1205: A Soothing Holiday Meditation to Release Stress and Find Peace
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina shares a holiday guided meditation to help listeners relieve stress and know more peace in the present moment. In this meditation you will be guided with the light of hope into a state of peace and quiet. Let your worries fade away as you realize your healing process is underway in this moment. Happy Holidays.
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Chapters
0:26 Welcome to the Meditation
4:22 Preparing for the Meditation
7:39 Invoking the Light of Hope
10:43 Joining the Collective Quiet
12:15 Embracing Your Healing Journey
15:01 Creating a Peaceful Space
15:52 Returning to Awareness
17:51 Closing Reflections and Wishes
Summary
In this episode of the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, I guide listeners through a soothing meditation, perfectly timed for Christmas Eve. As we come together in this moment, I emphasize the importance of guided meditation as a powerful tool on the healing journey. Many of us experience emotional, physical, or spiritual suffering that stems from our tendency to dwell on the past or fret about the future. This constant state of hyper-alertness can lead to exhaustion and disconnection from the peace we seek. Guided meditation offers a gentle navigation back to that tranquility, allowing us to release the strain of overthinking and rest in the present.
The meditation I lead invites listeners to embrace a state of calmness. I encourage participants to step away from their daily activities and distractions and embark on this restorative journey. I share the concept of offering our nervous system a guiding hand, which allows us to soften and receive comfort instead of striving or giving. The guided nature of this meditation enables a deeper state of rest, helping to invigorate the body's natural healing processes.
As we commence our meditation, participants are invited to find a position that feels supportive and to engage in mindful breathing. They are guided to visualize their worries settling like snowflakes, creating tranquility and stillness. I use imagery, such as a warm, golden light representing hope, to foster feelings of warmth and solace. This light symbolizes a gentle invitation to cherish the joy of the season, even when it seems out of reach. With each breath in, listeners draw this light closer, allowing it to bring comfort to any tightness or exhaustion they feel.
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| 0:55.9 | 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. |
| 1:02.8 | Aloha. |
| 1:03.9 | Welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches podcast. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm your host and coach, Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today |
| 1:13.8 | as together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural |
| 1:20.9 | peace and calm. In today's episode, I'm going to guide you through a meditation. And the time that this show will be |
| 1:33.1 | dropping is Christmas Eve. So I thought it would be a wonderful time to have a meditation as we |
| 1:40.1 | gather together in this moment. And I want to speak briefly first about why guided meditation |
| 1:47.8 | is such a powerful companion on any healing path. And so much of our suffering comes from living |
| 1:58.8 | in the future or the past and replaying old stories or anticipating new worries. |
| 2:07.3 | When we are healing emotionally, physically, or spiritually, our system often tries to protect us |
| 2:16.5 | by becoming hyper-alert. And that can leave us feeling tense, tired, |
| 2:23.7 | actually exhausted, and disconnected from the very peace that we are so longing for. |
| 2:32.4 | Guided meditations give our mind something gentle to follow. It's like offering |
| 2:39.8 | your nervous system a hand to hold. It helps steer your attention away from the worry and back |
| 2:47.7 | into the safety of the present moment. |
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