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

This episode explores the critical differences between suicidal OCD and real suicidal thoughts, featuring an interview with advocate Tracy Ibrahim to provide compassionate guidance and reduce stigma.

This episode features Michelle Massi discussing the importance of understanding core fears in OCD treatment, moving beyond traditional habituation models to address underlying anxieties.

This episode teaches three evidence-based self-compassion skills to retrain and silence your inner critic by understanding it as a protective mechanism rather than shutting it down.

This episode explores the overlap between anxiety and ADHD, discussing why misdiagnosis is common and how to understand these conditions with clarity and compassion.

This episode explores how OCD impacts relationships and provides guidance for partners on supporting their loved ones through recovery, featuring an interview with Christina who shares personal and professional insights.

This episode explores the rising rates of depression, attributing it to modern world changes, and provides practical, evidence-based skills to help manage it.

This episode clarifies common misconceptions about intrusive thoughts, explains their connection to OCD and anxiety, and provides practical strategies for managing them effectively.

This episode explores six ways social anxiety hinders personal growth and provides actionable strategies to overcome it, focusing on improving relationships and connections.

This episode provides practical tools and insights to help listeners understand and manage their fear of flying, focusing on underlying triggers and cognitive interpretations.

This episode provides a three-minute script to help listeners manage various forms of anxiety by shifting their mindset and daily approach.

This episode explains various OCD subtypes, introduces a new categorization based on recent research, and aims to help listeners feel less alone in their experiences with intrusive thoughts.

This episode explores the hidden struggles of high-functioning anxiety, where individuals appear successful externally but suffer internally with exhaustion and overwhelm, offering insights to break the cycle.

This episode introduces a 3-step plan to combat cyberchondria and health anxiety while promoting evidence-based CBT skills and a new course called Rumination Reset.

This episode is a personal check-in from the host, discussing new content and a course called the Rumination Reset to help with anxiety and overthinking.

This episode provides three practical steps to help individuals with OCD generalize their ERP skills when their OCD subtypes keep shifting, preventing them from feeling like they're starting over each time.

This episode explores six schedule habits that worsen anxiety and offers tactical strategies to manage time-related stress and improve productivity.

This episode explores why holiday anxiety intensifies and offers compassionate self-care strategies for managing mental health struggles during the holiday season.

This episode explores the differences and similarities between eating disorders and OCD, focusing on how understanding these distinctions impacts diagnosis and treatment for recovery.

This episode explores why the human brain focuses on worst-case scenarios due to negativity bias and discusses practical strategies to manage this tendency with therapist Emma McAdams.

This episode teaches listeners how to recognize and stop white-knuckling anxiety through practical exercises and understanding why it worsens symptoms.

This episode teaches listeners to stop treating anxious thoughts as facts and provides science-backed tools for managing anxiety, OCD, and panic.

A psychiatrist specializing in perinatal mental health discusses recent headlines about Tylenol, SSRIs, and autism risk during pregnancy to help listeners make informed decisions.

This episode provides 12 science-backed statements rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy and self-compassion to help listeners break cycles of self-blame and anxiety for lasting recovery.

This episode explores climate anxiety with author Sarah Jaquette Ray, discussing its definition, impact on mental health, and strategies to transform it into resilience and meaningful action.

This episode features a discussion with Chris Tronsden exploring the differences between body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), body image issues, OCD, eating disorders, and gender dysphoria, aimed at helping clinicians and sufferers understand and differentiate these conditions.

This episode features an interview with expert Chris Trondsen discussing body dysmorphic disorder, including insights on what helps and worsens it, and the launch of new training courses for clinicians and sufferers.

This episode features an interview with Emily and Lindsay Stetzer, co-founders of Presently, who share their personal experiences with OCD and anxiety, discussing practical tools and skills based on CBT and mindfulness principles.

This episode teaches mindfulness exercises specifically designed to support OCD recovery, focusing on practical skills to manage overwhelming feelings and avoid common pitfalls.

This episode provides practical strategies for managing anxiety when dealing with toxic people in various relationships, focusing on boundary-setting, emotional regulation, and self-care.

This episode teaches evidence-based strategies for forgiving yourself and practicing self-compassion when dealing with OCD-related intrusive thoughts, shame, and guilt.

This episode explains the differences between ARFID and OCD when it comes to food-related anxiety, helping listeners identify the correct condition for proper treatment.

This episode introduces a discussion on making exposures more enjoyable in cognitive behavioral therapy, while also promoting the host's new course on rumination and sharing updates about her practice and content plans.

This episode identifies three common lies that depression tells individuals and provides practical tools and treatment components to help overcome them, emphasizing self-compassion as a foundational approach.

The host introduces a new course called Rumination Reset while discussing her focus on providing evidence-based skills for managing social anxiety and mental health challenges.

This episode teaches listeners how to create an exposure and response prevention (ERP) plan for anxiety disorders like OCD without a therapist, addressing common challenges and providing practical steps.

This episode explores how changing your relationship with anxiety from hatred to acceptance can reduce suffering and offers compassionate strategies for managing it.

This episode teaches cognitive defusion techniques to help listeners detach from intrusive thoughts and manage anxiety using evidence-based psychological tools.

A therapist explains whether mindfulness or distraction techniques are more effective for managing anxiety and panic by breaking down the anxiety cycle.

This episode features an interview with Dr.

This episode outlines five science-backed mental health priorities for achieving a calmer and stronger mindset in 2026, focusing on anxiety management tools and intentional self-improvement.

This episode explores whether it's possible to recover from OCD without therapy, discussing the pros and cons of therapy versus online courses to help listeners make informed decisions about their treatment options.

This episode features OCD specialist Lauren Rosen discussing how to stop engaging in mental compulsions for OCD, including insights from her upcoming book and the evolution of understanding this aspect of the disorder.

This episode features former US Navy SEAL Rich Diviney discussing how to master uncertainty by applying high-stakes military training techniques to everyday life and anxiety management.

This episode explains why people overthink as a protective mechanism against emotions like regret and fear, and introduces strategies to stop this cycle to overcome anxiety.

This episode explores how OCD manifests during pregnancy stages, featuring expert Erin Jones discussing evidence-based support with compassion.

This episode features an interview with Lydia Davies about her inspiring journey of recovery from OCD, including her diagnosis, treatment, and the tools that helped her overcome various symptoms.

Kimberley Quinlan interviews OCD specialist Max Maisel about sensorimotor OCD, a rarely discussed subtype where individuals become hyper-aware of bodily processes like breathing or blinking, leading to significant anxiety.

Kimberley Quinlan opens with a calming breath exercise and personal check-in, then shares her experience speaking at the Southern California OCD Conference, highlighting the support and tools provided to attendees, including those newly diagnosed with OCD.

This episode provides practical tools and a fundamental mindset change to help calm anxious thoughts and improve sleep quality for those struggling with bedtime anxiety.

Kimberley Quinlan interviews Dr.

This episode explains why people freeze in social situations due to anxiety and provides scripts to resume conversations.

The host checks in with listeners and promotes a new course on stopping rumination, emphasizing science-based skills for anxiety and OCD.

This episode explains hidden triggers of panic attacks and provides practical skills to manage them.

Interview with Dr.

Kimberley Quinlan interviews relationship therapist Elizabeth Earnshaw about overcoming fears of finding true love and managing dating anxiety.

Host Kimberley Quinlan interviews Mike Steer about five key insights for understanding and recovering from health anxiety.

Host Kimberley Quinlan interviews child anxiety expert Natasha Daniels about helping kids with OCD through fun and engaging exposure therapy.

An interview with Dr.

Host Kimberley Quinlan interviews Justin Hughes about the role of faith in anxiety and OCD recovery.

Host Kimberley Quinlan interviews Justin Hughes about the role of faith in anxiety and OCD recovery.

Jon Hershfield explains why unwanted violent thoughts become OCD when people feel morally obligated to neutralize them.

Hayes argues that trying to control intrusive thoughts makes them more important, not less.

Ethan Smith explains why OCD follows you, yet ERP gives your brain tools to live a fulfilled life.