There is one anxiety recovery skill that I am doubling down on and I am here to take you along the ride with me.

Hopefully you sign up for this as well.

There's nothing actually to sign up for, but I want you to think about how empowering this is going to be for your anxiety recovery

and double down on this alongside with me.

Hello, my name is Kimberley-Quinland.

I'm an anxiety specialist and welcome to your anxiety toolkit.

This is a podcast where we talk about compassionately managing anxiety,

getting you back to living the life that you want

to live. Now, I talk about all kinds of skills on your anxiety toolkit, but this is the one thing

I'm doubling down on personally. I know so many skills. I know all the strategies. I've done a lot of therapy and I have come to a

place where I have realized that there is one main core strategy that I want to practice every day

to bring home my recovery. And that is this. My goal from here on out and has

been for a while, and this is why I say it's very much benefited me and why I'm talking about it,

the one thing I want to double down on is to be able to have any or all of the

emotions and give myself permission to have them and make space for every single one of them.

That there is no emotion I am not willing to feel. So often, when I'm treating

clients, when I am seeing severe anxiety disorders, it's not just the social anxiety and the

health anxiety and the panic disorder. That's not what I'm treating. Often what I'm treating is their fear of an

emotion. Let's break it down. Let's say they have social anxiety. It's not always that they're

afraid of social interactions. It's often that they're afraid of the emotion of embarrassment or humiliational shame.

When I'm treating panic disorder, it's often, it's not that they're actually afraid of flying.

They might be afraid to fly because they're afraid of feeling the sensations of panic.

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