The Missing Step in Your Anxiety Recovery: Completing the Stress Response
The Anxiety Guy Podcast
Dennis Simsek
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
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Episode: Helping Your Body Feel Safe Again
In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, we explore what it really means to complete the stress response and why so many anxiety sufferers feel stuck in a body that still believes danger is present, even when life appears calm on the outside.
For many people struggling with anxiety, the mind keeps scanning, the body stays tense, symptoms feel louder, and rest can feel strangely uncomfortable. This is often not because the body is falling apart but because the nervous system has learned to stay prepared for threat.
Dennis Simsek breaks this down in a practical, grounded way, helping you understand how the body can begin moving out of survival mode and back into a felt sense of safety.
In today's episode, we explore 3 key points:
- How the stress response can become stuck in the body after prolonged anxiety, pressure, or emotional overwhelm.
- Why trying to think your way into safety often isn't enough when the body still feels activated.
- How gentle movement, emotional expression, breath, presence, and intentional rest can help your system complete what it has been holding.
What you'll take away:
You'll learn how to stop seeing your symptoms as the enemy and begin understanding them as signals from a protective system that is asking for completion, safety, and support.
This episode is about helping your body feel safe again, not through force, pressure, or constant fixing, but through a more compassionate relationship with your nervous system.
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Credits
Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Anxiety Guy podcast, my friends today we're talking about something your anxious mind and tired body may be quietly asking for every single day. |
| 0:16.3 | We're going to talk about completion. |
| 0:19.0 | When stress, fear, panic, or overwhelm gets activated but never |
| 0:25.6 | fully processed, your nervous system can stay stuck in a loop of tension, symptoms, and even exhaustion. |
| 0:34.5 | So in turn, this episode will show you what it means to complete the stress response, |
| 0:42.3 | why your body keeps holding on, and how to gently signal safety again without forcing or fighting yourself. |
| 0:51.3 | Let's dive in. Welcome to the Anxiety Guy podcast where we delve deep into the heart of anxiety, |
| 1:05.0 | providing you with the tools, insights, and inspiration to reclaim your life from the grips of fear and uncertainty. |
| 1:13.6 | I'm your host Dennis Simsec, a former anxiety sufferer turned anxiety healer, |
| 1:20.6 | and each week we will explore proven strategies, share personal stories, |
| 1:26.6 | and create more than anxiety moments towards inner peace |
| 1:29.9 | and empowerment. Get ready to break free from the chains of anxiety and step into a life |
| 1:38.3 | filled with purpose, joy, and unshakable confidence. This is The Anxiety Guy podcast, and your path to liberation starts now. |
| 1:55.4 | If this podcast and my YouTube channel is resonating with you, start the CBT-based end the anxiety program |
| 2:04.8 | today at Anxiety Guy Programs.com, a 20-week journey with me by your side to heal your symptoms, |
| 2:14.2 | your intrusive thoughts, and to get back to who you truly are beneath all that |
| 2:19.8 | noise at Anxiety Guy Programs.com under End the Anxiety Program. |
| 2:27.5 | And friends, we are diving into a topic that doesn't really get talked about very often, okay? We're talking about |
| 2:37.7 | completing the stress response, okay? And this is very, very important, and we see it quite |
| 2:48.5 | often in the wilderness with animals. |
| 2:51.6 | Now, you'll see a lion or a tiger chasing a zebra. |
| 3:01.6 | And after that chase, the zebra gets away. |
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