Hey guys, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about another cognitive distortion. Um, I know I've gone over several of these in previous videos. So if you haven't seen those, um, a cognitive distortion is basically a a thinking trap or a thinking air.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about the five stages of grief. Um I felt that this was a fitting topic for this week's video because just last week I lost a friend of mine to ovarian cancer. She's someone I've known since middle school and it really rattled the community in which I grew up because it was, it was pretty sudden.

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Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about a couple of concepts relating to emotional intelligence and self awareness. So sometimes my clients have kind of a hard time identifying either how they're feeling or where some of their anxiety is coming from.

Hi everyone, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about managing expectations. I know I've touched on this idea in some previous videos, but it's so important that I really wanted to dedicate an entire video to discussing this because I think it's at the root of um a lot of the anxiety that we experience.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist, thanks for checking out my blog today. I'm going to be talking about the scarcity versus abundance mindset and this is a concept that was first coined by Stephen Covey who wrote the seven habits of highly effective people. I'm actually reading that now and it's pretty interesting, so I'd recommend checking it out if you haven't already.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, thanks for checking out my vlog today, I'm going to be talking about self compassion. Um this is a concept that is really challenging for a lot of people, a lot of my clients find this difficult because they tend to be very self critical. Um they kind of fixate on their disappointments or failures or things that they perceive they're lacking in.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist, thanks for checking out my vlog today, I'm going to be talking about the concept of right versus wrong. So this is another kind of thinking trap or thinking air that we can find ourselves in um that we often use cognitive behavioral therapy to address.

Hey everyone. I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about serotonin um and how that is linked to anxiety. So if you're not familiar with what serotonin is, it's a neurotransmitter which basically just means that it's a chemical in our brain that transmits signals from one part of our brain to another and it sort of acts as this um natural mood stabilizer.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, thanks for checking out my vlog this week um today I'm going to be demystifying psychotherapy for you. I think there are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to um psychotherapy or therapy, they're kind of used interchangeably. Um and you know with those misconceptions it's it's sort of perpetuates the stigma surrounding therapy in general.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, thanks for checking out my blog today, I'm going to be talking about the growth mindset versus the fixed mindset and this was a concept first researched by Carol Dweck and it's gained a lot of momentum and has been used in business practices, the olympics, the NBA, etcetera.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about a psychological concept called the paradox of choice and this is the idea that the more options or choices we have, the less satisfied we tend to be with what we choose. And this comes from being afraid of missing out on the choices that we forfeited and constantly thinking about whether there's something better out there or you know, whether something else would have been a better fit or were more suitable for us and with the internet nowadays, I mean that can become such a black hole where you know, we're shopping online for something and there are ads and then one link leads to another link and all of a sudden we spend four hours shopping for a lamp.