What is your anxiety is trying to tell you?!What if anxiety isn't something that has gone wrong with you - what if it's a message?In this episode of Girl Awakening, Jo and Amanda sit down with Dr. Nicole Cain, ND, MA — a pioneer in integrative approaches to mental and emotional wellness — for a fascinating, honest and deeply expansive conversation about anxiety, panic, intuition, healing and what happens when we finally start listening to ourselves.With a background in clinical psychology, training in EMDR and a license as a Naturopathic Physician in Arizona, Nicole brings together medical, psychological and holistic perspectives in her approach to mental health.But this conversation goes far beyond the question of how to "manage" anxiety. In sharing of Nicole's awakening we are led to ask a much more interesting question:WHAT IF YOUR ANXIETY IS TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING?Nicole shares her own awakening journey — from a childhood instinct to care for others, through her career in mental health and medicine, into her own experience of anxiety and the questioning that followed.Together, Jo, Amanda and Nicole explore:→ Why fighting anxiety can sometimes make it louder→ What anxiety might be communicating through the body→ How to begin distinguishing intuition from fear and anxiety→ Why the state of your nervous system matters when you're listening to your "gut"→ Nicole's powerful "stoplight" approach to intuition, stress and regulation→ What happens when we stop treating ourselves as something that needs to be fixed→ Why discomfort can become a doorway to growth→ The importance of agency when learning to sit with difficult feelings→ The healing power of being truly seen, heard and held→ Why collaboration between different approaches to healthcare matters→ What embodiment, inner-child work and guided imagery can teach us→ And the bigger question underneath all of it: what happens when we begin to listen to ourselves differently?This is more than a conversation about anxiety and unlearning the patterns we've inherited. Nicole asks us to become curious about the parts of ourselves we've been taught to silence and lean in to notice the signals we've been overriding.As we sit with Dr. Nicole, the opportunity to be vulnerable and yet safe in remembering that our experiences aren't necessarily asking us to become someone else. Maybe they're asking us to come home to ourselves.Dr. Nicole Cain is the author of PANIC PROOF - her guide to understanding panic and anxiety through an integrative, whole-person approach. We would call it a most comprehensive hand book and recommend as the book to have by your bed to pick up and read any day it's one of those days. A great resource, soon to be the book that guided you through the panic portal and out the other side! ABOUT GIRL AWAKENINGGirl Awakening is a space for the conversations women are ready for — the ones that go beneath the surface and explore awakening, consciousness, healing, relationships, spirituality, purpose, God, the human experience, and what it means to truly come home to ourselves.More about Dr. Nicole Cain here: @DrNicoleCainNDMA Nicole Cain, ND, MA, is a pioneer in integrative approaches for mental and emotional wellness. With a degree in clinical psychology, training in EMDR, and a license as a Naturopathic Physician in the state of Arizona, her approach to mental health is multidisciplinary: medical, psychological, and holistic.Website: https://drnicolecain.com/Book Website: https://www.panicproof.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnicolecain/?hl=en#girlawakening #girlawakeningpodcast #anxietyrelief #anxietyawareness #panicattack #holistichealth #emotionalwellness #emotionalwellbeing #awakening #identitycrisis #holisticwellness #iamwell #iam #portal #fearlessliving #DrNicoleCain #Anxiety #Intuition #MentalHealth #Healing #Awakening #PanicAttacks #NervousSystem #SelfDiscovery
