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Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression

Bonus Episode: The 3 Hidden Causes of Your UNEXPECTED Panic Attacks (And How to Fix Them)

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

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

4.9882 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk about why panic attacks so often feel like they come out of nowhere when, in reality, there are usually hidden triggers building beneath the surface.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're sitting there completely calm and then out of nowhere this whoosh hits you.

0:07.2

It's come completely all of a sudden.

0:10.0

And you are sitting there all of a sudden overwhelmed with a racing heart rate.

0:14.7

Maybe your thoughts are racing.

0:16.6

Maybe you feel like you're completely in a free state.

0:19.6

Maybe you're feeling dizzy.

0:21.3

Something is definitely wrong.

0:23.9

This is the definition of you having a panic attack.

0:27.3

But here is what nobody is telling you.

0:30.4

This panic attack didn't just come out of nowhere.

0:33.6

There have been hidden triggers firing below the surface that you didn't even know about.

0:39.8

And today I'm going to help you understand what exactly those triggers are and what you can do to

0:45.5

manage them. Hello, my name is Kimberly Quinlan. I am an anxiety specialist and I am on a mission to help equip 10

0:57.3

million people. Yes, I know 10 million people. That's a lot of people. I want to help give

1:03.3

folks those who don't have access to one-on-one care helpful science-based skills so that they too

1:10.4

can manage their anxiety. If you feel like this is

1:13.6

something that would help someone you care about, please do share it with them. It'll help me with

1:18.5

my mission to help other people, to create less suffering. I feel like my mission on this earth

1:24.9

is just to help reduce suffering in any way I can.

1:28.1

And this is the one thing I actually know about.

1:30.2

So we're talking about it today.

1:31.9

So if you are one of those folks who've had this sudden whoosh, this sudden panic attack,

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