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
Anxiety Has a Nose for Change
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Anxiety doesn’t just show up when things are wrong.
It often shows up when things are changing.
Even good change.
Holidays, healing, growth, new routines, new seasons of life... all of these can trigger anxiety, not because you’re failing, but because your nervous system prefers what’s familiar.
In this conversation, we explore why anxiety spikes during transitions and why “I should be fine by now” is one of the most unhelpful stories we tell ourselves.
We discuss:
- Why the nervous system reads change as threat
- How anxiety responds to unfamiliarity, not logic
- Why good change can still feel unsafe in the body
- The anxiety that lives in the in-between phases of life
- Why wanting change doesn’t mean your nervous system is ready
- How to move through transitions without forcing or spiralling
This episode is a gentle reminder that anxiety isn’t blocking your growth — it’s checking it.
If anxiety has been louder lately, this might help you understand why.
🎧 Listen now and learn how to walk your nervous system through change instead of pushing it.
👉 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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