Ep. 104: Honor Your Hard Things

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

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

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Kimberley Quinlan Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast Host Honor Your Hard Things OCD Eating Disorders Anxious ERP

Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast. Today is a little different. I was all ready to record a podcast and all of a sudden, I put that podcast episode on hold and just spoke from the heart. I just wanted to talk directly to you and remind you to honor your hard things. I know when things are hard and you are struggling, it feels like you have no choice but to give up, but again, always honor your hard thing.

In this episode, I share about a recent “hard thing” I did with my daughter. I shared how surprised I was by how hard it was and emphasized that we do not honor the hard things we do enough. My goal was to address how we compare our struggles in mental health with others who do not have the same struggles. Because of this, we don’t honor the hard things you are doing (which is a lot).

In addition, we judge ourselves for struggling and we make it hard on ourselves when things are already hard. My hope with this episode is to help you along to honor every hard thing you do. My hope is that it gives you a moment to celebrate the work you are doing with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Depression, Panic Disorder, Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) and Eating Disorders. It is hard work and I honor your hard things.

Before we go, I want to remind you about the upcoming IOCDF conference in Austin, TX, from July 19-21. This national meeting focuses solely on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and related disorders. I will be one of the presenters among over 100 presentations, workshops, and seminars. There will be support groups and evening events as well. Click HERE for more information and to buy tickets.

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0:00.0	This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 104.
0:10.0	Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is fueled by three
0:16.9	main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your
0:22.2	anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And number
0:29.6	three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, because
0:36.8	experiencing anxiety ain't easy.
0:39.1	If that sounds good to you, let's go.
0:46.8	Well, welcome back, everybody.
0:50.1	I am beyond grateful to have this special, special time with you all. And once again, I'm just so
0:59.9	honored that you're spending your precious time with me. I had a whole plan for today on what
1:06.4	I was going to speak about and I'm standing here or I'm actually laying down and it just came over me.
1:13.6	I'm like, I don't want to talk about that right now. I don't want to talk about that right now.
1:19.0	I want to just talk to you guys. I'm just going to flow here and just speak my mind and share with
1:26.7	you how I'm feeling.
1:28.7	So number one, what I think is so congruent with this sort of change of plan is this week's
1:36.6	I did a hard thing segment when I posted on the Facebook group.
1:41.6	It's a private Facebook group, CBT school campus.
1:45.3	It's free just for cool people who hang out and do hard things and are coming together to support each other as
1:50.7	other people do hard things. I posted, you know, tell me the hard thing you're doing and all the
1:55.3	things. And what was really cool is we had an influx of people sharing their difficulties with pregnancy,
2:03.4	which I'm sending my love out to all of you who are going through anything medical or anything
2:09.6	related to pain, physical discomfort, health and mental health, physical health, in whatever form.
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