If you are managing the buildup of anxiety and uncertainty and then you kind of explode,

this is going to be the episode for you.

My name is Kimberly Quinlan.

I am an anxiety specialist and an OCD specialist, and I help people overcome these conditions. I help them learn new strategies and skills and how to be the most effective, compassionate version of themselves so that they have a long-term recovery plan.

Today we actually have a question that was written in from one of our students. So if you don't know,

we have a lot of online courses for different conditions, different disorders to help teach you

exactly how to create a step-by-step plan so that you can create this plan and go ahead and

move in that direction all by yourselves. And sometimes we get

really great questions. And I do my best to answer them as well as I can. But this one

specifically spoke to me. And I felt like I wanted to talk to everybody and really address this

because my guess is we're all dealing with this in some way or another.

So today we're going to talk about managing the build up of uncertainty and anxiety.

Let's go.

Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit.

I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is fueled by three main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your anxiety.

Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And number three, and I leave the best

for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, because experiencing anxiety ain't easy.

If that sounds good to you, let's go.

Okay, so here is the question, and I'm going to read it directly.

They said, I have a question about accepting discomfort and uncertainty. I often find myself building up this uncertainty in my body while I ignore the temptation to do compulsions and seek security.

So number one, yay. This is exactly what we teach in all of our courses. We talk about not running

away from fear, not running away from our motions. We really talk about the importance of allowing that

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