Cohort 5
Regulate, Don’t Ruminate: Tools for Managing Anxiety

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A 2-Hour Live Workshop with Kim Polinder
🗓️ Friday, Nov 7 • 5–7 PM PT or Saturday, Nov 8 • 9–11 AM PT

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Anxiety isn’t a flaw but rather your brain’s overactive prediction system.
This live workshop teaches you how to regulate your nervous system, challenge catastrophic thinking, and stop using control and perfection as stand-ins for safety.
No therapy jargon or vague advice. Just clear, evidence-based skills you can use the next time your mind spirals.
 

Current Price

$75 Early-Bird (through Oct 29th)
Increases to $85 the week of the event.

🌍 International participants welcome.

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🧠 What You’ll Learn

1. The Mechanics of Anxiety
Understand what’s happening in your body and brain when you worry, and how to interrupt that threat loop before it snowballs.

 

2. Breaking the Worst-Case Habit
Use the Catch → Check → Change method to test catastrophic thoughts with data instead of fear.

 

3. Perfectionism & Control
Examine the belief “If I get it perfect, I’ll be safe,” and practice flexible thinking that actually reduces stress.

 

4. Guided Regulation Practice
A short sensory visualization to install three internal anchors:
a calm place, a reassuring figure, and a secure mental container for intrusive thoughts.

 

5. Stress-Relief Toolkit
Practice quick physiological resets to down-regulate in under 60 seconds.

 

6. Reality Testing for an Anxious Brain
Run your worries through a 5-question CBT-technique checklist to separate probability from possibility. Leave with one reframed thought that holds up under pressure.

 

7. AI Journaling Lab
Work directly with ChatGPT as a reflection partner: identify distortions, ask clarifying questions, and rewrite anxious thoughts into balanced self-talk.
AI prompts provided by Kim

 

8. Build Your Regulation Plan
Map your early warning signs, your go-to body reset, and your personal reframe so you can respond instead of react.
 

✨ You’ll Receive

• Catch–Check–Change Worksheet

• 5-Question Reality Test Template

• Regulation Plan Card

• Guided Visualization Audio Download

• AI Prompt Sheet for Reframing Anxious Thoughts

• 14-Day Replay Access
   

🎯 Who It’s For

Anyone who:

• Rehearses worst-case scenarios until they feel real

• Feels their body go into overdrive even when their mind knows it’s fine

• Experiences a disproportionate wave of worry or tension compared to what’s actually happening

• Equates peace with perfection or control

• Feels on edge even when nothing’s wrong

• Wants tools grounded in evidence, not platitudes
   

💡 What You’ll Leave With

• One catastrophic thought rewritten through evidence

• One body-based reset that actually works

• A concrete plan for staying steady when stress hits
   

🗓️ Choose Your Session:

• Friday, Nov 7 • 5–7 PM PT

• Saturday, Nov 8 • 9–11 AM PT

Both sessions are identical and include the same materials. Replay available.​​​​