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Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Freedom from health anxiety with Dr. Karen Lynn Cassiday

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4858 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

656: This week on the Anxiety Slayer podcast Shann shares a conversation with Dr. Karen Lynn Cassiday about her book “Freedom From Health Anxiety.” Dr. Cassiday empowers patients to overcome their struggles with anxiety, compulsions, phobias, social anxiety, worry, and depression. She approaches each patient with enthusiasm, persistence, and a keen sense of humor, crafting individualized, research-based treatment plans for each person. She loves being able to laugh and celebrate along with patients as they overcome their most difficult situations. Learn more about Dr. Karen Lynn Cassiday at www.anxietytreatmentcenter.com.

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Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vanderbilt and today I have the

0:09.6

pleasure of sharing a conversation with Dr Karen Kasiday about her book Freedom from Health Anxiety.

0:17.0

Dr. Kasiday empowers patients to overcome their struggles with anxiety, compulsions, phobias, social anxiety, worry, and depression.

0:28.1

She approaches each patient with enthusiasm, persistence, and a keen sense of humor, crafting individualized research-based treatment

0:36.7

plans for each person.

0:39.5

Her goal is to make each patient an expert at managing their own anxiety so they can face any future

0:46.4

event with confidence and courage.

0:50.4

Welcome to Anxiety Slayer, Karen. Thank you so much, Shan.

0:54.0

I'm really excited to be here.

0:56.0

It's a pleasure to have you here,

0:58.0

and I must say your book, Freedom from Health Anxiety,

1:01.0

is fantastic. our listeners wow this is what we hear from

1:07.4

them the most is please cover more about health anxiety and what can I do when I'm

1:12.2

fixated on sensations in my body and worst-case

1:15.8

scenarios and the list goes on and on and on. I'm so grateful that you're going to be

1:19.8

able to help us address some of this stuff. I'd like to begin with suggestions that you might have that can

1:28.7

help us lighten up when we have persistent anxiety about our health and how we can assess and address these

1:39.6

negative thoughts and feelings and sometimes symptoms.

1:43.0

I want to validate the fact, you know, for everyone who's listening that this is one of those things

1:49.0

in the anxiety universe that often gets overlooked because of the fact that it has to do with medical stuff. And so people get

1:58.8

misdirected, they get into the medical system, and then things can just get mangled if your health care team doesn't

2:08.4

understand that anxiety is the problem. That is, it's very difficult then and then also I think a lot of

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