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. How to calm your mind before bed.

It's bedtime.

You're laying in the dark.

The world is quiet, but your mind is so loud.

You have racing thought.

You're worried.

You're having tension in your chest.

Maybe you're being hit by intrusive thoughts.

The more you try to get to sleep, the harder it

feels and the more discomfort that you have. If this is you, you are not alone. Here is what is

on our agenda in this episode. Number one, I want to talk to you about how you can calm

your anxious mind before bed so you can actually get some sleep.

And I want to talk to you about one fundamental change that you are going to have to practice as you do this.

Welcome to your anxiety toolkit.

This is a podcast where I teach you everything I know about anxiety so that you can

suffer less in your life. My name is Kimberly Quinlan. I'm an anxiety and OTHED specialist.

I am a cognitive behavioral therapist and my mission, as I've already said, is to help folks

suffer less with anxiety and depression and other mental health struggles.

Now, as you probably know, sleep and anxiety have a very complex relationship.

Often, we think the solution to falling asleep is forcing it, is to sort of like, I have to

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