1216: Healing Anxiety Fatigue: When You're Tired of Working on Yourself Meditation
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina shares a touching meditation that allows listeners to let go of their anxiety healing journey for a few minutes and bask in the warm glow of the present moment. Release all special requirements you have for yourself and your anxiety clearing work. This episode will set you free with a series of moments of peace and calm. Listen in and feel better today.
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Chapters
0:26 Welcome and Introduction
7:52 Rest Without Effort
10:14 Letting Go of Improvement
13:34 Setting Down Healing
16:08 Embracing the Moment
Summary
In this episode, I explore the often overlooked experience of healing fatigue, a phenomenon that arises from tirelessly working on oneself in the quest for peace and relief from anxiety. I address the listeners who may feel exhausted from their efforts—those who have meditated, journaled, and engaged with various practices yet still feel a nagging sense of incompleteness. This conversation is about acknowledging that fatigue and giving space to the part of you that feels worn down by the journey.
I draw on the wisdom of poet Mary Oliver, who beautifully states, "You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." This quote encapsulates the essence of today’s reflection: the importance of recognizing the different types of exhaustion we face. There’s the fatigue that stems from deep suffering and another, subtler kind that arises from continuous self-improvement efforts. Processing these can be exhausting, especially when practices intended to soothe can instead feel burdensome and lead to feelings of failure.
It's crucial to emphasize that feeling worn out from healing is not indicative of personal shortcomings. This understanding can provide significant relief to those grappling with chronic emotional distress, where healing can be a lengthy and often taxing endeavour. I acknowledge that for some, the pathway to healing may appear smooth and straightforward, resembling a quick guide from A to B. Yet for others, the journey necessitates traversing through various challenges before reaching their goals. In this episode, I stand alongside those who feel the weight of healing fatigue, affirming that such feelings are valid and real.
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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 |
| 0:34.0 | 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 get into healing, anxiety, fatigue |
| 0:49.0 | when you're tired of working on yourself. Yeah, today I want to talk about that part of you |
| 0:58.9 | that is tired, not the part that wants a new insight or another practice or one more new thing |
| 1:08.1 | to try. I want to talk to the tired part. |
| 1:12.7 | The part that has been meditating and journaling and tracking symptoms, listening to podcasts, |
| 1:22.1 | reading books, and still feels like something is unfinished. |
| 1:31.8 | If you've ever thought, I'm doing everything I'm supposed to be doing, why am I still here? Why do I still feel like this? This episode is for you. |
| 1:42.1 | Here's a quote from one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, that speaks to today's |
| 1:48.9 | episode. She said, you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Again, that's Mary Oliver. There's a kind of exhaustion that comes from suffering. |
| 2:09.3 | And there's another kind that comes from working on yourself for a very, very long time. |
| 2:18.0 | You know that kind of tired that we get from suffering. |
| 2:23.1 | You know, you've been through a big thing. |
| 2:25.0 | You have suffered. |
| 2:25.9 | It has been painful and that exhaustion. |
| 2:29.8 | And there is also a little bit of a different kind of tiredness that comes from working on yourself |
| 2:37.1 | for a long time. We don't talk about that one very much. Sometimes healing fatigue doesn't mean |
| 2:45.5 | you're doing it wrong. It means that you've been trying for so long and so hard. |
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