{"podcast":{"title":"Calming Anxiety | Guided Meditation, Sleep Hypnosis & Panic Attack Relief","slug":"calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief-98140","podcast_index_feed_id":98140,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4110266/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://calminganxiety.org","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/66408d7ae269b66fbca86424bc06adbf.jpg","author":"Calming Anxiety","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Stop anxiety, silence racing thoughts, and finally get the deep sleep you deserve. The Calming Anxiety Podcast offers a gentle, caring library of daily guided meditation, mindfulness sessions, and sleep hypnosis tracks designed to help you find genuine relief. Whether you need a quick 10-minute session to defuse stress or a long, guided hypnosis track to overcome insomnia, this show is your daily resource for peace.Join Martin Hewlett , a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (GQHP), as he uses his soothing voice and relaxing soundscapes to guide you toward a life of less stress and more emotional control. I n these episodes, you will learn how to: • Master the 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique to stop panic attacks instantly. • Build unshakeable confidence and self-esteem through positive affirmations. • Regulate your nervous system to manage feelings of overwhelm. • Let go of past trauma and embrace a happier future. • Take back control over your thoughts, feelings, and reactions.Subscribe today for new, short-form mindfulness episodes and start your journey to a calmer mind. Want personalized support? Book a 1-on-1 Zoom Hypnotherapy session with Martin: https://calendly.com/calminganxi…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T18:17:10.016960+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief-98140"},"episode":{"title":"You Are Allowed to Rest  Daily Guided Affirmations for an Exhausted Mind","slug":"you-are-allowed-to-rest-daily-guided-affirmations-for-an-exhausted-mind","published_at":"2026-06-04T02:00:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief-98140/you-are-allowed-to-rest-daily-guided-affirmations-for-an-exhausted-mind","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/calming-anxiety-guided-meditation-sleep-hypnosis-panic-attack-relief-98140","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/you-are-allowed-to-rest-daily-guided-affirmations-for-an-exhausted-mind--71440042","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71440042/you_are_allowed_to_rest_daily_guided_affirmations_for_an_exhausted_mind.mp3","summary":"🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE Feeling tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix? Mind still busy even when your body is still? This guided affirmation meditation is for the exhausted nervous system — for anyone who needs permission to stop, to rest, and to release the guilt that so often comes with it. Clinical hypnotherapist and former frontline paramedic Martin Hewlett guides you through a gentle vagus nerve breathing reset, a safe visualisation, and six powerful affirmations designed to land somewhere deeper than thought. You didn't earn rest through perfection. You earned it by making it this far. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧭 EPISODE CHAPTERS 0:00 — Cold Open 0:30 — Welcome & Introduction 1:00 — Vagus Nerve Breathing Reset (4-2-6) 2:30 — Visualisation: Permission to Rest 5:00 — Affirmations, First Pass 6:45 — Drift Bridge 7:00 — Affirmations, Second Pass 8:30 — Three Daily Caring Tips 9:15 — Wake-Up Close & Course CTA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ AFFIRMATIONS IN THIS EPISODE I am allowed to rest. My worth is not measured by how much I produce. I release the need to justify my exhaustion. I am doing enough. I am enough. My body is wise. My nervous system is not my enemy. I give myself the same patience I would give someone I love. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 YOUR THREE DAILY CARING TIPS The Permission Pause Once today, when you notice yourself pushing through fatigue, stop for thirty seconds. Put your hands flat on a surface — a table, your thighs, the floor. Feel something solid beneath you. Say quietly: I am allowed to stop. That pause is not weakness. In clinical terms, it is nervous system regulation. 2. The One Thing Reframe When the list feels impossible, ask yourself: what is the one thing that actually matters today? No…","meta_description":"🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE Feeling tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix? Mind still busy even when your body is still? 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