Health Anxiety: How to Stop Obsessing and Start Trusting Your Body

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ANXIETY: Let’s Make Sense of This Sh*t

Let's Work This Sh*t Out

49 episodes

2 months ago

Welcome to "ANXIETY: Let’s Make Sense of This Sh*t" – The No-BS Podcast for Navigating Anxiety Like a Pro.

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Health Anxiety: How to Stop Obsessing and Start Trusting Your Body

ANXIETY: Let’s Make Sense of This Sh*t

30 minutes

4 months ago

Health Anxiety: How to Stop Obsessing and Start Trusting Your Body

In this episode, we step straight into the heart of health anxiety and pull apart the habits and thought-loops that keep us stuck in endless cycles of googling symptoms and fearing the worst. With warmth and honesty, Fabian guides you through the lived reality of health anxiety—the racing thoughts, the physical symptoms, the late-night spirals—and explores what it means to befriend your body again, even when your brain tries to convince you otherwise. This isn’t a lecture or a medical checklist. It’s an open, practical, and sometimes lightly irreverent conversation about what it’s like to live in a body that doesn’t always feel trustworthy and a mind that’s always on alert.

If you’ve ever lost hours to researching strange symptoms, avoided doctors out of fear, or struggled to sort real concerns from anxious static, this episode is your invitation to try something different. We unpack the science of how health anxiety gets wired into your brain, explore why your threat detector can get stuck on high, and map out strategies that really help—without false hope or shame. You’ll get practical tools you can use immediately, from grounding and humor to setting boundaries with your own worries, plus insights from listeners who have walked the same path. Fabian shares his own story of anxiety spirals, medical visits, and the often-hilarious ways anxiety can take the lead, reminding you throughout that you are not alone and there is nothing “broken” about being sensitive to your body.

Key Takeaways
• Health anxiety is a survival system running on overdrive
• Grounding in the present moment disrupts anxious spirals
• Humor can break the hold of catastrophic thinking
• Practical tools help build trust in your body over time
• Progress is about small, daily acts of self-compassion

What You’ll Discover
• Why your brain confuses normal sensations for threats
• How to tell the difference between real symptoms and anxiety
• The neuroscience behind health anxiety and body vigilance
• Mindful strategies to pause, reflect, and regain perspective
• Ways to shift from avoidance or reassurance-seeking to balanced self-care

Resources Mentioned
• “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel van der Kolk
• “Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks” by Barry McDonagh
• Insight Timer mindfulness app
• “Overcoming Health Anxiety” by David Veale & Rob Willson
• “Brain Lock” by Jeffrey Schwartz

Next Episode Preview
Next Tuesday’s episode explores relationship anxiety—how to keep your sense of self without losing connection. And this Saturday’s Boost brings you the Body Scan Micro-Meditation, a practice for finding calm in your own skin.

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