Ep. 89: Five Common Mistakes We Make Managing 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

🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In today’s episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit, we are talking all about the 5 Mistakes We Make When Managing Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Depression, Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRB’s) and any other mental health struggle. This podcast episode got me all fired up and I loved sharing with you bite-sized concepts to consider and marinate on. My hope with this episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit is to help you identify the specific areas where you might be falling into the anxiety trap, and then find ways to manage anxiety more effectively and purposely. We talk about Mindset, Mindfulness and strategic skills you can practice just about anywhere.

As a Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in the treatment of Anxiety Disorders such as Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Social Anxiety, Health Anxiety, Eating Disorders and Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRB’s), I often see my clients engage in behaviors that prevent them from properly managing their anxiety. It is common for us to get stuck in compulsive and compensatory behaviors that cause us to continue to live in fear.

In today’s podcast, I go through the 5 Common Mistakes We Make When Managing Anxiety. Some of these points might surprise you. Others may not. This is not a list of the only mistakes we make. There are lots of ways we can get stuck in the turmoil of anxiety, intrusive thoughts, sensations, panic, urges, obsessions, and compulsions. Please note, that these are 5 mistakes I make when managing anxiety also. I don’t want anyone feeling like they are alone in this. I make these mistakes also. I think we all do, mostly because they are very easy traps to fall into when it comes to the management of anxiety, depression and other mental health issues.

I hope you find this helpful. Thank you to everyone who has left a review for the podcast. This is super helpful and increases our chances of getting really wonderful guests on the show.

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Forward we go,

Kimberley

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0:00.0	This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 89.
0:09.7	Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit.
0:12.4	I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan.
0:14.4	This podcast is fueled by three main goals.
0:17.8	The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your anxiety.
0:23.1	Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And number three,
0:30.1	and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, because experiencing
0:37.2	anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you, let's go.
0:45.8	Well, welcome back. I am so happy to be here today with you. It is a crazy rainy day here in California, which happens so
0:58.4	rarely. But I just sort of wanted to share that again with you because I know I always want to
1:04.7	try to get you guys to come back to the present. So I want you to sort of check in and ask yourself, what do I hear and what do I
1:12.9	see and what's really happening right now? And you know, you can probably hear my voice, but what do you
1:19.3	see and what do you smell? What do you taste? Come really, really present with the moment as we get
1:25.6	started in honoring your mental health. Because that's what we're
1:31.7	here for, right? Plus, we're here to have a little party, but we're mostly here for mental health.
1:37.2	We're here for mental wellness. We're here for mental support. And if that's why you're here,
1:42.4	welcome. You're in the right place. This is where we join forces
1:46.2	and we hold hands with other brave human beings like yourself and we support each other as we do
1:53.0	really, really hard things together. So today's podcast is a little spin. I was just sitting here thinking, you know, what do I want to talk
2:03.0	about? And I have a few really, really great interviews I want to share with you. But I felt really
2:08.6	called to speak with you about what we're talking about today, which is the five biggest mistakes
2:16.0	I see people making when they're managing their anxiety.
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