ABSTRACT
“What if I can’t finish all of this homework? There is so much to do. I don’t even know where to start. There is no way I will finish,” thought Kimberly when she sat down to do her homework. She also worried about break-ins, being kidnapped, and her dog escaping. Kimberly’s mom helped her make a list of her worries, and Kimberly realized that they were the same worries almost every day. She scheduled “worry time” and recorded her worries on her mom’s phone and she listened back to the recording over and over until she started to worry less overall. She began to label her worries as “anxiety” and started to talk back to them. Kimberly’s mom also helped her learn that the anticipatory anxiety was not a good predictor of what was to come.
