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Welcome! My guest today is Carolyn Daitch, Ph. D, author, and psychologist. She has written several books, including Anxiety Disorders: The Go-To Guide for Clients and Therapists, The Affect Regulation Toolbox: Practical and Effective Hypnotic Interventions for the Over-Reactive Client, Anxious in Love, and The Road to Calm Workbook: Life-Changing Tools to Stop Runaway Emotions. Carolyn is the director of the Center for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Michigan. You might have guessed that our topic today is Anxiety. Join us! What you’ll hear in this episode: Carolyn’s work includes lots of writing, teaching, and therapy. She explains. Her focus on anxiety work began early in her career, when she ended up seeing a lot of clients with anxiety and panic attacks. At this point, she began assembling a toolbox of resources. Carolyn explains reactivity and affect disregulation, how they are basically the inability to manage emotions. These disorders cause too much of a reaction for some, when a small stimulus