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The Transforming Anxiety Podcast

The Transforming Anxiety Podcast

Kelly McCormick

Do you struggle with anxiety? Feel as if you're trapped in a Groundhog Day loop of stress, worry, and overwhelm? Are you tired of fluffy advice from well-meaning friends and experts that leave you in the same place you started with anxiety? This podcast is the resource you've been looking for. Each week, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Kelly Hanlin McCormick will guide you on the path to true transformation around anxiety. She'll walk you through specific tools and resources to support your work with this emotion. No fluff or New Age woo involved. Tune in each week for new episodes that offer practical and pragmatic steps for you to integrate into your life. Find out more about her programs and offerings at www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com.

284 - What Community Looks Like
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  • 284 - What Community Looks Like

    Ok, *today* we are going to focus on something that I know brings a lot of confusion, guilt, and pressure (aka anxiety) into our lives...and that is: ​what community looks like​.

    I have experienced this myself and I talk to students every week about it. The people in our lives. Get-togethers and social gatherings. Family and holidays and vacations. Friend groups, acquaintances, colleagues.

    How are we supposed to interact with all of these people? How many people should we have in our lives? ​What does community look like​?

    If you feel like you're constantly cycling through obligations, expectations, and trying to live up to some social-media-inspired lifestyle, full of people, this one is for you. Let's talk about community and take some time to define this for ourselves together today.

    Full show notes are located at: www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com/podcast/253 

    Be sure to join my email list so you don't miss announcements, new classes, and podcast updates by visiting www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com 

    Submit your questions to me by CLICKING THIS LINK. I can reply directly to you and may use your question or comment on a future episode of the show! Also: I just love hearing from you. Let’s be in touch. 😊

    Text PODCAST to +1 (816)354-1279 and I'll send mindfulness reminders, anxiety hacks, and little love notes your way from time to time...

    Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 19min
  • 283 - Hold it Lightly

    Good morning. ☀️ I hope this finds you well. That you're doing ok so far this week. That you're hanging in, finding some flow, letting yourself breathe, and being kind with yourself.

    On this week's episode of ​The Transforming Anxiety Podcast​ I wanted to explore how we can move through *all the things* without having quite such a death grip on life.

    Because, I mean, I think we DO. I've noticed we're holding on to it all pretty tightly...hoping that we can make it, that we can push through, that we can force it all to work and get all the people to cooperate and generally get things together.

    But I wonder: what if we loosened our grip? What if we relaxed our jaws, shook off some tension, and let go just a little bit? What if we ​hold it lightly​?

    We don't have to swing all the way into "screw it, nevermind, I give up" mode. We could just...chill. You've heard of this, yeah? The concept of chilling out. 🙃 Me too. Let's give it a go together.

    Join me for this week's conversation and let's take a look at where we're hanging on for dear life...and see if we could ​hold it lightly​ instead. I'll see you there.

    Full show notes are located at: www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com/podcast/252 

    Be sure to join my email list so you don't miss announcements, new classes, and podcast updates by visiting www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com 

    Submit your questions to me by CLICKING THIS LINK. I can reply directly to you and may use your question or comment on a future episode of the show! Also: I just love hearing from you. Let’s be in touch. 😊

    Text PODCAST to +1 (816)354-1279 and I'll send mindfulness reminders, anxiety hacks, and little love notes your way from time to time...

    Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 19min
  • 282 - Back to Transforming Anxiety

    Ahhhhh, it's good to be back...back to transforming anxiety. I missed you.

    In this week's episode of The Transforming Anxiety Podcast I'm sharing a bit with you about why I took a(n unplanned) break, how I personally struggle a bit, and what we have to look forward to together: work that I want to do, practices I want to steep myself in, teachings I want to stay close to.

    With you...

    I want you to know that I don’t take the fact that you're here lightly. I don’t for a second take it for granted that you’re here with me. That you listen in. That you share your inbox with me. That this work means something to you. It means the world to me, too. And that’s why I do it. That’s why I show up. That’s why I love on you and bring you these conversations, from my heart and my research and my curiosity and a deep love for all of us who feel and struggle and work with and around and inside of anxiety. I get it. I walk this path right alongside you.

    I'm so glad to be back. I've been thinking about you. And working hard. And also had to just take a moment to breathe and sit in the dark.

    But I missed you. Let's get back to transforming anxiety...

    Full show notes are located at: www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com/podcast/251 

    Be sure to join my email list so you don't miss announcements, new classes, and podcast updates by visiting www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com 

    Submit your questions to me by CLICKING THIS LINK. I can reply directly to you and may use your question or comment on a future episode of the show! Also: I just love hearing from you. Let’s be in touch. 😊

    Text PODCAST to +1 (816)354-1279 and I'll send mindfulness reminders, anxiety hacks, and little love notes your way from time to time...

    Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 22min
  • 281 - Taking Out the Trash

    This week on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast we’re going to talk about that inner pileup of garbage that happens after days, weeks, months, YEARS of conversations, work, get-togethers, parenting, and activities. Alllll the garbage that starts gumming up the works, internally. The residue that happens when we ignore ourselves a little bit, when we bite our tongues, when we hold back, when we make ourselves small…

    And, more importantly, we’re going to talk about a few specific ways you can take out the trash for yourself so that you feel better and things run more smoothly.

    If you’ve ever felt bogged down at work, slow to make decisions, overly impatient with your family, or just like you can quite THINK clearly…it may be because the inner trash is piling up. These are all pretty common signals that something needs to be said, that it’s time to take a good, hard look at how you’re adulting, or that maybe a regular routine or pattern could use some adjustment.

    This one is full of practical approaches to emotional ick. Ways to take care of yourself and clear things out. A little preemptive spring cleaning mid-winter, y’know.

    Join me and let’s do this one together. Let’s take out all the trash

    Full show notes are located at: www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com/podcast/250 

    Be sure to join my email list so you don't miss announcements, new classes, and podcast updates by visiting www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com 

    Submit your questions to me by CLICKING THIS LINK. I can reply directly to you and may use your question or comment on a future episode of the show! Also: I just love hearing from you. Let’s be in touch. 😊

    Text PODCAST to +1 (816)354-1279 and I'll send mindfulness reminders, anxiety hacks, and little love notes your way from time to time...

    Wed, 07 Feb 2024 - 19min
  • 280 - The Neighbor's Dandelions

    I don't know about you, but I looooove to put my nose into other people's business. (Except I do know about you...I'm guessing you do this, too. Only about 100% of my students and friends and family do it. 🙃)

    I mean, from our vantage point, we can so clearly see what they should be doing, right? If they would just behave, if they would just cooperate, if they would just do it the right way then all our lives will be easier.

    * sigh *

    The cost of taking your eyes off your paper and nosing around to see what someone else is doing is HUGE. And that’s what we’re going to talk about on today’s episode of The Transforming Anxiety Podcast. Using a cute little story I like to call: the neighbor’s dandelions.

    What are we looking for when we try and control someone else? Are there any upsides? And what are the consequences? Join me for today’s show and let’s discuss…

    Full show notes are located at: www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com/podcast/249 

    Be sure to join my email list so you don't miss announcements, new classes, and podcast updates by visiting www.kellyhanlinmccormick.com 

    Submit your questions to me by CLICKING THIS LINK. I can reply directly to you and may use your question or comment on a future episode of the show! Also: I just love hearing from you. Let’s be in touch. 😊

    Text PODCAST to +1 (816)354-1279 and I'll send mindfulness reminders, anxiety hacks, and little love notes your way from time to time...

    Wed, 24 Jan 2024 - 21min
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