My name is Kimberly Quinlan and this is Your Anxiety Toolkit podcast.

It is October, almost Halloween, so I always sort of joke about how one month of the year

we try to get scared and the rest of the months we try to avoid being scared.

But that's a silly joke.

I wanted this podcast to be a little bit different, mainly because I've received some questions from people just who have been listening to the podcast and wanted

to me to answer some specific questions. And then I also opened up the social media platform to see

if anyone had additional questions. So the format of this podcast, as you all know, is really for

it just to be a mindfulness podcast for people who suffer anxiety and other mental health issues.

And so I'm so pleased that people are feeling that that's helpful for them

and that they had some wonderful questions.

Before I get started, I am really loving for those of you who have written some reviews

about the podcast in iTunes.

My intention is just to offer a place where we can all come together and be mindful and

learn about mindfulness and really just air out some very normal mental health struggles

that I think we all have.

So if it's helpful for you and you would like to, please do

leave a review. It's funny because even me asking an offering for you to leave a review,

it really brings up my own fear about whether people think negatively against me for that

or maybe they think that I'm trying to reach my own personal

gains by asking people to leave a review. And that's so interesting to me because isn't that

just so true of what fear does? Fear will hijack the very good intention we have and take over and often will make us not carry through

with that intention. So I just wanted to share that because I think we all go through that

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