This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 226.

Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is fueled 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 hug because experiencing anxiety ain't easy.

If that sounds good to you, let's go.

Welcome back everybody.

If you have health anxiety, hyperchondria, health anxiety disorder, or you know of somebody

who has health anxiety, you are going to love this episode. I mean love, love, love this episode.

Today we have Ken Goodman, who's on the show. He's a clinician who's here with his

patient and they're sharing a success story, a recovery story of health anxiety. And it is so good.

I am so honored to have both of them on. It was so fun to actually interview other people and the way they're

doing it and look at the steps that were taken in order to overcome health anxiety.

And this is the overcoming health anxiety story of all stories. It is so, so good. I'm not going to

waste your time going and telling you how good it is. I'm just

going to let you listen to it because I know you're here to get the good stuff. Before we do that,

I wanted to do the I did a hard thing. And this one is from Dave. It says I've been trying to get

back into meditating regularly.

I was sitting at a desk this morning, reviewing my work emails, and I told myself,

before I get even further in my day, I need to meditate.

I did a guided meditation, even though I felt a strong pull inside to go back to work. I kept getting caught up in my thoughts, but I just kept telling myself it doesn't need to be a perfect meditation. I said the goal today is

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