This is Your Anxiety Toolkit episode number 310.

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. Welcome back, everybody. We are at episode 310. I just recorded it as 210, and I'm still in shock that we have hit 310 episodes.

I recorded it and then I was like, hang on a second, that doesn't sound right. And it wasn't.

And that still shocks me to this day. All right, today we are talking about a very important topic, which is guilt and regret.

And I've called this episode, guilt and regret, the most misunderstood obsessions.

And I believe that to be true because a whole bunch of you are walking around wondering whether you have OCD or not because a lot of what you hear is that

OCD is all about anxiety and uncertainty. But what about the folks who don't have a lot of

anxiety and a lot of uncertainty, but they're having obsessive guilt and obsessive regret in the

form of OCD guilt and OCD regret? So I wanted to talk about that today. Before we do so, let's quickly

do the I did a hard thing segment. For those of you who are new, this is where listeners and

followers share the hard thing that they've done. Why do I do this? Because so often you guys

forget that just because your hard thing is hard for you

doesn't mean there's anything wrong with that. I want you to see that hard things are hard

things and we should celebrate them and we should share them and this is a platform I want to

do that with. So this one is from Mars and Mars said after many

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