421: 9 Hidden Root Causes of Anxiety You Haven’t Heard About & the 3 Step Path to Healing with Dr. Nicole Cain

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Dr. Nicole Cain is a leading expert in trauma-informed Clinical Psychology and holistic medicine for anxiety and panic, and author of the acclaimed book Panic Proof. She joins the show to unpack the 9 types of anxiety and what your body is really trying to tell you. We explore how anxiety is more than a mental health issue; it’s often a message from your hormones, gut, immune system, or even unprocessed trauma. Dr. Cain breaks down the different types—from hormone and gut-driven anxiety to trauma, anger, and depressive anxiety—and how each has a unique root cause. We also get into the connection between autoimmune conditions and ACE scores, the truth about anxiety medications and dependency, and how to stop being gaslit by a system that overlooks the body’s role in anxiety. Plus, Dr. Cain shares her 3-step process to interrupt the anxiety cycle, how to regulate inbound stress, and simple ways to stimulate your vagus nerve to return to calm.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:05.8	This is Well, a podcast about wellness in all its forms.
0:10.0	I'm Ariel Laurie, and each week I'm sharing unfiltered conversations with people shaping how we feel, live, and look.
0:17.2	Come for the substance, stay for the honesty, and leave with the tools to be well, inside and out.
0:25.4	Welcome to the show.
0:28.5	Today's episode is truly fascinating, wherever you lie on the anxiety spectrum.
0:34.7	So I think that everybody has experienced some sort of anxiety at some point in their
0:41.2	life, some people more than others, some people chronically, some people suffer more from
0:46.6	panic. But it is a universal experience. And my guest today, Dr. Nicole Kane, is a leading
0:54.0	expert in trauma-informed clinical psychology
0:57.5	and holistic medicine for anxiety and panic. So she has a really interesting perspective on it.
1:05.6	She basically theorizes that there are nine types of anxiety and they all derive from your body. Essentially,
1:13.2	your body is trying to tell you something. So we explore how anxiety is more than just a brain
1:19.2	chemistry mental health issue. This is something that I get into with her because I feel like,
1:25.3	although I am no medical expert, some people do seem to be more
1:29.2	predisposed to things like anxiety because their brain chemistry or their wiring is just different.
1:36.0	But she argues that this is still something that derives from the body, whether it is trauma
1:41.9	that's been passed down from generations. You'll hear more in the episode.
1:46.1	So we talk about how hormones gut, the immune system, and like I said, trauma come into play.
1:52.2	We break down the different types of anxiety.
1:55.2	We also get into the connection between autoimmune conditions, ACE scores, so adverse childhood events, the truth about
2:02.7	anxiety medications, dependency. We talk about being gass lit by a system that tends to overlook the
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