If you want to learn how to be more optimistic when the world feels so scary, this is going to be the episode for you.

These are the skills that I practiced since we've had all of the scary fires here in Los Angeles.

I have relied on them and they have helped me through. And I hope they

help you as much as they help me. So let's go. Welcome back to your anxiety toolkit. My name

is Kim, Billy Quinlan. I am an anxiety specialist. And today we're talking about how to be

optimistic when the world feels so scary. Listen, I get it. The news is terrifying. The weather is

terrifying. So many people have talked about with all the political change and the climate change

and the environmental change, relationship change, you know, there's so much change in the world happening that their

nervous system is overloaded and that they're really struggling to stay hopeful.

I get it.

It makes total sense that you feel that way.

In no way do I want this episode to be, to overlook that or to make you feel

invalidated. It's totally valid. I totally get it. Again, these are skills that I've had to

practice over and over, particularly as we manage the risk of fires here in Los Angeles.

You know, here in Los Angeles, everyone has united because of what we've

been through. However, there's also this overarching, like, cloud of darkness with us, too,

of like, what's this rebuild going to look like? How are we going to do this? There's so much loss.

So let's talk about optimism and how we can get there. So here is the tricks I want you to practice.

When you are struggling with optimism, whether it be optimism about the future, your recovery,

maybe a medical illness, maybe it's again,

you're worried about politics for whatever country area you're in. A lot of people have been writing and talking about climate and how they're really worried about that. Maybe

you're worried about rights, your own personal rights. Our job in that moment is to

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