Ep. 137: Travel is the Best ERP (with Gilad Gamliel)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit. Today we are talking about how travel is the best ERP and how you can use travel to help conquer your fears. Today we are joined by Gilad Gamliel from the popular blog, www.overthinkerspassport.com.
In this episode, Gilad Gamliel discusses how travel can be the best ERP especially for those who struggle with anxiety, panic and obsessive compulsive disorder. Gilad is 27 years old and has health anxiety and OCD. He shares how OCD and anxiety tried to confine him and keep him living a small and "safe" life, but for some reason, he was pulled towards taking a leap and trying travel. Gilad shares that he originally thought "travel just isn't for me" because his anxiety was so bad. However, Gilad found there have been many positives to come out of his experience traveling. In this episode, he shares why someone should travel and the benefits of traveling with anxiety. He also shares many special tips for traveling with anxiety and OCD.
Some of the tips he shares are:
1. Step back to get perspective.
2. Remember that this travel experience is temporary and not permanent.
3. Focus on the present and engage with your surroundings.
4. Take note that there are many things happening that you have never seen.
5. Use technology to help build a support system from home.
6. Ask other travelers for advice. You will find that they may want companionship also.
7. You can do this, even with anxiety. You can bring anxiety with you and learn that anxiety doesn't have to ruin everything for you as you travel and experience the world.
Website: https://www.overthinkerspassport.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/gil.ad.ventures
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/overthinkerspassport
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 137. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is fueled by three |
| 0:17.2 | main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools |
| 0:21.3 | to help you manage your anxiety. |
| 0:23.7 | Second goal, to inspire you. |
| 0:26.2 | Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. |
| 0:29.5 | And number three, and I leave the best for last, |
| 0:32.5 | is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug |
| 0:36.9 | because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. |
| 0:39.4 | If that sounds good to you, let's go. |
| 0:46.6 | Welcome back, everybody. |
| 0:49.2 | Oh my goodness. |
| 0:50.4 | So thrilled to have you here with me today. |
| 0:53.8 | I am pretty kind of inspired by this episode. I'm so excited to share this with you. And the reason I'm so, there's multiple reasons why. But the one question I have for you is, is there something you really want to do by anxiety is holding you |
| 1:14.8 | back? Is there, you know, a place you want to go, a thing you want to try? Like, where is anxiety |
| 1:22.7 | getting in your way? If you can answer that, I think you're going to love, love, love this episode. |
| 1:29.7 | Because today we have the amazing Gilad Gamliel and he is a blogger and his whole mission is to help |
| 1:38.9 | people with anxiety to manage their anxiety while they travel and to be inspired to travel, even though you have |
| 1:48.3 | anxiety, you're just going to bring it along with you. |
| 1:50.9 | And he tells this beautiful story. |
| 1:52.9 | Actually, he tells many, many awesome stories about how he did that and the many, many |
| 1:59.2 | countries that he has visited and the many, many scenarios |
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