Ep. 143: You Can Do Hard Things
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit. Today I want to remind you that you can do hard things!
In this episode, I spend some time talking with you about how important it is to validate all the feelings you are experiencing during this difficult time. With so much going on around the world, there are so many emotions, so many feelings. And I think that we sometimes forget to stop and say, "Wow, this is hard for me," or "Oh, this is a moment of real suffering and struggle for me," or "I'm noticing I'm having a lot of anxiety." It is so important to make space for all those feelings. To acknowledge and validate those feelings and to create a safe place for those emotions to be there as this event rises and falls.
In this episode, I share with you all a little bit about how I am working to validate my own emotions when I am having moments that are difficult. The most important thing I want you all to take away from this episode and to remember during this very, very difficult time is: "It's a beautiful day to do hard things," and you are doing hard things. You were already doing hard things before this happened, right? But every time it gets a little harder, you realize how much stronger you are. Sending so much love to you all!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 143. |
| 0:10.9 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is |
| 0:16.9 | fueled by three main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools |
| 0:21.9 | to help you manage your anxiety. |
| 0:24.3 | Second goal, to inspire you. |
| 0:26.9 | Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. |
| 0:30.3 | And number three, and I leave the best for last, |
| 0:33.1 | is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug |
| 0:37.1 | because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. |
| 0:40.1 | If that sounds good to you, let's go. |
| 0:47.8 | Well, welcome back. |
| 0:49.6 | We are on week three of the coronavirus COVID-19 self-quarantine. |
| 0:58.0 | Actually, we have safety in place here in Los Angeles. |
| 1:02.5 | And how are you guys doing? |
| 1:05.4 | I know it's really hard for so many reasons. |
| 1:09.5 | For so many reasons. You know, I'll tell you exactly where I am |
| 1:15.3 | just so you can picture it. I have had to create an office space because I'm realizing, well, |
| 1:22.2 | I realized a week ago that this is going to happen for a while. And so my husband and I set up this special little area |
| 1:29.8 | in our game room. And I have my painting and my lamp and my desk and my chair from my office. And it |
| 1:38.7 | feels like home. And it is home because I am home. But it just feels so, so different. So I'm sitting here right now. |
| 1:49.0 | It is almost 10 o'clock at night. I have finally gotten here to record this episode. And I'm just |
| 1:58.3 | thinking of you guys. I've been thinking of you guys all week and just wanting to reach out and be like, hey, |
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