160. When Worry Becomes an Issue with Kate Borsato
HERself
Abby and Amy
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🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
What is the difference between worry and anxiety? And how do we recognize when our thoughts are causing a negative impact on our everyday lives? This week we are bringing Kate Borsato back on the show to discuss this matter. Kate is a therapist who specializes in anxiety, especially in motherhood. She talks to us about what exactly worry is compared to anxiety and offers great suggestions on what we can do if we recognize some of these problematic symptoms in ourselves.
Kate guides us through different exercises including how to surrender to our anxious thoughts and focus our attention on what we do want to be thinking about instead. She encourages us to write down what a good mother means to us and to make sure we are including ourselves on that list. Even things like deep breathing are exercises that can help get us out of that worrisome headspace and back to where our feet are planted.
So many of us can relate to the struggle we have when we are able to watch our partners participate in a mindless, relaxing activity for a few hours at a time when we ourselves simply cannot. Kate goes into details about how society puts this pressure on moms to constantly be productive and suggests that we take a page right out of our partner's playbook by allowing ourselves to participate in activities that make us feel creative.
If you worry that your anxious tendencies are going to be passed on to your children, listen in. Kate explains that those of us who are more prone to anxiety can be caused by many factors including childhood trauma, abusive romantic relationships, or we may just be genetically more prone to worry.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're somebody who's struggled with worry and anxiety for much of your life, |
| 0:04.9 | it's part of who you are possibly. And it doesn't mean that you're going to be drowning in |
| 0:10.0 | anxiety for your whole life, but it means that you're probably an incredibly sensitive soul |
| 0:14.9 | and you're probably highly impacted by what's going on around you. And you're going to have to |
| 0:20.7 | learn how to really take care of yourself. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm Amy and I'm Abby. And as women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others. |
| 0:36.1 | But your life isn't supposed to look like hers. Being your best self means standing firm in |
| 0:41.5 | your decisions and always being willing to grow with a purpose. We get vulnerable and real, |
| 0:47.0 | with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face. Every woman listening is |
| 0:52.6 | the opportunity to choose what life looks like for herself. |
| 1:01.0 | In today's episode, you are going to hear from past guest Kate Borsado. Kate is a therapist who |
| 1:07.5 | specializes in anxiety, especially during motherhood. The reason I really wanted to do this |
| 1:13.9 | episode is I feel like it's so unclear between what is a normal amount of worry and what happens |
| 1:21.0 | when people are starting to tip into anxiety. What are the differences? How can we help a woman |
| 1:27.6 | that's experiencing either? So I'm so glad that right in the beginning, she kind of gave us |
| 1:32.8 | some ideas about when worry becomes anxiety, things to look out for, and then obviously during |
| 1:40.2 | the episode, there's so many tangible takeaways of what people can do. Yeah, exactly. And as |
| 1:45.6 | somebody who does experience worry and talks about anxiety. I mean, that word gets thrown around a lot, |
| 1:50.1 | right? The word anxiety gets thrown around quite a bit in our culture, but figuring out that you |
| 1:54.6 | don't have to stay stuck in this anxiety. Like so many of us were like, okay, this is just how I'm |
| 1:58.8 | always going to be. And she literally gives you permission to drop that and be able to use kindness, |
| 2:04.8 | use compassion, use this gentle way of talking to yourself and looking at the outside world |
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