My Personal Health Anxiety Journey - How I Got To Where I Am Now

Resistance and Recovery: Finding Your Way Forward

Get In Touch! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2520685/fan_mail/new] In this podcast episode, I talk about something that stops so many people from moving forward with health anxiety, and that is resistance. The truth is, anxiety often feels more familiar than freedom. As strange as it sounds, the patterns we've repeated for years can start to feel safe. The checking, the Googling, the appointments, the constant searching for answers. They become part of our normal. I see this all the time with clients. They tell themselves they'll start recovery after one more test, after one more appointment, when they feel more confident, when life is less stressful, or when they finally have certainty about their health. But what often looks like a lack of motivation or discipline is actually resistance. One of the biggest things I share in this episode is the difference between preparing to recover and actually recovering. Preparing looks like researching, analysing, listening to podcasts, reading books, booking appointments and gathering information. It feels productive, but it's still keeping you in the waiting room of recovery. Recovery begins when you start taking action despite the fear. It starts when you stop checking. When you resist the urge to Google. When you sit with uncertainty instead of trying to solve it. When you choose to trust yourself even though every part of you wants reassurance. So many people think they need confidence before they take action. But confidence doesn't come first. Confidence is built by taking action. Trust is built by taking action. Recovery isn't about getting rid of every symptom or reaching a point where you feel completely certain. It's about learning to live alongside uncertainty without letting it control your life. As you listen to this episode, I want you to ask yourself one question: Where is resistance showing up for me right now? Because often the thing you're resisting most is the very thing that will move you forward. And sometimes resistance isn't a sign to stop. It's a sign that you're standing right on the edge of change. And on the other side of that change is freedom. Connect & Work With Me If 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.uk Purchase my 21 Day Reset Planner - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today: https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety Hear what my clients are saying about me: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8o Get in touch: email me: amy@healthanxietycoach.co.uk Work with me Via My 16 Week 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!

My Personal Health Anxiety Journey - How I Got To Where I Am Now

Get In Touch! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2520685/fan_mail/new] In this episode, I talk about my own journey with health anxiety after my diagnosis in 2018 and how it completely changed the way I related to my body. I share how fear, symptom scanning and the need for certainty slowly took over my life, and why nobody explaining the nervous system side of health anxiety left me feeling stuck for years. I also talk about one of the biggest shifts in my recovery… learning that trusting my body did not mean constantly monitoring it. For so long, I believed that staying safe meant staying hyper aware. Checking sensations, scanning my body and constantly looking for reassurance. But what I eventually realised is that this level of surveillance was actually a sign that trust had already been lost. I share how the nervous system can learn fear so deeply that the body begins reacting automatically before conscious thoughts even appear, because the body remembers. And how real healing for me came from slowly teaching myself that safety wasn’t found in constant checking… but in allowing my body to exist without being on high alert all the time. This episode is for anyone who feels exhausted by the fear cycle and wants to start rebuilding trust with themselves again. Connect & Work With Me If 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.uk Purchase my 21 Day Reset Planner - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today: https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety Hear what my clients are saying about me: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8o Get in touch: email me: amy@healthanxietycoach.co.uk Work with me Via My 16 Week 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!

Finding Safety in the Present - Visualisation Session

Get In Touch! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2520685/fan_mail/new] In this calming guided visualisation, I gently guide you through a moment of safety, softness, and nervous system regulation for those struggling with health anxiety. Together, we explore breathwork, body awareness, and visualisation to help you reconnect with trust in your body rather than fear. Through a peaceful safe-space journey, compassionate affirmations, and soothing relaxation techniques, this episode is designed to help you step away from constant monitoring, calm the fear response, and remind yourself that not every sensation is an emergency. This is a space to pause, soften, and begin rebuilding trust with your mind and body ... one moment at a time. Connect & Work With Me If 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.uk Purchase my 21 Day Reset Planner - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today: https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety Hear what my clients are saying about me: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8o Get in touch: email me: amy@healthanxietycoach.co.uk Work with me Via My 16 Week 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!

Unveiling Inner Trauma Through Somatic Intuition with Lesley Turner

Get In Touch! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2520685/fan_mail/new] In this episode, I sit down with Lesley Turner, a somatic practitioner and intuitive coach who previously worked for 11 years as a naturopathic doctor before finding her calling.  We explore what somatics really means, moving away from logic and into the body to notice sensations, emotions, memories, images, or even phrases that may be connected to symptoms. Lesley talks about the importance of slowing down, approaching the body with compassion, and using simple “allow” statements rather than trying to fix or push things away. We also discuss the idea that anxiety and physical symptoms aren’t random, and how they can often reflect deeper emotional or energetic roots. Lesley shares her perspective on trauma too, not as something literally stored in the body, but as patterns created within the nervous system, often shaped during early childhood between the ages of 0 and 7. We talk about anxiety as a protective response, how it can actually feel safer to stay anxious, and why rebuilding self trust comes from learning not to abandon yourself or your emotions. Lesley shares common themes she sees in her clients, including overwhelm, perimenopause, and what she describes as carrying “suitcases” that don’t belong to you, often inherited patterns or expectations from family. You can contact Lesley here: @thelesleyturner www.lesleyturner.ca Connect & Work With Me If 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.uk Purchase my 21 Day Reset Planner - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today: https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety Hear what my clients are saying about me: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8o Get in touch: email me: amy@healthanxietycoach.co.uk Work with me Via My 16 Week 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!

Navigating Health Anxiety in a World of Instant Answers

Get In Touch! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2520685/fan_mail/new] In this episode, I share my own experience as a former health anxiety sufferer turned coach, and break down one of the biggest patterns I see keeping people stuck… the urgent need for immediate answers. I talk about how the world we live in has conditioned us to expect instant information at the touch of a button, and how this trains the brain to treat normal bodily sensations as problems to solve. This is what drives behaviours like Googling, checking, and seeking reassurance… things that might soothe you in the moment, but actually reinforce fear and keep the cycle going. I explain how health anxiety often doesn’t disappear with reassurance, but instead shifts from one symptom to another, and I share a real client example of how daily body-checking can become exhausting and all-consuming. This episode is a reminder that there is no quick fix. Real recovery comes from retraining your brain and nervous system through consistent practice. I walk you through the key shift that changes everything… learning to tolerate uncertainty, creating space between sensation and response, and focusing on present-moment safety instead of urgency. I also share simple ways to start doing this in your day-to-day life, using grounding, breathwork, and attention shifts to help you step out of the cycle and rebuild trust in your body. Connect & Work With Me If 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.uk Purchase my 21 Day Reset Planner - To Start Your Recovery Journey Today: https://stan.store/healinghealthanxiety Hear what my clients are saying about me: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi1_ddJnhlEaMvzVtuKQioyXv5N7WS8g&si=wzNsNXn7d32Hzy8o Get in touch: email me: amy@healthanxietycoach.co.uk Work with me Via My 16 Week 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!