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The Anxiety Guy Podcast

The Anxiety Guy Podcast

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Self help author, passionate blogger and speaker Dennis Simsek takes you through life as a former professional tennis player who struggled with an anxiety disorder for over 6 years. Within those 6 years a dream was reached, a child was born, and suicide was being contemplated. The anxiety guy podcast deals with the many different mental health challenges people face in today's world, and shows you how to thrive above them. For more powerful anxiety guy resources head over to theanxietyguy.com.The Anxiety Guy © 2024 Alternative & Complementary Medicine Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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  • The 5 Foundations of Nervous System Regulation for Anxiety Recovery
    Dec 22 2025

    🎓 Start Here: Ready for step-by-step clarity, not confusion? Heal your anxiety through daily guidance and nervous system retraining → Click Here

    ✨ Today's Episode:

    In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, we explore the 5 foundations of nervous system regulation for anxiety recovery, the deeper principles that allow anxiety symptoms to soften naturally over time.

    Many people try to heal anxiety by forcing calm, fixing symptoms, or constantly monitoring their progress. But true anxiety recovery happens when the nervous system no longer feels pressured, observed, or judged. Regulation comes from safety, consistency, and how you relate to your inner experience, not from urgency or control.

    In this episode, you'll learn how nervous system regulation supports anxiety recovery at a biological and emotional level, why many common anxiety techniques keep the body stuck in survival mode, and how these five foundations gently teach the brain that it no longer needs to stay on high alert.

    This conversation is especially helpful if you experience persistent anxiety symptoms, health anxiety, panic sensations, chronic stress, burnout, or nervous system dysregulation and feel exhausted from "trying to fix yourself."

    This episode offers a grounded, compassionate path toward anxiety recovery by working with your nervous system instead of against it.

    ✅ Key Takeaways:

    • Anxiety eases when the nervous system feels safe, not when you try to control symptoms.

    • Consistency and predictability calm the body more than intensity or urgency.

    • Healing happens through how you relate to your experience, not how quickly you try to change it.

    ▶️ Listen & Subscribe:

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    Episode page: Catch up on previous episodes here

    👥 About Dennis / Connect:

    Instagram: @theanxietyguy · YouTube: Click Here · Facebook Support: Click Here

    📝 Disclaimer:

    This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider if you have specific medical or mental health concerns.

    Credits:

    Host: Dennis Simsek

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    20 mins
  • A Powerful Shift That Will Help Your Symptoms of Anxiety
    Dec 15 2025

    🎓 Start Here: The 12-Week Health Anxiety Recovery Program
    Ready for step-by-step clarity, not confusion? Heal through daily guidance and nervous system retraining → Click Here

    ✨ Today's Episode: Anxiety symptoms don't ease by fighting them or trying to fix yourself. In this episode, I share one powerful inner shift that changes how your nervous system relates to fear. When you stop demanding immediate relief and start responding from safety, your symptoms no longer need to shout for attention, and that's when real, lasting healing begins.

    ▶️ Listen & Subscribe:

    Apple Podcasts: Subscribe Here
    Spotify: Subscribe Here
    YouTube: Subscribe Here
    Episode page: Catch up on previous episodes here

    👥 About Dennis / Connect:

    Instagram: @theanxietyguy · YouTube: Click Here · Facebook Support: Click Here

    📝 Disclaimer:

    This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider if you have specific medical or mental health concerns.

    Credits:

    Host: Dennis Simsek

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    14 mins
  • How Your Inner Sense of Self Shapes Anxiety (and Safety)
    Dec 8 2025

    🎓 Start Here: The 12-Week Health Anxiety Recovery Program
    Ready for step-by-step clarity, not confusion? Heal through daily guidance and nervous system retraining → Click Here

    ✨ Today's Episode:

    In this episode, we explore one of the most overlooked roots of anxiety: the quiet inner sense of self shaping how you interpret the world, your symptoms, and your safety. Beneath the thoughts, behaviors, and coping strategies lives a deeper structure, your inner story, your learned roles, and the meanings your nervous system has been carrying for years.

    Drawing from the NLP logical levels of belief, we unpack how purpose, self-perception, beliefs, capabilities, and environment all interact to create either anxiety or a felt sense of safety. You'll learn why anxiety often persists even when you're "doing everything right," and how subtle internal shifts can create profound emotional and physiological regulation.

    This episode is gentle, relatable, and deeply practical. Together we explore how old identities formed through fear, survival, and past experiences keep the body in protection mode—and how rebuilding a more flexible, compassionate inner sense of self opens the door to real healing.

    If you've ever felt stuck in anxiety despite all your tools and knowledge, this conversation will help you understand the true root and give you a clearer path forward, one that begins not with effort, but with awareness, permission, and self-redefinition.

    ✅ Key Takeaways:

    • Your deeper sense of self, not your thoughts or symptoms is what most strongly influences whether your nervous system feels safe or threatened.

    • Long-held identities built around fear, control, or protection can keep anxiety patterns active even when you're trying to heal.

    • Shifting your inner narrative toward flexibility, compassion, and possibility creates lasting physiological regulation and emotional clarity.

    ▶️ Listen & Subscribe:

    Apple Podcasts: Subscribe Here
    Spotify: Subscribe Here
    YouTube: Subscribe Here
    Episode page: Catch up on previous episodes here

    👥 About Dennis / Connect:

    Instagram: @theanxietyguy · YouTube: Click Here · Facebook Support: Click Here

    📝 Disclaimer:

    This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider if you have specific medical or mental health concerns.

    Credits:

    Host: Dennis Simsek

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    29 mins
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