Ep. 106: Your Relationship with Anxiety
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Sarah Sarkis Talks About Anxiety Management and Your Relationship with Anxiety
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast. Today we have Dr. Sarah Sarkis on to talk about Your Relationship with Anxiety. Dr. Sarah Sarkis is a psychologist, writer, and performance consultant with a private practice in Honolulu, Hawaii (though it won’t take you long to discover she’s a Boston girl at heart). Her integrated approach is big on science, low on bullshit, empowering us to achieve long-term change and growth through an eclectic blend of psychology, neurobiology, and functional medicine.
Her blog, The Padded Room, is your virtual safe space to help you manage the jarring realities of life. There, you’ll find a soft landing for life’s harshest truths. You can find it at drsarahsarkis.com.
Addressing your relationship with anxiety might be one of the most important steps you take when it comes to your anxiety management. Dr. Sarah Sarkis beautifully shares how she approaches fear and how your relationship with anxiety can determine the degree of suffering around anxiety. She also addressed people’s conceptualization of “I cannot handle this” or “I cannot face this” when it comes to facing fears.
During this interview, we also addressed concepts around Optimum Performance and Dr. Sarkis’ experience in her practice with patients in this area. I am sure you will agree that changing your relationship with anxiety is a game changer when it comes to your mental health, and I am so excited to share this inspiring interview with you
For more information on Dr. Sarah Sarkis, visit:
Website: https://drsarahsarkis.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drsarahsarkis
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drsarahsarkis/
Lastly, the annual IOCDF conference is being coming up SO SOON! It will be held 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 106. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is |
| 0:16.4 | fueled by three main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage |
| 0:22.3 | your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And |
| 0:29.8 | number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, |
| 0:36.9 | because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. |
| 0:39.5 | If that sounds good to you, let's go. |
| 0:47.7 | Well, welcome back. |
| 0:50.8 | Holy smokes, you guys, you blow me away. |
| 0:56.7 | You know, I feel even just a bit emotional just talking to you guys and saying a very, very deep |
| 1:05.4 | thank you to the incredible feedback and response to last week's episode where I shared my own |
| 1:15.1 | experience with failure and medical issues and mental health. And I was really scared, |
| 1:22.1 | but was not expecting the amazing response. I really was not. I don't know what I was expecting, |
| 1:31.5 | but holy smokes, you guys. You blew me away with your kindness and your prayers and your thoughts |
| 1:38.2 | and your thank yous. And it seems like I hit a little bit of a chord for you guys, which makes me so |
| 1:45.9 | grateful and happy that you feel even more connected here in this safe space. So thank you, |
| 1:54.6 | thank you, thank you. I want to also really reiterate that it's not over and it's never really over. |
| 2:02.9 | And our recovery and our healing is a patient, patient practice. |
| 2:11.7 | And I never want you guys to, you know, there's so many people out there on social media and out there saying, |
| 2:19.3 | like, here are 10 things that will make your anxiety go away really fast. And the one thing you need |
| 2:24.3 | to do to make depression go away really fast. And every time I hear that, I cringe because it |
| 2:29.0 | keeps feeding this idea that it's supposed to go away really fast. And it gives us these |
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