Welcome to Conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships, sexuality, and my daughter were getting ready to leave on a

backpacking trip. At the time my daughter Madison was 11 years old and this was going to be their biggest

backpacking trip that they've ever had taken.

They were headed to the wind rivers. They were going to be hiking for five days, four

nights, and covering a lot of mileage. Maddie started backpacking when she was five years old and fell in love with it and ever since then they've gone out every year but for some reason

the night before they were to leave on this trip I was feeling really really anxious about it

It was playing every possible scenario through my head of what could happen,

imagining my husband getting eating by a bear

and Maddie being left alone in the wilderness without any cell reception and I

remember talking to my husband and telling him that I was feeling a lot anxious about

the whole situation and he asked me if I thought it was the spirit prompt to me or if I was just feeling nervous and I've thought about that a lot before he asked the question,

after he asked the question, like,

how do we know if when we're feeling uneasy about a situation,

if it's our intuition, or if it's just our anxiety,

and which one do we listen to?

My name's Shray Phelps and in this interview

Christie and I decided to collaborate and together ask Jennifer

some questions about anxiety.

Not only did we get to discuss anxiety in this interview, but we also got to experience a healthy amount of anxiety trying to record it. We encountered a plethora of

technical difficulties, one of which being towards the end of the interview

for some reason my screen froze and Jennifer and Christie

couldn't hear me but I could hear them.

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