Dr. Nicole Cain on How to Build Your Panic-Proof Plan | EP 662

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr. Nicole Cain—naturopathic doctor, clinical psychologist, and author of Panic Proof—shows how to design a personalized Panic-Proof plan that addresses anxiety at its source. We unpack the nine anxiety types and why labeling everything as “panic” misses the root drivers.

She lays out a practical blueprint: nervous-system regulation (breath, cold exposure, somatic mapping, paced recovery), gut–brain repair (nutrition, psychobiotics, inflammation reduction), targeted lifestyle shifts (sleep, light, movement), and trauma-informed tools (values-based exposures, parts work, micro-habits).

You’ll learn how to sequence change over 90 days, match interventions to your anxiety type, and measure progress without perfectionism. Whether you’re navigating panic attacks or low-grade dread, this conversation offers a clear, compassionate path from symptom management to lasting nervous-system safety—and a plan you can actually follow.

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0:17.3	It could still be there and oftentimes it will show up in other places. And so the question,
0:22.8	I think that's more interesting is what are these symptoms trying to tell me needs healing and how?
0:29.6	And what are the different ways that the body is trying to protect me and hold me into this
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