Podcast Episodes Catalog
Aug. 27, 2023
955: Compassion in Action: Managing Anxiety, Yours and Theirs
Gina discusses how to better handle the anxiety of other who we interact with during our day. From children in our care to supervisors at work, knowing how to handle the anxiety and upset of others can help us to avoid our own catastrophic anxiety-panic reactions. Listen in for advice on how to b…
Aug. 23, 2023
954: Examining The Spectrum Of Thought
Gina discusses the spectrum of thoughts from anxious negative thinking, to positive thinking. Between negative and positive thinking lies neutral, mindful thinking. The importance of neutral and positive thinking are discussed as are strategies for encouraging this more benevolent areas of the sp…
Aug. 20, 2023
953: How Interpretation Plays A Role In Stress And Anxiety
Gina discusses how we can use deliberate interpretation to steer our response to various life events and stimuli in the environment in a way that benefits us psychologically. If we don't take active measures to proactively interpret the various factors in our environment, we will continue to succu…
Aug. 16, 2023
952: Reducing Anxious Mind Chatter By Clearing Stuck Energy In Your Body
Gina reveals key principles to help reduce cyclical anxiety driven thinking through clearing out old, stuck energy in the body. The mind and body are highly related to each other and we can improve the functioning of one through gentle manipulation of the other. Through breathing, exercise and ot…
Aug. 13, 2023
951: From Frustration and Fear to Fulfillment: The Authentic Life Approach
Gina discusses the importance of living an authentic life and how increasing our personal authenticity can lead to deeper fulfillment in our lives. Strategies for increasing our authenticity are shared, including reevaluating relationships and identifying other aspects of our lives that have a det…
Aug. 9, 2023
950: The Importance of Recognizing Thinking Traps for Managing Anxiety Part 2
Gina continues her discussion of thought traps and their role in anxiety. The discussion focuses on specific thought traps and their individual caveats. How these thought traps adversely affect us and how to avoid them are included. Listen in and use the knowledge of thought traps to improve you…
Aug. 6, 2023
949: The Importance of Recognizing Thinking Traps for Managing Anxiety Part 1
Gina discusses anxiety thinking traps and how to use knowledge of these thinking traps to improve our anxiety management and anxiety elimination. Thinking traps can arise as a natural response to stressful or negative events in our lives. Sharing our thoughts traps or conducting self-analysis thr…
Aug. 2, 2023
948: Transforming Stress and Anxiety by Embracing Feeling Tones
Gina discusses the Buddhist concept of feeling tones and how this knowledge can enhance our mindfulness practice and speed our anxiety recovery. Pleasant, unpleasant and neutral are basic categories by which we may categorize our conscious experiences. By doing so, we can become more familiar wit…
July 30, 2023
947: Procrastination and Anxiety in Older Adults Listener Q and A
Gina responds to a listener question regarding anxiety, aging and procrastination. This listener in particular seems to struggle with procrastination in retirement and this exacerbates her anxiety. Watching what we eat and drink and taking extra care around our sleep hygine is recommended. Putti…
July 26, 2023
946: Mindful Hormesis: Embracing Stress for Mental Well-Being
Gina discusses the many benefits of hormesis. In the case of anxiety healing and prevention, hormesis involves using small bits of stress to help strengthen our minds and bodies. Learn how to become more adaptive to stress and become more resilient to your anxiety-responses, listen in today!
July 23, 2023
945: Dissociation: Coping Mechanism for Overwhelming Emotions
Gina discusses the relatively common anxiety symptom of dissociation and how to better cope with this distressing experience. Dissociation and derealization are not limited as symptoms to anxiety disorders but occur with other mental health conditions as well, such as depression. Learn that dissoci…
July 19, 2023
944: Manage The Lizard Brain
Gina discusses the lizard brain (the amygdala) and how we can use our capacity for higher reasoning to manage and direct the lizard brain to our advantage. Checking in with ourselves and assessing whether the discomfort we are experiencing is really dangerous can help us reduce lizard brain activa…
July 16, 2023
943: Classic ACP Anxiety Control And Surrender
Gina the dynamics between the experience of need for control over our lives, anxiety and the use of the miraculous technique of surrender to help us calm and overcome anxiety. Byron Katie's thought and work is discussed and Gina provides a number of tips for utilizing the ability of surrender to wh…
July 12, 2023
942: 7 Simple Strategies for Less Stress in Life
Gina discusses seven easy to implement strategies to reduce stress in your life and thereby lessen your anxiety. These are important, logical tools that can have a miraculous impact on improving the overall ease of your life. Don't get bogged down by the little annoyances in life. Use these stra…
July 9, 2023
941: Healing from Health Anxiety: Trusting Your Body's Resilience Listener Q and A
Gina responds to a listener question regarding health anxiety. There is often much knowledge in our minds regarding our own personal history and how it can relate to health. Anxiety can often take advantage of our own self-knowledge and health related knowledge we have picked up in our lives, inc…
July 5, 2023
940: Understanding Anxiety via Claire Weekes: A Compassionate Perspective on Healing
Gina reviews Claire Weekes' work on anxiety recovery. Weekes' basic program of facing, accepting, floating and letting time pass is a potent game plan for many individuals' anxiety recovery journey. Listen in to learn more about Claire Weekes' approach to anxiety recovery and improve your own anx…
July 2, 2023
939: Flying with Confidence: Practical Steps to Overcome Your Fear
Gina provides a step by step guide on how to overcome the anxiety we may be facing surrounding air travel. From understanding our fear and gathering knowledge about the process of air travel to gradually exposing ourselves to the air travel process and studying and implementing relaxation techniqu…
June 28, 2023
938: Finding Stability and Serenity: The Role of Grounding in Managing Anxiety
Gina discusses the useful heath and wellness practice of grounding. The essentially free and generally easy practice of putting your body in contact with the earth (such as by walking barefoot on the grass) can have surprising heath benefits. Listen in today and discover how grounding may help al…
June 25, 2023
937: Throat Symptoms: Anxiety's Influence on Globus Sensation and LPR
Gina discusses the lump in the throat and other anxiety-related throat symptoms. These disturbing symptoms can exacerbate anxiety and cause unnecessary physical and mental suffering in those who experience them. Listen in for advice on how to interpret these sensations and how to eliminate them w…
June 21, 2023
936: Transforming Fear into Strength Traversing Anxiety's Steep Challenges
Gina shares a practice of using a metaphor to better understand and explain our struggles with anxiety. A specific metaphor of a mountain is provided within the episode. Listeners are encouraged do develpo their own metaphors based on their own personal experiences with anxiety. Listen in and ga…
June 18, 2023
935 Nature's Therapy: How Being Near Water Eases Anxiety
Gina discusses the beneficial, healing properties of the perception of water. Water colors, water sounds and water environments are documented to have beneficial properties for mental health and well-being. Listen in for insight on how you can use the beneficial properties of having water in your…
June 14, 2023
934: How the Five Love Languages Can Ease Anxiety in Relationships
Gina discusses the five love languages people prioritize in different ways so listeners can optimize their relationships and in turn reduce anxiety. Understanding how you prefer to be loved and how your significant others prefer to be love can streamline and optimize how we show our love and suppo…
June 11, 2023
933: Exploring the Noting Practice in Meditation
Gina discusses a mindfulness technique known as the noting practice. With this technique, useful during meditation and also as we extend our meditation practice out into our daily consciousness, we take notice of thoughts and sensations as they arise, label them and return our awareness to the bre…
June 7, 2023
932: The Anxiety-Codependency Connection
Gina discusses codependency and how it is often associated with chronic anxiety. Codependency can easily lead to anxiety and a number of reasons why are shared. The characteristics of codependency are included as are questions you can ask yourself to know if you are codependent. Resources for le…