AP 259: Ways to Better Cope with Your Mental Health Struggles || with Kimberley Quinlan

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Do you want to know the most pivotal piece of advice a therapist ever shared with me? As I was finally seeking treatment after struggling for years with my eating disorder I was told this: you will deal with this forever. And I was actually relieved! I explain further in the episode, along with our mental-health-therapist guest, on the ways to better cope with your mental health struggles. Kimberley Quinlan is a mother, business owner, therapist, and podcaster. She also, somewhat uniquely, self discloses the mental health struggles she has learned to live with. With a specialty in obsessive compulsive disorder and other anxiety disorders, Kimberley has a strong and soothing approach. Her motto is "It's a beautiful day to do hard things." There are 3 main things we want listeners to learn from this episode, but in addition to those concrete steps you will feel empowered and able. As we focus this month on being healthy, not getting healthy, you'll understand the strength and resilience you possess because of mental health struggles. Tune in for new and encouraging ways to help yourself, or to better support someone you love. About a few other things... As an introverted mother myself, I took Erica Layne's 7 Day "Talked Out, Touched Out" Challenge. Her goal is to provide simples tips toward helping those like me find ease and enjoyment in motherhood. Get it now for $10 off! The Strive Tribe (formally our unnamed membership group) is now in full swing! Join a small and private group with like-minded members from this community for support and accountability. You'll have access to coaching, book clubs, challenges and more as we grow and develop together. Join now for lifetime founding-member pricing. I am joining several other speakers as part of the Purpose Project summit to help you get clear on your purpose. Join the FREE 3 day summit that will inspire you, teach you and give you the tools to make living your purpose a reality. Make sure you're signed up for the Go Getter Newsletter to get each episode's Progress Pointers straight to your inbox every Thursday. SHOW NOTES Kimberley's Website and Instagram 7 Lessons to Help You THRIVE as an Introverted Mom - $10 off until 5/22 Join the Purpose Project Summit Better Help counseling – 10% off with code ‘ABOUTPROGRESS’ Get the Organization Overhaul audio course Join the monthly membership group Get your first month+ FREE with Libsyn using code MONICA Lend your voice and experience + be featured on the show HERE Join Monica on Facebook and Instagram Songs Credit: DRIVE by Dj Nicolai Heidlas @nicolai-heidlas Music provided by FREE MUSIC FOR VLOGS AND VIDEOS bit.ly/freemusicforvlogs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to about progress. This is episode 259,
0:05.6	ways to better cope with your mental health struggles with Kimberly Quinlan.
0:10.4	For years I refuse to share about my eating disorders over the great shame I associated with them being the wrong kind.
0:18.0	I didn't want to be seen as a binger, which I had become after failing at both bulimia and anorexia for years and
0:26.0	years of hyper-controlling my food and exercise.
0:30.0	I think a part of me was worried that it wasn't really an eating disorder and that I should just be able to self-discipline my way out of it.
0:39.6	My first counselor brought me relief with two seemingly unhappy bits of news.
0:45.0	One, yes, I had a full all-encompassing nuanced eating disorder and two, no, I could not discipline myself out of it.
0:56.6	It would likely be something I dealt with the rest of my life.
1:00.0	The reason those statements helped me
1:01.6	is because it removed the shame I had placed on myself.
1:05.7	It helped me redefine what my struggles were
1:07.7	and how to better cope with them.
1:10.0	And those statements gave me back some power I was really needing.
1:15.0	I started this podcast almost four years ago
1:18.0	with no plans for it to become a show about mental health.
1:21.0	And yet, nearly every single episode has touched on it.
1:25.2	Even four years ago it was a new thing for people to own their mental illnesses and
1:29.6	to talk about them openly. I know it was definitely new for me. So much has shifted yet then and yet so much has not.
1:38.9	I know our theme this month and beyond is Be Healthy. Well you can't work on the exterior health
1:45.4	habits until you worked on the inside. Today we are going to talk to a
1:50.6	licensed therapist, Kimberly Quinlan, who specializes in anxiety and OCD, and is the
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