Hi guys welcome back to the preview alliance podcast this is Sarah and

Whitney and we are so excited with we have one of our let's see advocate

mental health author author, mom, her book, Lily Special Toolbox, Courtney Montgomery, is with us.

Welcome, Courtney.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm so excited to meet you guys. We are so happy to have to you. much for our

our listeners that maybe you're new can you get them to like a brief intro about you

and they will dive right into your wonderful book.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I've lifelong anxiety suffer and then once becoming a mother,

it intensified more than I ever imagined.

I started seeing some symptoms in my little six-year-old.

And so after COVID with the more demand for therapist

and not as many available as we needed. I got frustrated one day and decided to write a book that I wish I would have had when I was little because my daughter loved it and so got it published and then started

in Instagram where I just started sharing my struggles and it's been the most rewarding experience so far of my entire life.

So just a mom of two.

I also have a little boy, a full-time employee as well, so juggling a lot, but but yeah just very happy to be here. We love that.

That's just you're able to use that hardship and then educate and advocate for so many because we know we're not alone.

Well I felt alone until I did this.

I felt like no one ever understood and as someone who struggled my whole life with anxiety

I did not realize my anxiety once I became a mother I mean I don't know if you wanted me to already start going to it or

this is a conversation. Yeah awesome. Yeah so when I had my daughter when I was pregnant I of course had the

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