, Gina shares a mini coaching session with ACP listener Lindsay. Lindsay describes her own personal struggle with anxiety, how she came to find the podcast and how the tools she has learned has helped her overcome much of her struggle with anxiety.
Being awake in the middle of the night can be unnerving. There are 7 tips in today's episode to help you get the best rest possible even if you wake and can't get back to sleep!
Gina shares her knowledge and experience of aromatherapy and essential oils in the context of anxiety. Gina suggests a whole range of oils you can try today and gets specific with five oils.
Gina shares a question from a listener in Russia relating to the breath and anxiety. Gina speaks about her own experience with the breath during the anxious period of her life and how we can use the breath to help control and ameliorate anxiety.
Gina shares a letter sent to her by an ACP listener and former guest on the show, Michelle. Michelle relates to Gina a success story about a recent long distance trip she took with her family by car.
Gina shares her knowledge of nutrition and herbs in the context of anxiety. Gina recommends foods and herbs that help alleviate and reduce anxiety while also indicating what foods and herbs to avoid to keep from making anxiety worse.
Gina shares her knowledge and wisdom of laughter. Laughter has numerous health benefits for all people can can be especially important for people suffering with anxiety.
Gina shares information about EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and tapping. Tapping helps with negative thoughts and emotions by combining positive affirmations with the body's meridian system (acupuncture points).
Gina guides listeners through a contemplative meditation exercise. In this exercise, we look back at a recent episode of anxiety and consider what thoughts and environmental factors affected us and how we reacted.
Gina talks about the importance of acceptance and change in healing anxiety. In particular, Gina discusses the benefits of allowing our anxiety experience to unfold, in contrast to fighting the anxiety and trying (often desperately) to make it stop.
Gina discusses avoidance and aversion in the context of anxiety. Included in this discussion is an emphasis on the importance of how we interpret signals and information that we are perceiving and how very often we are able to choose whether or not we are threatened by a particular thing.
Gina has a guest from the ACP tribe: Kelli. Kelli was a full ACP group coaching member, then a mini member and is now leaving after having progressed substantially in her healing journey and largely cleared her anxiety.
Gina discusses a blog post by Leo Babauta about solitude and its importance in our lives. Using this post, Gina helps connect the dots between our cultivation and embrace of solitude and our healing and recovery from stress and anxiety.
Gina discusses how stress and anxiety affect our eating habits. Along with describing some of the physiology involved in the stress response, Gina offers listeners methods and tools to bring mindfulness to bear on the situation.
Gina shares a mini coaching session with listeners. Today's client is Susan, who has suffered with anxiety for some time, observing its adverse affects on her work life and personal relationships.
Gina conducts a mini coaching session with ACP listener Kristine. In this session, Kristine talks about her experience with anxiety and particular situations in which she experiences it most: driving, air travel and work meetings.
Gina shares with listeners ten tips for responding to life with gratefulness rather than fear. The source of these suggestions is an article by Kristi Nelson linked below.
Gina discusses how blood sugar and nutrition influence our experience of anxiety. Right eating, particularly a whole foods, plant based diet can do wonders for our health, in both body and mind.
Gina shares with listeners a new meditation for anxiety: the Lake Meditation. Take a moment to get comfortable and listen in as Gina guides us through a meditation with nature imagery, breath awareness, healing and peace.
Gina discusses the importance of learning to stimulate your vagus nerve, thereby enabling your body to reduce the stress and anxiety you may be experiencing.