An expert’s perspective, tips and tools around coping with anxiety and OCD! In this episode I had the privilege of interviewing my own mentor, Clinical Director of the Santa Rosa Center for CBT, and LMFT Litsa Tanner. Litsa is an expert in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and runs one of the most highly regarded practices in Northern California for treating children and adults with Anxiety Disorders and OCD. In this convo we talked about how CBT treatment works, the role of uncertainty, why it’s important to welcome anxiety, how to identify normative anxiety versus disordered anxiety, red flags for anxiety issues in children, and how to help people with OCD, Litsa gives her thoughts on things you can do, outside of or before therapy, to help yourself or your child learn to. cope with anxiety and shares what it’s like being a therapist...the great parts and the challenges! Www.srcbt.org

Take a listen to this episode to get inspired to be more rooted to your intentions and values in the new year. I walk you through a simple, yet powerful daily grounding practice that you can use anytime, anywhere to get reconnected to your self and your direction.,

This episode explores the ways anxiety and fear keep us from living our best life and gives you tools to start changing your relationship with an anxiety. I talk about how Exposure Therapy is used in anxiety treatment and then how you can take those principles and apply them to your daily life so that you can live more freely and fully.

Welcome! In today’s episode I start off by talking about why I changed the name of my podcast and then dive into 5 tips/tools you can use or consider to help you feel good about the holiday season with less anxiety, stress, or sadness. For some the holidays are merry and bright, for others the holiday’s are heavy and hard, and for a lot of us they are somewhere in between. Wherever you fall on that feeling spectrum, I want to share some ways that you can cultivate positive feelings for yourself and your loved ones during this season. Cheers.

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This episode takes a deep dive into what it means to find true wellness. I talk about how the intensive weekend retreat for personal and professional development helped me debunk the lies I’ve believed about myself that were keeping me stuck and small. I share an exercise to help you look at your own story, find the core beliefs that are no longer serving you and move towards creating new and more powerful ones that will help you live your best.

In this episode, I share my real-time and raw processing of the most recent woodland fire that greatly affected our community, and threatened my family home. I express my thoughts and insane gratitude for first responders, talk about finding the silver lining in times Of struggle, and wrap it up with some tips around how to talk to your children about natural disasters.

In this episode I share the top truths about anxiety that will help you change your relationship with anxiety and start to feel and love better. The truths I share in this episode are at the foundation of CBT for anxiety, and have helped so many heal.

This episode covers an array of topics including finding a personal growth path that fits your unique needs, helping your child your struggles with anxiety related to perfectionism, and dealing with family members who trigger you while on your healing journey. Follow @mother_more for more 💗

This is a quick one...I wanted to share my thoughts on psychological flexibility and help you move towards less rigidity when it comes to your journey towards wellness!