Ep. 46: How To Improve Your Relationship With Anxiety

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

🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In This Episode, We Are Going To Get Creative

Relationship with Anxiety, Therapy, CBT, OCD, ERP, Calabasas, Thousand Oaks

Are you guys friends? You know. You, and Anxiety. Do you guys yell at each other? Or, do you talk between yourselves in a respectful and considerate manner? This episode is all about your relationship with anxiety. Does Anxiety manipulate you into behaviors you don't want to engage in? Or, do you hold your ground when anxiety is trying to get its way? These questions might help you to determine what kind of relationship you have with the anxiety in your life. This is a really important question and a conversation that we must continually have with ourselves. Do you have a good relationship with anxiety? In today's podcast episode, we talk about How to Improve Your Relationship with Anxiety. This includes how you talk with yourself, how you react to your anxiety and what your expectations are about its presence in your life. You guys know how much I LOVE a good metaphor. Well, this week's podcast is one BIG metaphor on how to build a better relationship with your anxiety, depression, emotions, and sensations. My goal is to give you a visual for managing and tolerating discomfort. In this episode, I also address setting boundaries with anxiety and depression but creating a relationship with anxiety AND depression. I can't wait to hear whether this is helpful for you. I find it incredibly helpful. Enjoy! Click HERE to join our free FACEBOOK GROUP, CBT SCHOOL CAMPUS Click HERE to learn more about CBT Schools Mindfulness for OCD E-course Click HERE to learn more about CBT Schools e-course for Hair Pulling and Skin Picking, BFRB School

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0:00.0	This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 46.
0:09.5	Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit.
0:12.1	I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan.
0:14.2	This podcast is fueled by three main goals.
0:17.6	The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your anxiety.
0:22.8	Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And number
0:29.1	three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, because
0:36.2	experiencing anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you, let's go.
0:44.8	Well, welcome back. So thrilled to have you with us today. I today wanted to share with you a metaphor that I use with clients on how to
0:59.5	build a better relationship with your anxiety. Now, this is a hard topic because I'm always telling you,
1:07.2	you know, invite your discomfort, allow your discomfort, make space for your discomfort,
1:12.6	allow it to be there. And often I'll get questions or emails saying, but how? What does that
1:19.6	look like? And so let me give you a visual and maybe this will help you to see how it would play
1:27.3	out. So I want you to imagine that you are home
1:31.1	with your family and you're all sitting on the couch and ding dong the bell rings, right? And so you get up
1:40.5	and you go to the door and you open the door and as you open the door it's anxiety right there
1:47.6	it is it's there at the front door and it's dirty as anything it's got mud all over it and he looks a little
1:55.4	mischievous okay how you respond to anxiety as it comes to the door is how you would respond to anxiety in your
2:08.5	brain. Okay. So if you open the door, you recognized it was anxiety and you slam the door in
2:14.9	its face, that's not a good relationship with anxiety, right? We could say
2:20.8	you're a terrible host. You're not a good neighbor to anxiety, right? Now, what I want you to do to
2:29.0	add to this metaphor is I want you to imagine that your niece or your child, someone around the age of four,
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