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June 11, 2025

1149: Anxiety Is Not A Life Sentence: Healing Is Real

In today's episode, Gina helps listeners with anxiety know that they do not have something wrong with them or their bodies or brains. Healing from chronic anxiety is possible and you can feel better and more balanced for ...
June 8, 2025

1148: The Anxiety of Attachment: Letting Go with Compassion

In today's episode, Gina discusses the important topic of attachment and how this common mental phenomenon intertwines itself with anxiety. Too much attachment can cause anxiety to worsen substantially. Learning to let go...
June 4, 2025

1147: Classic ACP Some Days, You Just Have Nothing--Comments On Leo Babautas Post

In today's episode Gina reads and comments on the writer Leo Babauta's post: Some Days, You Just Have Nothing looking at it through the eyes of someone with anxiety. Leo's post shows just how normal it is to have painful ...
June 1, 2025

1146: Tiny Steps Through Fear: Turning Anxiety into Confidence

In today's episode, Gina identifies the tendency for anxiety to bring new fears into our lives. She also shares the idea that there is an opportunity to undo our fears (and reverse anxiety) through a step by step process....
May 28, 2025

1145: Classic ACP 8 Ways Positive Actions Help Reduce Anxiety

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 ...
May 25, 2025

1144: Classic ACP Loving Your Anxious Lizard Brain For More Peace And Calm

In today's episode, Gina covers the important topic of the lizard brain and how to handle it to feel better now. The three stages of the brain are defined and the relationship between the lizard brain and anxiety is discu...
May 21, 2025

1143: Feeling the Feelings: The Hidden Key to Healing Anxiety

In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of acknowledging and experiencing our emotions around various circumstances in our lives. Repressed emotions can affect our bodies and minds for long periods of time, after we ...
May 18, 2025

1142: Am I Going Crazy? - A Grounding Conversation On Anxiety And Panic

In today's episode, Gina discusses the fears around the thoughts "Am I going crazy?" and its close relatives that people with anxiety often suffer with. Specific advice is provided on how to deal with these thoughts and it i...
May 14, 2025

1141: Classic Acp Getting Beyond Anxiety

In today's episode, Gina discusses the overall process of getting beyond anxiety. Fundamental to this discussion is the distinction between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. All the tools we study through ACP...
May 11, 2025

1140: Rewiring Anxiety: Claire Weekes Meets Polyvagal Theory

In today's episode, Gina discusses Dr. Claire Weekes' monumental approach to overcoming and healing anxiety in the context of Dr. Stephen Porges' science based lens of Polyvagal Theory. Claire Weekes' approach to overcoming ...
May 7, 2025

1139: Classic ACP 14 Tips For Dealing With Surging Stress

In today's episode, Gina shares 14 steps to help you handle the high stress of the contemporary world. From caffeine elimination and increased sleep to counting to ten and other simple ideas. these steps will help you get a grip during moments of intense stress. Listen in today and become better ab…
May 4, 2025

1138: Understanding the Sensitized Nervous System

In today's episode, Gina discusses how the nervous system can become sensitized and more vulnerable to everyday occurrences. Once the nervous system becomes sensitized, it is easy to fall into the fear-adrenaline-fear cycle ...
April 30, 2025

1137: Classic ACP Are Your Feeling Anxious or Highly Sensitive Part 2

In today's episode, Gina continues her discussion of anxiety and being a highly sensitive person. The list of signs of being a highly sensitive person is completed and a number of tips for how to cope with being a highly sen...
April 27, 2025

1136: Classic ACP Are Your Feeling Anxious or Highly Sensitive Part 1

In today's episode, Gina offers listeners a number of thoughtful quotes taken from authors of books covering the topic of highly sensitive persons. Additionally, the beginning of a list of 21 signs of being a highly sensitiv...
April 23, 2025

1135: The Quiet Power of Expressing Anxiety: The Pennebaker Way

In today's episode, Gina discusses how to provide yourself with a highly therapeutic, mentally healing process through writing in a journal. The work of psychologist James Pennebaker on the power of expressive writing is inc...
April 20, 2025

1134: Wisdom for the Soul: A Multi-Tradition Meditation

In today's episode, Gina shares an extremely peaceful meditation that includes spiritual passages from a multitude of traditions. These spiritual statements will help ground you in your own benevolence, as you intend the end...
April 16, 2025

1133: Classic Acp 3 Ways To Stop Fearing Other People's Opinions

In today's episode, Gina discusses letting go of what-if questions, particularly in the context of other people's thoughts. It is very important to remember that we are not capable of reading others minds, at least not in an...
April 13, 2025

1132: From Overwhelm to Ease: Three Practices for a Calmer Life

In today's episode, GIna shares three simple practices to help listeners develop a calmer, more peaceful life. These practices include meditation (in this case, with a spiritual passage), slowing down and training the senses...
April 9, 2025

1131: The Power of Mantra: Healing Peace and Inner Calm

In today's episode, Gina discusses the power of mantra and how to use one. Drawing on the work of Eknath Eswaran, the fundamentals of what a mantra is and how they are beneficial are covered. Also, how to select a mantra for yourself is also discussed. Several example mantras are provided that y…
April 6, 2025

1130: Classic ACP 5 Ways to Keep Negativity at Bay

In today's episode, Gina shares five tips for reducing the influence of negative thinking in our lives. Negative thinking is often associated with keeping us in the anxiety loop. These easy to implement strategies will help...
April 2, 2025

1129: Healing the Modern Brain: Dr. Drew Ramsey on Mental Fitness and Anxiety Part 3

In today's show, Gina shares the third and final part of her interview with Dr. Drew Ramsey, nutritional psychiatrist and author of a new book about mental fitness Healing the Modern Brain . Dr. Ramsey shares the rest of his...
March 30, 2025

1128: Healing the Modern Brain: Dr. Drew Ramsey on Mental Fitness and Anxiety Part 2

In today's episode, Gina shares part two of her interview with Dr. Drew Ramsey, nutritional psychiatrist and author interested in helping people enhance their mental health through building up their mental fitness. Some of t...
March 26, 2025

1127: Healing the Modern Brain: Dr. Drew Ramsey on Mental Fitness and Anxiety Part 1

In today's episode, Gina interviews Dr. Drew Ramsey, a psychiatrist specializing in nutritional psychiatry and mental fitness. The connection between the food we eat and our mental health is extremely important and Dr. Ramse...
March 23, 2025

1126: Struggling with Anxiety: These Affirmations for Safety Strength and Peace Can Help

Gina touches on a special category of affirmations: those designed for safety, strength and peace. These affirmations can help strengthen neural pathways that promote calmness and stability. By reciting affirmations, we actually change our brain and make it more resilient. Listen in and become s…