2026-05-01
15 分钟Have you ever noticed the incredible degree of dread, uncertainty, anxiety, terror about an upcoming event?
You are waiting.
You're ruminating.
It's all you can think about.
And you are spiraling on what if worst case scenarios.
Now, if this is you're not alone.
And I know it can be so overwhelming.
And what's so interesting is when the event actually happens, we realize it wasn't as bad as we thought it was.
Has this happened to you?
Because the truth is, this is actually really, really common.
Sometimes the hardest part about these events isn't the event itself.
It's the actual anticipation of that.
So by the end of this episode, what I want to promise you is that you will know what anticipatory anxiety
is and why it is often so much worse than the thing itself.
Welcome.
My name is Kimberly Quinlan.
I am an anxiety and OCD therapist, and I am on a mission to help 10 million of you, to help suffer less with anxiety.
I feel like the one thing I can really do is to speak a little louder than all of the internet craziness
that you 're hearing about these quick fixes and solve it right now.
I want to give you actual effective skills,