Why Anxiety Might Be the Message You Keep Missing - and What To Do About It | Ep 405
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve outgrown parts of your life, your identity, maybe even the way you used to cope, and the “what’s next” feels blurry, it can feel destabilizing as hell in your body.
Your body is not designed to live in a constant state of fear, panic, and anxiety. And yet, so many of us are stuck there in that in-between space.
Erin is sharing the exact tools she uses to de-escalate anxiety in real time, from breathwork, EFT tapping, and nervous system support, so you can move out of panic without abandoning yourself, and start responding to your body instead of fighting it.
In this episode:
- What happened when Erin had her first panic attack in years, and how she de-escalated it
- The simple shift of saying “this is anxiety” and how it interrupts the spiral before it takes over
- The reframe that turns anxiety from a threat into an initiation (yes, really!)
- How EFT tapping helps your body process and move emotional energy instead of holding onto it
- Breathwork techniques, nervine herbs, and yoga poses that can drop you into parasympathetic faster
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| 0:00.0 | Affect labeling is the process of putting feelings into words. Labeling anxiety or labeling panic |
| 0:07.7 | creates a little bit of a distance from the emotional takeover. So the amygdala hijack is what |
| 0:13.6 | happens from a brain standpoint when we're triggered. Since the amygdala, that region in your brain, |
| 0:19.2 | that part of your brain can't distinguish between a real threat and a perceived threat, it leads to an emotional overreaction. |
| 0:27.4 | So when we take the time, when we take a beat, when we take a minute to pause and name what we're actually feeling, it allows us to interrupt and then override that amygdala hijack. |
| 0:39.6 | And then we're therefore able to access our logical, rational thinking mind. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a K, because we do things |
| 0:49.5 | a little differently around here. I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical |
| 0:53.9 | experience as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience as a functional |
| 0:55.1 | nutritionist and mindset coach, creating a new model that I call intuitive functional medicine, |
| 1:00.4 | where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence of your body. |
| 1:04.9 | This is where science meets self-trust. |
| 1:07.6 | Your body already knows how to heal, and this show is going to show you how. If you're |
| 1:12.5 | looking for new ways of thinking about your health, be sure to follow and share with a friend |
| 1:16.3 | because you never know whose life you might change. Hello, my friends. Today, let's chat about |
| 1:24.1 | ye old anxiety. Why anxiety might be the message you keep missing and what to do |
| 1:29.7 | about it. A few weeks ago, I had a panic attack. It was the first one that I've had in a lot of years. |
| 1:36.8 | I was like, what is happening? Is this really happening? I just have not felt that sensation in so |
| 1:42.6 | long. Luckily, because of the tools and the resources |
| 1:46.1 | and the reframes that I've collected over the years, I was able to de-escalate myself pretty |
| 1:51.0 | quickly, which is a good thing because I actually had to teach a live class and then I had a |
| 1:54.4 | client. So I had to get myself out of that state, lickety split. On my substack, I'm sharing |
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