The Anxiety Party by The Neuro Babe

Kerry Green, LCSW
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The Anxiety Party by The Neuro Babe. Where real conversations about anxiety, healing, and being human meet science, self-trust, and nervous system mastery. Hosted by Kerry Green, licensed therapist and founder of The Neuro Babe, this podcast is where high-achieving women stop managing anxiety and start dismantling the identity behind it. Each episode blends relatable stories, nervous system education, and the deep conversations you wish someone had sooner about trauma, burnout, chronic symptoms, self-trust, and becoming the woman who heals herself, trusts herself, and builds the life she's been too afraid to claim. Because healing isn’t about doing more, it’s about embodying more. Welcome to The Anxiety Party, where your healing gets to feel human again.

  1. 2d ago

    #19 5 Signs Your Nervous System Is Ready to Step Into Your Next Level

    Episode Description: What if your anxiety, burnout, and mystery symptoms weren't signs that something is wrong with you, but signs that your nervous system is ready for more? In this episode, Kerry breaks down the five signs your nervous system is trying to get your attention and what it's actually asking you to do about it. Because anxiety was never the villain. It's the bouncer standing in front of the door to your next level, and this episode is your invitation to walk through it. In this episode we cover: -The real reason your anxiety won't budge, and why it's actually good news. -Why burnout isn't always about doing too much. -What dread is really trying to tell you. -The connection between your physical symptoms and the life change you've been avoiding. -Signs from your spirit guides. (Why the coincidences aren't coincidences.) Resources mentioned: The Neuro Babe Club — theneurobabe.com/program The She's Back Method™️ — Kerry's proprietary framework for moving beyond fear and into the expansion phase of your life, taught inside The Neuro Babe Club. 7-Day Anxiety Reset Blueprint — Leave a review, screenshot it, and send it to Kerry on Instagram @kerrygreenofficial to receive free access. Connect with Kerry: Instagram: @kerrygreenofficial Website: theneurobabe.com Book a call: theneurobabe.com/bookacall

    35 min

  2. 6d ago

    #18 High-Functioning Survival Mode: The Hidden Reason You're Still Anxious, Exhausted, and Stuck

    High-functioning survival mode is still survival mode. In this episode of The Anxiety Party, Kerry shares the truth most high-achieving women don't want to hear: just because you're getting everything done doesn't mean your nervous system is okay. If you're successful on paper but secretly exhausted, overwhelmed, anxious, emotionally drained, or dealing with chronic symptoms that won't go away, this episode is for you. Kerry shares personal stories from her own life, including recovering from major spinal surgery while refusing to slow down, working as a clinical supervisor while simultaneously building her private practice, and the years she spent living on pure adrenaline without realizing she was trapped in survival mode. You'll learn: • What high-functioning survival mode actually looks like • The difference between stress and chronic nervous system dysregulation • Why anxiety, burnout, exhaustion, overwhelm, and many physical symptoms often have the same root cause • Signs you're living in functional freeze without realizing it • How overworking, overperforming, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and self-abandonment keep you stuck • Why healing isn't sticking even though you're trying so hard • The hidden ways work, business, relationships, and family dynamics keep your nervous system trapped in survival mode • What changes when you finally get out of survival mode If you've ever thought: "I should be able to handle this." "I look successful, so why do I feel so bad?" "If I slow down, everything will fall apart." This episode will help you understand why your nervous system may be telling a very different story. Connect with Kerry: Instagram: @kerrygreenofficial Enjoying the show? Leave a review and send a screenshot to Kerry on Instagram for free access to her 7-Day Anxiety Reset Blueprint — seven days of audio training designed to help you break free from survival mode and start regulating your nervous system from the root.

    32 min

  3. May 22

    #17 The Panic Party Era

    If you've ever blacked out mid-presentation, spiral-texted someone at midnight, hyperventilated thinking you're dying, or convinced yourself someone's bad mood meant the relationship was over...this episode is for you. Kerry's pulling back the curtain on her panic party era: the hyperventilating on Grandfather Mountain, the Zoom workshop she clicked out of mid-panic attack, the rapid-fire texts she couldn't stop sending, and the anxiety nobody in the meeting could see. Real stories. No filter. But this isn't just a confessional — it's a roadmap. Because panic isn't only the hyperventilating, can't-breathe kind. It's the crawling out of your skin. The tornado of physical sensations. The absolute certainty that everything is ending. And it's the slow, invisible way it shrinks your world until you're avoiding the walk, the vacation, the new project, the next moves in your business — because not doing the thing feels safer than feeling what you think you're gonna feel. In this episode Kerry gets into: What panic actually looks like beyond the dramatic version you pictureWhy your nervous system isn't broken — it's just trying to get your attentionThe survival mode identity that's keeping your world small (and how to get out of it)Why avoiding never gets you out of the anxiety cage — and what actually doesWhat life looks like when you're no longer white-knuckling through your own dayIf you've been wondering whether healing is actually possible for you — this is the episode that will make you believe it is. Connect with Kerry: Instagram: @kerrygreenofficial Website: theneurobabe.com

    29 min

  4. May 18

    #16 Why Anxiety Healing Sometimes Feels Like You're Back at Square One (you're not)

    You were doing so well. Making progress. Feeling better. Riding the high. And then one thing happened. A bad day. A physical symptom. A moment of anxiety you thought was behind you. And suddenly your brain is telling you that you were never healing in the first place. That you shouldn't have gotten your hopes up. That this is just who you are. This episode is about why that happens. And why it is not the truth. Kerry shares a story straight from a client session this week: a woman in The Neuro Babe Club who had been thriving, got dizzy, and spiraled into full "I'm regressing" territory. Kerry walks through exactly how they worked through it together. First, by proving the thought had no real evidence behind it. And then by getting to the real reason this happens to almost every woman who is actively healing. The answer? Your old identity is trying to pull you back. And once you understand that, everything gets so much easier. In this episode: Why your brain uses a bad day as proof that you were never healing (and why that is not evidence of anything)How to find the real explanation for a physical symptom before letting your nervous system decide it means the worstWhy healing setbacks happen to almost every client Kerry works with, and what is actually going on underneathEgo death: what it is, why it happens during healing, and why it is a sign you are doing something rightThe operator visual: how to separate yourself from the spiral in real time using old identity vs. new identityWhy your old identity is basically a stalker peeking through your windows. and how to make her go away for goodWhy healing does not have to be as hard as you are making itIf you're ready to get out of your anxiety cage and join The Club, head to theneurobabe.com!

    16 min

  5. May 11

    #15 You're Not a People Pleaser. It's Your Nervous System

    If you've been calling yourself a people pleaser for years, this episode is going to change everything. Because people-pleasing isn't your personality. It's not who you are. It's a survival strategy your nervous system learned when you were young. And that distinction changes everything about how you heal it. In this episode, Kerry breaks down exactly why you say yes when you mean no, why setting boundaries sends your body into full panic mode, and why trying to just "be more assertive" or "say no more often" will never actually work. Because you can't think your way out of a pattern that lives in your nervous system. You'll walk away understanding where people-pleasing really comes from, what it's actually costing you (including the physical symptoms your doctor can't explain), and the three-step process that makes boundaries feel natural instead of terrifying. In this episode: Why people-pleasing is not a personality trait. It's a nervous system survival response called the fawn responseHow your childhood environment wired your brain to put everyone else's needs first (and why it made complete sense at the time)What's actually happening in your body when you try to set a boundary and immediately want to take it backWhy the guilt spiral after saying no is not a character flaw. And what it's really telling youWhat your physical symptoms (gut issues, migraines, chronic fatigue, mystery pain) have to do with people-pleasingWhat life actually looks like on the other side, in real, specific, everyday momentsThe 3-step process to healing people-pleasing at the root: regulate, rewire, practiceConnect with Kerry: Instagram: @kerrygreenofficial. Kerry would love to connect with you

    27 min

  6. May 4

    #14 Intrusive Thoughts (Why You Have Them & How To Let Go)

    If you've ever had a thought come completely out of nowhere and make you go — wait, WHAT was that, am I okay — this episode is for you. We're talking about intrusive thoughts. Not the "ugh I'm a little worried" kind. The vivid, intense, out-of-nowhere kind. The ones that scare you. The ones that make you wonder if something is wrong with you. Spoiler: nothing is wrong with you. In this episode, Kerry breaks down exactly what intrusive thoughts are, why they happen, and why the thing you've been trying — logic, affirmations, journaling the same thought for the fifth time — literally cannot work when your nervous system is in survival mode. You'll walk away understanding your brain in a way nobody ever explained to you. And that understanding? It's the first step to it actually stopping. In this episode: The actual difference between regular anxiety and intrusive thoughtsThe 4 nervous system states — and which ones are generating the dark, scary thoughtsWhy you cannot logic your way out of an intrusive thought (and why that is 100% not your fault)Why affirmations, journaling, and even therapy can leave you understanding your anxiety without it actually changingWhat works — and why the order you do it in matters more than anything Connect with Kerry: Instagram: @kerrygreenofficialIf this episode resonated, leave a review — it helps more women find the show and Kerry reads every single one

    35 min

  7. Apr 27

    #13 Why You Have Health Anxiety (And What Actually Heals It)

    If you've been living with health anxiety, you already know the exhaustion of it — the constant body scanning, the symptom spiraling, the hypervigilance that never, ever turns off. In this episode, Kerry gets real about health anxiety: why so many high-achieving women develop it, the mistakes she made trying to fix it (including the one that kept her stuck the longest), and what actually finally worked. In this episode, Kerry covers: Why health anxiety makes complete sense — and has nothing to do with having a disorder. The four most common reasons women develop it, including one that almost everyone forgets. Why trying to "fix your body first" is the trap that keeps the anxiety alive. The counterintuitive truth about worry, survival mode, and physical symptoms. What it actually means to heal health anxiety at the root — and why it's simpler (and more magical) than you think. Kerry also shares her own story of living with relentless, 24/7 body scanning after a scoliosis diagnosis — and how changing her relationship to her body (not her body itself) was the thing that finally set her free. If you're constantly Googling symptoms, bracing for the next diagnosis, or stuck in a loop of "once I feel better, then I'll feel better" — this one's for you. Leave a review if this episode landed — it means the world and helps other women find the show. And if someone in your life is living like this, send it their way. Healing is contagious. 📲 Ready to go deeper? Book a call with Kerry at theneurobabe.com/bookacall

    30 min

  8. Apr 20

    #12 In Conversation: What Birth Control Is Doing to Your Body, Brain & Hormones w/ Taylor Lechner

    If you've ever been handed a birth control prescription and told "there are no long-term side effects", this one is for you. Today I'm sitting down with Taylor Lechner, registered dietitian and founder of Nourished by Taylor, who specializes in helping women have a smooth transition off birth control and heal their hormone symptoms naturally using a functional, root-cause approach. And yes, she is speaking my language. Because just like in my world, nobody asked WHY. Nobody asked why your nervous system is so stressed. Nobody asked why your periods were painful. Nobody asked why your skin is freaking out, why you feel like a different person, why your anxiety won't quit. They just handed you something to make the symptoms disappear. This conversation is going to blow your mind, in the best way. In this episode, we're getting into: Why you're not actually having a real period on birth controlWhat birth control is doing to your brain, your gut, your detox pathways, and your minerals including why it may be making your anxiety worseThe copper connection nobody talks about and how it could be behind your mood swings, intrusive thoughts, and painful periodsTaylor's 4-step framework for coming off birth control without the chaosHow to know if you need functional lab testing and what to actually testBirth control alternatives that actually work including the fertility awareness methodWhy your labs coming back "normal" doesn't mean you're fine You heard it here: your body is designed to feel good. And if it doesn't? There's a reason. You just haven't been given the right plan yet. Connect with Taylor: Website: https://nourished-by-taylor.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nourishedbytay/Free Breakup with Birth Control Masterclass: https://nourished-by-taylor.com/free-courseHer Podcast, She's In Sync: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shes-in-sync/id1790678741 Want to work with Kerry? Book a free consultation at theneurobabe.com/bookacall

    36 min
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The Anxiety Party by The Neuro Babe. Where real conversations about anxiety, healing, and being human meet science, self-trust, and nervous system mastery. Hosted by Kerry Green, licensed therapist and founder of The Neuro Babe, this podcast is where high-achieving women stop managing anxiety and start dismantling the identity behind it. Each episode blends relatable stories, nervous system education, and the deep conversations you wish someone had sooner about trauma, burnout, chronic symptoms, self-trust, and becoming the woman who heals herself, trusts herself, and builds the life she's been too afraid to claim. Because healing isn’t about doing more, it’s about embodying more. Welcome to The Anxiety Party, where your healing gets to feel human again.

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    Kerry Green, LCSW
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    © 2026 Kerry Green, LCSW

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