1143: Feeling the Feelings: The Hidden Key to Healing Anxiety

The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

Gina Ryan

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of acknowledging and experiencing our emotions around various circumstances in our lives. Repressed emotions can affect our bodies and minds for long periods of time, after we have ignored difficult emotions and brushed them aside. The importance of feeling our feelings can be well understood in the example set by Dr. John Sarno's work with pain and repressed emotions. Listen in to learn how to unlock another key to recovering from anxiety. 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 Mind10-Minute Body-Scan Meditation for Anxiety Anxiety Coaches Podcast Group Coaching linkACPGroupCoaching.comTo learn more, go to:Website https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.comJoin our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership ProgramLearn 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:What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.-Carl JungChapters0:26 Introduction to Healing Anxiety5:19 Understanding Emotions and the Body8:33 The Cycle of Avoidance11:47 Steps to Acknowledge Feelings15:57 Embracing the Healing JourneySummaryIn this episode, I delve into the crucial practice of feeling our feelings and how this essential step can unlock healing from anxiety. Although the phrase “feel your feelings” is often heard, I invite you to reflect on whether you truly embrace the concept or if it creates resistance within you. My goal today is to shed light on the unseen burdens we carry, frequently without realizing it, and to emphasize that allowing ourselves to process emotions isn't merely a tender topic—it's a key to reclaiming our natural state of peace and calm.I discuss how suppressing emotions leads to an internal buildup that affects both the mind and body. Many of us navigate life, donning a smile and white-knuckling through adversity, yet beneath the surface, we may feel restless or anxious, often unable to pinpoint the cause. This unprocessed emotional weight can sometimes manifest as various physical symptoms—ranging from digestive issues to headaches. I stress the importance of recognizing these signals, understanding that these physical sensations can be the body's way of reaching out, signaling that there are feelings that need to be felt and processed.Throughout our conversation, we explore how emotions influence our physiology, causing measurable changes in blood flow, hormonal levels, and even muscle tension. I discuss the cyclical nature of anxiety and how unacknowledged feelings can create a loop of discomfort and anxiety, amplifying physical symptoms and leading to a cascade of avoidance behaviors. As we unpack this cycle, I encourage a shift in perspective—viewing anxiety not as an adversary but as a messenger calling for our attention and understanding.#anxiety#emotionalhealing#feelingthefeelings#unprocessedemotions#mindbodyconnection#suppressedemotions#anxietyasmessenger#carljung#panicattack#overstimulation#nervoussystem#fightorflight#stressresponse#groundingtechniques#copingstrategies#mentalhealth#emotionalregulation#breathingexercises#presentmoment#selfcompassion#anxietycoachespodcast#ACP#GinaRyan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.2	Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life.
0:53.3	Aloha. Welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches podcast. I'm your host and coach, Gina Ryan,
1:00.3	and I am so happy to be with you again today as together we can consider the many ways to bring
1:08.6	your mind and body back to its natural peace and calm.
1:13.8	In today's episode, I'm talking about feeling the feelings.
1:17.7	This is actually a hidden key to healing your anxiety.
1:22.5	And I know it's kind of a tender thing to talk about because we hear that phrase all the time, feel your feelings,
1:29.9	feel it to heal it. But I wonder if when you hear that, you actually pay attention to it and
1:38.6	acknowledge your feelings, or does hearing that bring up some resistance?
1:45.2	So today's conversation isn't about judgment or pushing you into discomfort.
1:51.3	It's about lightning the load that you've been carrying, maybe without even realizing it.
1:57.8	Yeah, unseen weight that we carry can be our feelings. They can be heavy. And most of us don't
2:07.1	learn this early on, that when we don't allow ourselves to feel our feelings, those emotions
2:14.6	don't just disappear. They get tucked away. They go into the unconscious.
2:21.1	They go into the body. And they start to take up space. We may not even realize it's happening.
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