606: Health Anxiety During A Pandemic

The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

Gina Ryan

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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♡ SUPPORT THIS PODCAST ♡ In today's episode, Gina responds to a listener question about how to handle health anxiety during the corona virus pandemic. Recommendations for how to adjust to heightened states of vigilance amidst the pandemic and attend to the daily needs of yourself and your loved ones are included. Developing a tolerance for a certain amount of discomfort over the uncertainty of external threats is suggested. Grab an awesome audio book for FREE, like The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle www.anxietycoachespodcast.com/audibletrial To learn more go to: http://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. – John Newton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches
0:09.3	Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, Hannah and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life.
0:20.0	Oh, loa, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I'm talking about
0:30.9	health anxiety during a pandemic.
0:35.0	Who ever knew that I was going to have to have that kind of a title?
0:39.6	But here we are, right?
0:41.8	Sometimes we don't know it's coming up. But one of the things I do know
0:46.5	is that when things come up we are able to handle them. One of the things that
0:52.3	happens very often is that we, with our anxious mind, are trying
0:57.5	to handle things that are not real. We're trying to grapple with the imagination and that is impossible. We can't
1:09.8	come up with a solution to things that may or may not happen in the future. Of course we do everything we can, right? We do what is set forth by the experts as ways to take care of ourselves in the moment and what
1:27.0	to do so that we stay healthy and wise for the coming days.
1:32.2	But we can't cover every single scenario that the mind comes up with.
1:39.8	And as soon as you do, if you were really going down that path with your mind and your
1:45.2	imagination and trying to figure out what you would do for every thing that it is
1:50.1	coming up with, as soon as you come up with a solution it will twist it it will
1:55.5	turn it it will make it even scarier and it will make it something that you can't figure it out now.
2:03.6	Now you have more to think about.
2:05.1	So don't even go there.
2:06.9	Just know that you are doing the best you can
2:09.6	with what you have.
2:11.3	And then we're going to drop the rope. We're not going to play tug of war with that
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