Ep. 156: Taking a Break
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit. I wanted to take some time today to let you know that I am going to be taking a break.
I am going to take a couple of months off to heal, to replenish, to restore and to rest. I want to share with you how I came to this decision about taking a break because I am wondering if you may be struggling with the same feelings.
Over the past several months, I have found that I have not been slowing down enough to replenish. I haven't been listening to my body which has been saying to me "rest, please take some time." What has been so hard for me and may be hard for some of you as well, were the feelings I had that "I should be able to handle all of this and I'm weak if I can't." I was really judging myself for having those feelings. When I finally stopped and accepted that my body was trying to tell me something, I was able to recognize that now more than ever, my body, as wise as it always is, was telling me to slow down and take more time.
So I want to ask you all to check-in with yourself and do a quick assessment to really connect with your needs. What your body is telling you? We are in such difficult times right now. There is so much uncertainty and anxiety which can take a tremendous toll on the body. Now more than ever it is so important to recognize the importance of taking care of ourselves.
So what can we do to begin taking care of ourselves? We can take a deep breath. We can bring validation and recognition to all of our feelings and then we can give ourselves exactly what we need. If that means eating a brownie, or having a good cry or taking a break. I hope you will stop and honor your body and give it what it needs at this time.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit episode number 156, but I consider it 157 because I just recorded 156 and it wasn't recording. |
| 0:14.0 | So technically it still is 156, but there you go. |
| 0:24.6 | Well, but there you go. Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. |
| 0:28.6 | This podcast is fueled by three main goals. |
| 0:31.6 | The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools |
| 0:34.6 | to help you manage your anxiety. |
| 0:39.8 | Second goal, to inspire you. |
| 0:43.2 | Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. |
| 0:46.3 | And number three, and I leave the best for last, |
| 0:50.5 | is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. |
| 0:53.6 | If that sounds good to you, let's go. Welcome back, guys. |
| 1:03.1 | Okay, round two, let's do this one more time. Oh my goodness. So, as I just mentioned, I just |
| 1:10.0 | did a whole recording, realized I didn't press record. |
| 1:13.0 | And so here we are again. But it's probably for the best because my thoughts are pretty streamlined |
| 1:18.4 | now. I know what I want to say. Okay. I am going to take a break. I know a lot of you know this. |
| 1:25.7 | I'm going to take a couple of months off to heal and to replenish and to restore and to rest and to open up to be a receiver of the things I |
| 1:39.8 | haven't been able to be a receiver of. And so that's where I came to this decision. And I really wanted to |
| 1:45.8 | share this with you today because I wondered if it's probably something you might want to consider |
| 1:51.3 | doing too, not regarding taking a break, but having this conversation with yourself about the |
| 1:58.1 | in-breath versus the out-breath. Now, let me explain. Number one, we are constantly |
| 2:07.2 | taking on people's stuff. You're probably worrying about what people think of you. You're |
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