What if I asked you a question that completely changes the way you think about anxiety

and you think about your inner experience of having anxiety, uncertainty, dread, distress,

panic, and so forth?

What would happen if you stopped hating anxiety? This is what we're going to explore today.

And what you're going to find is the fact that you hate your experience of anxiety might be what's

creating a lot of unnecessary suffering. Now, I know you're probably thinking, Kimberly, of course,

I hate anxiety. It is uncomfortable. It makes me sweat. It makes me my tummy hurt. It makes my heart race. I hate uncertainty and anxiety. And that's the problem. And I've just got to figure out how to get it to go away. And I get it. We've all been there. But science suggests that our relationship with our internal experience

can be what increases or decreases our own suffering. And what I want us to do today is explore

number one, why you hate anxiety, because I get it. I hate it too sometimes. But what we can do

differently so that you can have a

better relationship with your internal world and you can move on to reduce that suffering and go

and live the life that you want. So let's do this together. First of all, hello and welcome. My

name is Kimberly Quinlan. You're here at your anxiety toolkit

podcast. This is where we give you a huge virtual hug and we give you effective, compassionate

tools and strategies to help you manage anxiety. And today, let's really get into it. Why do we

hate anxiety?

I thought this was such an interesting question.

So I actually polled my Instagram following and asked them, like, what is it specifically

that you hate about anxiety?

And the response was overwhelming.

People flooded my DMs with their experience. And here I'm going to share with you

some of the things that they said. They said it interrupts my sleep. It makes me sweat. I always feel

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