Health Anxiety Podcast Show

🎓 Start Here: The 12-Week Health Anxiety Recovery Program Ready to stop fearing symptoms and retrain your nervous system back to safety? Heal step by step with daily guidance → 🔵 Click Here ✨ Today's Health Anxiety Podcast Episode: For years, my health anxiety wasn't just something I experienced, it felt like who I was. Every sensation in my body felt personal, meaningful, and threatening. Dizziness, heart sensations, fatigue, and breath changes didn't feel like passing experiences; they felt like proof that something was wrong. In this episode, I share the shift that began to change everything for me: moving from being inside my symptoms to witnessing them unfold. This wasn't about ignoring sensations or forcing calm. It was about changing my stance from identification to observation, and how that single shift softened fear, reduced hypervigilance, and allowed my nervous system to feel safer again. We explore why health anxiety often turns symptoms into identity, how survival mode keeps sensations feeling personal, and why healing begins not by getting rid of symptoms, but by no longer becoming them. If you've ever felt trapped inside your body, constantly monitoring sensations and searching for certainty, this episode offers a grounded perspective that may help you step back, create space, and begin relating to your body differently. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube · Episode Archive 🔵 Apple Podcasts · 🔵 Spotify  🔵 Episode Archive 👥 Connect With Dennis: Instagram · YouTube · Facebook Support 🔵 Instagram (@theanxietyguy) · 🔵 YouTube · 🔵 Facebook Support 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider for personal health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek

🎓 Start Here: The 12-Week Health Anxiety Recovery Program Ready to stop fearing symptoms and retrain your nervous system back to safety? Heal step by step with daily guidance → 🔵 Click Here ✨ Today's Health Anxiety Podcast Episode: If you have ever received normal or negative medical test results but still felt anxious, unsettled, or unable to relax, this episode is for you. Health anxiety often persists even after reassurance, and many people are left wondering why clear scans, blood work, or doctor visits fail to bring lasting peace of mind. In this episode, Dennis Simsek explores why reassurance does not work for health anxiety at a nervous system level. You will learn how the inner protector keeps worry alive, why the body continues to scan for symptoms even after being told you are medically fine, and how identifying as a worrier can quietly reinforce anxiety over time. This conversation gently explains why health anxiety is not a logic problem, but a learned survival pattern rooted in perceived danger and uncertainty. Dennis introduces the Middle Way approach to health anxiety recovery, showing how healing happens when we stop chasing certainty and stop fighting symptoms. Instead of reassurance seeking or avoidance, this episode focuses on rebuilding safety by changing your relationship with worry, sensations, and uncertainty. You will learn how allowing the body to experience discomfort without monitoring or control helps retrain the nervous system and reduces anxiety symptoms naturally. This episode is for anyone struggling with ongoing health anxiety, fear of symptoms, reassurance seeking, or the constant "what if" thoughts that return after normal medical tests. If you are looking for a gentle, practical, nervous-system-based approach to health anxiety recovery that does not involve force, pressure, or constant fixing, this conversation will meet you where you are. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube · Episode Archive 🔵 Apple Podcasts · 🔵 Spotify  🔵 Episode Archive 👥 Connect With Dennis: Instagram · YouTube · Facebook Support 🔵 Instagram (@theanxietyguy) · 🔵 YouTube · 🔵 Facebook Support 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider for personal health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek

🎓 Start Here: The 12-Week Health Anxiety Recovery Program Ready to stop fearing symptoms and retrain your nervous system back to safety? Heal step-by-step with daily guidance → 🔵 Click Here ✨ Today's Health Anxiety Podcast Episode: All or nothing thinking is one of the most invisible patterns keeping health anxiety and nervous system dysregulation alive. In this episode of the health anxiety podcast show, we explore how turning healing into a pass or fail test quietly keeps the body in survival mode, even when you understand anxiety intellectually. When symptoms, emotions, and sensations are constantly evaluated, judged, or measured, the nervous system never receives the message that it is safe. You will learn why this thinking pattern is not a flaw or a mistake, but a protective response that developed over time. We discuss how all or nothing thinking conditions the body to believe that safety only exists when you feel calm, symptom free, or "better," and why that expectation creates ongoing tension, monitoring, and self-doubt. ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube · Episode Archive → 🔵 Apple Podcasts · 🔵 Spotify  🔵 Episode Archive 👥 Connect With Dennis: Instagram · YouTube · Facebook Support → 🔵 Instagram (@theanxietyguy) · 🔵 YouTube · 🔵 Facebook Support 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider for personal health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek

🎓 Start Here: The 12-Week Health Anxiety Recovery Program Ready to stop fearing symptoms and retrain your nervous system back to safety? Heal step-by-step with daily guidance → 🔵 Click Here ✨ Today's Health Anxiety Podcast Episode: In this episode, Dennis breaks down one of the most important and overlooked shifts in health anxiety recovery: moving away from trying to fix every sensation and learning how to let the body breathe, loosen, and settle on its own. Most people with health anxiety, chronic anxiety, or panic symptoms spend their entire day searching for techniques, chasing relief, and trying to force their nervous system into calm. But science shows that this constant internal pressure keeps the amygdala activated, keeps the body in survival mode, and reinforces the cycle of symptom fear, hypervigilance, and catastrophic thinking. In this gentle, grounded episode, Dennis teaches why allowing your breathing to be what it is, loosening the body instead of bracing, and letting uncomfortable sensations move through without immediate intervention is one of the most profound forms of nervous-system rewiring. You'll learn how health anxiety symptoms, racing thoughts, chest tightness, dizziness, derealization, and all the sensations that come with a dysregulated system begin to soften when you stop forcing calm and stop trying to control the moment. This episode guides you into a new relationship with your inner experience, one based on permission, not pressure; safety, not urgency. If you're tired of searching for the right technique, tired of feeling trapped by body scanning, symptom checking, and the fear of every new sensation… this health anxiety podcast episode will help you understand why nothing has "worked" yet, and what finally will. 🎁 Freebies: Join the email community and receive weekly insights, calm‐nervous‐system tools, and updates → 🔵 Click Here ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube · Episode Archive → 🔵 Apple Podcasts · 🔵 Spotify  🔵 Episode Archive 👥 Connect With Dennis: Instagram · YouTube · Facebook Support → 🔵 Instagram (@theanxietyguy) · 🔵 YouTube · 🔵 Facebook Support 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider for personal health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek

🎓 Start Here (Code Recovery40): The 12-Week Health Anxiety Recovery Program Ready to stop fearing symptoms and retrain your nervous system back to safety? Heal step-by-step with daily guidance → 🔵 Click Here ✨ Today's Health Anxiety Podcast Episode: If you struggle with health anxiety, constant symptom checking, body monitoring, or the urge to scan every sensation for danger, this episode will feel like a breath of relief. In today's powerful session, Dennis breaks down why symptom checking keeps you stuck in the health anxiety cycle, how it keeps your nervous system locked in survival mode, and the exact mindset shift that begins true recovery. You'll learn: ✔ Why your brain becomes addicted to monitoring sensations ✔ How symptom checking fuels anxiety, fear, and hyperawareness ✔ The connection between health anxiety and the nervous system ✔ Why you feel "wired to worry" (and why that's not true) ✔ How to stop checking your body and regain trust in your symptoms ✔ What actually happens when you stop overanalyzing every sensation ✔ The deeper emotional parts of you that health anxiety has covered up This episode is for anyone dealing with: • Health anxiety • Anxiety about symptoms • Fear of bodily sensations • Hypervigilance • Panic about physical changes • What-if thinking • Nervous system dysregulation • Catastrophic interpretations • OCD-like checking patterns You'll walk away with clarity, calm, and a new understanding of how to break the health anxiety loop and return to a life of safety, presence, and trust in your body again. 🎁 Freebies: Join the email community and receive weekly insights, calm‐nervous‐system tools, and updates → 🔵 Click Here ▶️ Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube · Episode Archive → 🔵 Apple Podcasts · 🔵 Spotify  🔵 Episode Archive 👥 Connect With Dennis: Instagram · YouTube · Facebook Support → 🔵 Instagram (@theanxietyguy) · 🔵 YouTube · 🔵 Facebook Support 📝 Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider for personal health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek