This is Your Anxiety Toolkit episode number 154.

Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is filled by three

main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage

your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And

number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, because

experiencing anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you,

let's go. Well, welcome back everybody. Today is going to be fun and interesting. It is late on Sunday night.

It is Father's Day.

And my neighbors are having the party of all parties.

Yeah, it's, I don't think they really know about coronavirus and they're just going for it.

So if you hear them in the background,

they're celebrating and there's joy in the air and that's how I'm looking at it.

Okay, this is going to be a really, really great interview. We have the amazing Patricia Zerita

Oner. We call her Dr. Z because a lot of people have a hard time

pronouncing her name and I hope I didn't just kill it right here. And she's talking to us about

this really important question. And this is the question I get asked a lot. I get asked it a lot

from my clients, more than I do from social media followers. But this is the question I get asked a lot. I get asked it a lot from my clients, more than I do from social media followers.

But this is the question a lot of my patients and clients ask me.

They say, Kimberly, why would I want to face my fears?

Right?

And I don't blame them.

Why would I want to do this to myself? And she brings in some amazing

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