The Anxiety Project Podcast

About The Anxiety Project Podcast

My name is Brad Robinson and my mission is to provide a structured step-by-step approach to overcoming anxiety, naturally. Enough of coping, let's heal! Learn the beginning steps to recovery, how to transcend suffering, and how to adapt the mind to ever continuous change. If you are suffering from health anxiety, agoraphobia, depersonalization, and debilitating fear, my aim is to provide you with the tools and strategies necessary to overcome your life challenges one step at a time. Website: https://unpluganxiety.com/

Publisher

Brad Robinson: Anxiety Specialist, CBT Coach, and NLP Master Practitioner

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Oct 2018

Latest episode

22 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 384 episodes have a transcript.

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   22 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   350 | How Anxiety Circuits Hijack Your Brain | And What To Do

   On today's episode, I break down the brain circuits behind anxiety—the amygdala, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and the HPA axis—and show how they create panic, overgeneralization, and sleeplessness. I then explain, in plain terms, why anxiety feels overwhelming and how chronic stress weakens the brain's safety signals. The episode also outlines practical recovery steps, especially exposure therapy: intentionally facing feared situations, creating prediction errors, and building new safety memories so the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus can override the alarm. It’s a clear roadmap for moving from fear to freedom. —The Anxiety Recovery Program— https://unpluganxiety.com/my-program/ —1 on 1 Coaching— https://unpluganxiety.com/1-on-1-coaching/ —The Website— https://unpluganxiety.com

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   15 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   349 | Healing Trauma and Building A Better Life | Dana Hargus

   On todays episode, I speak with Dana Hargus founder of Restore of Ada and we discuss trauma-informed approaches to calm the nervous system, biofeedback strategies, and rebuilding resilience after chronic stress. Dana explains how trauma can affect anyone and why treating the body (sleep, gut health, hydration) alongside the brain speeds recovery. Practical takeaways include Restore of Ada's six-week prep plus a two-week intensive day-treatment with multiple biofeedback sessions, and everyday steps you can start now—consistent sleep, drink water, grounding, reduce screen time, improve nutrition, and small steady changes to reduce anxiety and regain clarity. —My Anxiety Recovery Program— https://unpluganxiety.com/my-program/ —1 on 1 Coaching— https://unpluganxiety.com/1-on-1-coaching/ —My Website— https://unpluganxiety.com

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   8 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   348 | Why You Can’t Stop Checking Your Body (Health Anxiety Explained)

   Today, I break down why people with health anxiety obsessively check their bodies, how that checking fuels a loop of fear and hyper-awareness, and how intolerance of uncertainty and misinterpreting normal sensations keep the cycle going. I outline clear, practical steps to break the habit: identify checking behaviors, delay urges, use gradual exposure and acceptance, build internal trust through voluntary discomfort (exercise, cold exposure), and reframe fear into courageous action so anxiety loses its control. —My Anxiety Recovery Program— https://unpluganxiety.com/my-program/ —1 on 1 Coaching— https://unpluganxiety.com/1-on-1-coaching/ —My Website— https://unpluganxiety.com

Inside a recent episode

350 | How Anxiety Circuits Hijack Your Brain | And What To Do

Published 22 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So you activate the fear circuit on purpose. So you intentionally face a feared situation, a sensation, a thought even. So this fires the amygdala. But you remove the old response. Normally your anxiety is active and then you escape or avoid and then you feel relieved by that. But in exposure, you feel the anxiety, you stay, and there's no escape. This is where the rewiring begins. So the brain detects a prediction error. Your brain expects something bad will happen, but instead nothing actually happens. And so this mismatch is called a prediction error, and it's the key to learning. Now, new pathways form. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

65 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

81 ratings

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