June 2021

Your Anxiety Toolkit Depression as a Compulsion Shala Nicely

Ep. 195 Depression as a compulsion (with Shala Nicely)


This is Your Anxiety Toolkit – Episode 195.

Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I’m your host, Kimberley Quinlan. This podcast is fueled by three main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn’t get to decide how you live your life. And number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, because experiencing anxiety ain’t easy. If that sounds good to you, let’s go.

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Your Anxiety Toolkit Hayden Dawes Compassion Permission Slip

Ep. 194 Compassionate Permission Slips (With Hayden Dawes)


This is Your Anxiety Toolkit – Episode 194.

In today’s episode, I had the most amazing conversation with Hayden Dawes. Now, Hayden Dawes is a therapist, a PhD student. He is what he calls an “aspiring compassion warrior” – we talk about in the interview what that means. Hayden is just doing some really cool work. As I share, and we go into detail in this episode, he’s really brought out some stuff for me as I’ve watched him and learned from him. It’s been incredible to see this journey that it’s put me on. (more…)

Mental Compulsions Metaphor ep 193

Ep. 193 A quick metaphor for mental compulsions


This is Your Anxiety Toolkit – Episode 193.

Hello, my loves, how are you?

So, recently, I’ve been having lots of conversations with my patients and my clients around one really helpful metaphor around managing mental compulsions. (more…)

Your Anxiety Toolkit with Kimberley Quinlan

Ep. 192: Scheduling for Anxiety Management


This is Your Anxiety Toolkit – Episode 192.

Welcome back, everybody. I am really excited to do this episode with you. It’s a little bit different to episodes I’ve done in the past, which might be why I’m really excited about it, but it is a skill I have been practicing for several months. No, maybe more than that. I would actually say closer to six months to a year, and I was reflecting on, what are the things that… I took a lot about mindfulness skills and a lot about therapy skills and cognitive behavioral therapy skills, but is there something I haven’t really talked about in terms of just lifestyle? And I thought this, of all the topics, is probably one of the things that helps me manage my anxiety and depression the most, literally the most. In fact, I would go as far as to say it has been probably one of the most important things that has helped me recover in my recovery, and I’m really excited to share it with you. (more…)