1175: Beyond Survival Mode: Reclaiming Your Innate Calm
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses an important factor that drives essentially everyone's anxiety these days: the relentless pace of our modern world. Our smartphones in particular keep us tuned in to social media and the rest of the world with an immediacy unknown in other times. Listen in for advice on how to handle living in the immediate information age and how to stop constantly reacting to notifications from the outside world.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
-Viktor Frankl
Chapters
0:26 Welcome to Anxiety Coaches Podcast
7:02 Unearthing Your Inner Sanctuary
15:00 Cultivating Lasting Tranquility
16:27 Befriending Uncomfortable Emotions
18:28 Living Beyond Reactivity
Summary
In this episode of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, I delve into the concept of moving beyond mere survival mode and reclaiming our natural state of calm. Many of us find ourselves caught in a whirlwind of stress and anxiety, feeling perpetually overloaded and braced for the next challenge. I share my personal insights on the notion of survival mode—an all-too-frequent mindset in our fast-paced lives—as well as my experiences of navigating significant changes and the overwhelming effects of modern life on our mental well-being.
I explore the various forces that contribute to our stress accumulation, drawing comparisons between the frantic rhythm of today’s world and the more leisurely pace of the past. While chronic stress can manifest through numerous pathways, it is crucial to identify how the constant barrage of information and responsibilities heightens our anxiety. The ceaseless demand for our attention, whether from relentless news updates or notifications from our devices, keeps our nervous system in a heightened state of alertness. This leads to an ongoing cycle where small irritants trigger disproportionate responses, indicating that we might be dwelling in survival mode.
Throughout the episode, I offer practical strategies to shift our experience from one of relentless reactivity to a more measured and intentional response to life's demands. I emphasize the importance of mindful pauses, suggesting a simple yet effective two-second pause to recalibrate our minds before reacting to various stimuli. This brief moment of reflection can significantly retrain our nervous system and mitigate stress.
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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. I'm so glad you're here with me today because in this episode, |
| 0:48.0 | I want you to join me in thinking about going beyond survival mode and actually reclaiming your innate calm. |
| 0:59.4 | We've all got it. |
| 1:01.0 | We just forgot how to access it. |
| 1:04.7 | If you've been feeling like life has you running on fumes, |
| 1:09.8 | like you're constantly on edge or bracing for the next thing to go |
| 1:14.8 | wrong. You're not alone. I am very busy over here with a lot of changes going on in my life, |
| 1:23.8 | and it feels like the clock is running on double speed. And I know it's not, but there is so much |
| 1:32.5 | going on. And what happens when we are living like that for too long and we forget where our |
| 1:41.7 | inner calm is, we begin to start living in what I call the survival mode. |
| 1:50.5 | The good news is that you don't have to live in that survival mode. There's another way to go |
| 1:57.7 | through life. And I had to learn this a long time ago. And now, even no matter how |
| 2:03.6 | busy and crazy things get, and believe me, I complain about it. There is no angel halo over my head. |
| 2:11.7 | But I also remember that I don't have to live in survival mode. |
| 2:18.1 | I can take a breath. |
| 2:19.9 | I can slow things down. |
| 2:22.4 | What I need is inside me. |
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