1156: CLASSIC ACP Reduce Anxiety By Living Within Your Circle Of Influence
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses the significance of understanding and living within your circle of influence for reducing your anxiety. Knowing what is within your control and what is not in your control can help you immensely. Gina offers suggestions for improving your understanding of what you do and do not control, and how to let go of the need to control things you cannot control.
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If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control—myself.
-Stephen Covey
Chapters
0:27 Circle of Influence
3:04 The Speed of Life
6:31 Reflecting on Control
9:42 Courage in Acceptance
12:04 Common Humanity and Kindness
Summary
In this episode of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, I delve into the powerful concept of living within your circle of influence as a means to reduce anxiety. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the chaos of life and the pressures that come with work and family obligations. To navigate these feelings and regain a sense of control, I turn to the serenity prayer as a reminder of what we can and cannot change in our lives. This prayer helps frame the discussion around recognizing our personal boundaries and areas where we can make a difference.
I share insights about how the relentless pace of modern life heightens our stress levels, often leaving us feeling like we are on a runaway train. The urgency to fulfill multiple responsibilities can trigger our survival instincts, propelling us into an anxious state where we constantly anticipate the "other shoe dropping." Acknowledging these triggers is the first step in mitigating the panic and anxiety that can arise when we are overloaded. I emphasize the importance of slowing down, particularly through mindful breathing practices, to ground ourselves amidst the external pressures we face.
Throughout the discussion, I introduce practical exercises to help listeners identify what lies within their control. I encourage everyone to take a moment to reflect and journal about their daily stressors and categorize them into what can be influenced versus what must be accepted. This clarity allows us to focus our energy on the aspects of our lives that we can change, ultimately paving the way for improved mental well-being.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:23.2 | Aloha. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches podcast. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm your host and coach, Gina Ryan, |
| 0:30.4 | and I am so happy to be with you again today |
| 0:34.2 | as together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its |
| 0:40.6 | natural peace and calm. In today's episode, I want to talk about reducing anxiety by living within |
| 0:50.8 | your circle of influence. I really think that we forget sometimes what is within our |
| 1:00.7 | own control, what it is that we can control. And one of my favorite ways of reminding myself of that |
| 1:09.2 | is by using the serenity prayer. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I |
| 1:17.2 | cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. |
| 1:25.1 | And I know you've heard me say it probably a hundred times on the show, |
| 1:29.5 | but it is the one thing that can keep bringing you back into what is mine. Where can I actually |
| 1:38.5 | make a difference? And what's within, what do I have control over? |
| 1:46.0 | Where is my circle of influence? |
| 1:49.8 | I often hear from people that I work with that they have a lot of feelings of uncertainty. |
| 1:59.7 | There's a lot of pressure in everyone's lives of work, you know, how we're |
| 2:04.7 | making our living, how we're surviving. Talk about triggering the survival brain, right? |
| 2:11.8 | Pressures of work and family obligations. There's a lot of people and what so we can be pushed and pulled by a number of |
| 2:21.2 | different family obligations. And then we have the the speed of life these days. I have to say, |
| 2:29.9 | I think that life is moving a lot faster in different places than it has in the past. And I think it's very real. I think we have to pay attention to it so that we can pay attention to how we're involved in that and where can we slow down or where can we live the life that we want or are we |
| 2:54.1 | being lived in by you know just are we on a ride that we can't seem to get off of and it's going |
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