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.

Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

I'm your host and coach Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today as

together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural

peace and calm.

In today's episode, I want to talk about understanding anxiety and your brain's ability to change.

Now this is really exciting for me because I remember one of the things that absolutely

changed my mindset when I was struggling with anxiety, panic, and high stress.

I remember when I had finally grasped the idea that it was the same brain, my same mind

that got me down the wormhole and that I could also do kind of reverse engineer my way

out of it.

Like if I did things differently, that my brain really had the ability to change, that

I wasn't stuck.

And so I hope that this will be helpful for you and that you will be able to have your

own kind of light bulb moment if you are not already there as far as understanding that

your brain is able to change and not by a lot of external things like we're going to

talk about it.

So let's just jump right in and talk about the changeable brain.

We used to believe that the brain was hardwired and now I'm old enough to this was set in

stone.

Like you only had so many brain cells when you would, if you would drink there, you know,

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