Hey guys, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, thanks for checking out my vlog today. I'm going to be talking about insomnia, which is closely linked with anxiety and I figured this would be a good week to discuss this topic since we just had daylight savings time and I'm sure a lot of us have found that our schedules were a bit thrown off this past week.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist. Thanks for checking out my vlog today. I'm going to be discussing a few more cognitive distortions. If you missed the last few videos, a cognitive distortion is basically a thinking trap or thinking error. Um it's an automatic thought process or belief that we're not really consciously aware of and it often leads to distressing feeling.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist, and on today's episode, I'm going to be talking about two more cognitive distortions um these really seem to be resonating with you guys and I've gotten some good feedback. So I decided to stick with this as a theme for a while and there are definitely plenty to cover.

Hey guys, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be talking about another cognitive distortion or thinking error that can lead to anxiety. Um if you saw my video a few weeks ago, I discussed the difference between expectations and goals and this thinking error kind of goes hand in hand with that.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristen, the anxiety therapist and today I'm going to be discussing another cognitive distortion called catastrophizing. If you missed the video last week, cognitive distortions are basically thinking airs the word cognitive pertains to thinking and then if something is distorted then there's an air, right? So we all have thinking.

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.