Hey everyone. I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today I'm going to be talking about polarized thinking which is a type of cognitive distortion. Um that's just fancy terminology for thinking errors, um cognitive pertaining to thinking and our thought processes and then distortions means something is distorted, right? There's an error.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and today I'm going to be talking about procrastination, which comes from the latin word, procrastinus, meaning belonging to tomorrow. So a lot of times we like to think of a task we're putting off as sort of being the problem of our future selves, so to speak.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about overthinking um so overthinking it is one of the hallmarks of anxiety we"ll often find our minds are racing, we just can't seem to quiet our minds were maybe ruminating about something that happened in the past.

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You’re lying in bed, exhausted - but your brain’s still in overdrive.
You’ve checked off everything on your list. Nothing’s technically wrong.
And yet, your chest is tight, your thoughts are spinning, and rest feels impossible.

Sound familiar? What you’re feeling might not be just stress. It could be anxiety - your brain’s alarm system stuck in the “on” position.

In this post, we’ll look at how anxiety actually starts in the brain, the role of the amygdala in keeping you safe, and how to tell whether what you’re feeling is temporary stress or a chronic pattern that’s starting to take over your life.