679: Using A One Word Touchstone For Anxiety
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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In today's episode, Gina shares the practice of using a one word touchstone to help us during our experience of anxiety. Similar to a traditional New Year's resolution, but often involving more focus and awareness, using a one word touchstone can help ground us during trying times and help us see good things we may not otherwise witness.
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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, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:22.0 | Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode I wanted to talk about |
| 0:30.9 | using a one-word touchstone to start your year off. This is something you can |
| 0:37.7 | carry with you throughout the whole year and in my experience it has been extremely helpful. |
| 0:45.0 | Using a one word as a touchstone has been a part of my life |
| 0:50.0 | ever since I learned about it from a coach that I was working with and he shared that idea with me back in, I believe, 2012. |
| 1:00.0 | And I've been carrying a one-word touchstone around with me since every year I come up with a new one. |
| 1:07.6 | Some of my one word touchstones have been so pretty |
| 1:15.0 | so pretty or so strong. |
| 1:21.0 | Actually at the end of 2012 for 2013 I had decided on the word |
| 1:27.0 | unapologetic and I guess tough times require tough words and it helped me all year long. I remember |
| 1:38.0 | wanting to have a nicer word. I was in a group with this particular coach and everyone else had some really awesome and kind of nice words. |
| 1:50.0 | Yet I couldn't leave my unapologetic word behind. It just wouldn't go away. So it was and I am |
| 1:59.4 | thankful to this day that I didn't shy away from such an odd and strong word. It really did |
| 2:07.1 | serve me that year. So all of that is to say if what comes to you after we do the practice a little further in on how |
| 2:16.2 | to come up with your word, if what comes to you is not sweet or pretty or even something that you think other people would approve of or |
| 2:29.1 | maybe it's not tough enough maybe you think it's too soft, whatever. Give it a chance. It may be exactly |
| 2:36.8 | what you need to carry around with you for a while, so give it a chance. Members of my group coaching |
| 2:44.2 | have been posting their one words for 2021 |
| 2:48.0 | in our private Facebook group, |
| 2:49.8 | and it's really interesting to see what people are coming up with, what they are choosing |
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