Anchored Not Anxious
Do you love God, but anxiety still has a seat at your table?
You're not alone — and you're not failing your faith.
Anchored Not Anxious is a podcast for women navigating anxiety, overwhelm, and the sometimes painful journey of learning to truly trust God. Hosted by Terri Hutchinson — registered nurse and Bible teacher — each episode blends evidence-based insight with practical, honest faith. Expect real conversations, clinical wisdom, and the kind of spiritual depth that meets you in the hard places.
Because trusting God isn't always easy. But you don't have to figure it out alone.
God is with you. God is for you. You can be anchored — not anxious.
Anchored Not Anxious
How to Choose Your Anxiety Reduction Practice
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You want an anxiety reducer at your fingertips, right? But how does this happen? Listen to this 4 minute episode as I explain exactly what you can do so you've got the tools in that moment of panic, intense anxiety, or invasive worry.
You can do this!
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Hey friends, this is just an unscripted quick pop in. I want to talk to you about the practices. On the podcast, I have explained in videos I have demonstrated. A variety of practices such as breath, the physiological sigh, or the near, uh, breath for panic. Um, I've talked about essential oil inhalation and phototherapy guided imagery, centering prayer, uh, stability versus coping statements. Uh, there's so many and I recently found that. rubbing the, the top of your ear where it curls the, at the top, that rubbing that it can actually, stimulate the vagus nerve and acts as a combing technique or a self soothe. And, you know, often we see children doing this right. There's just so many practices, but it's very difficult in that moment of panic, intense anxiety, invasive worry to go to those practices. You're not gonna open a book and root through and say, let's see which one do I need? Right? Because you're consumed with this chaos inside. No, it's something that you have to have embedded in your brain already, that it just takes a single thought to say, you know what? I'm gonna do my near breath, or I'm gonna do my centering prayer, or I'm gonna grab my essential oil and just do five deep inhales. The practices. Are only as effective as your knowledge of them. And especially in that intense moment. You need something quick and at your fingertips. And, uh, centering prayer. If you've got, you know, four lines, four, four brief sentences, if you can memorize those, then you can incorporate that with breath. As you listen to the various anxiety, reducing anxiety management techniques that I explain on the podcast, start considering what resonates with you personally. Uh, you know, maybe it's, your sense of smell is your strongest sense. So that's what's going to calm you more than perhaps partaking in breath work. Maybe you are, uh, you're a touch person, so you're going to need that squeeze ball at the ready or something soft that you can, um, rub between your fingers. We each have a sense that is dominant, Once you know your dominant sense, then you're going to utilize those practices that match up with that sense because that's what's going to get you quickly too. A stress reduction and control of your thoughts. So I hope this has been helpful. Alright, until next time.
