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
4.9 • 882 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.
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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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