Help! I’ve Fallen Into A Thought Trap with Morra Aarons-Mele

Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness

Kim Holderness

Holderness Podcast, Self-improvement, Parenting, 40s, Laugh Line, Gen X, Penn Holderness, Laugh Lines, The Laugh Line, 50s, Kim Holderness, Aging, Getting Older, Humor, The Holderness Family, Marriage, Education

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Imagine you are headed into your first day at a new job. You walk in the door and suddenly your mind is overwhelmed with thoughts: Nobody likes me. I’m a fraud. I’m dumb. I don’t belong here. Suddenly, you are catastrophizing. Congratulations, you are in a thought trap.

Thoughts traps happen to all of us, but anxious people the most. I knew immediately I needed to know more about what was happening to me, so we got in touch with author Morra Aarons-Mele. Morra recently wrote in the Harvard Business Review about thoughts traps…and how to make anxiety your superpower. She hosts the award-winning podcast The Anxious Achiever, and has written two books: Hiding in the Bathroom: How To Get Out There (When You'd Rather Stay Home) and The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower.

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Kim and Penn are online content creators known for their award-winning videos, including original music, song parodies, and comedy sketches. Their videos have resulted in over 2 billion views and 8 million followers across their social media platforms since they (accidentally) went viral in 2013. They have a best-selling book on marriage communication, a top-rated podcast, a fun-filled family card game, and most recently, they were the winners on Season 33 of The Amazing Race. Through their comedy, they tackle topics like living with ADHD and anxiety. Penn and Kim have been married for 18 years. They live in Raleigh, NC with their children, Lola and Penn Charles, and their dog, Sunny.

The Holderness Family Podcast is edited and engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media and produced by Ann Marie Taepke, Sam Pressman, and Ashley Cimino.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm Kim Holderness.
0:05.5	And I'm Chip Holderness and welcome to the Holderness Family Podcast.
0:08.8	You just knocked over his coffee cup there.
0:11.5	Yes, you're going to meet Chip here in a second.
0:13.8	It's my new persona and I am loving it.
0:16.2	Oh my gosh, Chip Persona.
0:18.7	We had an amazing guest on today and you'll hear all about Chip.
0:23.0	She talked all about thod traps, the superpower and the good stuff that comes with
0:29.8	anxiety and yeah, it was super helpful.
0:33.4	We're going to get to that in a second.
0:34.4	I'm also going to tell you why I felt like I was in a room with two Kim's, which was
0:37.7	actually like kind of great.
0:39.0	I love having two Kim's around.
0:40.8	But just like a little bit of quick housekeeping, it is May, December.
0:45.1	We are in May, December, honey.
0:46.9	Yes.
0:47.9	It is, it's almost Mother's Day.
0:50.1	May, December is what apparently we invented the term, even though I know we didn't.
0:55.7	We did not.
0:56.7	But if you Google May, December, it's like all of our stuff that we've done in the last
0:58.9	couple of years.
0:59.9	It's that month where you feel like you have as many things to do as you did in Christmas
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