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 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.

Today we're talking about five mental health priorities for a calmer, stronger,

stronger, 2026.

Here is my question for you.

If you want to get into tip-top mental health shape in 26, I'm going to take you through

my five top priorities for my own mental health and what I

would encourage you to do to follow me. And so let's get to it. As we step into the new year,

I want you to consider what matters most. What is my purpose? And how can I not let anxiety stop

me anymore? The new year can bring a lot of pressure, sort of these pressure

to like do better and fix ourselves, but I want to reframe this. Let's get really clear on the

skills and priorities I want us to focus on. So let's go over the agenda. I'm going to teach you

five powerful shifts that can help you prioritize your mental health in 2026. I'm going to help you do it

with intention. They are going to be science-back tools and you're going to do it with self-respect.

So let's get started. Welcome to your anxiety toolkit. This is a podcast where I teach you all of the

science-back skills to help you live your biggest, fullest life and manage your anxiety.

My name is Kimberly Quinlan. I am an anxiety specialist. I am a therapist and my personal

goal is to help you suffer less. It's as simple as that. So today we always go through what I

call an anxiety toolkit, a specific set of skills that you're going

to take, and I'm going to give you five of those today. But let's go to number one. It's attention

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