Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression

In this episode, I talk about something that I believe is incredibly important for anyone struggling with OCD, anxiety, or intrusive thoughts: learning how to experience joy even when uncomfortable thoughts and feelings are present.

Experiencing a setback in anxiety recovery can feel incredibly discouraging, but today I want to show you how to navigate those difficult moments with self-compassion, curiosity, and practical strategies that help you keep moving forward.

In this episode, I sit down with Brandy Wyant to talk about limerence, an experience that involves becoming obsessively focused on someone who is unavailable or inaccessible in some way.

Feeling overwhelmed? In this episode, I'm sharing a simple, research-backed, three-step self-compassion exercise to help you quiet your inner critic, navigate difficult emotions, and find the courage to keep going, even when things feel hard.

In this episode, I talk about one of the most important skills for anxiety recovery: non-judgment.

In this episode, I'm sharing why pushing through anxiety and facing your fears might not be helping as much as you'd hoped, and one simple shift that can make a big difference in your anxiety recovery.

In this episode, I talk about one of the trickiest questions people with anxiety face: How do you know whether something is anxiety or intuition? Sometimes anxiety can disguise itself as a gut feeling or a warning that something bad is about to happen, making it difficult to know whether to trust what you're feeling.

In this episode, I'm talking about why anxiety can make you feel like you're losing your mind, why experiences like derealization, depersonalization, panic, and OCD can make that fear feel so convincing, and what you can do when it happens.

In this episode, I talk about what it really means to create a sense of safety within your own body.

In this episode, I'm joined by Aneela Idnani to explore hair pulling, skin picking, and other BFRBs, and how understanding what's underneath the urge can help us respond with more awareness, compassion, and choice.

In this episode, I talk about what to do when your head hits the pillow but your brain suddenly seems to get louder.

In this episode, I'm talking about the pressure we put on ourselves, how all of those "shoulds" and imaginary timelines can fuel anxiety, and how we can still chase big goals without tying our worth to the outcome.

In this episode, I talk about something I hear from clients almost every day: "I don't feel good enough."

In this episode, I'm breaking down what intrusive thoughts actually say about you, why certain thoughts can feel so threatening to your identity, and how to stop getting pulled into analyzing, proving, and solving them.

In this episode, I talk about how mindfulness doesn't have to mean sitting quietly for 20 minutes or somehow reaching a perfectly calm state.

In this episode, I'm breaking down the cycle of depression and sharing three practical, research-backed skills to help you recognize the pattern, interrupt it, and begin reconnecting with your life.

In this episode, I walk you through what to do when you're in the middle of a panic attack. I explain what is happening inside your body and why symptoms like a racing heart, dizziness, shortness of breath, nausea, shaking, or feeling disconnected can feel so frightening.

In this episode, I'm breaking down what Pure OCD really is, why mental compulsions are so often missed, and how you can begin changing your response to intrusive thoughts and rumination.

In this episode, I talk about why intrusive thoughts can feel so terrifying and what actually keeps us afraid of them.

In this episode, I'm exploring the binge eating cycle, why restriction and shame can keep it going, and how self-compassion, emotional acceptance, and rebuilding trust with food and your body can support recovery.