that will help keep you mind in a self-supportive state, rather than a harmful, self-denigrating state.

In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of self-compassion, especially in the face of stress and anxiety. Mindfulness and self-kindness are among the chief ways we can implement self-compassion. Listen in for specific verbal prompts that will help keep you mind in a self-supportive state, rather than a harmful, self-denigrating state. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp Better Help brings thousands of counselors for your therapy needs and 10% off your first month! https://betterhelp.c...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance positive thinking can have for our anxiety recovery. A number of powerful positive thinking prompts are provided. Listen in, start thinking more positively and reduce your anxiety today! Ned Become the best version of yourself and get 15% off Ned products with code ACP. Go to https://helloned.com/ACP or enter code ACP at checkout. BetterHelp Better Help is bringing you thousands of counselors for your therapy needs and 10% off your first month!...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the importance positive thinking can have for our anxiety recovery. A number of powerful positive thinking prompts are provided. Listen in, start thinking more positively and reduce your anxiety today! Ned Become the best version of yourself and get 15% off Ned products with code ACP. Go to https://helloned.com/ACP or enter code ACP at checkout. BetterHelp Better Help is bringing you thousands of counselors for your therapy needs and 10% off your first month!...

In today's episode, Gina discusses intrusive thoughts, what they are and how to move past them. Intrusive thoughts are often brought on by additional stress and those suffering from anxiety are often more vulnerable to them. These thoughts often involve disturbing content relating to those we care most about (and ourselves). Listen in for tips on how to minimize the disturbance caused by these thoughts! This episode is brought to you by Calm For listeners of the show, Calm is offering a special...

In today's episode, Gina discusses intrusive thoughts, what they are and how to move past them. Intrusive thoughts are often brought on by additional stress and those suffering from anxiety are often more vulnerable to them. These thoughts often involve disturbing content relating to those we care most about (and ourselves). Listen in for tips on how to minimize the disturbance caused by these thoughts! This episode is brought to you by Calm For listeners of the show, Calm is offering a special...

In today's episode, Gina discusses the causes of negative self-talk, especially for the anxious, and shares techniques for reducing and eliminating such self-talk. Replacing such negative self-talk with affirmative self-talk can be very helpful. Several examples of both negative and positive self-talk are included as are strategies for reducing the negative thoughts and strengthening the positive thoughts. EverlyWell Check out the healthy Everlywell offer for listeners of the show, Everlywell i...