493: How to Reprogram Your Autopilot and Finally Heal Anxiety with Elizabeth April
The Adult Chair Podcast with Michelle Chalfant
Michelle Chalfant
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I'm joined by Elizabeth April, author of Your Anxiety Is Giving Me Anxiety. We explore a powerful reframe of anxiety, not as something to fix or eliminate, but as an intelligent signal from the nervous system pointing toward healing and deeper self-awareness.
Elizabeth shares her framework for identifying whether anxiety is rooted in the past, present, or future, why high-functioning tendencies often come from overstimulation, and how her Renew Technique helps move out of survival mode and into lasting nervous system regulation, trust, and conscious awareness aligned with living from your Adult Chair.
In this episode, you'll learn:
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Why anxiety can feel contagious and how we absorb the emotional states of others
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How to identify whether your anxiety is driven by past experiences, present overwhelm, or future fear
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Why common coping tools often manage symptoms without addressing the root cause
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How the Renew Technique helps you recognize, neutralize, and work with anxiety
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The role of physical and digital clutter in nervous system overload
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How to use awareness to regulate your body before anxiety escalates
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Why personal growth and healing often happen through challenge, not comfort
Resources from this Episode:
Visit Elizabeth April's website
Get the book: Your Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety
Follow Elizabeth April on Instagram and Socials: @Elizabeth.April
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, everyone, and welcome to the Michelle Shelfand Show. |
| 0:06.4 | I hope you're having a good 2026 so far. |
| 0:11.3 | It is, it's really good to be in 2026, that's for sure. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm excited to have on the show today an incredible spiritual teacher, intuitive, and someone that really |
| 0:25.4 | knows a lot about consciousness, expanding awareness, all while staying grounded in their human |
| 0:31.8 | experience. We have on the show today, Elizabeth April, and we're talking about anxiety. Yeah, she has a new |
| 0:39.3 | book out. It is called Your Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety. So I love, love, love how Elizabeth really talks |
| 0:48.8 | about her perspective, all about anxiety that feels both, I got to say, deeply intuitive and also really |
| 0:55.9 | practical. And she reframes anxiety as something that is not broken within us, but instead, |
| 1:04.5 | it's an energetic messenger asking for our attention. Yeah, really, really cool stuff. She also offers concrete tools for |
| 1:13.9 | working with anxiety in a brand new way, including how to neutralize fear loops, regulate the |
| 1:21.5 | nervous system, declutter emotional and energetic overwhelm, and build a sense of safety from the inside out. |
| 1:31.1 | This conversation bridges psychology, spirituality, and nervous system awareness in a way that |
| 1:37.4 | feels grounding rather than overwhelming. |
| 1:40.9 | This is really a rich conversation and it's thought-provoking for anyone who has |
| 1:45.5 | ever struggled with anxiety, felt emotionally overwhelmed, or a sense that there might be something |
| 1:51.2 | deeper beneath the surface of what we call stress. So yeah, we had a great conversation. I can't |
| 1:58.8 | wait for you to hear it. Here we go with Elizabeth April. |
| 2:04.5 | So welcome to the Michelle Chalfant Show, Elizabeth April. Thank you so much. I am so excited to be here. |
| 2:12.6 | And we just chatted before we started recording and I'm like this is a vibe okay you and I we are connected |
| 2:18.7 | on some soul level and I'm excited to deep dive today because I just feel like we are going to get |
| 2:24.6 | into into the nitty gritty of what is going on within us at this time I love it. It was like I'm |
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