The Anxiety Compass Podcast
Welcome to The Anxiety Compass Podcast, where we help you navigate the messy, magical, and maddening world of anxiety. We believe anxiety isn’t a defect but a teacher — a compass pointing you back to your True North.
Hosted by Clinical Nutritionists Sammy Barnett (author of Anxiety: The Best Teacher You Never Asked For) and Natalie Antoine, this show goes beyond quick fixes to explore the real roots of anxiety. Each week we explore a different point of the compass:
🌿 Chemical & Nutritional
💬 Emotional
⚡ Nervous System
🌀 Hormonal
🌍 Environmental
💪 Physical
✨ Spiritual
Through personal stories, humour, and practical tools, we show how anxiety is not a problem to “fix” but an invitation to slow down, listen, and reconnect with yourself. If you’re ready to see anxiety in a new light, learn real-life strategies, and feel less alone in the messy middle, this podcast is for you.
The Anxiety Compass Podcast
The Great Unwiring: Finding Your Way Out of Survival Mode
In this episode we dive into The Great Unwiring... what it actually means to break free from the survival patterns your nervous system learnt years (or decades) ago.
So many of us live with a brain that’s stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn, running the same old protective programs on loop. These patterns often come from childhood, trauma, overwhelm, or seasons of life where our body had to adapt fast… and never switched back.
In this episode, we unpack:
✨ Why your nervous system gets “stuck” in survival mode
✨ How chronic fight-or-flight affects digestion, mood, sleep, hormones and clarity
✨ The patterns we unknowingly repeat (even when we want to grow)
✨ Why up-levelling in life can trigger old wiring
✨ How to gently disconnect from survival mode
✨ Practical tools to rewire your brain and body with safety
✨ The LISTEN framework...Sammy’s own method for calming her system
✨ What true nervous-system “rebooting” really looks like
With a mix of science, stories, humour, and lived experience, this episode helps you understand why your body reacts the way it does and how to guide yourself back to True North.
👉 Grab your free Anxiety Compass download here
👉 Grab a copy of Sammy's Book, Anxiety, The Best Teacher You Never Asked For here
Follow us @theanxietycompass
Connect with Sammy @nutritionwithsammy or website
Connect with Natalie @nataliemarieinbalance or book discovery call here
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