The Anxiety Guy Podcast

Epizodes

• The Shame Nobody Talks About in Anxiety Recovery 01.06.2026 26min

  Start your anxiety recovery today at anxietyguyprograms.com. Science backed programs designed to help you heal anxiety and regulate your nervous system for good. Use the code Gift30 to get 30% off for a limited time. Episode: The Shame of Dealing With Anxiety In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, we talk about the shame that often comes with anxiety. This is the shame of struggling in front of family, friends, partners, or people who simply do not understand what anxiety really feels like. Shame can make anxiety feel heavier than it already is. It can make us hide, over explain, pretend we are fine, or push ourselves to recover faster just so no one sees the struggle. But anxiety is not a character flaw. Anxiety is not weakness. Anxiety is often a nervous system that has learned to protect, brace, scan, and prepare for danger. In this anxiety guy podcast episode, Dennis shares how to soften shame, stop judging the anxiety response, and begin meeting yourself with more compassion. Healing does not begin with more pressure. Sometimes the most powerful message you can give your body is, "I am not falling apart. I am learning to feel safe again." Join the Community & Subscribe Join over 250,000+ subscribers on YouTube for more anxiety recovery content: https://youtube.com/theanxietyguy1 Join the Health Anxiety University Community: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university/about Connect with Dennis Simsek Instagram: @theanxietyguy Disclaimer This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns. Credits Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy
• The Hidden Cause of Anxiety Exhaustion 25.05.2026 12min

  Start your anxiety recovery today at anxietyguyprograms.com. Science backed programs designed to help you heal anxiety and regulate your nervous system for good. Episode: Helping Your Body Feel Safe Again In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, we explore the hidden cause of anxiety exhaustion and why the body can stay tense, tired, and alert even when life looks calm on the outside. Anxiety exhaustion often begins when we start living under the guidance of fear instead of trust. Over time, the inner protector becomes the loudest voice in the mind. It convinces us to be careful with our energy, careful with our symptoms, careful with our emotions, careful with uncertainty, and careful with life itself. That constant carefulness is what drains the body. The nervous system never fully receives the message that it can soften because there is always something else to monitor, prepare for, or brace against. This is why many people feel tired even after resting. The body may be still, but inside there is tension, anticipation, analysis, and resistance happening almost nonstop. In today's episode, Dennis shares how healing begins when we stop forcing recovery and start creating a safer inner environment. You'll learn why stillness in the face of discomfort, more trust in your ability to heal, and slowing down when urgency takes over can help the nervous system begin to settle. This episode is about helping your body feel safe again, not through pressure or constant fixing, but through a more compassionate relationship with your nervous system. Join the Community & Subscribe Join over 250,000+ subscribers on YouTube for more anxiety recovery content: https://youtube.com/theanxietyguy1 Join the Health Anxiety University Community: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university/about Connect with Dennis Simsek Instagram: @theanxietyguy Disclaimer This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns. Credits Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy
• The Missing Step in Your Anxiety Recovery: Completing the Stress Response 18.05.2026 17min

  Start your anxiety recovery today at anxietyguyprograms.com. Science backed programs designed to help you heal anxiety and regulate your nervous system for good. Episode: Helping Your Body Feel Safe Again In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, we explore what it really means to complete the stress response and why so many anxiety sufferers feel stuck in a body that still believes danger is present, even when life appears calm on the outside. For many people struggling with anxiety, the mind keeps scanning, the body stays tense, symptoms feel louder, and rest can feel strangely uncomfortable. This is often not because the body is falling apart but because the nervous system has learned to stay prepared for threat. Dennis Simsek breaks this down in a practical, grounded way, helping you understand how the body can begin moving out of survival mode and back into a felt sense of safety. In today's episode, we explore 3 key points: How the stress response can become stuck in the body after prolonged anxiety, pressure, or emotional overwhelm. Why trying to think your way into safety often isn't enough when the body still feels activated. How gentle movement, emotional expression, breath, presence, and intentional rest can help your system complete what it has been holding. What you'll take away: You'll learn how to stop seeing your symptoms as the enemy and begin understanding them as signals from a protective system that is asking for completion, safety, and support. This episode is about helping your body feel safe again, not through force, pressure, or constant fixing, but through a more compassionate relationship with your nervous system. Join the Community & Subscribe Join over 250,000+ subscribers on YouTube for more anxiety recovery content: https://youtube.com/theanxietyguy1 Join the Health Anxiety University Community: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university/about Connect with Dennis Simsek Instagram: @theanxietyguy Disclaimer This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns. Credits Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy
• How to Live Slowly in a Fast World 11.05.2026 14min

  Start your anxiety recovery today at anxietyguyprograms.com. Science backed programs designed to help you heal anxiety and regulate your nervous system for good. Episode: Living Slowly in a Fast World In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, we explore what it really means to slow down in a world that rewards speed, urgency, and constant mental activation. For many people struggling with anxiety, life feels like it's happening too fast to keep up with and the nervous system never gets a chance to settle. Dennis Simsek breaks this down in a practical, grounded way, helping you understand why slowing down isn't just a lifestyle choice, but a nervous system necessity. In today's episode, we explore 3 key points: How modern life conditions your nervous system into a state of chronic urgency Why slowing down can initially feel uncomfortable or unsafe in the body How to begin shifting into a slower internal pace without needing external life changes What you'll take away: You'll learn how to start stepping out of survival speed living and into a more regulated internal state where calm becomes something you build, not something you wait for. This episode is about learning to live with life instead of constantly reacting to it. Join the Community & Subscribe Join over 250,000+ subscribers on YouTube for more anxiety recovery content: https://youtube.com/theanxietyguy1 Join the Health Anxiety University Community: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university/about Connect with Dennis Simsek Instagram: @theanxietyguy Disclaimer This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns. Credits Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy
• How to Handle Anxiety While It's Happening (3 Keys) 04.05.2026 17min

  Take the guesswork out of your anxiety recovery, start today at anxietyguyprograms.com and get 30% off all programs with code SPRING30. You don't have to wait for anxiety to disappear to feel calm again. In this anxiety guy podcast episode, you'll learn how to be less anxious while you're still anxious by changing how you respond in the moment. Discover how to: Relax into the sensations instead of resisting them Stop giving power to fear-based thoughts Use anxiety as a moment to retrain your nervous system Feel it. Think it. Don't become it. Learn more about the Health Anxiety University Community here: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university/about Listen and connect with Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy: Instagram: @theanxietyguy Disclaimer: This episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy
• The Right Way to Handle Anxiety Symptoms (Key Lesson) 27.04.2026 13min

  Take the guesswork out of your anxiety recovery today at anxietyguyprograms.com. In this episode, we're diving into one of the most misunderstood parts of anxiety recovery… your body symptoms. If you've been dealing with heart palpitations, dizziness, chest tightness, fatigue, or that constant feeling that something is "off" in your body, this episode is for you. Because here's the truth most people miss: It's not the symptoms themselves that are keeping you stuck… it's how you're responding to them. For years, I believed my symptoms meant something was seriously wrong. I monitored them, feared them, and tried everything to make them go away. And that's exactly what kept them alive. In this episode, I'll show you the right way to respond to anxiety symptoms so your nervous system can finally begin to calm down and heal. Learn more about the Health Anxiety University Community here: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university/about Listen and connect with Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy: Instagram: @theanxietyguy Disclaimer: This Anxiety Guy Podcast episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy
• The Hidden Reason Your Anxiety Never Settles (Capacity) 20.04.2026 15min

  Take the guesswork out of your anxiety recovery today at anxietyguyprograms.com. In this Anxiety Guy Podcast episode, Dennis Simsek explores a key factor most people overlook in anxiety recovery: capacity. Mental, emotional, and physical capacity and how much your nervous system is actually able to hold. If you've been doing the "right" things but still feel stuck in anxiety, overwhelm, fatigue, panic, or constant tension, this episode helps you see what's happening underneath the surface. Because when you consistently live above your capacity, your nervous system doesn't read life as stress, it reads it as survival. And anxiety becomes a baseline state rather than a temporary response. Many people with health anxiety, panic symptoms, burnout, dizziness, chest sensations, adrenaline surges, derealization, and symptom fear try to fix things through more thinking, control, or techniques. But when the system is overloaded, even good tools can feel ineffective. In this episode, you'll learn: why anxiety persists even with understanding how mental overload creates constant urgency why emotional buildup becomes your baseline how physical overextension signals danger to the body why your nervous system responds to total load, not isolated moments how living below your capacity supports regulation why healing is about reducing pressure, not adding effort If you're working with anxiety recovery, nervous system regulation, burnout, or symptom fear, this episode gives you a clearer way to understand what's actually driving it. Learn more about the Health Anxiety University Community here: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university/about Listen and connect with Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy: Instagram: @theanxietyguy Disclaimer: This Anxiety Guy Podcast episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy
• Why Letting Go Feels Wrong (But Heals Everything) 13.04.2026 16min

  Take the guesswork out of your anxiety recovery today at anxietyguyprograms.com. In this Anxiety Guy Podcast episode, Dennis Simsek explores a truth that can feel deeply uncomfortable at first… but ultimately sets you free: letting go. If you've ever tried to release control, stop monitoring your symptoms, or "just allow" your anxiety only to feel like you're doing something wrong, this episode will speak directly to you. Because the truth is, letting go often feels wrong to a nervous system that has been conditioned to survive through control, urgency, and constant effort. Many people dealing with health anxiety, panic attacks, chronic stress, nervous system dysregulation, dizziness, chest sensations, fatigue, derealization, adrenaline surges, and symptom fear believe they must stay alert, fix every feeling, and prepare for the worst just to feel safe. But this constant inner effort can actually keep the body stuck in protection mode. In this episode, you'll learn: why letting go feels so uncomfortable (and even unsafe at first) how control and over-efforting quietly reinforce anxiety why your nervous system interprets surrender as a new and unfamiliar signal how allowing sensations without resistance begins to break the cycle why healing doesn't come from forcing calm, but from removing pressure what it truly means to take the leap of faith in your recovery why the moment you stop fighting may be the moment everything begins to change If you've been searching for answers around anxiety recovery, health anxiety, panic symptoms, nervous system healing, emotional exhaustion, symptom fear, and learning how to trust your body again, this episode is for you. Learn more about the Health Anxiety University Community here: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university/about Listen and connect with Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy: Instagram: @theanxietyguy Disclaimer: This Anxiety Guy Podcast episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy
• The Healing Power of Doing Nothing for Anxiety 06.04.2026 12min

  Use code Refresh30 for 30% off any Anxiety Guy program at anxietyguyprograms.com. It's the last day of the Easter Sale, and if your nervous system has been asking for deeper guidance, this is a beautiful time to begin. In this Anxiety Guy Podcast episode, Dennis Simsek dives into one of the most misunderstood but powerful parts of healing anxiety: doing nothing. If you've been stuck in the habit of fixing, monitoring, reacting, overthinking, and constantly trying to get rid of every sensation, this episode will show you why doing less can actually become one of the greatest safety signals for your nervous system. Many people dealing with health anxiety, panic attacks, chronic stress, nervous system dysregulation, dizziness, chest sensations, fatigue, derealization, adrenaline surges, and symptom fear believe they must always do something to feel better. But often, the constant effort, urgency, and inner resistance keep the body in protection mode. In this episode, you'll learn: why doing nothing can help recalibrate the nervous system why over efforting keeps anxiety alive how stillness becomes a safety signal for the body why healing does not always happen through more techniques how the fear of discomfort fuels symptom cycles what it means to stop fighting and start allowing why true recovery often begins when the body no longer feels pressured If you've been searching for answers around anxiety recovery, health anxiety, panic symptoms, nervous system healing, emotional exhaustion, symptom fear, and the deeper power of slowing down, this episode is for you. Learn more about the Health Anxiety University Community here: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university/about Listen and connect with Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy: Instagram: @theanxietyguy Disclaimer: This Anxiety Guy Podcast episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy
• The Real Reason Your Anxiety Symptoms Keep Coming Back 30.03.2026 13min

  Want a step-by-step path out of anxiety, health anxiety, panic attacks, and symptom fear? Explore Dennis Simsek's science backed anxiety recovery programs here: https://anxietyguyprograms.com If you're tired of anxiety symptoms coming back just when you thought you were making progress, this episode will help you understand why. In this Anxiety Guy Podcast episode, Dennis Simsek explains the real reason anxiety symptoms keep returning and what your mind and body are truly asking from you during the healing process. Many people struggling with health anxiety, panic disorder, chronic stress, nervous system dysregulation, dizziness, chest sensations, derealization, fatigue, adrenaline surges, and symptom monitoring believe recurring symptoms mean something is wrong. But very often, recurring anxiety symptoms are linked to fear patterns, hypervigilance, body checking, emotional resistance, sensitization, and the pressure to make sensations go away quickly. In this episode, you'll learn: why anxiety symptoms keep coming back why healing can feel inconsistent even when progress is happening how health anxiety keeps the body on alert how nervous system sensitization affects symptom intensity why fear of symptoms can prolong the anxiety cycle what real anxiety recovery begins to look like If you've been searching for answers around anxiety symptoms, health anxiety recovery, panic attack symptoms, chronic stress, symptom fear, and nervous system healing, this episode is for you. Learn more about the Health Anxiety University Community Here: https://www.skool.com/health-anxiety-university/about Listen and connect with Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy: Instagram: @theanxietyguy Programs: https://anxietyguyprograms.com Disclaimer: This Anxiety Guy Podcast episode is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider regarding any medical or mental health concerns. Credits: Host: Dennis Simsek, The Anxiety Guy
• 7 Reasons You're Still Not Healing From Anxiety 23.03.2026 15min

  Want a path out of anxiety? Explore Dennis's science backed recovery programs: https://anxietyguyprograms.com Today's Episode: If you have been wondering why your anxiety healing feels slow, stuck, or inconsistent, this episode is for you. In this podcast, Dennis Simsek shares 7 powerful reasons you may not be healing from anxiety yet, including hidden patterns that keep the nervous system in survival mode. You will learn how fear habits, symptom monitoring, over-efforting, emotional resistance, and safety seeking behaviors can quietly block true anxiety recovery.  This episode is for anyone struggling with health anxiety, panic attacks, chronic stress, nervous system dysregulation, and the frustration of feeling like nothing is working. Listen in and begin understanding what real healing from anxiety truly asks of you. ▶️ 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 (The Anxiety Guy)
• How to Redirect Anxiety Energy: From Fear to Fuel 09.03.2026 15min

  Want a path out of anxiety? Explore Dennis's science backed recovery programs: https://anxietyguyprograms.com Today's Episode: Anxiety is energy, but healing begins when you stop directing that energy into fear. In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, Dennis explores how symptom checking, body scanning, Googling, and overanalyzing keep the nervous system stuck in survival mode. When fear keeps receiving your attention, it keeps receiving your energy. You'll learn how to notice where your attention is going, redirect that energy into something grounding and healing, and respond to symptoms with calm rather than urgency. These simple shifts help teach the brain and body that the sensations are not dangerous, and that you no longer need to feed the anxiety cycle. This episode will help you begin transforming anxious energy into greater clarity, steadiness, and healing. ▶️ 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 (The Anxiety Guy)
• Body Scanning & Hypervigilance: Why You Can't Stop Checking Your Symptoms 02.03.2026 11min

  Break the anxiety cycle with daily guided support inside my End The Anxiety Program, step by step tools, CBT based direction, and a clear path forward. Start today by Clicking Here.  Today's Episode: In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast, we focus on body scanning and hypervigilance, the habit of constantly monitoring sensations for signs of danger. If you keep checking your pulse, breathing, dizziness, chest sensations, tingling, tension, vision changes, or "weird" feelings and then spiraling into health anxiety, panic, or catastrophic thinking, you're not alone. You'll learn why symptom checking, tracking, and Googling symptoms can feel helpful in the moment but actually trains the brain to stay on high alert. We'll break down how reassurance seeking and safety behaviors keep the nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight, and how to start interrupting the loop with a more neutral response. This episode is for anyone dealing with health anxiety (hypochondria), panic attacks, intrusive "what if" thoughts, DPDR, and chronic hypervigilance. You'll walk away with simple, practical steps to reduce scanning, stop compulsive checking, tolerate uncertainty, and begin rebuilding trust in your body again. ▶️ 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 (The Anxiety Guy)
• Triggered by Other People's Calm? The Anxiety Comparison Trap 23.02.2026 17min

  Break the anxiety cycle with daily guided support inside my End The Anxiety Program, step by step tools, CBT based direction, and a clear path forward. Start today by Clicking Here.  Today's Episode: In today's episode the anxiety guy podcast, we're talking about what happens when someone else's calm, confidence, or freedom triggers you and how social comparison quietly fuels anxiety, tension, and inner conflict. We'll break down the jealousy loop, the stories your mind creates to keep you stuck, and the shift from resisting life to allowing it so your nervous system can finally soften. I'll also share a practical story at the end so you can make the deepest connections possible towards your own anxiety recovery. ▶️ 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 (The Anxiety Guy)
• High Functioning Anxiety: Why "Done Enough" Never Comes (And How to Fix It) 16.02.2026 16min

  Head to theanxietyguy.com for the highest rated anxiety programs online along with a membership community (under community) where we can heal health anxiety together starting today.  ✨ Today's Episode: If you're dealing with high functioning anxiety, you can get everything done and still feel behind. In this episode, I break down why the "done enough" feeling never arrives for Type A nervous systems and how that keeps anxiety, overthinking, and internal pressure alive. You'll learn the hidden pattern behind "not enough yet," how it turns productivity into a safety strategy, and a simple daily reset to help your body accept closure so you can preserve energy, build self-compassion, and heal long-term. Reflection question: Where does your mind most often say "not enough yet," work, exercise, or relationships? ▶️ 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 (The Anxiety Guy)
• Stop Overthinking: A Practical Technique for Your Anxious Thoughts 08.02.2026 16min

  Head to theanxietyguy.com for the highest rated anxiety programs if you're tired of guessing and want simple daily steps to retrain the anxiety loop. ✨ Today's Episode: In this powerful podcast episode, Dennis Simsek guides you through the "Anxiety River" exercise, a simple visualization that helps you stop getting pulled into anxious thoughts and come back to a steadier place in your body.  You'll learn how to notice worries without chasing them, reduce the urgency to analyze or seek certainty, and train your nervous system to respond with calm presence instead of fear. If overthinking, intrusive "what if" loops, or body-based anxiety symptoms have been running your day, this is a practical tool you can use in the moment, at night, or anytime anxiety tries to take over. ▶️ 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 (The Anxiety Guy)
• The Best Morning Routine for Health Anxiety 02.02.2026 14min

  Less fear. More direction. If you want daily structure to break the health anxiety loop, head to anxietyguyprograms.com. ✨ Today's Episode: Mornings can be the hardest time for health anxiety. The moment you wake up, your mind starts scanning for symptoms, looking for certainty, and bracing for the worst. In this episode, I share the best morning routine for health anxiety, simple, repeatable steps that help you stop body scanning, reduce reassurance habits, and retrain your nervous system to respond to fear differently. If you deal with morning anxiety, cortisol spikes, or that "here we go again" feeling, this routine will help you start your day with more steadiness and less panic. ▶️ 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
• Perfectionism, People Pleasing, and Guilt: The 3 Hidden Causes of Anxiety 26.01.2026 14min

  If you're ready for structured daily guidance to help you retrain the anxiety loop and respond to fear differently, visit anxietyguyprograms.com to find the program that fits what you're going through right now. ✨ Today's Episode: In today's episode, I'm breaking down three hidden patterns that quietly keep anxiety alive in the background of your life: perfectionism, people-pleasing, and guilt. These aren't just "bad habits." For many people, they're early survival strategies your nervous system learned to stay safe, stay connected, and avoid rejection. The problem is that what once helped you cope can now keep your body stuck in hypervigilance, tension, and overthinking. You'll learn how perfectionism trains your system to believe it's never safe to rest, how people-pleasing keeps you scanning others for approval, and how guilt becomes an invisible leash that pulls you back into overdoing and self-abandonment. Most importantly, I'll give you simple, practical ways to start putting these weights down without creating more fear or pressure. ▶️ 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
• Why Your Anxiety Recovery Feels So Stressful 19.01.2026 25min

  🎓 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: When Healing Becomes Another Form of Strain For many people living with anxiety, stress overload has been familiar for a long time. It may have even felt protective. Productive. Necessary. So when healing begins, it's common to bring that same energy into recovery itself. Trying harder. Doing more inner work. Monitoring progress. Pushing through discomfort. Constantly asking, "Am I better yet?" But what if that familiar stress response, the one that once helped you survive, is now quietly keeping the nervous system stuck in alert? This episode explores how anxiety recovery can unintentionally turn into another form of suffering when it's approached from the same identity that created the urgency in the first place. ▶️ 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
• Brain Fog and Short Term Memory in Anxiety: What's Really Happening 12.01.2026 14min

  Start Your True Anxiety Healing Today With Me By Your Side Every Step Of The Way → Click Here Today's Episode: Short term memory changes are common during anxiety and burnout, yet they can feel unsettling when they show up. In this episode, Dennis Simsek explains why memory often feels unreliable when the nervous system is living in survival mode and how this is a natural response to prolonged stress rather than a sign that something is wrong. You will learn how anxiety shifts the brain's priorities, why effort and mental checking tend to increase symptoms, and how clarity returns through safety instead of force. Dennis also shares a gentle, practical approach through surrender, including how to use the Surrender Sessions on The Anxiety Guy YouTube channel to support nervous system regulation. This episode is especially helpful for those experiencing health anxiety, brain fog, or mental exhaustion and looking for reassurance and a calmer path back to presence. ▶️ 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