1119: Your Mind's Role in Anxiety: Recognizing and Changing Thought Patterns

The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

Gina Ryan

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In today's episode, Gina covers some powerful tips for changing thought patterns that contribute to our anxiety formation. Through understanding how our mind can so easily gravitate to negative thoughts, thoughts that we are so often absolutely certain are true, we can change them and steer ourselves towards better thinking and feeling. This process is largely one of identification and replacement. Learn how to do this, listen in today. Please visit our Sponsor Page to find all the links and codes for our awesome sponsors! https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com/sponsors/ Thank you for supporting The Anxiety Coaches Podcast. FREE MUST-HAVE RESOURCE FOR Calming Your Anxious Mind 10-Minute Body-Scan Meditation for Anxiety Anxiety Coaches Podcast Group Coaching link ACPGroupCoaching.com To learn more, go to: Website https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Find even more peace and calm with our Supercast premium access membership: For $5 a month, all episodes are ad-free! https://anxietycoaches.supercast.com/ Here's what's included for $5/month: ❤ New Ad-Free episodes every Sunday and Wednesday ❤ Access to the entire Ad-free back-catalog with over 600 episodes ❤ Premium meditations recorded with you in mind ❤ And more fun surprises along the way! All this in your favorite podcast app! Quote: Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. -Kahlil Gibran Chapters 0:42 Introduction to Anxiety and Mind 1:44 Common Thinking Patterns in Anxiety 4:04 Catastrophizing and Fearing the Worst 6:40 Mind Reading and Fortune Telling 8:38 Negative Self-Talk and Its Effects 11:31 Understanding Black and White Thinking 13:05 Emotional Reasoning and Its Impact 14:22 The Burden of Should Statements 16:02 Personalization and Blame 16:48 Filtering Negative Thoughts 17:07 Shifting Your Thinking Patterns 21:08 Practicing Mindfulness and Gratitude Summary In this episode of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, I delve into the critical role our minds play in managing anxiety, focusing on recognizing and transforming detrimental thought patterns. I explore the ways in which our habitual thinking can trigger stress and worry, and I emphasize the possibility of shifting these mental frameworks to cultivate greater peace of mind. We begin by identifying some common anxiety-inducing thought patterns that many listeners can relate to. I kick off with the concept of "catastrophizing"—the tendency to expect the worst without any real evidence backing our fears. Drawing on my own experiences, I share how this all-or-nothing mindset can leave us perpetually on edge, waiting for disaster to strike. From there, I discuss overgeneralizing, where past negative experiences unfairly color our expectations of future situations, thus trapping us in a cycle of anxiety. The discussion continues with the pitfalls of mind reading, where we erroneously assume we understand what others are thinking about us. This often leads to unnecessary self-doubt, compounded by fortune telling, which involves predicting negative outcomes without basis. I highlight the physical responses these patterns invoke, particularly focusing on how our nervous systems react and create a feedback loop of anxiety. #anxiety #thoughtpatterns #cognitivedistortions #mentalhealth #selfhelp #mindfulness #stressmanagement #emotionalregulation #CBT #anxietyrelief #worry #fear #negativethinking #selftalk #emotionalreasoning #catastrophizing #overgeneralizing #mindreading #fortunetelling #personalization #filtering #shouldstatements #blackandwhitethinking #selfcompassion #gratitude #visualization #mentalrehearsal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:24.3	panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life.
1:33.6	Aloha. Welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches podcast. I'm your host and coach, Gina Ryan,
1:40.6	and I am so happy to be with you again today as together we can consider the many ways to bring
1:48.9	your mind and body back to its natural peace and calm. In today's episode, I'm talking about the
1:56.9	mind's role in anxiety, your mind and my mind, and recognizing and changing the mind's role in anxiety, your mind and my mind, and recognizing and changing thought patterns that
2:06.0	we might have. Today we're going to dive deeper into the anxiety-provoking thinking patterns that I
2:14.4	know you've heard me talk about here and there. These are the ways that our minds
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