Healing Beyond Health Anxiety

Get In Touch!In this episode of Healing Beyond Health Anxiety, I’m talking about why autumn and winter can feel particularly challenging when you're struggling with health anxiety.As the days get shorter, the weather changes and our routines shift, you might notice changes in your mood, energy and motivation. But when you have health anxiety, these perfectly normal seasonal changes can quickly become something else to worry about.I explore Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), how reduced daylight can affect our body clock, sleep and mood, and why not every seasonal dip means something is wrong.I also explain how health anxiety can turn tiredness, low energy or a change in mood into another cycle of symptom checking, overthinking and reassurance seeking.Most importantly, I share simple, practical things you can do to support yourself through the darker months, from getting more daylight and moving your body to maintaining routines, staying connected and giving yourself things to look forward to.We also talk about the power of making small 5% changes rather than putting pressure on yourself to feel better overnight.Because the goal isn't to feel amazing every single day. It's to learn how to support yourself through the changing seasons without allowing health anxiety to take over.If you're ready to start changing your relationship with health anxiety, download my FREE Health Anxiety Reset and take that first step towards rebuilding trust in yourself and your body.Connect & Work With MeIf you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.ukDownload my Health Anxiety Reset or purchase my Body Trust Journal:https://stan.store/healinghealthanxietyHear what my clients are saying about me:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8oGet in touch:email me: [email protected] with me Via my 6 month 1:1 Trust & Thrive Programme or Via My 16 Week Healing Hub Group Coaching Program  Follow along on Social Media @thehealthanxietycoach 💬 DM me or say Hi! – I always love hearing from listeners!Thanks for listening to Healing Beyond Health Anxiety 💚 If this episode helped you, please consider rating & sharing it...it means the world!

Get In Touch!In this episode, I'm guiding you through a gentle body trust meditation to help you reconnect with your body and begin letting go of the fear that health anxiety creates.When you've lived with health anxiety, your body can start to feel like something you need to constantly monitor, check and control.But your body isn't the enemy.This meditation is an opportunity to slow down, step away from the constant need to analyse every sensation and begin rebuilding a more trusting relationship with yourself.Together, we'll practise:Creating space between you and your anxious thoughtsReleasing the need to constantly monitor your bodyAllowing sensations to exist without immediately reactingReconnecting with your body through compassion rather than fearBuilding trust without needing absolute certaintyRemember, recovery isn't about never feeling anxious or uncomfortable again. It's about changing your relationship with those feelings.Find somewhere comfortable, give yourself permission to pause, and allow this time to be just for you. Connect & Work With MeIf you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.ukDownload my Health Anxiety Reset or purchase my Body Trust Journal:https://stan.store/healinghealthanxietyHear what my clients are saying about me:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8oGet in touch:email me: [email protected] with me Via my 6 month 1:1 Trust & Thrive Programme or Via My 16 Week Healing Hub Group Coaching Program  Follow along on Social Media @thehealthanxietycoach 💬 DM me or say Hi! – I always love hearing from listeners!Thanks for listening to Healing Beyond Health Anxiety 💚 If this episode helped you, please consider rating & sharing it...it means the world!

Get In Touch!As someone who lived with health anxiety for years before becoming a coach, I know just how easily we can create little rules for ourselves without even realising it.In this episode, I explore how these subtle, fear-driven rules ... avoiding certain clothes or places, putting plans on hold until symptoms disappear, repeatedly checking our bodies or seeking reassurance .... can slowly take over our lives.I share how these behaviours can give us a temporary sense of safety and control, but ultimately reinforce fear and make our world smaller.I also talk about how I began breaking my own rules, learning to recognise the difference between genuine medical concerns and behaviours driven by fear. I'll explain why challenging these patterns can initially feel uncomfortable, and how small, consistent changes can help us rebuild confidence and trust.Connect & Work With MeIf you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.ukDownload my Health Anxiety Reset or purchase my Body Trust Journal:https://stan.store/healinghealthanxietyHear what my clients are saying about me:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8oGet in touch:email me: [email protected] with me Via my 6 month 1:1 Trust & Thrive Programme or Via My 16 Week Healing Hub Group Coaching Program  Follow along on Social Media @thehealthanxietycoach 💬 DM me or say Hi! – I always love hearing from listeners!Thanks for listening to Healing Beyond Health Anxiety 💚 If this episode helped you, please consider rating & sharing it...it means the world!

Get In Touch!In this episode of Healing Beyond Health Anxiety, I’m joined by subconscious business coach Natasha Clarke, founder of Badass CEO Brand.We talk about how subconscious programming can shape our fears, identity and everyday behaviours ... often without us even realising it. Natasha shares her own journey into subconscious rewiring and explains why mindset work and affirmations alone don’t always create lasting change.We explore the connection between thoughts, feelings and identity, and share practical ways to start changing those deeply ingrained patterns ... including breathwork, separating facts from feelings, changing the language we use around fear and taking small, repeated actions that teach the brain something new.A really interesting conversation about what may be happening beneath the surface and how we can begin to change it.Connect with Natasha:@natashaclarkecoachingConnect & Work With MeIf you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.ukDownload my Health Anxiety Reset or purchase my Body Trust Journal:https://stan.store/healinghealthanxietyHear what my clients are saying about me:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8oGet in touch:email me: [email protected] with me Via my 6 month 1:1 Trust & Thrive Programme or Via My 16 Week Healing Hub Group Coaching Program  Follow along on Social Media @thehealthanxietycoach 💬 DM me or say Hi! – I always love hearing from listeners!Thanks for listening to Healing Beyond Health Anxiety 💚 If this episode helped you, please consider rating & sharing it...it means the world!

Get In Touch!In this episode of Healing Beyond Health Anxiety, I’m joined by midlife weight loss coach Katie Vinton to talk about something I know so many women struggle with....how to navigate fitness, weight and confidence when our bodies are changing through perimenopause and menopause, particularly when anxiety is thrown into the mix too.Katie shares her own story, and how strength training became an important part of managing her anxiety and building a stronger, healthier body.We talk about why the things that worked for us when we were younger don’t necessarily work in the same way in midlife, why endless cardio might not be the answer, and why maintaining and building muscle becomes increasingly important as we get older.We also chat about motivation, confidence and accountability, the impact stress can have on sleep and appetite, and some really simple ways to approach nutrition without making everything feel complicated or overwhelming.Katie shares some brilliant advice for anyone who wants to start strength training but doesn’t know where to begin ... including how you can start at home with your own body weight and build from there.If you’re navigating anxiety, menopause, body changes or simply want to feel stronger and more confident in your body as you get older, there’s so much in this conversation for you.If you'd like to get in touch with Katie, you can find her at: Instagram: coaching_by_katie www.coachingbykatie.co.ukDM me or her for her free resource if you would like it.Oh.. and did I mention that I'm running a free workshop this month? 'How To Move Forward Beyond Health Anxiety' ... register by clicking the link below https://calendly.com/thehealthanxietycoach/how-to-move-beyond-health-anxietyConnect & Work With MeIf you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.ukDownload my Health Anxiety Reset or purchase my Body Trust Journal:https://stan.store/healinghealthanxietyHear what my clients are saying about me:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8oGet in touch:email me: [email protected] with me Via my 6 month 1:1 Trust & Thrive Programme or Via My 16 Week Healing Hub Group Coaching Program  Follow along on Social Media @thehealthanxietycoach 💬 DM me or say Hi! – I always love hearing from listeners!Thanks for listening to Healing Beyond Health Anxiety 💚 If this episode helped you, please consider rating & sharing it...it means the world!

Get In Touch!One of the hardest parts of health anxiety is knowing when a symptom needs medical attention and when anxiety is driving the fear.In this episode of Healing Beyond Health Anxiety, I share how to separate the symptom from the story your anxious mind is creating, step away from Googling and reassurance-seeking, and ask a more helpful question: “What is the appropriate response to what I know right now?”We’ll explore how to take proportionate action, tolerate uncertainty and rebuild trust in yourself and your body ... without allowing every symptom to take over your life.This episode is educational and is not a substitute for medical advice.Connect & Work With MeIf you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.ukDownload my Health Anxiety Reset or purchase my Body Trust Journal:https://stan.store/healinghealthanxietyHear what my clients are saying about me:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8oGet in touch:email me: [email protected] with me Via my 6 month 1:1 Trust & Thrive Programme or Via My 16 Week Healing Hub Group Coaching Program  Follow along on Social Media @thehealthanxietycoach 💬 DM me or say Hi! – I always love hearing from listeners!Thanks for listening to Healing Beyond Health Anxiety 💚 If this episode helped you, please consider rating & sharing it...it means the world!

Get In Touch!In this episode, I talk about something that I genuinely believe is missing from so many health anxiety recovery journeys.When we're struggling, it's so easy to think the answer is more information. We read another article, listen to another podcast, watch another video or search for that one breakthrough that will finally make us feel safe. I know that because I did exactly the same thing.But what I've learned, both through my own recovery and from coaching hundreds of clients, is that we often overlook the very foundations that help our brain and body feel safe in the first place.Your brain and your body are constantly communicating with one another. If you're exhausted, dehydrated, under-fuelled, stressed and running on empty, your nervous system is already on high alert. When that's the case, it's so much harder to regulate fear, think rationally and respond calmly to physical sensations.That's why recovery isn't just about changing your thoughts. It's about looking after the body that's carrying those thoughts too.In this episode, I'm sharing the simple but incredibly powerful fundamentals that have helped me and so many of my clients. We talk about improving your sleep routine, eating regularly so your blood sugar stays stable, staying hydrated, moving your body in a way that reduces stress hormones and rebuilds trust, getting outside for fresh air and natural light to regulate your nervous system, connecting with other people instead of isolating yourself, and making space for joy, hobbies and the things that remind you that life is about so much more than your health anxiety.I also talk about one of the biggest traps I see people fall into: turning recovery into a full-time job. When every waking moment is spent analysing symptoms, consuming recovery content or trying to "fix" yourself, your brain never gets the message that you're actually safe. Sometimes the most healing thing you can do is step away from recovery and go and live your life.I'll also leave you with some simple daily self-care check-in questions that shift your focus away from how you feel and onto what you've done to support yourself. Because recovery isn't measured by whether you felt anxious today. It's measured by the choices you made despite the anxiety.My biggest hope is that this episode reminds you that safety doesn't come from finding certainty or getting one more piece of reassurance. It comes from how you live your life every single day and the small actions that tell your brain, over and over again, "I'm safe."If you enjoy this episode, I'd be so grateful if you could follow the podcast, leave a review and share it with someone who needs to hear it. And if you're ready to take the next step in your recovery, I'd love to support you through my coaching programmes and recovery tools.Connect & Work With MeIf you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.ukDownload my Health Anxiety Reset or purchase my Body Trust Journal:https://stan.store/healinghealthanxietyHear what my clients are saying about me:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8oGet in touch:email me: [email protected] with me Via my 6 month 1:1 Trust & Thrive Programme or Via My 16 Week Healing Hub Group Coaching Program  Follow along on Social Media @thehealthanxietycoach 💬 DM me or say Hi! – I always love hearing from listeners!Thanks for listening to Healing Beyond Health Anxiety 💚 If this episode helped you, please consider rating & sharing it...it means the world!

Get In Touch!In this episode, I'm talking about one of the biggest challenges I see in people with health anxiety....waiting for medical test results. If you've ever found yourself constantly checking your phone, refreshing your patient portal, Googling symptoms, or imagining the worst while you wait, this episode is for you.I explain why our anxious brains struggle so much with uncertainty, how they automatically fill in the blanks with worst-case scenarios, and why it's not actually reassurance we're searching for....it's certainty, and that's something none of us can ever have.I'll also share some practical tools that I use with my clients to help break the cycle, including how to separate facts from fear, stop mentally rehearsing bad news, reduce checking behaviours, keep living your life while you wait, and start rebuilding trust in yourself instead of relying on reassurance.Recovery isn't about eliminating uncertainty....it's about teaching your nervous system that uncertainty doesn't automatically mean danger. If you're waiting for results right now, I hope this episode helps you feel a little calmer, a little more in control, and reminds you that you are far more capable of coping than your anxious mind would have you believe.If you'd like some extra support, I've linked my Recovery Guides in the show notes below, and as always, you can get in touch with me if you'd like to find out more about working together.Connect & Work With MeIf you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.ukDownload my Health Anxiety Reset or purchase my Body Trust Journal:https://stan.store/healinghealthanxietyHear what my clients are saying about me:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8oGet in touch:email me: [email protected] with me Via my 6 month 1:1 Trust & Thrive Programme or Via My 16 Week Healing Hub Group Coaching Program  Follow along on Social Media @thehealthanxietycoach 💬 DM me or say Hi! – I always love hearing from listeners!Thanks for listening to Healing Beyond Health Anxiety 💚 If this episode helped you, please consider rating & sharing it...it means the world!

Get In Touch!In this episode, I talk about how modern technology has completely changed the experience of living with health anxiety. As someone who has recovered from severe health anxiety myself, I share why Google, AI, social media and wearable health trackers can unintentionally keep us stuck in the fear cycle, even though they're designed to help.I explain why we're rarely searching for information...we're actually searching for relief and certainty...and why that reassurance never lasts. Instead, every Google search, AI question or symptom check teaches the brain that there must be a genuine threat, keeping the body's alarm system switched on.We also explore how social media algorithms can flood your feed with illness stories, making rare events feel common, and how wearable technology can encourage you to misinterpret completely normal changes in your body.Most importantly, I want to reassure you that recovery is still absolutely possible. I share practical ways to change your relationship with uncertainty, become more aware of your phone and checking habits, pause the urge to search, reduce digital triggers, curate your social media feeds and begin using technology as a helpful tool rather than a source of emotional safety.If you've ever found yourself trapped in endless Googling, asking AI for reassurance, obsessing over your smartwatch or feeling overwhelmed by health content online, this episode will help you understand why...and, more importantly, how to start breaking free.Connect & Work With MeIf you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.ukDownload my Health Anxiety Reset or purchase my Body Trust Journal:https://stan.store/healinghealthanxietyHear what my clients are saying about me:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8oGet in touch:email me: [email protected] with me Via my 6 month 1:1 Trust & Thrive Programme or Via My 16 Week Healing Hub Group Coaching Program  Follow along on Social Media @thehealthanxietycoach 💬 DM me or say Hi! – I always love hearing from listeners!Thanks for listening to Healing Beyond Health Anxiety 💚 If this episode helped you, please consider rating & sharing it...it means the world!

Get In Touch!In this episode, I'm talking about something that changed everything in my own recovery from health anxiety: understanding that the places and situations we fear aren't usually the real problem. Whether it's supermarkets, restaurants, flying, hot weather, or even leaving the house, it's often the fear story our brain has attached to those experiences that keeps us stuck.I'll explain how the brain learns to associate certain situations with danger, why your amygdala can't tell the difference between a real threat and a perceived one, and how this creates the fight-or-flight response that makes anxiety feel so convincing.We'll explore the common fear narratives behind health anxiety, from catastrophic "what if" thinking to fears that your body will betray you or that you won't cope. I'll also share why avoidance strengthens these beliefs and keeps the anxiety cycle going.Finally, I'll walk you through three practical steps that helped me break free: learning to recognise the fear story, asking more accurate questions instead of feeding worst-case scenarios, and regulating your nervous system before trying to challenge anxious thoughts. If you're ready to stop letting fear dictate your life and start rebuilding trust in your body, this episode is for youConnect & Work With MeIf you’re ready to move beyond health anxiety and start truly healing, I’d love to support you.Access Free Training Here:  www.healthanxietycoach.co.ukDownload my Health Anxiety Reset or purchase my Body Trust Journal:https://stan.store/healinghealthanxietyHear what my clients are saying about me:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8oGet in touch:email me: [email protected] with me Via my 6 month 1:1 Trust & Thrive Programme or Via My 16 Week Healing Hub Group Coaching Program  Follow along on Social Media @thehealthanxietycoach 💬 DM me or say Hi! – I always love hearing from listeners!Thanks for listening to Healing Beyond Health Anxiety 💚 If this episode helped you, please consider rating & sharing it...it means the world!