Gina Ryan

Gina Ryan is the host and producer of The Anxiety Coaches Podcast, an anxiety coach, nutritionist and teacher who lives on Maui. She describes the show as a place for practical, everyday lifestyle changes that calm the nervous system and help listeners move beyond the cycle of anxiety, panic and PTSD. It appears twice a week, with episodes on anxiety, stress, panic, depression, holistic wellness, and meditation and mindfulness.

Her own path began with struggle. In 1993 she opened New Health Natural Products in New York, and for over 20 years she lived with stress, anxiety and panic. Before the internet, she found her way from fear to calm and wellbeing by working out what did and did not help. She now teaches others to do the same in a fraction of the time.

After moving to Maui in 2005, Gina spent 12 years as a nutritionist and consultant for an intensive outpatient eating disorder center and the only residential eating disorder facility in Hawai'i. There she brought her understanding of the mind-body-spirit connection to clients working through food-related anxiety, obsessions and compulsions. She is now dedicated full-time to anxiety-clearing coaching.

Meditation is central to her teaching. She has meditated for decades and offers short guided meditations for people for whom sitting still can feel difficult amid high stress, panic or PTSD. Her aim is to give them a gentle place to experiment with sitting with mind and body in the early stages of practice. She closes her Insight Timer introduction with "May all beings be free from suffering."