F**K ANXIETY: For High Functioning Women Ready to Heal Anxiety with Hypnotherapy

Sari Cowsert Intuitive Hypnotherapist
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F**K Anxiety is a podcast for the woman who looks completely fine on the outside. She shows up for everyone. She holds it all together. She answers “I’m good” on autopilot. But inside, she’s white-knuckling every single day. Overthinking everything. Waiting for the next panic attack. Controlling her schedule, her relationships, and every outcome she can get her hands on — just to feel okay. That’s high-functioning anxiety. And most women living with it have never heard those words applied to them. This podcast exists for her. F**K Anxiety explores the real root of anxiety in women — the fear that got pushed down, the control that took over, and the nervous system that never learned it was safe to rest. Through honest conversations, real-life stories, and practical tools, each episode helps you understand: •  Why overthinking, panic attacks, and the need to control everything are connected •  How high-functioning anxiety shows up in mothers, women, and high-achievers •  What nervous system regulation actually looks like in real life •  How to interrupt anxiety in real time — not just manage it •  What it takes to stop letting fear run the show Hosted by Sari Cowsert — a mother, intuitive hypnotherapist, and someone who has lived this pattern firsthand. This podcast is for women who are exhausted from pretending they’re fine — and ready to understand what’s actually happening inside them. Because when a woman learns how to understand her anxiety instead of suppressing it… She doesn’t just change her own life. She changes the emotional inheritance of her daughters. 

  1. 5d ago

    Ep.75 Empath Anxiety | How to Stop Absorbing Other People's Emotions

    Send us Fan Mail  If you walk into a room feeling fine and walk out anxious, heavy, or off with no idea why, this episode is for you. What you've been calling your anxiety might actually be empath anxiety, and it might not even be yours. EPISODE SUMMARY For most of her life, Sari thought her anxiety was entirely her own. Turns out a huge piece of it wasn't. This episode is about empath anxiety: being highly sensitive and absorbing the moods, grief, and stress of the people around you so completely that you lose track of where they end and you begin. Sari walks through her own realization, including a raw, recent moment sitting with grief that wasn't hers to carry, and breaks down why this isn't weakness or drama, it's how some nervous systems are actually wired. She gives you the exact question to ask when a feeling shows up out of nowhere, plus real tools  to let go of what was never yours. If you've spent years managing anxiety that never quite made sense given your actual life, this might be the missing piece. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why some anxiety, sadness, or anger isn't actually yours, and how to start telling the differenceThe one question to ask the moment a feeling arrives out of nowhereWhy being highly sensitive or empathic is a nervous system wiring, not a personality flawSimple tools to release energy that isn't yours: grounding, water, and a spoken releaseWhy the people closest to you (partners, kids, roommates) can quietly become your biggest source of absorbed anxietyHow to hold space for someone without absorbing their painREFLECTION Think back to your childhood. Were you always the one who felt everything deeply? What if some of what you've been calling your anxiety wasn't yours at all? What would that give you? If anxiety shows up out of nowhere and you don't know why, grab the free 5-Minute Nervous System Reset. It's the exact tool Sari points to in this episode for releasing what isn't yours, something that actually helps tonight. And if this episode made something click, that "wait, is that why" feeling, book a free Freedom Roadmap Session. Let's figure out what's actually yours to carry, and what you're finally ready to put down. You're not broken. You're not behind. And you're not alone. If you made it here, that means something. TIMESTAMPS  02:27: Realizing absorbed energy isn't yours, and the moment with her daughter's mood at home  04:52: Sitting with her best friend after losing her mom, and almost spiraling into everyone else's grief  06:50: Learning to discern: is this mine? The awareness step, without turning it into a label  08:48: Feelings don't come with a name tag. How absorbed anxiety gets mistaken for your own story  10:39: The key question: how to know if a feeling is actually yours  11:58: Why this has been happening since childhood, and why no one taught you the tools  13:39: What it felt like to finally realize so much of it was never hers, and the tools to release it  16:08: Grounding, hugging a tree, and letting the earth take what isn't yours  18:34: The "gold suit" visualization, and why this sensitivity is also a gift  20:30: Why so much client work is really about untangling carried energy from your own story  22:34: Journaling questions to sit with 5 minute nervous system reset ad for midroll

  2. Aug 9

    Ep.74 High-Functioning Anxiety: What Has to Change Before You Feel Free.

    Send us Fan Mail You're craving more. More freedom. More passion. More life than the one you're currently living. But your mind and body keep gripping onto what's known, even when known means small and anxious. The only way to the more you're craving is through letting go of what you already know. EPISODE SUMMARY  Sari gets honest about what it took to go from 15 panic attacks a day to trusting something bigger than herself. She breaks down why control and surrender can't coexist: they're two separate operating systems, and you can only run one at a time. She talks about the moment she realized her anxiety wasn't a mood or a bad day, it was an identity she'd built for decades. And she gets into why meditation alone doesn't fix it if you walk out and pick control right back up. This week we're talking about surrender, and not the version where you say the word and hope it fixes something. The real version, the one that requires the anxious, controlling personality you've been running for years to actually die so a new one can take its place. If you've done the reading, tried the apps, and still feel like nothing's actually landing in your body, this one's going to hit different. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why control and surrender can't exist in you at the same timeWhat it actually means when people talk about "ego death," and why it's not as scary as it sounds, or actually dying.Why your anxiety and control isn't a mood, it's an operating system you installed years agoThe difference between surrendering and just taking a vacation from your anxietyWhy daily practice matters more than one big breakthroughHow to know what you're really trying to control right nowWhy the days you don't want to do the work are the most important onesREFLECTION  Who is the personality you're waking up as every day, and does she actually believe what she's carrying is hers to carry? What are you trying to control right now that you could actually let unfold? WORK WITH ME  If you're ready to stop collecting insights about your anxiety and actually feel it shift, book your free Freedom Roadmap session at thegrowthgoddess.net. It's just a conversation. Let's look at what you're carrying and what it would feel like to put it down. And if you want somewhere to start tonight, grab the free 5-Minute Nervous System Reset at thegrowthgoddess.net/reset. TIMESTAMPS  02:34: The anxious, controlling personality can't coexist with the free, trusting version of you  03:13: Surrender as the leap off the cliff; two operating systems, only one can run at a time  05:15: Ego death explained; panic attacks as stored energy; pruning the identity that validates the old self  07:02: Who are you waking up as? The 15-panic-attacks-a-day question, choosing who you want to be instead  09:13: What surrender really means; the mom-life control example with her daughters  11:18: The elephant-sized weight of carrying everything alone for 23 years  11:45: The body caving inward under the weight, and how crumbling led her to meditation  13:48: Finding a loving, universal consciousness in meditation; true surrender vs. taking a "vacation" from anxiety  15:53: The moment the personality actually dies; why daily journaling and returning to it matters  17:38: Why the days you don't want to show up are the most important; custom hypnosis recordings explained  18:41: Uninstalling one operating system to install another; the old ego bucking back before it dies  20:25: Why this work is life-changing over time;   22:13: Journaling question: who is the personality you're waking up as? 22:36: Journaling question: who do you want to wake up as?  22:49: Journaling questions: what's your operating system running on, what have you been carrying alone?   You're not broken. You're not behind. And you're not alone. If you made it here, that means something. 5 minute nervous system reset ad for midroll

  3. Aug 2

    Ep.73 F**k Self Sabotage! The Key to the Shift.

    Send us Fan Mail Do you ever wonder why nothing seems to be working out for you, or why it feels like everything's working out for everyone but you? This episode is for you. It's not bad luck, and by the end you'll see the pattern you didn't even know you were building, or have had deep in your subconscious your whole life. EPISODE SUMMARY This week I'm telling on myself. After moving to Austin and building new community from scratch, I kept asking myself why the same things kept happening to me, why it felt like everyone else, even my own family, was thriving while I wasn't. Turns out I was doing something I thought I'd already healed: building an entire identity around being EXCLUDED. Not just feeling left out one time, but scanning for proof of it everywhere, calling friends I knew would take my side, and slowly turning a single emotion into a full blown personality. In this episode I break down the difference between feeling an emotion and identifying with it, why the victim role feels so hard to release even when it's costing you everything, and the exact journaling process I used to unwire it, the same one I walk clients through one on one. If overthinking, control, and the same painful situations keep finding you, this episode will show you the subconscious pattern actually running the show, and how nervous system regulation starts with just noticing it. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why certain painful situations keep repeating themselves, and how you might be unknowingly reinforcing the patternThe real difference between feeling an emotion and building an entire identity around itWhy the victim identity can feel so hard to release, and exactly what it's protecting you fromHow to spot a "bandwagon friend," and why venting can quietly turn into gossipWhy an already healed pattern can come back "in costume" to test whether you really learned the lessonA full journaling practice to find the subconscious belief actually running the showHow just 120 seconds can move stress chemicals like cortisol out of your body REFLECTION What is the story you keep telling about yourself, or about your life, right now?Who are you presenting to the world when this identity is running?What would you have to feel, and who would you have to become, to get what you actually want?If you've done the work but something keeps pulling you back into an old identity and you can't figure out why, book a free Freedom Roadmap Session. It's just a conversation, no pressure, just clarity on what's keeping you stuck. Link in the show notes. And if you need something tonight, the free 5-Minute Nervous System Reset can move the stress chemicals of that victim spiral out of your body in about 120 seconds. Link in the show notes. You're not broken. You're not behind. And you're not alone. If you made it here, that means something. TIMESTAMPS 02:17 — The identity shift that started with her move to Austin, and feeling like everyone else was thriving but her  03:00 — The 40th birthday retreat story in Mexico, and spiraling into "poor me"  04:41 — The difference between feeling an emotion and building an identity around it  06:29 — Why this isn't a character flaw, it's the mind in survival mode  08:04 — The real payoff of staying the victim: not having to be responsible for changing anything  09:17 — Bandwagon friends, venting versus gossip, and misery loving company  10:27 — How an old wound can come back "in costume" without you recognizing it  12:07 — Recognition as the first step, and why victim energy tanks your power  13:02 — The journaling practice begins: naming the story and the core emotion underneath it  14:43 — What you actually want to feel instead, and who you have to become to get there  15:44 — Noticing the thought loop and the inner voice running it 15:57 — Locating the feeling in the body 17:14 — Who you're presenting to the world when this identity is running  19:33 — Closing encouragement to come back to the journaling questions with radical honesty  21:05 — Reminder about the free 5-minute Nervous System Reset and closing out 5 minute nervous system reset ad for midroll

  4. Jul 26

    Ep.72 Grief and Anger: The Feeling No One Lets You Admit

    Send us Fan Mail This week I'm sitting down with Dr. Melissa Weiss for a raw, unfiltered conversation about grief, trauma, and what it actually takes to become the creator of your life instead of the victim of it.  Melissa lost her husband Derek to COVID complications while she was nine months pregnant, and she takes us straight into it: the hospital, the missed phone call, the moment she found out he wasn't coming home. We talk about the difference between people who let tragedy become their identity and people who let it become their catalyst, why the victim role can feel comfortable even before the tragedy hits, and how nervous system regulation, radical self honesty, and plain old stillness rebuilt her from the inside out.  If you've ever wondered why your healing doesn't look like everyone else's, or caught an old pattern like people pleasing or self judgment sneaking back in after you thought you'd already done the work, this conversation will meet you exactly there. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why the victim role can feel comfortable, even familiar, long before tragedy ever shows up, and how to catch yourself in itThe grief box and grief button metaphor Sari shares, and why grief never fully disappears, it just gets quieterHow dissociation and "throwing yourself into tasks" is actually the body's intelligent protection mechanism, not a personal failureWhy radical ownership, not blame, is the real starting point of healingHow your nervous system has to be calibrated before it can actually call in the next relationship, opportunity, or level of lifeWhy stillness and quiet, not constant doing, is where you learn the most about what you actually needHow grief and old trauma resurface together, and why healing one often means finally facing the other REFLECTION Have you ever noticed the victim role feeling strangely comfortable, even before anything tragic happened?What is the "grief button" in your own life, the thing that still gets hit sometimes even years later?What would you need to feel calibrated enough in your own nervous system before you could actually call in what you say you want? Work With Sari If you've done the healing work but something keeps pulling you back into old patterns and you can't quite figure out why, that's exactly what a 1:1 session is for. Book a Freedom Roadmap call and let's see what you can't see from inside the jar.  And if you're the woman who has read every book and listened to every episode and is still waiting to feel the shift in your body, start with the free 5-Minute Nervous System Reset.  Something that actually helps tonight.  Connect with Dr. Melissa Weiss You're not broken. You're not behind. And you're not alone. If you made it here, that means something. TIMESTAMPS 00:56 — Setting up the topic: the grief Melissa has walked through since losing her husband  04:11 — How Melissa met her husband Derek, and what made her know he was the one  16:10 — Dissociating, then throwing herself into logistics instead of feeling the loss 19:28 — How the body protects a pregnant mother and a grieving wife at the same time  21:51 — Admitting she sometimes hates her husband for dying, and why all the feelings need room  22:52 — Sari's grief box and grief button metaphor  26:02 — What actually separates someone who grows from tragedy from someone who stays the victim  27:45 — Passive suicidal thoughts, and choosing to keep going anyway  29:21 — Radical ownership over blame, and stepping out of the victim role  32:33 — The lesson from Melissa's energy healer on receiving feedback without becoming a victim  34:24 — How the depth of past trauma reveals the height you're capable of reaching  35:36 — Facing childhood sexual trauma while grieving and parenting solo  45:00 — Grief, death, and the idea that we only experience 1 percent of reality 54:02 — How grief recalibrates what you will and won't tolerate in relationships 57:18 — Dating again as a widow, and choosing joy before choosing a partner 1:00:59 — Why your nervous system has to be calibrated before you can call in what you want  1:03:11 — Melissa's closing message: don't be afraid of stillness  1:05:52 — Melissa's move to Florida and the new Reclaim for Women program with Dr. Jen Auchter 5 minute nervous system reset ad for midroll

  5. Jul 19

    Ep.71 Racing Thoughts Taking Over? Why Meditation Feels Impossible

    Send us Fan Mail If you've googled "why meditation doesn't work for me" or "why can't I quiet my mind," this episode is for you. You're not doing it wrong. Your brain is just running on autopilot in a survival state — and once you know that, everything changes. EPISODE SUMMARY You've heard you should meditate. Maybe you've even tried. And maybe it felt like a total failure with racing thoughts, a body that won't sit still, a mind convinced this isn't for you.  In this episode, Sari breaks down the brainwave states (the states in which your mind is in) behind anxiety, meditation, and hypnosis, and why "high beta" — the survival, overfunctioning, racing-thoughts state, might be the only gear you know how to live in. She gets honest about falling off her own meditation practice for three weeks, what happened to her nervous system because of it, and what it felt like to come back.  You'll learn why closing your eyes is one of the most powerful things you can do for your nervous system, why affirmations don't work when you're stressed, and why real change happens in the quiet, suggestible states most of us never learn to access. This is the science behind why meditation and hypnosis actually work — not just theory, but what it feels like in the body. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why meditation doesn't work for anxiety the way most people are taught to do it, and what actually needs to happen firstWhy anxiety and overthinking might just mean your nervous system is stuck in "high beta," not that something's wrong with youThe difference between beta, alpha, theta, and delta brainwave states, and why it mattersWhy closing your eyes is one of the most powerful tools for your nervous systemWhy affirmations don't work when you're stressed (and when they actually do)What happens in the body when you stop meditating — Sari's own three-week storyHow to tell if you've been in survival mode so long it just feels like your personalityA simple 5-minute practice to start downshifting your nervous system today REFLECTION Have you been in survival mode so long that it just feels like your personality?When was the last time you gave yourself five minutes of intentional stillness — no phone, no to-do list, just breath?What would it feel like to zoom out from the grain of rice you've been staring at?Work With Sari If you've tried meditating and it hasn't felt like it's working, you don't need more information — you need to feel the shift in your body. Grab the free 5-Minute Nervous System Reset to start training your nervous system to downshift. Link in the show notes. And if you're ready to go deeper and actually work with your subconscious directly, book a free Freedom Roadmap call. We'll map out exactly what's keeping your nervous system stuck. Link in the show notes. You're not broken. You're not behind. And you're not alone. If you made it here, that means something. TIMESTAMPS 00:01 — Intro: why this episode is for you if meditation feels confusing or like it's "not working"  01:42 — Meeting the version of you that's always "on" — restlessness as your normal  04:05 — Why Sari loves hypnosis alongside meditation, and her own journey  06:16 — Meditation as medicine — the thyroid medication analogy  08:18 — Falling off her routine for three weeks, becoming the "pool filter," and the dark cloud that followed  10:42 — Brainwave states explained: beta, alpha, theta, delta  11:51 — High beta explained — survival mode, and what it felt like living there for three weeks  13:38 — "Have you been in survival mode so long it's begun to feel like your personality?"  15:37 —  the "magnifying binoculars" of high beta  17:25 — Neuroplasticity and neural pathways — how alpha and theta reopen the door to change  18:41 — Closing your eyes as a portal to imagination and a higher intelligence  20:31 — Zooming out from the grain of rice — why meditation is non-negotiable medicine  22:05 — Why five minutes of stillness matters more than a "perfect" routine  24:22 — Guided visualization begins — the first deep breath and downshift  27:54 — What this practice builds over time, and how Sari works with clients in theta states  5 minute nervous system reset ad for midroll

  6. Jul 12

    Ep.70 Why Do I Feel Like I Don't Belong? The Achievement Addiction Nobody Names

    Send us Fan Mail If you've done everything right, the career, the house, the kids, the smile, and you still feel like everyone else got invited to something you weren't, or someone else got the promotion, the pat on the back, this episode is for you. That quiet hum of not enough, not worthy, not included? That's not your anxiety. That's the wound underneath it. And it has been running the show since you were small. EPISODE SUMMARY You're building the business, raising the kids, showing up for everyone. And underneath all of it there is this energizer bunny that never actually stops running. Am I enough yet? Do I belong yet? Am I worthy yet? In this episode, Sari breaks down why the need to belong is a primal nervous system survival response, not a personality flaw, and why no amount of achievement, likes, applause, or acknowledgment from the outside will ever touch the love you actually need to give yourself. She shares her own story of growing up as a middle class Jewish girl in a wealthy community, earning her worth through dance performance, and how that wound followed her all the way into her business, her social media, and every room she walked into wondering if she was going to be included. She closes with a guided visualization to help you meet the little girl who first decided she had to earn her place, and tell her something she maybe never heard enough. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why the constant doing, achieving, and performing is the symptom, not the root causeHow the fear of not belonging triggers your nervous system into survival modeWhere the "I have to earn my place" wound starts and why it never stays in childhoodWhy the most successful people you're comparing yourself to might just be performing better at the same woundThe real shift: from looking for external validation to belonging to yourself firstA simple pause to practice before you post, say yes, or push harder at workA guided visualization to meet the little girl who made the agreement and give her what she neededREFLECTION Where in your life are you still running the energizer bunny trying to earn your place? Before your next post, your next yes, your next push at work, can you pause and ask: am I doing this because it's true to me, or am I doing this to be seen? What would it mean to belong to yourself first? RESOURCES + WORK WITH ME You can understand this intellectually all day long and still feel that hum underneath everything. The subconscious belief that got wired in when you were small does not shift from one podcast episode. It shifts when you do the deeper work and find exactly where it lives in your body and your story. If you feel the pull to do that work, book a Freedom Roadmap session with Sari at thegrowthgoddess.net. Just a conversation about what this could look like for you. No pressure, just clarity. 5 Minute Nervous System Reset And if the energizer bunny is running hard today and you need something right now, grab the free 5 Minute Nervous System Reset at thegrowthgoddess.net/reset. A tool you can come back to the moment you feel the hum getting loud.  You're not broken.  You're not behind.  And you're not alone. TIMESTAMPS 00:02 Welcome back, anxiety as the messenger, and why subconscious work is the key 02:29 The quiet hum underneath all the doing: am I enough yet, do I belong yet, am I worthy yet 03:19 Why we are anxious when we look like we have it all 04:03 You've done everything right and something still does not feel fulfilled 04:24 The tribe metaphor and comparing yourself to people who look like they cracked the code 05:30 Sari's personal story: growing up as a dancer, a middle class Jewish girl, earning validation through performance 06:25 How conditional validation rewires the subconscious and when it starts 08:57 When acknowledgment becomes identity and why it does not stay in the studio 09:30 The wound follows you everywhere: the hair business, the house, refreshing the likes 11:11 Why you cannot rest because resting feels like not earning your place 11:39 Real freedom is not chasing belonging from the outside 12:31 No amount of likes, revenue, or applause will touch the love you need to give yourself 12:43 Do I love myself enough to belong to myself first 13:11 The invitation to the tribe is not external, it is from yourself 14:17 This is not a concept, it is a moment by moment practice 14:28 Catching the thought and asking who you are earning love from 15:20 The pause before you post, say yes, or push harder 15:43 No judgment, just honest awareness and a choice 16:41 Guided visualization begins 19:08 Telling her what she maybe never heard enough 19:51 You already do belong. You always did. 20:13 Coming back to the body, you get to choose yourself now 21:41 One on one work and the discovery call invitation 5 minute nervous system reset ad for midroll

  7. Jul 5

    Ep.69 Why I Used to Wake Up in a Full Panic Every Morning

    Send us Fan Mail If you wake up already scanning your body for what's wrong, already bracing before your feet hit the floor, this episode is for you. You are not crazy and you are not broken. Your body has just been trying to talk to you, and somewhere along the way you stopped listening, not your fault, this has become a learned habit. EPISODE SUMMARY For years Sari felt like the victim of her own anxiety. Like it had a hold on her and she was just along for the ride, waiting for the next panic attack, predicting her whole life around it. If you've been diagnosed with a medical condition and you're left wondering why your body keeps reacting, new things are showing up, or if tension and restlessness have become so normal you don't even notice them anymore, this episode breaks down the WHY. Sari walks through why the body speaks first, always, before the mind ever creates a single anxious thought. She unpacks the feeling and thinking loop that turns one heart palpitation into a full blown spiral, why chronic anxiety reprograms your nervous system to expect chaos, and the real difference between being a victim of anxiety and learning to work with it. She closes with a guided body scan to help you start asking your body what it's actually been trying to tell you. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why anxiety can feel like your own body is turning against youHow chronic stress and a dysregulated nervous system are connected to diagnosesWhy your body sends the signal first, before your mind ever creates the anxious thoughtThe feeling and thinking loop that turns one small sensation into a full spiralWhy tension and restlessness start to feel "normal" the longer you live in survival modeThe real difference between being a victim of anxiety and choosing to work with it, listen to what it's trying to tell youA simple way to start listening to your body instead of bracing against itREFLECTION What has become so normal in your body, the tension, the restlessness, the bracing, that you don't even notice it anymore? If your body could talk right now, what would it say? Are you living as the victim of your anxiety, or are you ready to start working with it? RESOURCES + WORK WITH ME This is exactly the work Sari does with her clients in one on one sessions. Not a general meditation, but going in together to what your body is specifically holding, what it's been trying to say, what got shoved down so long it just became background noise. If anxiety feels like it has a hold on you right now, start with the Free 5 Minute Nervous System Reset. Something that actually helps in the moment, before the spiral takes over. And if you're ready to stop being the victim and get curious about what your body has been trying to tell you, book a Freedom Roadmap session with Sari. It's less of a discovery call and more of a curiosity call. No pressure, just clarity.  You're not broken.  You're not behind.  And you're not alone. TIMESTAMPS 00:01 Welcome back, where Sari's episode ideas come from, and the idea of being a victim of anxiety 00:01 Sari's husband's early shift and the adrenaline that hit her just from him saying goodbye 02:31 Anxiety as a messenger, and how symptoms can feel like the body turning on you 05:01 Living in chronic anxiety until it starts to feel normal 06:59 Victim of anxiety versus working with it, and the energy of curiosity versus control 08:44 The body speaks first, always, before the mind creates the panic 11:08 "The mind doesn't create anxiety. It reacts to what the body is already feeling." 13:06 The feeling and thinking loop, and how one palpitation spirals into a full panic 14:18 The Body Keeps the Score, and how dysregulation starts to feel like a normal Tuesday 16:18 Why it's so hard to hear the whisper when chaos is all you've ever known 16:37 Taking inventory of what's become normal, and why Sari uses hypnosis 17:32 Why meditation and hypnosis aren't about emptying the mind, they're about creating space to hear what's already there 19:28 Not knowing what joy or love even felt like, and imagining freedom from anxiety 20:49 Meditation and hypnosis as a phone call with your body 22:22 A guided body scan, noticing tension without judgment 23:14 The beginning of working with your anxiety instead of fighting it 24:07 Asking your body what it's trying to tell you and what it's ready to let go of 25:25 The curiosity call invitation and closing 5 minute nervous system reset ad for midroll

  8. Jun 28

    Ep.68 How to Let Go of Anxiety In The Body

    Send us Fan Mail If you've been to all the doctors, tried all the things, and your anxiety still won't budge, this one is for you. Maybe the reason nothing has worked is that you've been trying to think your way out of something, but maybe it's not a thinking solution, maybe your body has been holding on to something the whole time, and you need to heal through the body. About This Episode I sat down with Jenny Cohen, an author, a speaker, a cancer survivor, and a dancer who believes movement is your birthright to heal. She used dance to stay alive through her cancer treatment, and what she shares in this episode is something I have lived in my own body for years. Anxiety is not just in your head. It lives in your body. And when you have nowhere to put that energy, it doesn't disappear. It builds. We talk about why your anxiety is the messenger, not the enemy. We get into why your body will go to extremes to get your attention, the difference between your conscious mind and your subconscious mind, head up versus head down, and what's actually happening when emotion releases as crying, shaking, or going completely still. Jenny also shares the dead simple daily practice that helped her, and the one question she asks her body the second symptoms show up. If you're a high functioning woman holding it all together while quietly crumbling, this is your permission slip to stop performing and start letting it move. What You'll Learn Why your anxiety can get worse the moment you stop moving your bodyWhy anxiety is the messenger, and how the more you ignore the whispers, the louder your body has to getHow your conscious mind and subconscious mind split, head up versus head down, and why it matters for healingWhat emotional release actually looks like, and what to do when it happensA simple daily movement practice you can start with no skill and no one watchingThe one question Jenny asks her body when symptoms show upReflection Where in your life have you stopped moving, and what might be trying to get your attention? When was the last time you let your body do something just because it felt good, with no goal attached? Your Next Step If your anxiety feels stuck in your body and you need something that actually helps tonight, start here. Grab the free 5 Minute Nervous System Reset And if you're ready to stop managing your anxiety and start getting to the root of it, this is where one on one work comes in. That is where we rewrite the subconscious patterns underneath, not just talk about them. Book your free Freedom Roadmap session You're not broken.  You're not behind.  And you're not alone. Timestamps 00:00 Welcome and meet Jenny Cohen  01:43 When movement as a birthright to heal first came online for Jenny  03:07 From dance to occupational therapy  05:31 How dance kept Jenny alive through cancer treatment  06:15 What was driving the anxiety underneath  07:46 Overlapping conditions, depression, and unresolved trauma  09:25 Dancing before, during, and after breast cancer treatment  11:01 Sari shares how her own anxiety didn't show up until she stopped dancing  12:26 Movement is for everybody, even after your shower  13:23 Why our life force requires movement  15:18 Why our bodies will go to extremes to give us what we want  16:19 Why anxiety is the messenger, not the enemy  18:30 Fixed movement versus improvisation  22:21 The moment emotion released mid movement  23:20 Why you never touch someone who is emotionally processing  25:18 Conscious mind from the head up, subconscious from the head down  30:55 Why forgiveness is part of healing  36:53 You have the right to move, you were born with it  37:51 The daily practice, five random songs  39:19 Naming three things you liked about what you did  44:26 The question Jenny asks her body when symptoms show up  46:40 Sari's movement challenge  48:32 Are you doing your self care in a present way  49:49 Where to find Jenny Cohen 5 minute nervous system reset ad for midroll

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F**K Anxiety is a podcast for the woman who looks completely fine on the outside. She shows up for everyone. She holds it all together. She answers “I’m good” on autopilot. But inside, she’s white-knuckling every single day. Overthinking everything. Waiting for the next panic attack. Controlling her schedule, her relationships, and every outcome she can get her hands on — just to feel okay. That’s high-functioning anxiety. And most women living with it have never heard those words applied to them. This podcast exists for her. F**K Anxiety explores the real root of anxiety in women — the fear that got pushed down, the control that took over, and the nervous system that never learned it was safe to rest. Through honest conversations, real-life stories, and practical tools, each episode helps you understand: •  Why overthinking, panic attacks, and the need to control everything are connected •  How high-functioning anxiety shows up in mothers, women, and high-achievers •  What nervous system regulation actually looks like in real life •  How to interrupt anxiety in real time — not just manage it •  What it takes to stop letting fear run the show Hosted by Sari Cowsert — a mother, intuitive hypnotherapist, and someone who has lived this pattern firsthand. This podcast is for women who are exhausted from pretending they’re fine — and ready to understand what’s actually happening inside them. Because when a woman learns how to understand her anxiety instead of suppressing it… She doesn’t just change her own life. She changes the emotional inheritance of her daughters. 

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