Hey, everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist. And today I wanted to talk about the importance of sleep. I thought this was a good topic because we just had daylight savings. And I was also reading the news this morning and came across a study called the apple heart and movement study. And basically, they logged the amount of sleep people were getting using their Apple watches. And so they monitored 42,000 people and found that only 31% were getting the recommended seven hours of sleep per night and seven is minimum, really, we should be getting between seven and nine hours. 

Hey, everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist. And today I want to share a grounding technique with you called the 5-4-3-2-1 Technique. And basically, what grounding is, is bringing ourselves back to the present moment. So, when we feel anxious, we spend a lot of time in our heads, right?

Hey, everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today's vlog is going to be about anxiety and parenting. I actually had another topic in mind, but I feel like I've had so many conversations recently, both with clients and personal conversations in which parenting and anxiety came up as a point of discussion.

Hey, everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist. Today is part three of the three part series I'm doing on attachment. The first two videos talked about attachment in adulthood and in our adult relationships and then today I'm going to be focusing more on how we develop attachment as kids and then attachment as it relates to parenting.

Hi everyone, I'm Kristen, the Anxiety Therapist. Today is part two in the three part video series I'm doing on attachment. Today, I'm going to focus on attachment in relationships and how the four styles can show up in a romantic relationship. We're really just scratching the surface here. I'm going to give you an overview, but attachment theory is so complex and really interesting. I would encourage you to explore more if any of this resonates with you.

Hi everyone! I'm Kristen, the Anxiety Therapist. In this video, I'm going to be talking about how our attachment style impacts our adult relationships and this can differ depending on whether we're single or in a relationship or even if we're parents. This is going to be a three part series.

Hi everyone! I'm Kristen, The Anxiety Therapist. Today I'm going to be talking about mindfulness of emotions. We all know that emotions can be extremely powerful and challenging to navigate at times. But ultimately emotions sort of flow through us like waves, but they tend to carry that same force or sense of power as a storm.

Hi everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today I'm going to be talking about doom scrolling and this is a term that refers to scrolling through social media or any sort of news feed in which we sort of go down the rabbit hole of consuming negative information. And this inevitably elicits a sense of doom or dread or just a general sense of negativity about the state of the world. So it's definitely not a new concept. And especially now, you know, there's no shortage of negative news that we can be exposed to, but beyond knowing that it makes us feel awful.

Hi everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist. And in this video I'm going to be sharing a technique called TIPP. And this is taken from dialectical behavior therapy also known as DBT. And it's a really quick and effective way of calming down your emotions. If you're feeling just completely emotionally overwhelmed or dis regulated so the t. Stands for temperature.

And um if you saw my video last week I thought I talked a little bit about vagus nerve icing. And this is essentially the first step in tips. So you want to expose your body to extreme cold and bring down your body temperature which is going to slow your heart rate and send a signal to your brain that it's time to slow everything down and and activate that dive response that I mentioned in last week's video.

Hi everyone, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about the vagus nerve. So this is a nerve that goes from our brains um and connects to several different areas of our bodies. And there's something called vagus nerve icing. That's a technique that has been around for a while and is really effective at um sort of alleviating anxiety in the moment.

Anxiety. We all have it from time to time. And, according to the ADAA, anxiety is the most common mental illness in America. But when is it time to see a professional therapist to help us cope with our anxiety?

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen the anxiety therapist and I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving if you celebrated um today's video is going to be a follow up of how to survive the holidays. So last week I shared a few tips and this will be part two. I know we have some more holidays coming up in December and January, which can be very stressful or triggering for a lot of people.

So my first tip is to let go of expectations. I think a lot of times we enter into a situation and this doesn't just apply to holidays. This can be any situation. Um, and we have certain expectations about how something is going to go, what, be it positive or negative and that really kind of um does us a disservice because ultimately we, we don't have a crystal ball, we can't predict the future.