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The Happier Approach: Quieting your High Functioning Anxiety
A podcast about living with High Functioning Anxiety and building self-loyalty. Join me, Nancy Jane Smith, as I talk about my journey with High Functioning Anxiety. Through my own experience and 20+ years of training as a licensed professional counselor and coach, I have discovered the #1 way to quiet anxiety is self-loyalty. We are so loyal to other people. It is time to learn how to be as loyal to yourself as you are to others. Listen to learn more about quieting your High Functioning Anxiety with self-loyalty.
Episodes
194 episodes
Wintering: Extended Conversation with Katherine May
We hope you enjoy this super special bonus episode, here to tide you over until our next season begins in a few months. This is my extended conversation with Katherine May, author of the book Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Diff...
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Season 4
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44:54
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Rest For All Seasons
Here it is, our final episode in our season all about rest! Remember in the first episode when Nancy talked to her friend Stephanie Pollock about the seven different types of rest? Well, for our last episode, we're coming full circle and talkin...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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26:39
High Functioning Anxiety and our Rules for Rest
One thing you should know about people with High Functioning Anxiety-- we love our rules! Even when they don't help us live happy and healthy lives. In particular, I have A LOT of rules around rest. When I can rest, how I can rest, if I've earn...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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21:50
Rest In Practice
Hey guys! So we're supposed to have a new episode for you today, but as it often does, life happens. And my producer Nicki, well, she's quite sick. So in the spirit of this season on rest, we are practicing what we preach and waiti...
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Season 4
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0:34
Rest: Wintering
Have you ever been through a period of your life where you felt like nothing was going right? And during that period, did you think: "Oh my god, what is WRONG with me?? I have to get out of this as fast as I can!!" Well, Nancy's been t...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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30:38
Rest: The Dreaded Napping Experiment
Most people think that napping is great! A little break during the middle of the day. But Nancy HATES naps, with a fiery passion. They don't help her feel refreshed, and she just wakes up feeling yucky. But! She has a sinking suspicion that if ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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21:14
Rest: Vacationing with High Functioning Anxiety
When most people think of vacation, their thoughts are simple: awesome, great, I love to go on vacation, and this will be THE BEST. For people with High-Functioning Anxiety, vacation can be a lot more complicated than that. Resting sounds...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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22:11
Rest: Imagination, Mindfulness, and Rest
Nancy has tried and tried again to be a consistent meditator. Everyone says it's the key to getting rid of anxiety! But the "traditional" ways of meditating that she's tried-- sitting on a pillow for 5 minutes a day thinking about *not...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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34:24
Rest: Sleep
Nothing hits harder over the age of 30 than a bad night of sleep. When Nancy thinks about rest, she automatically thinks about sleep, and how hard it can be to give ourselves the space to actually allow ourselves to get the full amount...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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23:05
Intro to Rest
In the first episode of our new season (!) Nancy wades into a topic that's both frustrated and fascinated her over the years-- rest. She grapples with why it's so hard for people like her with HFA to truly rest, and talks with her friend, Steph...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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23:11
Change: Dear Nancy
In our final episode of Season 3, Nancy reflects on all the thinking and learning she's done around change this season. She writes a letter to her younger self, looking back on how the big changes in her life have often come at her fast and fur...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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17:31
Change and Comparison
In this episode Nancy reveals that she's *always* had a business nemesis. A person that she compares herself to when she feels like things aren't going great. And that really gets her Monger AND her BFF going at it! Nancy tells the story of how...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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19:55
Change and the BFF
In this episode, Nancy shares a relatable tale: her struggle to stay off social media. She made that change a while ago, but her BFF is always gunning for her to get back on. Especially when a really special opportunity presents itself... In th...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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16:18
Change in the Body
In this episode Nancy shares the story we've all been waiting for... a little tale about a rogue Segway. But it's actually about a lot more than that. The Segway story brings Nancy to think about how she's viewed her body over the years, and th...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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18:36
Change in the Emotion Ocean
Nancy talks to a leading psychologist and expert in emotions, who tells her all about how our emotions can help us create change in our lives. She learns about the kind of self-reflective emotions...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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15:02
Believe in Change
In this episode, Nancy talks to an expert in creativity, who had to reevaluate her whole life and career when everything fell apart, then re-learn what she valued as she rebuilt her life from the...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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15:30
Change in the Brain
In honor of my new course Self Loyalty School, this season we are looking at how to make change. In this episode, Nancy learns how hard it is to form habits and ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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24:08
But Can I Change?
In the first episode of our new season, Nancy brings us on a personal journey of change through self-loyalty. She describes how she embarked on the most self-loyal year she's ever had, both in her business and her personal life, which culmina...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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25:12
Bonus Episode: The Time I Hired a Matchmaker
In this extra-special bonus episode, Nancy tells a super personal story of self-loyalty with appearances from the Monger, the BFF, and finally, the Biggest Fan. She describes how she created her new course: Self Loyalt...
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13:33
Square Peg
In this episode, Nancy recounts a story of a moment where she didn't feel like she fit in her surroundings at all, but was able to find a very solid moment of connection with her inner voice of self-loyalty. Nancy shares a conversation with her...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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24:27
Spiraling Up
This episode traces a familiar circle, pun intended! Nancy explores the idea of "spiraling" through a personal story about living the same lessons about high functioning anxiety over and over again. Then, she talks to movement educator and expe...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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27:43
Anti-Gratitude
In this episode, we tackle a subject that Nancy has VERY strong opinions about. Gratitude. People with High Functioning Anxiety tend to use the idea of gratitude as a way to wipe away the pains and sorrows of life. But that isn't very eff...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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23:31
All the Feels
In this episode, we learn all about feelings. How they show up in our brains and in our bodies, and how they can affect the way we interact with the world around us. With High Functioning Anxiety the LAST thing we want to do is acknowledge what...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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26:41
