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
Micro Choices, Major Calm
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In this episode of The Anxiety Compass, we explore something surprisingly simple and incredibly powerful.
Regulation doesn’t come from massive routines, perfect mornings, or pushing yourself harder. It comes from micro choices.
Those tiny, often overlooked decisions you make throughout the day that quietly tell your nervous system: You’re safe. I’m listening. I’ve got you.
In this conversation, Natalie and Sammy unpack why consistency, not intensity, is what actually brings the body back into balance.
We talk about:
- How small choices build nervous system safety over time
- The difference between regulating before anxiety spikes vs during it
- Simple physical, sensory, environmental, and language-based micro choices
- Why the smallest actions often create the biggest sense of calm
- How to stop dismissing what already works for you
This episode is a reminder that you don’t need to fix your life or overhaul your habits to feel better.
You just need to make one kind choice... and then another.
Gentle, grounding, and deeply practical. This one is for anyone who wants calm without pressure.
🎧 Listen now and start noticing the tiny moments that bring you back to yourself.
👉 Grab your free Anxiety Compass download here
👉 Grab a copy of Sammy's Book, Anxiety, The Best Teacher You Never Asked For here
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Connect with Sammy @nutritionwithsammy or website
Connect with Natalie @nataliemarieinbalance or book discovery call here
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