Podcast Episodes Catalog
June 4, 2023
931: Recognizing and Managing Scary Anxious Thoughts Listener Q and A
Gina answers a listener question about how to handle scary thoughts caused by her anxiety. For this listener, meditation is often difficult because the scary thoughts intrude and disturb her while trying to focus on the breath. Recognizing and acknowledging the thoughts as they come and persistin…
May 31, 2023
930: Dropping The Bags of Worries about the Future and Regrets about the Past a Guided Meditation
Gina shares a guided mediation with listeners with a theme of dropping the thoughts that trouble you most to better help you experience peace in the present moment. It is often worries about the future and regret about the past that increases our anxiety to the breaking point. Letting go of thought…
May 28, 2023
929: How Spaciousness Can Reduce Anxiety and Stress
Gina discusses the many ways incorporating more spaciousness in your life can reduce anxiety and stress. How more spaciousness can improve your life, including more freedom to explore and more harmony and balance, is discussed. Constructive steps you can take to increase the amount of spaciousnes…
May 24, 2023
928: From Skepticism to Serenity: Exploring Meditation Techniques That Suit You
Gina shares with listeners a wide variety of different meditation practices in hopes that one will be suitable for you! From seated to walking, guided to silent and many others, at least one of these forms of meditation will work for you! Listen in and move deeper into anxiety recovery by startin…
May 21, 2023
927: Nurturing Positive Self-Worth Despite Anxiety's Challenges
Gina discusses the miracle that cultivating positive self-worth and positive self-talk can be for long term mental health. A number of specific strategies are included for helping to cultivate and maintain a sense of positive self worth regardless of your circumstances. Self-blame for adverse lif…
May 17, 2023
926: Overcoming Anxiety the Stoic Way: Practical Techniques for Inner Peace
Gina offers listeners an introduction to Stoic philosophy that will be of particular value to helping overcome anxiety. Six key principles of Stoic philosophy are identified and discussed as are four books you can read to help you get started with Stoicism. Learn a new way of understanding your l…
May 14, 2023
925: The Art of Waiting and Seeing: Coping with Health Anxiety Listener Q and A
Gina answers a listener question about health anxiety. A useful strategy for coping with health anxiety is shared: the art of waiting and seeing. By becoming more comfortable with the physiological symptoms that so often accompany anxiety, we can prevent the anxiety from snowballing into a greate…
May 10, 2023
924: Why Breathing Too Much Causes Feelings of Panic
Gina discusses the importance of how we breathe in our experience of and recovery from anxiety. Learn the basics of breathing and why slowing down the breath can do wonders for calming our nervous system. Learn how to breathe more through your nose and do so more slowly and reduce your anxiety to…
May 7, 2023
923: From Anxious Mind Clutter to Calm: The Practice of Letting Go
Gina discusses mental clutter and how learning to let go can be highly beneficial for our mental health. Five reasons letting go of unneeded thoughts and worries can be beneficial are discussed. Additionally, a number of practical steps for implementing this process are included. Get started tod…
May 3, 2023
922: Managing Anxiety, Difficult Emotions and Situations with Radical Acceptance
Gina discusses radical acceptance and how we can use this practice to reduce the severity and adverse consequences of anxiety. Radical acceptance is about accepting reality as it is without judgement or resistance. A number of practical steps are shared to help you implement radical acceptance in…
April 30, 2023
921: Knowing Your Happiness and Anxiety Triggers Can Improve Your Life
Gina discusses the importance of focusing on the things that bring happiness and positivity into our lives. By focusing on the things and thoughts that bring us happiness, we bring more benevolent things into our lives and consciousness. Anxiety triggers are contrasted with happiness triggers to …
April 26, 2023
920: Magnesium: A Miracle Mineral for Managing Anxiety
Gina shares knowledge about the useful mineral supplement magnesium. The general benefits of this essential mineral for our minds and bodies are discussed as are the differences between the many various forms that are available in the marketplace. Listen in to discover what magnesium supplement m…
April 23, 2023
919: Classic ACP How To Not Be So Hard On Yourself And Keep Anxiety At Bay
Gina discusses the role of self-criticism in making our anxiety worse and offers a range of practices we can employ today to silence these self-critical voices. Over time we can encourage a new, self-compassionate voice to help us feel better and function better in our day to day lives.
April 19, 2023
918: Exploring the Feel-Good Chemicals in Our Bodies
In today's episode, Gina discusses the chemicals in our body that contribute to our sense of well-being. Serotonin, dopamine, endorphins and oxytocin are all touched upon and how to increase these feel-good chemicals is share...
April 16, 2023
917: Understanding Heart Palpitations Caused by Anxiety
Gina draws heavily from her own personal experience and discusses heart palpitations caused by anxiety. There are many things that can cause heart palpitations in association with anxiety, many that are very common. Eliminating behaviors that may contribute to heart palpitation susceptibility can…
April 12, 2023
916: Breaking the Cycle: How to Choose a Healthy Response to Anxiety
Gina discusses how to develop the ability to choose a healthy response to anxiety when it presents itself. Developing our mindfulness mediation practice will help enable us to choose healthy thoughts in response to our anxiety provoking situations. Once we can master this process, we can tame our…
April 9, 2023
915: OCD or Looping thoughts Listener Q and A
Gina answers a listener question regarding OCD related intrusive, looping thinking. Gina goes through a number of strategies for coping with and solving the issue of obsessive compulsive thinking. Strengthening our mindfulness practice and being willing to tolerate the discomfort of our anxiety a…
April 5, 2023
914: The Benefits of Naming Your Anxiety Developing Self-Awareness and Compassion
Gina responds to a report from a listener regarding naming anxiety with a human name (in this case Betty) and interacting with her anxiety using this name. This strategy is praised, expanded upon and recommended for all listeners to try! Listen in for a new strategy to tackle your anxiety, includ…
April 2, 2023
913: Ocean of Tranquility Guided Sleep Meditation
Gina shares a guided meditation intended to help you drift effortlessly and peacefully to sleep. Listen to Gina's calming, soothing voice as she softly decribes a simple process for falling to sleep. A soft background track of gentle music is included.
March 29, 2023
912: The Power of Gratitude: How It Affects the Reticular Activating System
Gina discusses a critical part of the brain involved in how sensory information affects your anxiety. Known as the reticular activating system or RAS, this brain system can be implicated in both hyperarousal and dysfunctional lack of arousal and awareness. Listen in to learn how to enhance your p…
March 26, 2023
911: Caring for Your Mind: The Vitality of Self-Care
Gina shares a number of self-care practices from a variety of different life categories. This list is truly comprehensive and there may be self-care suggestions that you have yet to hear in this episode. From intellectual and environmental, to social and cultural, you are bound to find some self-…
March 22, 2023
910: Understanding the Stress Response: How Your Brain Reacts to Threats
Gina discusses how the brain reacts to threats and how we can use this knowledge to enhance our resilience. Threats in our environment activate the amygdala which in turn actives our bodily fight or flight response. This can include a hormonal cascade that will enhance our ability to run away fro…
March 19, 2023
909: 6 Ways to Stay Positive When Everyone Else is Negative
In today's episode, Gina shares six strategies for staying positive even in negative social environments. Staying aloof and focusing on your self are some of the ways we can protect ourselves in such situations. Seeking out o...
March 15, 2023
908: Anxious Body Anxious Mind
Gina discusses using our thoughts and our bodies to interrupt the anxiety process in the brain. Remembering that everything we are thinking is not necessarily true and seeking out facts is critical. Learn to ride out the cascade of stress hormones anxiety has triggered in you with conscious breat…