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53: Filling Your Anxiety Tool Box with Kelly O'Gara

Episode #53

Have you ever felt helpless while watching someone you care for deal with anxiety? Or do you suffer through anxiety yourself and wish you had some better ways to cope? If either of these is true for you Sis, you are not alone! On today's show, I welcome the amazing Kelly O'Gara, a passionate mental health counselor at Aspire Health Alliance. She takes us through her top tips for dealing with anxiety and how awareness and understanding is so important for both the affected and the people who love and support them. 

 

We dive into:

  • Kelly's unique path to becoming a mental health professional.
  • Her TOP TWO tips for someone struggling to find their path or purpose. 
  • What anxiety REALLY is and how that awareness can guide you through helping someone you love. 
  • Identifying the warning signs of anxiety so you can learn to cope and help others.
  • Understanding what a trigger is and why that is so important to helping others and dealing with our own anxiety.
  • The 2 MOST IMPORTANT things to have and understand when supporting someone with anxiety. 
  • Practical coping skills to calm the body down so the mind can do its work!
  • And more!

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