Welcome to your anxiety toolkit.

I'm your host, Kimberly 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 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.

Thank you. anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you, let's go. Welcome back. Today we have Tori Lynn

Panzerralla. She is bringing us such a beautiful conversation and I'm actually so deeply grateful for us having this conversation.

So welcome, Tori Lynn. I appreciate it so much. I'm so excited to have this conversation with you.

Tell us about why this topic of anxiety and addiction is so important to you. Tell me a little bit about the background of how you

became an advocate and a clinical provider on this area. Yeah, totally. So I'm going to try to keep

this concise, but I think that the context is important here, kind of my journey and how I came

through my own experiences with education

and how it led me to where I am practicing now in my private practice. And so I feel like the

backstory is useful information to have. So I'll try to be concise with that. Basically,

starting out in my undergrad program at Rhode Island College, I ended up working

through a double bachelor's degree, one in psychology and one in chemical dependency and

addiction studies.

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