Kimberley Quinlan: "Can You Be 'Happy' and 'Anxious' at the Same Time? Realistic Tools to Help You Live a Fulfilling Life Even With Anxiety"

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In our pursuit to find happiness, we may think we have to be anxiety-free. What if that weren't the case? In this eye-opening session, therapist Kimberley Quinlan shares why embracing anxiety—rather than fighting it—can actually empower moms to live more fully in the here and now. Discover the surprising reason anxiety exists, how to break free from self-judgment, and ways you can feel both anxious and happy at the same time. If you’re ready to let go of perfection and find fulfillment in the messiness of motherhood, this conversation will change the way you think about your own “hard things" and show up in a new way. Get the Basic Pass to watch and/or read each speaker session for free through Sunday, October 12th. Upgrade to the All-Access Pass for ad-free listening on a private podcast feed, + lifetime access to all content visual, audio, and written. FREEBIE for all: Anxiety Top Hits Playlist BONUS raffled off to All-Access Pass Holders: Self-Compassion Worksheets Kimberley Quinlan is a licensed marriage and family therapist in the state of California and the founder of CBTschool.com, an online mental health education platform. Specializing in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, and body-focused repetitive behaviors, she provides one-on-one treatment and online courses for those who are struggling in these areas. Kimberley is the author of The Self-Compassion Workbook for OCD and the host of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast, a podcast listed by The New York Times as one of the top 6 podcasts to calm your anxious mind, provides compassionate, science-based based tools for anxiety, OCD, depression, and BFRB’s. FOLLOW ON IG PODCAST WEBSITE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Monica Packer. What you're about to hear is a session from my five-day online event going on right now,
0:06.2	The More for Mom's Conference. This event is for the mom who is ready for more in her happiness,
0:11.9	habits, health, home, and hobbies. Audio versions of each speaker session will only be available
0:17.1	on the public about progress feed through Sunday, October 12th. For ad-free video and
0:22.1	audio versions of all content, be sure to sign up for the basic or all-access pass before the
0:27.4	conference ends on October 12th. You can do so at aboutprogress.com slash more for moms. Now
0:33.4	on to our special session.
0:43.5	Thank you. Now on to our special session. Kimberly Quinlan, welcome to the more for moms conference.
0:46.7	Thank you so much for having me.
0:48.8	It really is an honor to have you.
0:50.2	I was so pleased when you said yes because you are my go-to for anything, honestly,
0:56.0	mental health, but especially anxiety. And I think this topic is so timely for the moms who are
1:01.1	listening and anxiety is a real issue for a lot of moms. And we're going to talk about that.
1:06.2	But first, I wanted to mention that you talk about anxiety in different ways, ways that I find empowering and freeing, namely that you teach the goal isn't to be 100% anxiety free.
1:18.0	Like that actually isn't the goal.
1:20.2	So what is the goal then?
1:22.5	And how can that help them actually deal with anxiety differently and better?
1:27.2	Sure. So there are going to be seasons as a mom. I'm a mom myself of a teen and a almost middle
1:33.6	schooler. There are going to be seasons where your anxiety is going to be high. There are
1:39.8	going to be seasons where it's not high. And so we don't want the goal to be no anxiety at all. And we can
1:46.0	talk about why that is. But what we want to do instead is we want to shift the attention away from
1:53.6	how can I, you know, take anxiety out of my life and instead have it to be if and when it shows up,
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