Ep. 37: Giving Yourself Permission To....

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

Self-improvement, Education, Anxietymindfulnessmeditation, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes we are so overwhelmed with all of the pressure (from work, friends, family, school, society) that we forget that the pressure we feel isn't always mandatory. We CAN give ourselves permission to drop the pressure and just BE. I know! This might sound super impossible, but hear me out. What would happen if you responded to the anxiety and pressure and stress with, "I give myself permission to eat whatever I wanted" "I give myself permission to have scary thoughts" (such as intrusive violent, sexual or scrupulous thoughts) "I give myself permission to not only have these scary thoughts but also not solve what they mean about me" "I give myself permission to allow this anxiety to be here" "I give myself permission to be imperfect" "I give myself permission to rest!" "I give myself permission to just be ME" This is some powerful stuff!

Giving yourself permission to listen to your body can be incredibly helpful when managing eating disorders (and disordered eating), Intrusive thoughts associated with Obsessive Compulsive (including harm, sexual, religious, contamination and symmetry obsessions to list a few), Social Anxiety, Perfectionism, low self-esteem and chronic anxiety and panic.

Listen to hear why this is such an important tool for managing anxiety and reducing the pressure we feel daily.

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0:00.0	This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 37.
0:10.3	Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is fueled by three main goals.
0:18.4	The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your anxiety.
0:23.6	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, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual
0:35.9	hug, because experiencing anxiety ain't easy.
0:39.4	If that sounds good to you, let's go.
0:47.9	Well, hello, welcome back.
0:49.8	I'm so thrilled to have you here.
0:52.2	You may notice that the intro has changed and that is because it's
0:55.8	been something I have really wanted to do for some time and I love it. I feel like it really
1:00.9	encapsulates exactly what I want this podcast to be. So I hope that that was a delightful new
1:08.2	beginning and inspired you as well. Today I wanted to talk with you about a concept
1:17.1	that is dear to my heart, which is the concept of giving myself and yourself permission to take care
1:27.2	of our bodies and to listen to our bodies.
1:31.0	But it's not just as simple as that. I really want to emphasize the word or the phrase,
1:38.4	I give myself permission to. And the reason that I do that is by starting a sentence with I give myself permission to. And the reason that I do that is by starting a sentence with I give myself permission
1:48.1	to, that can really shift our experience and it can really shift the way we treat ourselves
1:55.2	as we rest or take care of ourselves, apply self-care, do therapy, you know, work through our anxiety.
2:04.3	Let me share with you a story. This week, I was speaking with a client and he was telling me all
2:11.1	about the severe anxiety he has been experiencing and he attributed his anxiety to all the pressures that he's experiencing
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