Best Therapy In A Nutshell Emma Mcadam Podcasts (2024)

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Sensory Needs Quiz- Your Sensory Needs Assessment 34:16

7d ago34:16

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Download the assessment here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/pl/2148296708 Have you ever found yourself feeling overwhelmed, irritable, or simply drained by your surroundings? It's not uncommon to experience these emotions, especially in a world that's constantly buzzing with activity and stimuli. But what many people don’t realize is that …

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My New Favorite Vagus Nerve Exercise for Anxiety or Trauma Recovery - The Voo Breath or Foghorn 5:24

18d ago5:24

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days - Online Course: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills I’d like to share with you my new favorite vagus nerve exercise for turning on the parasympathetic response. This is an exercise Peter Levine teaches to help people who are struggling with Chronic Overwhelm, burnout, or high levels of stress. Lo…

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What to do with Anxiety in Your Body - Day 24 Break the Anxiety Cycle 8:25

30d ago8:25

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills It’s common that when you feel anxiety, you have uncomfortable sensations in your body. An upset stomach, tight muscles, cold or sweaty palms, a headache, or fast breathing or heart rate. Our natural tendency is to try to make these feelings go away. To run fro…

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Window of Tolerance -An Essential Skill for PTSD, Trauma and Nervous System Regulation 18:18

1M ago18:18

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Talking about trauma can make things worse. I’m a therapist, and I know how valuable it CAN be to talk about trauma, but when you don’t understand your “Window of Tolerance” talking about trauma can backfire. In this podcast, we’ll talk about the three states of your nervous system, the two common pitfalls of trying to talk about trauma, and the pr…

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Building an Internal Sense of Safety for PTSD, Trauma or Anxiety: Day 23 Break the Anxiety Cycle 16:11

2M ago16:11

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills If you want to manage PTSD or Anxiety, you need to learn how to interrupt the anxiety cycle and to do that you've got to interrupt the perception of danger. We do that by fostering an internal sense of safety, this is a practical skill we can dev…

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How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others 17:18

2M ago17:18

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Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Here’s what we do know about comparison- it contributes to mental health concerns like eating disorders, low self-esteem, depr…

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How to Turn on the Parasympathetic Response to Calm Anxiety: Day 22 of Break the Anxiety Cycle 20:07

2M ago20:07

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills The good news is that there are practical things you can do to turn on and strengthen your parasympathetic response. In this video you’ll learn how to activate the parasympathetic response, and how to strengthen your vagal tone- which is your bod…

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THIS guy solved Panic Attacks after 30 years of Panic Disorder 9:22

2M ago9:22

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Panic attacks can be terrifying, but they aren't dangerous. When we engage with our panic attacks by trying to control our panic attacks, by trying to force our body's sensations to calm down, or by believing our brain's stories that "This panic attack is actually a heart attack" or "I have to calm down!" or "It will be catastrophic to have a panic…

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How to Stop Taking Things Personally 20:47

3M ago20:47

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Take the Free Relationship Quiz here: https://join.heyritual.com/TIAN50 Do you take things personally? Do you get offended easily? Do you spend a lot of time trying to figure out which person is the "Jerk"? Taking things personally is a super complex relational strategy we use to protect ourselves when we feel threatened, but it leaves us feeling i…

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The Essential Skill to Regulate Your Nervous System - Relaxed Vigilance vs. Hypervigilance: Day 21 Break the Anxiety Cycle 13:54

3M ago13:54

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This is Day 21 of my online course, Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Buy the full course here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills This is seriously one of the most powerful interventions I know of for chronic anxiety. It uses a bottom-up approach, a body-first approach to regulate your nervous system to reduce stress and anxiet…

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Understanding Anxiety in the Nervous System: Day 20 Break the Anxiety Cycle 16:13

3M ago16:13

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Anxiety is essentially a state of your nervous system. In this video we’ll explore anxiety, trauma and burnout in your nervous system. There’s two ways that your nervous system plays a direct role in anxiety and depression- your alerting activati…

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Flip Anxiety on Its Head With 2 Words: Day 19 Break the Anxiety Cycle 12:16

3M ago12:16

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills There is a simple shift you can use to transform your anxiety in two words. In this podcast you’ll learn how to do it. There is no physiological difference between anxiety and excitement. Inside your body, it’s the same physical response- cortiso…

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Emotional Reasoning: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 18 16:42

4M ago16:42

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills I’m going to teach you an important skill to be less emotionally reactive. Essentially, how to control your emotions. Emotions lie to you all the time. But they feel so real. They are very powerful motivators, but they aren’t always accurate. You…

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How to Let Go of the Past - 3 Steps for Regret 16:19

4M ago16:19

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Download the free worksheet for resolving regrets and letting go of the past here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/pl/2148136124 Check out the Online Course "How to Process your Emotions" here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing "Regret can be your worst enemy or your best friend; you get to decide which." Regrets are …

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Stop Catastrophizing About Your Future: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 17 14:05

4M ago14:05

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Catastrophizing is essentially a defense mechanism but one that isn’t the best, it backfires. It can contribute to depression and anxiety and other mental health conditions. So let’s replace it with a more helpful one. In this video you'll learn …

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How to Overcome Burnout from a Body-Based Perspective w Dr. Laura Hays, MD 43:55

4M ago43:55

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Check out my FREE Online Grounding Skills Course here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/grounding-skills-for-anxiety-stress-and-ptsd Check out Dr. Laura Hay's podcast here: https://lastingimpactwellness.com/ Burnout isn't just something that happens in your head, burnout isn't just psychological, burnout happens in your body. In this episode,…

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Why Your Brain Defaults to Scarcity: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 16 15:19

5M ago15:19

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Your brain is not designed to make you happy, it’s made to keep you alive. And in order to do that, it’s got some built-in biases, including a negativity bias, that literally filters what you see, what you pay attention to, what you notice in you…

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Managing Anxiety and Anxious Thoughts: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 15 25:04

5M ago25:04

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills In this enlightening interview with Nick Wignall, the focus was on the challenges of chronic worry and the power of mindfulness in addressing anxiety. He proposed a simple, non-judgmental mindfulness practice focusing on breath and attention redi…

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Crisis to Calm: 4 DBT skills with Dr. Monica Johnson 21:45

5M ago21:45

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Follow Dr. Monica Johnson: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/monica-johnson-psyd https://twitter.com/QDTSavvyPsych In this video, we're joined by Dr. Monica Johnson, an expert in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), as we explore the transformative effects of DBT on managing intense emotions and mood disorders, including depression, an…

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How to Stop Worrying: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 14 13:18

5M ago13:18

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills In this video, individuals seeking to learn how to stop worrying and start living are offered a practical guide to differentiate between unproductive worry and constructive problem-solving. The video aims to empower viewers with the skills to red…

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How to Stop Overthinking: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 13 15:02

5M ago15:02

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Check out Smile Brilliant: https://www.smilebrilliant.com/product/night-guards/?utm_source=YouTube+Influencer&utm_medium=Night+Guards&utm_campaign=Daily&utm_id=Therapy+in+a+Nutshell Discovering how to stop overthinking begins with the realization…

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Anxiety about Anxiety: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 12 12:45

6M ago12:45

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Feeling anxiety won’t harm you. Your body is wired to feel anxiety. It’s supposed to. You can handle it. But when we become afraid of our feelings, then suddenly we get stuck in a super unhelpful spiral. We start struggling against them, trying t…

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Automatic Negative Thoughts: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 11 19:04

6M ago19:04

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills In this video you’ll learn about the automatic negative thoughts that fuel the anxiety cycle and lead to feeling overwhelmed or hopeless. You probably aren’t even aware of the types of thoughts that take you there, so we’ll explore them. And then…

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10 Medical Conditions that Mimic Anxiety: Anxiety Course Day 10 15:08

6M ago15:08

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills In this video we’re going to talk about 10 physical conditions that mimic Anxiety. Sometimes anxiety is not “All in your head” there’s a dramatic interplay between your body and mind. Sometimes a physical, medical issue like a vitamin deficiency,…

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Letting Go of Shame as an HSP Highly Sensitive Person: Anxiety Course Day 9 10:50

7M ago10:50

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Being highly sensitive doesn’t mean that you take things personally or that you’re fragile. It means your nervous system processes information more deeply and intensely than the average person. You are more impacted by lights, smells, sounds, bod…

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What Causes Anxiety Disorders: Anxiety Course Day 8 15:53

7M ago15:53

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Why are some people much more anxious than others? And what causes anxiety disorders? What makes some people feel anxious when they’re actually safe? Well, the cause of an anxiety disorder is actually quite complicated. It’s not a disease with a …

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How the Medical Model creates Learned Helplessness: Anxiety Course Day 7 13:21

7M ago13:21

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills We have this interesting problem in America where we’ve applied the medical model to mental health, and it’s created a lot of learned helplessness. In our attempts to remove the stigma from mental health, many people have come to believe that all…

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The 7 Types of Anxiety Disorders - Anxiety Course Day 6 13:58

7M ago13:58

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There are 7 types of anxiety disorders listed in the DSM 5 TR. In this video you’ll learn what they are, because when you have a name for something, it can help you find skills and resources to manage it. If you experience an anxiety disorder, It’s not your fault, but there’s something you can do about it. This video is day 6 of a 30 day course on …

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The Surprising Symptom of Depression- Anger and Irritability 14:50

8M ago14:50

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Improve your Relationship- Try HeyRitual today, to learn more click here: https://join.heyritual.com/TIAN20 HeyRitual is a sponsor of Therapy in a Nutshell Media portrays the depressed person as struggling to get out of bed, crying, drowning in despair. And while sadness is indeed a key symptom of depression, it’s not the only way it shows up. Ange…

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Willingness - Anxiety Course Day 5 17:58

8M ago17:58

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Willingness is the most powerful tool for managing anxiety, because when you have willingness, anxiety can’t control you any more. So in this video you’ll learn what willingness is, how to develop it, and you’ll get to practice it to see what it …

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Avoidance - Anxiety Course Day 4 21:03

8M ago21:03

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills What keeps us anxious? -Running from our feelings -Avoiding our problems and -Immobilization- not taking any action. Anxiety isn’t the same as a hot fear response, it’s much more of a cold, frozen dread response. On the polyvagal ladder it hovers…

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Bonus Episode: Trichotillomania with Michael Twohig 39:21

8M ago39:21

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Michael Twohig counseling and resources: https://junipermh.com/ Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https:…

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Rewiring Anxiety - Anxiety Course Day 3 19:53

8M ago19:53

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Buy the course Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Your brain is wired to adapt to circumstances, it can physically rewire itself based on how you think and the experiences you have. The human brain is one of the most complex, brilliant, and amazingly powerful creations in the world. So why …

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How Trauma Gets Trapped in the Body with Dr. Aimie Apigian 50:06

9M ago50:06

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Free Grounding Skills for Trauma course: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/grounding-skills-for-anxiety-stress-and-ptsd It was awesome to talk with Dr. Aimie Apigian about how trauma gets stored in the body. Dr. Apigian is a MD MS MPH is a leading medical expert on how life experiences get stored in the body and restoring the body to its best …

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What is Anxiety Really? Anxiety Course Day 2 12:16

9M ago12:16

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In this video you’ll learn the difference between stress, anxiety and worry because knowing the difference can give you a ton of tools to change your relationship with all three. Anxiety is, in essence, your reaction to the perception of being in danger. Especially physical danger, so if you were the roof of a skyscraper, your brain would perceive …

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Finding Your Why - Anxiety Course Day 1 11:55

9M ago11:55

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Many people just want their anxiety to go away. They just don’t want to feel it. They imagine that if they didn’t feel anxious, their lives would be so much better and so they set that as their goal. “My goal is to not feel so anxious”. But when your goal is to feel less of something, you essentially have to cut something out of your life, and the …

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Free Anxiety Course Introduction - How’s Your Relationship with Anxiety? 10:17

9M ago10:17

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Sign up to get the next two videos right now (plus a special discount on the course)! sign up here Welcome to the Free Online Anxiety Course! In this course you’ll learn why you have anxiety, what you do that makes it worse and how to break the cycle of anxiety so that you can take back your life. This course is going to have 30 sections, and I’m g…

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How to be Happier - An Exercise from Positive Psychology and the book The Power of Moments 8:23

10M ago8:23

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Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Today, we're diving into the wonderful world of positive psychology and discussing a powerful practice that’s a simple but tra…

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Our Top 3 Tips for Anxiety with Nick Wignall 1:11:59

10M ago1:11:59

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Check out Nick's course on How to Stop Worrying, it's $97: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/offers/tjFEvr7a Let's talk about anxiety- Nick Wignall, psychologist and writer, super great cognitive therapist, and friend shares his top three tips on how to decrease anxiety, and - no surprise here - it has to do with how we worry, setting boundari…

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Don’t Believe Everything You Think: How these 3 Cognitive Distortions make you miserable 16:30

11M ago16:30

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In this video, you'll learn to recognize these three forms of irrational thinking, so that you can replace them with healthier thoughts and be calmer, happier and solve problems without feeling like a helpless victim. So let’s get better at feeling. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed profess…

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12 Things You Can Do to Help Someone with Anxiety: Anxious Children Part 4/4 13:04

11M ago13:04

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Download the free handout with the summary of how to help a child with anxiety here: click here No one is born knowing what to do with their emotions. But it’s a skill that can be learned. In this video you’ll learn a bunch of tools that can help your anxious kid in a really practical way. If you were to ask “But what do I do?” Here are some things…

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Coping Skills for Kids With Anxiety Part 3/4 19:39

11M ago19:39

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Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell In this video you’re going to learn how to teach your kids coping skills for anxiety. You’ll learn how to coach your child thr…

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Does Relaxing Make You Anxious? 13:11

11M ago13:11

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Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Does trying to relax or meditate make you anxious? Isn’t it supposed to make you feel calm? I recently ran a poll on my channe…

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Conflict Management for the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) with Jonathan Decker from CINEMA THERAPY 21:28

12M ago21:28

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Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell If you're a highly sensitive person, you may find that conflicts can be particularly challenging for you. As someone who proce…

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How to Create Emotional Safety for Someone with Anxiety- Dealing with Anxiety in Children Part 2/4 12:16

12M ago12:16

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Take my free course Grounding Skills for Anxiety: Take me to the free course Get notified when the course for parents of anxious kids is ready: Sign me up Your job as a parent is not to protect your child from anxiety but to help them learn to be resilient so that they can be functional and healthy humans. To learn the skills to manage emotions and…

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Journaling for Trauma 12:06

12M ago12:06

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Learn Grounding skills for trauma and anxiety in my FREE course: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/grounding-skills-for-anxiety-stress-and-ptsd Do you ever have an intense emotional reaction that just seems disproportionate to the situation? Does some little thing set you off? And you can’t figure out why? Do you get anxious, a flash of anger,…

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How to Help a Child with Anxiety 1/4 21:06

1y ago21:06

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Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Here's the link to hear when the upcoming "Help a Child with Anxiety" course will be available: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/pl/2147679837 OK, so you’ve got a kid with anxiety. They might struggle to go to school, or they’re shy, or maybe they’r…

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How to Make a Decision When you Struggle with Executive Functioning

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Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Why do you procrastinate? Could it be Executive Functioning? Has this ever happened to you? You had some big decision to make …

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Dissociation, Depersonalisation, and Derealization - How to come back when you dissociate. 14:21

1y ago14:21

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FREE Grounding Skills Course here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/grounding-skills-for-anxiety-stress-and-ptsd Do you ever feel numb? Detached? Like you’re completely separate from your body or like you’re floating above it, watching yourself like you aren’t even real? Or does the world around you sometimes feel foggy? Dreamlike? Or like ti…

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Emotional Eating - How to Replace Emotional Eating with Emotion Processing and Intuitive Eating 7:18

1y ago7:18

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Learn how to process emotions in my online course: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing Emotional eating is when you eat in an attempt to resolve emotions instead of eating to resolve hunger. But when people are asking "How to stop emotional eating? The first step is to learn to process emotions and listen to what your body is …

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