What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

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and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

Welcome back to another episode of the maximized minimalist. Today on the show, I invited my

Instagram friend Tara Bixby, who is a licensed counselor and an anxiety specialist.

I found her on Instagram probably about a year ago and have just been obsessed with the content she

shares. She also has a podcast called the Courageously.u podcast, but she helps women break free

from beliefs and behaviors that keep them stuck

and help them heal from anxiety. I know this year's been a wild ride for millions of people

globally, and the election year just seems to be the icing on the cake. So I wanted to get

this in your hands right now and for the holidays. And hopefully, just like me

throughout this conversation, you'll find some gold in there to help you. Enjoy. All right, Tara,

welcome to the show. I'm so happy to have you here today. I'm so excited to be here. Thanks for

having me on. You're welcome. So let's start off by telling my listeners your story, why you do what you do,

and I'm so curious if you also have experience with anxiety on a personal level.

Yeah, I definitely do have anxiety on a personal level, and that's kind of what got me to go into

specializing in anxiety. I have been on the medication

route. I was on Xanax, Lexa Pro. I had panic attacks, just like crippling anxiety where you constantly

had that sense of dread. So I went through that for a really long time. But what really got me to

understanding it was I became a therapist. So I like to say we go into the

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