The Anxiety Guru Show

If you've ever thought you were dying for no reason, felt worried on most days, hate crowds, or simply feel uncomfortable in your own skin, then this podcast is for you. I will teach you exactly how you can overcome abnormal stress and anxiety.

The Podcasts

Hi guys, I just wanted to check in to see how are you're doing. There's still a lot going on in the world and so I wanted to drop you a line to make sure that you had something positive to hear!

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On today's show I explore how Covid has exhausted everyone but especially people with high anxiety. Find out what you can do to get your energy back.

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In today's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I explore health anxiety during the current pandemic. 

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In today's episode of the Anxiety Guru Show I provide 10 things that you can do to beat cabin fever. With everyone stuck at home it's important to know what options you have to help manage anxiety, restlessness, and everything else that comes with being at home for weeks at a time.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I share 3 important ways to help you break away from long-term abnormal anxiety. 

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Show I explore the 5 keys to recovery and why I am taking an extended break.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show we explore one simple thing you can do to reduce anxious thoughts.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show we explore how your problem saturated story is making you feel more anxious and what you can do about it.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I explore what's wrong with modern psychotherapy, fear of earthquakes, and health phobia.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I expand on one of my favorite themes, which is understanding and stopping anxious thoughts. Enjoy!

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I explore how anxiety damaged your mind and what forms of therapy work best to reverse the damage.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show we explore how yoga can help lower your anxiety and maybe even help you find love.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show we explore why anxious people tend to view their anxiety related problems as bigger than they really are.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I explore the battle in your head between whether or not you can overcome abnormal anxiety.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show, I explore how you can stay motivated while you work towards decreasing your stress and anxiety.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I discuss a powerful way of reducing anxiety.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I explore insomnia with the help of clinical psychologist Dr. Steve Orma.

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In this week's episode of the AG Show I interview Evan Brand of Not Just Paleo and explore foods that can help you reduce stress and anxiety.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I explore whether or not panic attacks can trigger anxiety disorders.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I interview Guy Oberwise, LCSW about how exposure therapy works to reduce abnormal anxiety.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show Dr. Dyan Haspel-Johnson, Ph.D. provides a powerful guided relaxation.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I explore Hypnotherapy and how it works to lower high anxiety.

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In this week's episode I explore how you can manage everyday anxiety. I also interviewed one of my coaching clients to give you an inside look into my coaching service.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I explore the importance of developing a strong social support system to battle stress and abnormal anxiety.

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In this week's episode I explore mindfulness meditation as a means of reducing stress and anxiety.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I explore suicide and suicide prevention. Share it!

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I explore why most people stay anxious and what you can do to overcome this pitfall.

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In this week's episode of the Anxiety Guru I explore how you can manage everyday stress.

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In this week's episode of the Anxiety Guru Show I discuss how your personality is linked to how you develop, experience and resolve anxiety problems.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I discuss why some people are obsessed with their anxiety symptoms and the possibility of being sick.

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In this week's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show, I discuss the connection between anxiety and depression.

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In today's episode of the Anxiety Guru Show I discuss how you can reduce the impact of fear and build confidence in your ability to overcome anxiety.

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In today's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show I explore social phobia and how you can overcome it.

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In today's episode of The Anxiety Guru Show we explore when you should stop taking your SSRI antipressant, which include drugs like prozac, zoloft, paxil and celexa.

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In today's podcast I explore the power of words and how they can be used to beat abnormal stress and anxiety.

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In this installment of the Anxiety Guru Show I explore how you can be a better anxious parent, death, and the most important anti-anxiety advice in the world.

 

 

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In this week's episode of the Anxiety Guru Show I explore anxiety relapse and what steps you can take to prevent, manage, and overcome it.

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This episode of the Anxiety Guru Show discusses four solid steps you can take to make sure you the get the most out of your therapy sessions.

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I want to tell you how alcohol causes anxiety and what you can do to prevent it.

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Today I want to chat a bit about treatment options for anxiety and depression because I'd like to clarify a few things.

And in case you're strapped for time here is what I want to say: Curing abnormal anxiety and depression has nothing to do with magic, voodoo, or instant anything.

Instead, treating abnormal anxiety and depression involves finding the right mix of remedies that work for you, committing to that treatment, and a little time.

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Today, I get personal.

But it's not because I'm looking for undue attention, it's because I thought it was the best way to describe how anxiety can come between you and the people you love. I also wanted to show you how you can overcome this phenomenon.

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In this podcast I discuss:

  1. The importance of persistence and goals.
  2. How to apply perseverance intelligently
  3. How to change your frame of mind
  4. And tons of real world examples.
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One of the best ways to stay anxious is to be inflexible.

The biggest reason why many anxiety sufferers are inflexible is because they think in absolute terms. Everything is all or nothing. In other words, you don't just get chest pain, you get potential heart attacks. You don't just get headaches, but potential brain tumors and so on.

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The Fear of going crazy is common among anxiety sufferers.

Actually, and unfortunately, this fear is almost universal among the nervous. However, this fear is unjustified because anxiety does not cause insanity, period.

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I’ve always believed that in order to win your fight against severe  anxiety you have to count on one person, and that person is you. You’ll simply be better served accepting the fact that you are your best hope for change.

This is because although you’ll need help along the way, ultimately you’re the gatekeeper to final success and freedom from anxious thoughts, anxiety symptoms, low self-esteem, and all the other baggage that’s been piling up on you. Only you can can make the necessary corrections to your thinking, so that you can finally escape morbid anxiety.

So, to help you do that, today I want to present to you two mini-shovels that you can use to dig inside yourself to solve one of your most puzzling problems, namely, how to focus your mind and direct it into a state of calmness.

Of course, these two methods aren’t curealls, but they will at least give you yet another set of tools to stuff into your anti-anxiety tool box for ready use.

The two methods are called  autosuggestion and  autogenic training. Both of these ideas have been around for some time, but you may have heard of them more recently because of books like The Secret. Although The Secret doesn’t mention autosuggestion or autogenic training by their names, it is very much based on these two ideas.

The Secret relies on something called the  Law of Attraction to get what you want out of life, whatever that might be. And despite the fact that the book and film are somewhat childish in sophistication, there’s been a long history of people using similar techniques to master their minds to heal disease or succeed in the business world.

The idea that you can get what you want out of life by simply thinking about it was first introduced by French psychologist and pharmacist  Emile Coue. He even developed a mantra (The Coue method) that called for people to repeat, everyday, the autosuggestion, “Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.”

“Our actions spring not from our will, but from our imagination. Whatever idea we put in our mind, never mind what idea maybe, becomes true for us, even if it be untrue. Further, every idea that we put into the mind becomes reality in so far as it is within the realms of possibility.” — Emile Coue 1923

Coue thought that if you repeated this mantra every morning and evening that you would literally heal yourself of all the physical or mental ailments you had. The hope is that when you tell yourself positive things on a daily basis, then those things will come true.

Let me briefly point-out some highlights of the autosuggestion method.

  • Autosuggestion is thought to “reprogram” the subconscious mind, where the vast majority of our automatic thoughts originate.
  • Any idea that occupies the mind can turn into reality, as long as the the goal is within reason. So, no instant billions here.
  • In order for autosuggestion to work you have to withhold judgment and accept the idea completely.
  • The ideas of self-talk, positive affirmation, and mantras, are all forms of autosuggestion.
  • Doesn’t require visualization, but does require a vivid imagination.
  • Autosuggestion is best done while you’re in a comfortable position, have your eyes closed, and have a clear mind.
  • Coue thought that by talking to yourself in a low, confident voice, you could implant new ideas that would later become automatic and therefore be more likely to influence you in positive ways.

Is autosuggestion just trickery? I’m not so sure about that, although I do think it’s power can be exaggerated somewhat. That exaggeration comes from people thinking that they can trick themselves into becoming rich, or something along those lines, without doing the work.

However, I think you can use this method for much more modest things, like giving yourself more self-confidence and, to some extent, tricking your own brain into thinking positively. I mean, I think it is possible to tell yourself something so much that it becomes true, whether it’s actually true or not.

Autosuggestion is also a subtle way of changing thoughts because it doesn’t depend on sheer willpower.  In fact, autosuggestion is not about shoving new ideas into your mind with brute force, it relies instead on a form of passive self-hypnosis that day by day slowly but surely allows you to replace fearful thoughts with positive ones.

On the other side of the fence is autogenic training. This technique came about around the 1930’s and was developed first by German psychiatrist  Johannes Heinrich Schultz.

Autogenic traning is also supposed to be done daily, but instead of mantras and self-talk, it relies on visualization and relaxation to meet it’s goals. Autogenic training is very similar to a more recent form of therapy called progressive relaxation in that it focuses on relaxing not just your mind, but your entire body.

Here is what an autogenic session would be like.

First, you’d sit or lye down somewhere comfortable and proceed down the following list of self guided relaxation techniques.

  • “my arms are heavy”
  • “my arms and legs are heavy and warm” (repeat 3 times)
  • “my stomach is warm” (repeat 3 times)
  • “my neck and shoulders are heavy (repeat three times)
  • “my heart beat is calm and normal”
  • “my forehead is cool and relaxed”
  • “I am at peace” (repeat 3 times)

This is all meant to get you in a deep state of conscious relaxation, that doesn’t just feel good, but is also meant to affect your autonomic nervous system – that’s the thing that controls your anxiety symptom’s, like palpitations – and causes it to be calm and “reset” itself.

These autogenic sessions should last anywhere from 10-15 minutes and can be done with a therapist or alone.

I decided to introduce both of these methods because I think that together they offer a lot of benefits. They do this by addressing both your mind and body.

 Autosuggestion has the power to focus your mind and keep you locked in on your goal of reaching peace of mind, while  autogenic training has the very real (clinically proven) ability to relax your body, thereby reducing your physical symptoms over time.

These two methods are also great because they allow you to harness something that you may have felt you lost, and that’s your inner strength, or strength of any kind for that matter. You might feel weak in your legs and your mind because of everything you’re going through but, I have to tell you, you have what it takes to get better.

I know this because I’ve been where you are now, in that place where everything seems dark and where hope is in short supply. But if you decide, with conviction, that you want to reclaim your life, then you can do just that.

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Today’s podcast is strictly meant to provide you with a bit of a motivational kick in the pants. See,  anxiety and  depression can so easily – and understandably – bring you down and cause hopelessness and despair. But, despite this, you can certainly counter all the negative feelings and thoughts that anxiety conjures up, as long as your head is in the right place.  I hope this podcast will help you get in the right frame of mind, so that you can begin the process of freeing yourself from all of your anxiety issues.

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Anxiety disorder and Depression can make you selfish. This podcast is about how to stop this from happening in the future, so you can get the most out of your relationships.

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DWA: Drivng While Anxious. Learn about driving while having a panic attack.

 

 

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