FUCK ANXIETY: For High Functioning Women Ready to Heal Anxiety with Hypnotherapy
FUCK Anxiety is a podcast for the woman who looks completely fine on the outside.
She shows up for everyone. She holds it all together. She answers “I’m good” on autopilot.
But inside, she’s white-knuckling every single day. Overthinking everything. Waiting for the next panic attack. Controlling her schedule, her relationships, and every outcome she can get her hands on — just to feel okay.
That’s high-functioning anxiety. And most women living with it have never heard those words applied to them.
This podcast exists for her.
FUCK Anxiety explores the real root of anxiety in women — the fear that got pushed down, the control that took over, and the nervous system that never learned it was safe to rest.
Through honest conversations, real-life stories, and practical tools, each episode helps you understand:
• Why overthinking, panic attacks, and the need to control everything are connected
• How high-functioning anxiety shows up in mothers, women, and high-achievers
• What nervous system regulation actually looks like in real life
• How to interrupt anxiety in real time — not just manage it
• What it takes to stop letting fear run the show
Hosted by Sari Cowsert — a mother, intuitive hypnotherapist, and someone who has lived this pattern firsthand.
This podcast is for women who are exhausted from pretending they’re fine — and ready to understand what’s actually happening inside them.
Because when a woman learns how to understand her anxiety instead of suppressing it…
She doesn’t just change her own life.
She changes the emotional inheritance of her daughters.
Episodes
68 episodes
Ep.68 How to Let Go of Anxiety In The Body
If you've been to all the doctors, tried all the things, and your anxiety still won't budge, this one is for you. Maybe the reason nothing has worked is that you've been trying to think your way out of something, but maybe it's not a thinking s...
Ep.67 Why Do I Feel Emotionally Numb? The Subconscious Program Inside
Are you feeling emotionally numb and you don't know why? Are you doing all the right things, and feel exhausted? This episode is for you. You're not falling apart. You're not in crisis, but just going through the motions and feeling nothing. Th...
Ep.66 Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn: What's Your Survival Response?
If you've got so much on your plate that part of you secretly wants to burn it all down and quit everything, this episode is for you. You're not falling apart. Your anxiety just found a new way to talk to you. And once you learn the language, y...
Ep.65 Perfectionism is Just Anxiety | Calm Your Nervous System with Hypnosis
If you wake up every morning already knowing how the day is going to go, bracing for the same feelings, the same version of you, the same feeling as the day before, this episode is for you. You haven't run out of options. You've run out of perm...
Ep.64 Why Has Nothing Worked for My Anxiety? A Client Shares What Finally Got to the Root
If you've tried the medications, the doctors, the counselors, and nothing is changing in your life, this episode is for you. Jen had tried it all too. And then she found what was actually underneath it, no more playing with symptoms and b...
Ep.63 The Real Reason the Breathing "Isn't Working" for Your Anxiety
If you've ever known exactly what to do for your anxiety and still couldn't make yourself do it... this one's going to hit. Because it's not about lacking the knowledge. It never was.EPISODE SUMMARY You've read the books. You've d...
Ep.62 Stuck in Resentment? Here's Why Nothing Will Change Until You Do This
If you're exhausted from the same fights, the same resentments, the same feeling that everyone around you is the problem, this episode is for you. You're not crazy. But there's something nobody's told you yet.EPISODE SUMMARY:<...
Ep.61 How to Stop a Panic Attack Before It Spirals: The 120-Second Window
If you’ve ever had a panic attack that felt completely random, this episode is for you. It wasn’t random. Your body had been whispering long before it started screaming.EPISODE SUMMARYIn this episode, Sari shares a ...
Ep.60 How People Pleasing and Obsessive Thoughts Are Connected: And How to Rebuild Trust with Nikki Dean
In this episode of FVCK Anxiety, Sari is joined by mindfulness and manifestation coach Nikki Dean for a conversation about anxiety, overthinking, and what it really means to trust yourself again.They break down how anxiety often...
Ep.59 Why Social Media Is Making Your Anxiety Worse (And You Don’t Realize It)
If you’ve noticed your anxiety getting worse, your mind constantly racing, or feeling more overwhelmed after being on your phone, this episode is for you. What you’re consuming every day — especially on social media — may be increasing...
Ep.58 Why Anxiety Makes You Feel Out of Control (And How to Take Your Power Back)
Why Anxiety Makes You Feel Out of Control (And How to Take Your Power Back)If you’re a woman dealing with anxiety, overthinking, and the constant need to control everything just to feel safe, this episode is for you. Anxi...
Ep.57 Fuck Anxiety: Why I Refused to Let Fear Run My Life
If you’re a woman living with anxiety, overthinking, and the constant need to control everything just to feel safe, this episode is for you. Anxiety doesn’t just live in your head — it dictates your choices, your routines, your relatio...
Ep.56 Anxiety Is Trying to Tell You Something......Are You Listening?
If anxiety has been running the show and you feel exhausted from trying to control every outcome, you’re not alone.Many women live with anxiety not because something is “wrong” with them—but because they’re stuck in control mode...
Ep.55 I Hate My Body and I’m Anxious All the Time: Let’s Talk About Why
One comment. One comparison. One moment that quietly changes how you see yourself.In this raw solo episode, Sari opens up about a heartbreaking conversation with her 13-year-old daughter — and how body shame doesn’t usually start with se...
Ep.54 Feeling Stuck in Life? How Anxiety Keeps You Living the Same Day on Repeat
You wake up. Same alarm. Same thoughts. Same heaviness. You’re not lazy. You’re not unmotivated. You might just be stuck in an anxiety loop — where your nervous system keeps choosing the familiar over the free, even when the familiar i...
Ep.53 What Happens When You Finally Stop Hiding How You Feel
As this year comes to a close, this episode is an invitation to slow down and reflect — not on what you should have done, but on who you’ve been becoming.In this final solo episode of 2025, Sari reflects on what it means to shed...
Ep.52 Achievement Addiction Is the Real Disease (and It’s Killing You Quietly): With Dana Hunter Fradella
If you’re feeling like the world handed you a life plan that’s supposed to guarantee happiness, but leaves you anxious, wiped out, or just plain lost...... This episode of The Uncharted Way is for anyone who’s depleted from chasing som...
Ep.51 A Simple 4-Step Tool to Stop Anxiety, Overthinking, and Fear Spirals
You know that feeling, your palms are sweaty, you breathe a little heavier or uneven. Your chest tightens. Your thoughts race. You already “know” how the situation is going to end — and it’s not good.In this episode, Sari shares a simple...
Ep.50 Why Taking a Pill Isn't Enough!!! Unlocking Healing with Dr. Melissa Weiss & Dr. Jeanette Auchter
In this firecracker convo, I bring on Dr. Melissa Weiss and Dr. Jeanette Auchter — two women who have lived the chaos, the loss, and the chronic pain and decided to do things differently. These two functional medicine docs (and hosts of the
Ep.49 How to Stop Settling for “Just Enough” in Your Life
If you’ve ever asked for more in your life, more love, more peace, more support, more money, more ease, but then somehow only let yourself receive a tiny sliver of it… this episode will hit you straight in the truth.Because wanting more ...
Ep.48 Astrology, Human Design, Gene Keys, and Their Permission Slips with: Andie Thueson
If you’ve ever wondered why life feels harder for you than it seems for everyone else—why certain people drain you, why some paths feel natural and others feel like pushing a boulder uphill—this episode is going to hit different.T...
Ep.47 Why You Always Imagine the Worst-Case Scenario, and How To Ease This
Sari takes you inside the truth most women never say out loud: how easy it is to hear one scary story, one diagnosis, one moment from someone else’s life… and instantly believe it could happen to you. How your brain grabs it, loops it, fears it...
Ep.46 Are you "Fine"? Tired, Disconnected, and had Enough: with Jess Callahan
Book Your Freedom Roadmap SessionLet’s get real for a second: if you’re running on fumes, feeling disconnected from everything (including yourself), or wo...
Ep.45 When Fear Runs Your Life: How to Find Freedom Even When You’re Still Afraid
If your mind never shuts off — if you’re replaying the fight, the mistake, the diagnosis, or waiting for the next panic attack to hit — there is so much in this episode for you.Sari opens up about the years she spent living in fear: twel...
Ep.44 Why Asking for Help Isn’t Weak Shit, with Krista Rizzo
This isn’t another pep talk about self-care or “finding balance.” It’s an exposed nerve for anyone barely holding it together, clothes still on from work, kids screaming, marriage hanging by a thread, and a toxic job eating you alive. Krista Ri...