Overcoming Health Anxiety with an Expert
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
Caroline Foran
4.4 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This is one of the hardest areas of anxiety to get on top of: health anxiety. Whether it's general health anxiety where you're prone to spiralling about what could or might go wrong with your health, or you suffer with OCD or body related conditions such as Trichotillomania, this episode is probably the most helpful thing you could listen to. With anxiety expert and CBT therapist Kimberley Quinlan (she's huge on Instagram here), we go through it all, if it can be overcome and how to manage something that feels so all consuming. We also talk about self compassion and how to get it right. Sign up to my Substack Substack, with 20% off forever at this link.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to Owning It. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. |
| 0:08.0 | If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. |
| 0:13.0 | Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolineforin.substack.com. |
| 0:18.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:20.2 | Hello, dear listener and welcome to another expert episode |
| 0:23.1 | of owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin. This week I am joined by Kimberly |
| 0:28.5 | Quinlan. She's a CBT specialist and qualified therapist working out of California. |
| 0:33.5 | Mostly with OCD, phobias and other body-focused conditions such as hair pulling, all of which have their roots in anxiety. |
| 0:40.7 | Her experience is outstanding and it's no wonder she's amassed such a huge following on her Instagram with her page Your Anxiety Toolkit. |
| 0:49.1 | Here we hone in on health anxiety, which is a huge and overwhelming area of anxiety for so many of us. |
| 0:54.8 | We also touch on OCD, if it can actually be overcome. Yes, it can. And how to get self-compassion |
| 1:00.1 | right. It's such a good one. I'd love to direct you once again to my Substack where you can |
| 1:04.1 | enjoy my writing. You will find me at carolineforen.substack.com. And in the meantime, enjoy this |
| 1:10.2 | super helpful episode. |
| 1:12.9 | Thank you so much for joining me on owning it the anxiety podcast. It's such a pleasure to have |
| 1:17.8 | you. Of course. It's a pleasure, really it is. To start with, can you just give me a little |
| 1:22.2 | overview about the ways in which you work with people and how you help them with anxiety in particular and any |
| 1:28.2 | areas of focus that you have? Sure. So I consider myself an anxiety specialist. I also |
| 1:35.8 | specialize in obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive related disorders. So health |
| 1:42.3 | anxiety, social anxiety, hair pulling, skin picking, panic disorder, |
| 1:46.7 | phobias, these are sort of all in my wheelhouse. I am a cognitive behavioral therapist, |
| 1:52.2 | but I place a heavy emphasis on mindfulness and compassion, really as a part of the program and a part of treatment, because I believe |
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