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Managing Holiday Anxiety holiday stress Your anxiety toolkit

Ep. 214 Managing Holiday Anxiety (Q&A)

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I had so many people asking questions about how to manage holiday anxiety and stress that I decided to do an entire podcast on this.  This is part 1 of a 2-part podcast Q&A. (more…)

Treating Children with OCD and Phobias Your anxiety toolkit

Ep. 213 Treating Children with OCD and Phobias (with Natasha Daniels)

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Today we have Natasha Daniels, an OCD specialist, talking all about how to help children and teens with OCD and phobias.  In this conversation, we talk all about how to motivate our children and teens to manage their OCD, phobias, and anxiety using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and other treatments such as self-compassion, mindfulness, and ACT. We also address what OCD treatment for children entails and what changes need to be made in OCD treatment for teens. In this episode, Natasha and Kimberley share their experiences of parenting children with phobias and OCD. (more…)

How much ERP should I do each week OCD therapy Your anxiety toolkit

Ep. 212 How much ERP should I do daily?

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In today’s podcast, we take a deep dive into a common question I get from followers and CBTschool.com members. HOW MUCH ERP SHOULD I BE DOING DAILY?  Because ERP is such an important part of OCD treatment and OCD therapy, I wanted to outline how you might set up an ERP plan for yourself and how that can help you with your OCD treatment. (more…)

People Pleasing OCD Anxiety Perfectionism Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast

Ep. 211 People Pleasing (with Shala Nicely)

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Avoidance OCD Compulsions Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast

Ep. 210 How Avoidance Keeps You Stuck

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SUMMARY:

Quite often, my clients forget to recognize avoidance as a compulsion.  While you might be spending a lot of time in your recovery reducing compulsions such as reassurance-seeking compulsions, behavioral compulsions, and mental compulsions, it is important to recognize that avoidance is also a compulsion.  In this episode, we address why it is important to address the things you are avoiding and find a way to incorporate this into your OCD treatment. (more…)

Ep 209 An ERP Success Story with Taylor Stadtlander Anxiety Toolkit Podcast

Ep. 209: An ERP Success Story (with Taylor Stadtlander)

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There is nothing I love more than sharing the success stories of people who are using ERP to manage their OCD and intrusive thoughts.  In this week’s podcast, I interview Taylor Stadtlander about her OCD recovery and how she used ERP School to help her manage her intrusive thoughts, compulsive behaviors.  Taylor is incredibly inspiring and I am so thrilled to hear her amazing ERP Success story. (more…)

Managing Anxiety Exhaustion Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast

Ep. 208 Managing Exhaustion

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This is Your Anxiety Toolkit – Episode 208.

Welcome back, everybody. We are on the final week of the 30-day Self-Compassion Challenge. You guys, the growth has been profound to watch you guys, to hear from you guys, sharing what’s working, what you’re struggling with, the major strides you’ve made. I have loved every single second of it.

I will be doing my best to compile all the audio. I think about 27 of the 30 days we did a live or the 31 days. We’ll be doing lives and I will compile them into one whole little mini-course that will be free for everybody on the cbtschool.com. That is yet to come. I cannot wait to hand that over to you guys. (more…)

Fierce Self-Compassion Kristen Neff Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast

Ep. 207 Fierce Self-Compassion (with Kristen Neff)

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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. (more…)

206: The Roadblocks to Self-Compassion

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Welcome back, everybody. How are we doing? We are on week 3 of the Self-Compassion Challenge. So welcome if you are new and you haven’t caught up with our Self-Compassion Challenge. We are doing a 30-day Self-Compassion Challenge for everybody, so everyone can dabble in their self-compassion practice, maybe strengthen their self-compassion practice, and hopefully thrive with their self-compassion practice. (more…)

Ep. 205 Is your Self-Compassion Practice Conditional or Unconditional Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast

Ep. 205 Is your Self-Compassion Practice conditional or unconditional?

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This is Your Anxiety Toolkit – Episode 205.

Welcome back, everybody. We are on week 2 of this Self-Compassion Challenge. For those of you who are new to the podcast, or didn’t hear last week’s episode, go back and listen to that. We are on week 2 of a 30-days Self-Compassion Challenge. My whole goal is that you learn how to treat yourself kindly and compassionately as you move through difficult times. (more…)