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Manage anxiety with kindness and compassion (even in wild times) 💕
So you can actually enjoy your life ✨
Get my free guide: 3 Keys For Quieting Anxiety👇🏼
https://jessica-richards-counseling.kit.com/00a453b1ac

12/26/2025

Wouldn’t stopping anxiety be amazing?

It’s the most amazing gift I’ve received (and given myself)…and it’s in reach for you too! 🩷

Demystify anxiety.

Know what’s going on, why it happens, and exactly how to work with it.

It’s not as impossible as you think.

These are the things no one’s told you.

When you get what’s really going on and how to work with it, you open the door to being able to actually enjoy your life…

Stop worrying, obsessing, and overthinking.
Get your mind off worst case scenarios.
Be able to truly calm and reassure yourself.
Stop wondering why you’re so anxious and if something is wrong with you.

Feel good about yourself.
Learn to really be present with your life.
Have a quieter mind.
Make decisions with more confidence and ease.
Relax and truly enjoy your life.

These things are totally possible!

I’m a counselor who’s done this myself and I help my clients do it everyday.

I know what’s possible with the right tools, information, and support.

Get started with my book, “Hi, It’s Anxiety! I’m Your Problem, It’s Me.”

On Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

Read what reviewers have said…”It’s a therapy session in a book.”

“This lovely and accessible book…should be welcomed into your life so you know you’re not alone.”

“After reading this friendly, reassuring, and warm book, I can unequivocally say I’m better at managing my anxiety symptoms.”

This book can help you manage and even begin to stop anxiety.

I want this for you. Get it today. Give yourself the gift of less anxiety! 🫶🏼

12/25/2025

I totally f*cked up this weekend.

We went on a trip to see a Christmas light boat parade on the river in Portland.

I swore it started at 7pm, it actually started at 5pm.

Last day of the parade. No more boats. An entire 2 night trip to Portland. And we missed it. (Because I messed up).😬

But f*cking up like that hits so different when you’re not living consumed by anxiety.

I raged in disbelief for a few minutes. I was disappointed. I was sad. Frustrated. I teared up for a second. I was confused how I messed up.

And then it was over and we moved on and saw the Christmas Tree in Pioneer Square. 🎄

No guilt.
No worry.
No beating myself up.
No obsessing and ruminating and excessive apologizing.

I felt fine. I felt good — very quickly.

I still felt sad, disappointed, frustrated, confused. But I felt it and moved on.

And enjoyed the rest of the evening…and the trip.

End of story.

That’s what’s possible when you don’t live with constant anxiety. And that’s what YOU deserve.

Freedom from the worry, misery, rumination, feeling bad.

It’s possible. You can do it. I’ve done it too!

You can f*ck up and feel OK after, and then even good. 😮

Whaaaaaaaat???

I know!

Let’s do this together. I really want this for you too. And you can have it. 🩷

12/22/2025

Worrying about what people think of you doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you and it doesn’t have to take over your life!

Caring what people think is actually a way anxiety tries to protect you! 😮

It’s wild!

I want you to understand exactly how this works so you can start to get some relief from it.

Episode 8 will do this!

Listen now on Apple, Spotify, and more. DM me PODCAST for a link.

12/19/2025

This is how it works with anxiety:

You need to care what other people think so they approve of you and nothing bad happens.

Making you care what other people think is a way anxiety tries to protect you!

You NEED other people, so anxiety thinks it’s very important that they like you.

It makes complete sense, but it’s exhausting and you don’t need to keep doing it. 💕

For 3 simple ways to begin seriously quieting anxiety right now…so you can actually enjoy your life…

DM me ANXIETY. 🩷

I’ll send my free guide.

🫶🏼 You’ll know what to do to quiet anxiety.
🫶🏼 Have 3 big anxiety-quieting skills you can count on.
🫶🏼 Experienced reduced anxiety.
🫶🏼 Have a more peaceful mind, body, and life.
🫶🏼 Be able to focus on and enjoy the things that really matter to you!

DM me ANXIETY right now to start living with the quieter life you deserve. 💕

12/18/2025

You’re not just a “people-pleaser”…
You don’t care “too much”….
You’re not vain or shallow.

Worrying what other people think is a way anxiety tries to protect you and make sure you’ll be OK!

There’s nothing wrong with you.

This is how anxiety works. 💕

12/17/2025

I feel guilty for merely existing.

Uggghhhhh…Existential guilt is the worst!

As an adult I’ve always wondered…

Does my existence make the world a better place?

Am I constantly doing something wrong?

Do I take up too many resources? Do too much harm?

Am I somehow responsible for poverty, world hunger, racism, hate, war, violence, environmental degradation? — I must be, right???

THE WORST.

I’ve thought, “Maybe the world would be better if I didn’t exist.”

Which is so wild, because I’m an objectively good, kind, caring person who I KNOW has and continues to positively impact the lives of others.

I think about wanting the world to be better, wanting good for EVERYONE EVERYDAY.

And yet…anxiety makes me question it all.

I’m so thankful that I’ve learned — this is actually just a weird way anxiety tries to keep me safe.

It’s so frickin’ counterintuitive —

But anxiety thinks that if I’m constantly questioning myself then I’ll see that I’M the problem, I’M the threat— and I’ll fix it.

Anxiety says: “You’re the problem, It’s You.”

And if the problem is ME, I can fix that.

Then me and everyone else around me will be safer (from the threat that is ME).

Oh man, 🤦🏼‍♀️ It’s so convoluted, but so powerful.

I’m thankful I see through it now.

I invite you, I want you to see through it too. 💕

You’re not the problem. You don’t need to feel guilty for existing.

And if you need some help seeing this clearly, remember, EP 7 of my podcast is all about this.

Let’s step out if this guilt together. 🩷

12/15/2025

Here’s how it works with guilt!

For 3 simple ways to begin seriously quieting anxiety right now…so you can actually enjoy your life…

DM me ANXIETY. 🩷

I’ll send my free guide.

🫶🏼 You’ll know what to do to quiet anxiety.
🫶🏼 Have 3 sustainable skills you can count on.
🫶🏼 Experience a big shift in anxiety.
🫶🏼 Have a quieter mind, body, and life.

DM me ANXIETY right now to start living with the quieter life you deserve. 💕

12/12/2025

You’re supposed to be…

Good
Sweet
Kind
Caring
Generous
Easy to Please
Accommodating
Likeable
Selfless
Giving

When anxiety thinks you aren’t being all those ways you’re supposed to be — it pounces! And makes you feel guilty.

Guilt is how anxiety tries to get you to be the way you’re “supposed” to be…

So you’ll be good, right, likeable…and therefore safe.

This the game anxiety is playing.

It uses guilt to try to keep you being the right person so you’ll be safe.

Like this? Follow me for more takes on anxiety.

12/11/2025

When you have anxiety and feel guilty all the time, that’s anxiety trying to manipulate you.

Anxiety makes you feel guilty so you’ll do all the “right” things…

So you’ll be a good person.
Make people happy.
Be the way you’re “supposed” to be.

Anxiety thinks if you feel guilty you’ll be “good” and do what you’re “supposed” to do.

Like a parent who’s trying to guilt trip a child, anxiety guilt trips you into doing the things it learned you supposedly need to do to stay safe.

This is what anxiety does to people who feel guilty.

Guilt is supposed to protect you.

But it really just makes you miserable.

This isn’t your fault.

And it can change. 🩷

What is anxiety trying to guilt-trip you into doing? 👇🏼Tell me below.

12/10/2025

Why do you feel so guilty all the time?

Guilt is really misunderstood and that makes it hard to change.

Listen to EP 7 to get what guilt is really about.

This take on guilt will start to change your experience of it.

DM me PODCAST

Listen to EP 7

12/08/2025

Resetting an anxious thought is simpler than you think.

Look for the truth.

What’s the truth about the situation?

Anxiety has a skewed persecutive.

Look beyond anxiety’s perspective at what is actually true.

To learn how to do this and two more important skills for compassionately quieting anxiety get my free guide.

I’ll show you three simple, but key skills for immediately shifting anxiety in big ways.

- Learn to quit the daily habits that make your anxiety worse.
- Have one key way to calm and soothe
- And replace those anxious thoughts with the real truth

You can stop trying to live up to a standard that causes anxiety…

Feel calmer in your body without much effort…

And empower your thoughts without supportive, helpful realities…

So you can enjoy your life more — without so much anxiety.

This is possible for YOU today.

DM me “anxiety” to get a link to the free guide.

Start enjoying a quieter mind and calmer body today! 🩷

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12/05/2025

Overthinking isn’t your fault and it doesn’t mean something is wrong.

It’s a way anxiety tries to protect you.

Overthinking is hard. You need compassion, not criticism.

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590 Pearl Street Ste. 312
Eugene, OR
97401

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https://www.jesrichards.com/

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