Hi everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today's video is going to focus on ways to cope with the four fear responses. So I did a four part series, one video for each of the four fear responses which include fight flight, freeze and fawn. And and these can also be referred to as acute stress responses or trauma responses, but either way they elicit fear and anxiety and it's your body's way of responding to an actual or perceived threat.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today is part four of the four part series I'm doing on the fear response is also sometimes referred to as acute stress responses or trauma responses as a reminder. Those include fight flight freeze and today I'm going to be talking about the fourth one, the fawn response, which most people are unfamiliar with.

Hi everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today I'm going to be talking about part three of the four part series I'm doing on the fear responses as a reminder. Those are fight flight, freeze and fawn. So today we're going to be focusing on the freeze response.

Hi everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today is part two of the four part series I'm doing on the fear responses. This can also be referred to as an acute stress response and includes fight, flight, freeze and fawn. So last week I talked about the fight response today, I'm going to be focusing on the flight response and this occurs when our brain feels it's not going to be successful in fighting off danger.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today is going to be part one of a four part series I'm doing on the four fear responses which include fight flight, freeze and fawn. So you might also hear these referred to as the an acute stress response or a trauma response.

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Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today I'm going to be talking about a topic that's very near and dear to my heart and that is people pleasing.

Hey everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about crying and I can't tell you the number of times that a client has been in session and started crying and apologized for it. And it's like if there's anywhere in the world that it's acceptable to cry and that you won't be judged for it. It's in a therapy session.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be differentiating between facts and opinions. Um, this might seem like a rather simplistic topic, but when we have cognitive distortions or those thinking traps that I've mentioned in other videos, um, the lines can get really blurry between what is an opinion and what is a fact.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about another cognitive distortion, which is the fallacy of change if you haven't seen my other videos. A cognitive distortion is basically a thinking error or a thinking trap. Um it's sort of this automatic thought process that leads to feelings of anxiety, disappointment or any other unpleasant emotion and this occurs outside of our conscious awareness.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about the stages of change and this is a process that is often applied to those in recovery. So people who have struggled with substance abuse, but it also applies to pretty much everyone who is trying to change some sort of um seemingly problematic behavior.

Hey there, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about five things you should not say to someone with anxiety. So this video is geared more toward partners or friends or family members of people of a loved one who is struggling with anxiety and I think a lot of times people think they're being helpful, but they're actually saying things that can exacerbate the person's anxiety and really be unhelpful or invalidating.