#135 - The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit with Risa Williams

Virtual show of hands—how many of you are familiar with the feeling of your heart beating faster in response to a stressful situation? Pretty certain that a lot of hands are up in the air right now! That’s anxiety: our body’s natural response to stress. So today, Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy and Licensed Therapist Risa Williams, LMFT, talk about anxiety, how you can cope, and how you can identify your triggers. She also shares a few tips and tools you can do to help regulate your stress levels. So if you know you’re prone to stressful days, this episode is for you. Tune in and learn what you can do to avoid having anxiety altogether.

Risa Williams is a licensed therapist (LMFT) and productivity coach with a practice in Los Angeles. She's been featured as an expert in Business Insider, Bustle, PsychCentral, Wired, Parade, and HuffPost, and she writes for Breathe Magazine, Cultural Daily, and LA Parent Magazine.

She's the book author of The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit: 25 Tools to Worry Less, Relax More and Boost Your Self-Esteem, which is in stores now and provides 25 tools based on cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, mindfulness, and positive psychology to help readers feel more empowered to change their thinking patterns. Her newest book, The Ultimate Time Management Toolkit: 25 Tools for Adults with ADHD and Chronically Busy People, will be available for pre-order in the Spring of 2022 through Jessica Kingsley Publishers and on Amazon. She's also a mom of two and a university professor with a background in film and writing.

Connect with Risa at:
Website: www.risawilliams.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/risawilliams/
IG: @risawilliamstherapy

Grab a copy of her book click here!

Show notes:
[0:00] Intro
[3:02] The struggle with anxiety and time management
[5:36] What is delayed anxiety?
[6:37] How to know whether it’s active or delayed anxiety?
[9:53] How has Risa used this tool in her own life?
[12:36] How to establish a time management system that works for you?
[15:18] Rating your stress tasks
[18:35] Join Dr. Tarryn's Business of Happiness Prosperity Coaching to redefine success in your terms. Check out www.thebizofhappiness.com and be the happiest business owner you know
[19:17] How to bring your stress levels down
[20:52] How Risa started on the work she does
[22:51] How can we help kids with anxiety?
[25:53] Giving yourself permission to slowly regulate your stress levels
[28:16] Where to find Risa
[33:11] What is Risa’s definition of Happiness?
[34:25] Outro

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