The Anxiety Guy Podcast

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Description: In today's episode, we explore 3 ways your inner protector may be keeping anxiety alive: worry, anticipation, and regret. Your inner protector is constantly trying to keep you safe, prepared, and in control, but when it becomes overactive, it can keep you trapped in what might happen, what could go wrong, or what you wish you had done differently.
We'll look at how worry feeds uncertainty, anticipation creates fear before anything happens, and regret keeps you emotionally tied to the past. The goal isn't to fight this protective part of you, but to recognize when protection has become overprotection and begin responding with more trust, flexibility, and presence. A powerful question to ask is: "Is this protecting me from something happening right now, or is it trying to protect me from uncertainty?"
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-anxiety-podcast-show/id1461441374
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/79GbkgP2sxA8FJ97Qk1GKZ
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@theanxietyguy1
Podcast Archive: https://theanxietyguy.com/podcasts/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/theanxietyguy
Facebook: https://facebook.com/theanxietyguy
Official Website: https://theanxietyguy.com
Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding specific medical or mental health concerns.
Host: Dennis Simsek

Ready to stop battling intrusive thoughts, difficult emotions, and nervous system activation? Explore the End The Anxiety Program at https://anxietyguyprograms.com.
Episode Description:
In today's episode, we explore a piece of anxiety recovery that can easily be overlooked: grief. Grief doesn't always arrive as obvious sadness. It can build quietly through years of holding things in, staying strong, pushing forward, suppressing tears, and never fully allowing yourself to acknowledge what hurt.
Over time, that emotional accumulation may show up as tension, exhaustion, nervous system activation, irritability, heaviness, or a sense that your body is carrying more than you consciously realize.
We'll talk about what can happen when grief is finally given permission to move, through acknowledgement, emotional expression, crying, and allowing the younger parts of you to feel what they may never have felt safe enough to express before.
Instead of immediately asking, "How do I get rid of this anxiety?", another powerful question may be:
"What am I still carrying that I never allowed myself to grieve?"
Healing may sometimes involve less fighting and more permission, permission to feel, acknowledge, express, and finally allow what has been held inside for far too long.
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🍎 Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-anxiety-podcast-show/id1461441374
🎧 Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/79GbkgP2sxA8FJ97Qk1GKZ
▶️ YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@theanxietyguy1
🌐 Anxiety Guy Podcast Episode Archive:
https://theanxietyguy.com/podcasts/
👥 About Dennis and Connect
📸 Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theanxietyguy
▶️ YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@theanxietyguy1
📘 Facebook:
https://facebook.com/theanxietyguy
🌐 Official Website:
https://theanxietyguy.com
📝 Disclaimer
This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding specific medical or mental health concerns.
Credits
Host: Dennis Simsek

Ready to stop battling intrusive thoughts, difficult emotions, and nervous system activation? Explore the End The Anxiety Program at https://anxietyguyprograms.com.
Episode Description: In today's episode, we look at how people pleasing, suppressed emotions, performance, and repeatedly overriding your internal "no" may contribute to anxiety, tension, and exhaustion. Instead of always asking, "How do I get rid of this symptom?", try asking, "What did I override?" Safety may not only be calmness; it may also be honesty, expression, boundaries, and living more in alignment with what feels true to you. Ask yourself: "What is my body trying to tell me right now, and what has it been trying to tell me all day?"
▶️ Listen and Subscribe
🍎 Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-anxiety-podcast-show/id1461441374
🎧 Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/79GbkgP2sxA8FJ97Qk1GKZ
▶️ YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@theanxietyguy1
🌐 Health Anxiety Podcast Episode Archive:
https://theanxietyguy.com/podcasts/
👥 About Dennis and Connect
📸 Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theanxietyguy
▶️ YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@theanxietyguy1
📘 Facebook:
https://facebook.com/theanxietyguy
🌐 Official Website:
https://theanxietyguy.com
📝 Disclaimer
This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding specific medical or mental health concerns.
Credits
Host: Dennis Simsek

Ready for more clarity and less confusion around health anxiety? Rebuild trust in your body through daily guidance and nervous system retraining with the Health Anxiety Recovery Program. Start here: https://anxietyguyprograms.com
Today's Episode on Anxiety and Burnout: What Is Your Body Trying to Tell You? 
What if some of the exhaustion you experience is not only about how much you are doing, but how much of yourself you are overriding while doing it? In today's episode, we explore the connection between anxiety, burnout, prolonged nervous system activation, people pleasing, emotional suppression, and repeatedly ignoring what your body is communicating. You may wake up feeling tired, tense, dizzy, heavy, or mentally drained and immediately assume you did too much physically. But another question may be more revealing: What did I override?
Maybe you wanted to say no but said yes.
Maybe you felt anger or resentment but stayed quiet.
Maybe you kept performing, pleasing, smiling, or pushing forward while internally bracing.
Over time, constantly overriding these internal signals can become biological work and contribute to prolonged activation. The body may first communicate quietly through tension, irritation, fatigue, resistance, or a simple internal feeling of no. When those signals are repeatedly ignored, the body may begin turning up the volume.
The goal is not to analyze every sensation or allow symptoms to control your life. It is to become more honest and responsive to yourself. Sometimes that means resting, speaking up, asking for help, setting a boundary, or saying no. Other times it means recognizing fear while still moving toward something you genuinely want. Instead of immediately asking, "How do I get rid of this symptom?" ask, "What is my body actually showing me here?" And at the end of the day, ask yourself: "What is my body trying to tell me right now?" and "What has my body been trying to tell me all day?"
▶️ Listen and Subscribe
🍎 Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-anxiety-podcast-show/id1461441374
🎧 Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/79GbkgP2sxA8FJ97Qk1GKZ
▶️ YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@theanxietyguy1
🌐 Health Anxiety Podcast Episode Archive:
https://theanxietyguy.com/podcasts/
👥 About Dennis and Connect
📸 Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theanxietyguy
▶️ YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@theanxietyguy1
📘 Facebook:
https://facebook.com/theanxietyguy
🌐 Official Website:
https://theanxietyguy.com
📝 Disclaimer
This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding specific medical or mental health concerns.
Credits
Host: Dennis Simsek

Ready for true clarity instead of more confusion? Rebuild trust in your body through daily guidance and nervous system retraining:
👉 Start the Health Anxiety Recovery Program

✨ Today's Episode: Why You're Still Anxious: A Deep Conversation About What Keeps Anxiety Alive
In this powerful and deeply honest conversation with Julie, we explore why anxiety can continue even when you are doing everything you can to recover.
This anxiety guy podcast episode goes far beyond symptoms. We uncover the hidden patterns, beliefs, reactions, and survival responses that can keep anxiety alive even when you understand anxiety intellectually and have spent years trying to overcome it.
Through Julie's honest questions and personal experiences, we explore the urgency to recover, resistance towards symptoms, the need for certainty, the pressure to feel better, and the habit of constantly measuring whether recovery is working.
You may have tried calming techniques, mindset work, reassurance, meditation, exposure, nervous system exercises, or countless methods designed to make anxiety disappear. Yet something may still feel stuck.
The reason may not be that you are missing another technique. It may be that your nervous system is still receiving the message that your present experience is unacceptable, unsafe, or must immediately change.
This conversation will help you recognise why your symptoms may not be the real problem. The deeper cycle is often created by the meaning attached to those symptoms and the fearful relationship that develops around them.
When every sensation is monitored, judged, resisted, questioned, or treated as an emergency, the brain continues receiving the message that something is wrong.
This episode is longer than my regular podcast episodes, but it is certainly worth the deeper listen. It may provide the clarity you have been searching for and help you understand what has truly been keeping anxiety alive.
▶️ Listen and Subscribe
🍎 Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-anxiety-podcast-show/id1461441374
🎧 Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/79GbkgP2sxA8FJ97Qk1GKZ
▶️ YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@theanxietyguy1
🌐 Health Anxiety Podcast Episode Archive:
https://theanxietyguy.com/podcasts/
👥 About Dennis and Connect
📸 Instagram:
https://instagram.com/theanxietyguy
▶️ YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@theanxietyguy1
📘 Facebook:
https://facebook.com/theanxietyguy
🌐 Official Website:
https://theanxietyguy.com
📝 Disclaimer
This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding specific medical or mental health concerns.
Credits
Host: Dennis Simsek