1190: How To Find Calm Within: Building Your Inner Sanctuary For Anxiety Relief
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina shares a technique for creating calm within yourself: developing your own inner sanctuary. The strength of this inner sanctuary lies in its perpetual presence within us, we can go to it any time, any where. Breathing practices to help enter your inner sanctuary are provided, as are visualizations for making your inner sanctuary as calming and relieving as possible. Listen in and discover your super power: your inner sanctuary!
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Peace is all around us—in the world and in nature—and within us, in our bodies and our spirits. Once we learn to touch this peace, we will be healed and transformed.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Chapters
0:26 Introduction to Inner Peace
2:43 Constructing Your Inner Refuge
5:38 Breathing Into Calm
8:26 Strengthening Your Sanctuary
10:50 Filling Your Sanctuary with Nourishment
13:23 Caring for Your Inner Space
14:39 Returning to Your Calm Center
16:25 Conclusion and Reflection
Summary
In this episode of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, I delve into the concept of finding calm within ourselves by constructing a personal inner sanctuary designed specifically for anxiety relief. I explore the notion that the safest and most peaceful space we can inhabit is always accessible, regardless of external circumstances. My aim is to guide you in recognizing and nurturing the inherent peace that resides within you, often overshadowed by the distractions and chaos of daily life.
We unpack the societal tendency to seek solace outside ourselves, pointing out how this quest can lead to a perpetual state of frustration and anxiety. The illusion of external control can be exhausting, pulling our attention away from the wealth of tranquility that already exists within. I emphasize that while life presents challenges and unpredictability, we can create a steady inner refuge—a sanctuary that offers steadfast calm amidst the storms of external chaos. This inner space allows us to cultivate resilience and strength, enabling us to respond thoughtfully rather than reactively to the world around us.
As we begin this journey of building your inner sanctuary, I invite you to take a moment to visualize what this safe space may look like for you. Through gentle breaths and mindfulness techniques, we focus on grounding ourselves and returning to our bodies, fostering a sense of safety in the present moment. I encourage you to engage with sensory details that evoke feelings of peace, whether through the sound of water, the warmth of sunlight, or simply the natural rhythm of your breath. Each element you envision becomes a powerful anchor that helps your nervous system recognize tranquility.
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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'm talking about how to find calm within, |
| 0:48.6 | building your inner sanctuary for anxiety relief. And this is building an inner sanctuary around that inner piece that's already |
| 0:58.6 | inside you, but you're probably glossing over it, not paying attention to it, or really have |
| 1:03.9 | forgotten how to get there. If you build an inner sanctuary around that, you will find it more |
| 1:10.1 | easily when you need it. |
| 1:12.6 | What if the safest, most peaceful place you could ever go was always with you, no matter |
| 1:18.3 | where you are or what's happening around you? Today we're going to explore how to create your |
| 1:25.1 | inner sanctuary, that place of steady calm and quiet strength that you |
| 1:30.6 | can return to anytime, anywhere. I think this is really important because we are in a culture that |
| 1:41.0 | looks outside of ourselves for everything. We think what we need is outside of ourselves for everything. |
| 1:50.2 | We think what we need is outside of us, and we need to find it. |
| 1:58.6 | We need to buy it or somehow accumulate it, and then we can make it a part of our life somehow. |
| 2:03.4 | But what if everything you need is already there and you just need to be more present with it or more aware of it? Now, this isn't about escaping life's challenges |
| 2:11.3 | or pretending that everything is fine. No, we don't do that here. Of course, there are challenges. And sometimes life is |
| 2:21.0 | really difficult, more difficult than you even thought it could be. But you still can go on and you can |
| 2:28.7 | still find those times that you can access that inner peace. It's about learning to build a space of peace |
| 2:37.6 | that is inside you and that no outside storm can touch. So let's take this time together |
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