Hey guys, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be sharing some information about the availability heuristic. This is a concept that I teach about in my social psychology class and it's basically just a fancy way of referring to a mental shortcut that we take.

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Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about mental trick that you can use in order to stop yourself from overthinking and to stop caring about things that you will eventually forget. So things that are, that seem kind of anxiety provoking today, but in the grand scheme of things are pretty inconsequential and a lot of times with anxiety, we do have a difficulty accepting things that are out of our control, but a lot of where anxiety stems from is sort of self inflicted, so we kind of trap ourselves with these thinking styles that we're unaware of, and that happened automatically, but once we create more awareness about them and sort of pay attention to what's happening, we can start to shift those thought patterns and so this is one technique that you can use to do that, and it's called the 5x5 rule.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about greeting your anxiety with the four R's. We often like to attempt to avoid anxiety and that doesn't really work out so well, so the point of this exercise is to um create some distance between ourselves and that anxiety spiral and then slow down our response to that anxiety.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I want to talk about impostor syndrome um if you don't know what this is, it's basically a conflict between our self perception and the way others perceive us. So um oftentimes we will see ourselves as being less smart or less skilled or less competent than other people in our field and sort of feel like were fraudulent, um you know, that's where the word imposter comes from, sort of like we're an imposter and everyone else in our industry or our field kind of knows what they're doing and and is competent in what they're doing, but the problem is this is not at all how others perceive us.

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.