Have you ever had a moment where one thought, just one thought, sent you into a spiral of uncertainty,

fear, shame and panic? And then as if that wasn't enough, that one thought, or maybe many

thoughts caused you to completely change the plan for your day. This is such a common thing and it's so easy when you're

anxious to completely abort the plan and give all of your attention to trying to prevent

the fear from happening. What if I told you that the most life challenging tools in managing

anxiety and uncertainty, OCD, panic,

is to stop treating every thought like it is so important and so dangerous.

I'm Kimbilly Quinlan. Welcome back to your anxiety toolkit, your go-to resource for all things anxiety, OCD, and mental health.

This is a place where you can leave all the fluff behind and access specific, effective, and compassionate tools that are science-backed and used by me, my clients, and my students.

So let's get going.

Okay, before we get started, let's just cut to the real point, which is the main thing I want you to take away from today is we have to stop thinking

that every thought we have is a fact. Just because you think something doesn't mean it's a fact

or true or imminent or dangerous. We have thousands and thousands of thoughts every single day,

and we have to learn how to not consider each and every one of them as facts. Now, I know that's

easier said than done. We're going to talk about it today. But that's the main thing that

we're focusing on here is that your thoughts are not facts. For some people, this is life-changing.

Because they've been told that their thoughts mean something, that just because they feel like

they have this feeling that's associated that they should pay

attention and that it's a sign and that, you know, they've maybe learned about manifestation.

And the problem with that, I'm not against it, but the problem with that is if you have anxiety,

it becomes very, very difficult to differentiate the difference between a true gut feeling and

an anxious, intrusive thought. So we're going to talk about it here today, and I want you to

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