1160: Why Anxiety Isnt The Enemy
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses how to use the wisdom of the body to overcome anxiety. Anxiety is actually there to serve us and not a dysfunction in itself. Through better understanding anxiety and our body, we can learn how to differentiate between necessary anxious feelings and unwanted, unnecessary anxiety. Use tools recommended in this episode to eliminate unwanted anxiety!
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Chapters
0:26 Introduction to Reframing Anxiety
2:25 The Role of the Nervous System
4:50 Understanding Anxiety as a Protective Strategy
9:21 The Concept of Emotional Debt
13:56 Foundational Skills for Resilience
15:03 A Simple Breathing Practice
16:36 Regulating from the Bottom Up
Summary
In this episode of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, I delve into an intriguing perspective on anxiety, emphasizing that it is not an enemy, but rather a protective strategy utilized by our nervous system. I explore the reasons behind our feelings of fear and anxiety, particularly the exhausting unrelenting kind that many experience daily. The conversation centers on how reframing our understanding of these emotions can lead to greater peace and calm, transforming how we interact with our own mental states.
Drawing inspiration from a podcast I recently listened to featuring Johnny Miller, I share insights into the intersection of grief and the nervous system. His approach stood out to me because it encompasses not just mental exercises, but also the physical aspect of emotional processing. It’s crucial, I assert, to recognize that the body plays a significant role in achieving calm and balance, especially when dealing with anxious feelings. I invite listeners to explore the concept that anxiety can be an alert signal, much like a smoke alarm warning us of danger, but often it may also respond to trivial situations like burnt toast.
I emphasize that many have a tendency to treat anxiety as a scourge rather than understanding it as an expression of deeper emotions that may need addressing. Our nervous systems are wired for protection, prompting instinctual responses to perceived threats. However, I highlight the hopeful reality that our systems are always striving to return to a state of balance, and that we can facilitate this through somatic practices. The conversation takes a turn towards personal resilience, particularly through recognizing emotions as they arise rather than suppressing them, a phenomenon I term "emotional debt."
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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. |
| 0:23.1 | Aloha. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches podcast. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm your host and coach, Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today |
| 0:34.1 | as together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its |
| 0:40.5 | natural peace and calm. In today's episode, I want to talk to you about why anxiety isn't the |
| 0:49.4 | enemy and how we can actually reframe anxiety and talk about our nervous systems intelligence. |
| 0:59.5 | We have fear for a reason. We can feel fear for a reason. We get anxious feelings for a reason. |
| 1:08.5 | And you know, if you've been listening to the show for any length of time, |
| 1:11.9 | when we talk about anxiety here, we are talking about unrelenting anxiety, living with it |
| 1:20.5 | day in, day out, without a break, living what I call down the wormhole. And that is a problem. But the anxiety and fear and those |
| 1:32.3 | feelings are not the problem. And it's not the enemy. And when we can reframe some of these things, |
| 1:40.2 | it makes it easier for people. Many people come about changing their anxiety into more peace |
| 1:47.7 | and calm from many different directions. So today, I want to talk about a gentleman that I |
| 1:55.5 | heard on a podcast recently. His name is Johnny Miller. And the podcast was about grief. And I found his approach |
| 2:04.9 | spot on when he was talking about grief and sharing his story. So I thought I would share |
| 2:12.0 | his wisdom and understanding of the nervous system with you. |
| 2:17.6 | It's another way that we can reframe it, because like I said, we all come about to make |
| 2:22.6 | the changes in different ways. |
| 2:26.1 | So hopefully this will be very helpful to many of you. |
| 2:31.1 | And what made some of Johnny Miller's work stand out was it was not just about mindset. He |
| 2:39.8 | incorporates the body. And I know that you are probably tired of me talking about the body and how we |
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