444 ARFID or OCD? Understanding the Difference When Food Feels Scary
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Release Date: 07/28/2025
460 Stop White Knuckling Your Anxiety (Do This Instead)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
In this episode, we share how to stop “white-knuckling” your anxiety and instead use compassion, mindfulness, and gentle allowing to find lasting calm and confidence.
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459 Navigating OCD During Pregnancy: A Compassionate Guide (with Erin Jones)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
This episode unpacks how OCD shows up from conception through postpartum—and shares compassionate, evidence-based tools (especially ERP) to help you move from fear to values-based parenting.
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458 How to Handle Anxiety When You’re Around Toxic People
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
In this episode, Kimberley Quinlan shares compassionate, practical tools to help you manage anxiety around “toxic” or triggering people—without losing your peace, your confidence, or your values.
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457 The Secret to Calming Climate Anxiety (Even When the News Feels Like Doom) with Sarah Jaquette Ray
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
This episode turns climate anxiety from paralyzing doom into doable, feel-good action by blending nervous-system care, compassionate mindset shifts, and practical, community-centered steps.
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456 The 3 Lies Depression Tells You Every Day
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan exposes the three lies depression tells (hopelessness, helplessness, worthlessness) and shares simple, science-backed steps—thought witnessing, compassionate reframes, and opposite action—to break the cycle and rebuild momentum.
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455 Pregnant and Scared by the Headlines? What to Know About Tylenol, SSRIs, and Autism Risk
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
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454 Suicidal OCD vs. Real Suicidal Thoughts: How to Tell the Difference (with Taboo Tracie)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
This episode dives into the crucial differences between suicidal OCD and suicidal ideation—how to spot them, how to respond, and how to support yourself or a loved one with skill, compassion, and evidence-based care.
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453 BDD vs Body Image vs OCD (with Chris Tronsden)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan and Chris Trondsen break down how to tell BDD apart from body image concerns, OCD, eating disorders, gender dysphoria, BFRBs, and more—plus the right treatment moves for each.
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452 Body Dysmorphic Disorder: What Actually Helps (and What Makes It Worse) with Chris Trondsen Two Courses: Your BDD Toolkit and The Clinician’s BDD Toolkit
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
BDD expert Chris Tronsden joins Kimberley to unpack how distorted perception and compulsive rituals drive Body Dysmorphic Disorder—and the evidence-based skills (perceptual retraining, BDD-specific ERP, CBT/ACT, and thoughtful medication) that actually help people reclaim connection and quality of life.
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451 What Successful OCD Treatment Looks Like for Children (with Dr. Aureen Wagner)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
This episode breaks down what effective, child-friendly OCD treatment looks like—showing parents and clinicians how to build bravery, reduce accommodation, and tailor ERP to a child’s developmental stage.
info_outlineIn this episode, Kimberley Quinlan breaks down the subtle but crucial differences between OCD, ARFID, orthorexia, and eating disorders—and how understanding these distinctions can lead to more effective, compassionate treatment.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Why the function behind food-related anxiety matters more than the behavior itself
- How OCD, ARFID, and orthorexia can look similar—but require very different treatment approaches
- What exposure therapy looks like for each condition (and why it must be values-led)
- The unique role disgust plays in ARFID and how to gently work through it
- How to involve family members in the recovery process without reinforcing avoidance
- Why healing doesn’t mean perfection—and how to measure progress with compassion