Podcast
Take Out Therapy: End Overthinking & Overwhelm for Empathic High Achievers
Hosted by Rebecca Hunter, MSW · EN
Feeling like life’s a bit… much?
Take Out Therapy is the podcast that feels like chatting with a friend—who also happens to be a therapist. Hosted by Rebecca Hunter, MSW, this show gets real about the messy stuff: stress, overwhelm, and that inner voice that just won’t quit. It’s your weekly dose of practical advice and shared humanity, designed to help empathic high-achievers tackle life with less angst and more ease.
Learn how to finally set boundaries without guilt, quiet your inner critic, and build the emotional resilience you’ve been craving. Expect relatable stories, laugh-out-loud moments, and actionable tools you can actually use—because who has time for fluff?
Start with a fan-favorite episode!
Highly Sensitive People Are Gifted & Challenged With Empathy and Overthinking https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/take-out-therapy/id1481635658?i=1000713772648
or... Manage Your Anger Without It Hijacking Your Life: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/take-out-therapy/id1481635658?i=1000704864319
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The Final Lesson On How To Maintain & Improve Your Mental Health
Feb 600:15:01Summary readyThe APP has arrived! https://studio.com/apps/rebecca If you like the podcast, you will love the Everyday Calm app. It is a daily program that teaches simple skills to reduce stress and anxiety in a few minutes a day. GET IT!After 325 episodes, Take Out Therapy is ending, and in this final episode I’m sharing what I most want you to take with you. Most people were never taught how emotions work, how the nervous system responds to stress, or how self criticism quietly destroys confidence, and that gap is exactly why I created this podcast. In this episode, I bring it all home with the three core teachings behind everything I’ve ever shared here: emotional processing, presence in real life, and building a healthier relationship with yourself. If you want a simple, grounding, “start here” reminder of what actually matters in healing, press play on this last episode and keep it in your back pocket for the future.Rebecca Hunter helps busy people reduce anxiety, stop overthinking, and build emotional balance. Get the Everyday Calm app for daily stress relief tools that take only a few minutes a day.Try the free class to understand and interrupt overthinking.Book a consultation call if you want straightforward, personal support.Book a session to get focused, therapist informed guidance with zero long term commitment.Get the BRICK to stop your cell phone addiction.Take Out Therapy is a podcast for people who want to reduce anxiety, recover from burnout, and live more authentically with topics ranging from mindfulness and emotional intelligence to emotional resilience and anxiety relief; discover actionable tips for managing stress, cultivating inner peace, overcoming overwhelm, setting boundaries, and mastering emotional regulation, all while supporting empathic high-achievers on their journey toward self-compassion, work-life balance, and freedom from overthinking and people-pleasing habits.
SummaryHelp And Hope For Highly Sensitive People In Turbulent Times
Jan 2600:08:19Summary readyThe APP has arrived! https://studio.com/apps/rebecca If you like the podcast, you will love the Everyday Calm app. It is a daily program that teaches simple skills to reduce stress and anxiety in a few minutes a day. GET IT!Feeling overwhelmed, heartbroken, or emotionally raw by everything happening right now?In this mini episode, Rebecca speaks directly to highly sensitive, compassionate people who are carrying so much information, emotion, and uncertainty in these turbulent times.You’ll hear why feeling deeply is not a weakness, how grief and hope can exist at the same time, and where real, sustainable hope actually lives when the world feels unstable.Listen now for a grounding reminder that you don’t have to fix everything to stay human and that small, intentional acts still matter more than you think.Rebecca Hunter helps busy people reduce anxiety, stop overthinking, and build emotional balance. Get the Everyday Calm app for daily stress relief tools that take only a few minutes a day.Try the free class to understand and interrupt overthinking.Book a consultation call if you want straightforward, personal support.Book a session to get focused, therapist informed guidance with zero long term commitment.Get the BRICK to stop your cell phone addiction.Take Out Therapy is a podcast for people who want to reduce anxiety, recover from burnout, and live more authentically with topics ranging from mindfulness and emotional intelligence to emotional resilience and anxiety relief; discover actionable tips for managing stress, cultivating inner peace, overcoming overwhelm, setting boundaries, and mastering emotional regulation, all while supporting empathic high-achievers on their journey toward self-compassion, work-life balance, and freedom from overthinking and people-pleasing habits.
SummaryGet Out Of Overwhelm In 2 Minutes Flat! Stop Overthinking Spirals Using Neuroscience
Jan 1900:08:45Summary readyThe APP has arrived! https://studio.com/apps/rebecca If you like the podcast, you will love the Everyday Calm app. It is a daily program that teaches simple skills to reduce stress and anxiety in a few minutes a day. GET IT!Racing thoughts are not a personal failure. They are a nervous system overload signal.In today’s Take Out Therapy Mini Session, I share a simple two minute, body based practice that helps slow mental speed when your system is taking in too much at once.No complicated strategies. No fixing. Just a practical way to reduce pressure, narrow your focus, and give your brain a chance to settle so spirals do not take over your day.I'm here for ya!Rebecca Hunter helps busy people reduce anxiety, stop overthinking, and build emotional balance. Get the Everyday Calm app for daily stress relief tools that take only a few minutes a day.Try the free class to understand and interrupt overthinking.Book a consultation call if you want straightforward, personal support.Book a session to get focused, therapist informed guidance with zero long term commitment.Get the BRICK to stop your cell phone addiction.Take Out Therapy is a podcast for people who want to reduce anxiety, recover from burnout, and live more authentically with topics ranging from mindfulness and emotional intelligence to emotional resilience and anxiety relief; discover actionable tips for managing stress, cultivating inner peace, overcoming overwhelm, setting boundaries, and mastering emotional regulation, all while supporting empathic high-achievers on their journey toward self-compassion, work-life balance, and freedom from overthinking and people-pleasing habits.
SummaryDo Thoughts Cause Anxiety? A Therapy Lesson For Anxious Overthinkers
Jan 1600:14:15Summary readyThe APP has arrived! https://studio.com/apps/rebecca If you like the podcast, you will love the Everyday Calm app. It is a daily program that teaches simple skills to reduce stress and anxiety in a few minutes a day. GET IT!Anxiety often feels complicated, but most spirals are powered by just two quiet thoughts running in the background. In this episode of Take Out Therapy, I break down the two core beliefs that fuel anxiety and overthinking, and explain why naming them brings immediate relief. You will learn how fear and self doubt keep the nervous system on high alert, why thinking harder never actually works, and one stabilizing shift that helps you feel calmer and more grounded right away. This episode is about understanding your mind instead of fighting it, and rebuilding trust in yourself so anxiety no longer runs the show.Rebecca Hunter helps busy people reduce anxiety, stop overthinking, and build emotional balance. Get the Everyday Calm app for daily stress relief tools that take only a few minutes a day.Try the free class to understand and interrupt overthinking.Book a consultation call if you want straightforward, personal support.Book a session to get focused, therapist informed guidance with zero long term commitment.Get the BRICK to stop your cell phone addiction.Take Out Therapy is a podcast for people who want to reduce anxiety, recover from burnout, and live more authentically with topics ranging from mindfulness and emotional intelligence to emotional resilience and anxiety relief; discover actionable tips for managing stress, cultivating inner peace, overcoming overwhelm, setting boundaries, and mastering emotional regulation, all while supporting empathic high-achievers on their journey toward self-compassion, work-life balance, and freedom from overthinking and people-pleasing habits.
SummaryThe One Question Method To Stop Overthinking Spirals; A Therapy Informed Trick
Jan 1200:08:09Summary readyThe APP has arrived! https://studio.com/apps/rebecca If you like the podcast, you will love the Everyday Calm app. It is a daily program that teaches simple skills to reduce stress and anxiety in a few minutes a day. GET IT!Rumination has a sneaky way of hijacking your entire day before you even realize what happened. One minute you are fine, the next your mind is looping and you feel tense, scattered, and stuck. In this Take Out Therapy Mini Session, I share one simple, compassionate question that interrupts rumination at the moment it starts and brings your nervous system back into the present. This is not a big strategy or a long process. It is a quick, repeatable intervention that helps your brain slow down, clarify what you actually need, and stop overthinking from running the show.Rebecca Hunter helps busy people reduce anxiety, stop overthinking, and build emotional balance. Get the Everyday Calm app for daily stress relief tools that take only a few minutes a day.Try the free class to understand and interrupt overthinking.Book a consultation call if you want straightforward, personal support.Book a session to get focused, therapist informed guidance with zero long term commitment.Get the BRICK to stop your cell phone addiction.Take Out Therapy is a podcast for people who want to reduce anxiety, recover from burnout, and live more authentically with topics ranging from mindfulness and emotional intelligence to emotional resilience and anxiety relief; discover actionable tips for managing stress, cultivating inner peace, overcoming overwhelm, setting boundaries, and mastering emotional regulation, all while supporting empathic high-achievers on their journey toward self-compassion, work-life balance, and freedom from overthinking and people-pleasing habits.
SummaryAre You Reflecting Or Ruminating? Stop Overthinking To Improve Your Mental Health
Jan 900:14:25Summary readyThe APP has arrived! https://studio.com/apps/rebecca If you like the podcast, you will love the Everyday Calm app. It is a daily program that teaches simple skills to reduce stress and anxiety in a few minutes a day. GET IT!Most people think they are reflecting.But their nervous system says otherwise.In this episode of Take Out Therapy, I break down the real difference between reflection and rumination, and why they feel almost identical in your head but do very different things to your body.You will learn how to recognize when thinking is actually helping, when it is quietly inflaming anxiety, and how to interrupt the spiral without forcing your mind to shut up.Listen now to learn how to get your time, energy, and mental clarity back.Rebecca Hunter helps busy people reduce anxiety, stop overthinking, and build emotional balance. Get the Everyday Calm app for daily stress relief tools that take only a few minutes a day.Try the free class to understand and interrupt overthinking.Book a consultation call if you want straightforward, personal support.Book a session to get focused, therapist informed guidance with zero long term commitment.Get the BRICK to stop your cell phone addiction.Take Out Therapy is a podcast for people who want to reduce anxiety, recover from burnout, and live more authentically with topics ranging from mindfulness and emotional intelligence to emotional resilience and anxiety relief; discover actionable tips for managing stress, cultivating inner peace, overcoming overwhelm, setting boundaries, and mastering emotional regulation, all while supporting empathic high-achievers on their journey toward self-compassion, work-life balance, and freedom from overthinking and people-pleasing habits.
SummaryYour Mental Health Is Your Responsibility; Real Talk From The Therapy Office
Jan 200:13:47Summary readyThe APP has arrived! https://studio.com/apps/rebecca If you like the podcast, you will love the Everyday Calm app. It is a daily program that teaches simple skills to reduce stress and anxiety in a few minutes a day. GET IT!Most people want to feel calmer, more stable, and at peace, but they continue waiting for motivation, insight, or the right circumstances to change. In this episode of Take Out Therapy, the focus is on what good mental health actually requires beyond awareness and intention. The conversation explores how daily choices shape emotional wellbeing, why insight alone is rarely enough, and what it looks like to take real responsibility for mental health without shame or self blame. This episode offers a grounded, honest reset for anyone ready to stop feeling stuck and begin supporting themselves in practical, sustainable ways.Rebecca Hunter helps busy people reduce anxiety, stop overthinking, and build emotional balance. Get the Everyday Calm app for daily stress relief tools that take only a few minutes a day.Try the free class to understand and interrupt overthinking.Book a consultation call if you want straightforward, personal support.Book a session to get focused, therapist informed guidance with zero long term commitment.Get the BRICK to stop your cell phone addiction.Take Out Therapy is a podcast for people who want to reduce anxiety, recover from burnout, and live more authentically with topics ranging from mindfulness and emotional intelligence to emotional resilience and anxiety relief; discover actionable tips for managing stress, cultivating inner peace, overcoming overwhelm, setting boundaries, and mastering emotional regulation, all while supporting empathic high-achievers on their journey toward self-compassion, work-life balance, and freedom from overthinking and people-pleasing habits.
SummaryYear End Reflection Session To Reduce Overwhelm And Create Intention; Therapy Based Skills for Empathic High Achievers
Dec 2900:06:06Summary readyThe APP has arrived! https://studio.com/apps/rebecca If you like the podcast, you will love the Everyday Calm app. It is a daily program that teaches simple skills to reduce stress and anxiety in a few minutes a day. GET IT!Most people hit January already exhausted.They try to fix it with goals, resolutions, and more pressure.But real clarity comes from asking one grounding question that helps your nervous system settle instead of scramble.In this Take Out Therapy Mini Session, you’ll be guided through a simple reflection exercise that helps you enter the new year steady, clear, and calm.I'm here to help! 👋Rebecca Hunter helps busy people reduce anxiety, stop overthinking, and build emotional balance. Get the Everyday Calm app for daily stress relief tools that take only a few minutes a day.Try the free class to understand and interrupt overthinking.Book a consultation call if you want straightforward, personal support.Book a session to get focused, therapist informed guidance with zero long term commitment.Get the BRICK to stop your cell phone addiction.Take Out Therapy is a podcast for people who want to reduce anxiety, recover from burnout, and live more authentically with topics ranging from mindfulness and emotional intelligence to emotional resilience and anxiety relief; discover actionable tips for managing stress, cultivating inner peace, overcoming overwhelm, setting boundaries, and mastering emotional regulation, all while supporting empathic high-achievers on their journey toward self-compassion, work-life balance, and freedom from overthinking and people-pleasing habits.
Summary3 Question Burnout Prevention Tool That Will Help You Stop Spirals Before They Start; Therapy Based Skills For Empathic High Achievers
Dec 2600:15:12Summary readyThe APP has arrived! https://studio.com/apps/rebecca If you like the podcast, you will love the Everyday Calm app. It is a daily program that teaches simple skills to reduce stress and anxiety in a few minutes a day. GET IT!Burnout rarely shows up all at once.It builds quietly when days blur together and nothing resets the pace.In this episode of Take Out Therapy, I share one simple weekly ritual that helps interrupt burnout early, calm your nervous system, and bring clarity back into your life.It is practical. It is doable. And it gives your brain a place to land before everything feels like too much.Rebecca Hunter helps busy people reduce anxiety, stop overthinking, and build emotional balance. Get the Everyday Calm app for daily stress relief tools that take only a few minutes a day.Try the free class to understand and interrupt overthinking.Book a consultation call if you want straightforward, personal support.Book a session to get focused, therapist informed guidance with zero long term commitment.Get the BRICK to stop your cell phone addiction.Take Out Therapy is a podcast for people who want to reduce anxiety, recover from burnout, and live more authentically with topics ranging from mindfulness and emotional intelligence to emotional resilience and anxiety relief; discover actionable tips for managing stress, cultivating inner peace, overcoming overwhelm, setting boundaries, and mastering emotional regulation, all while supporting empathic high-achievers on their journey toward self-compassion, work-life balance, and freedom from overthinking and people-pleasing habits.
SummaryThe One Boundary That Will End Your Over Functioning; Therapy Tips For Empathic High Achievers
Dec 2200:09:06Summary readyThe APP has arrived! https://studio.com/apps/rebecca If you like the podcast, you will love the Everyday Calm app. It is a daily program that teaches simple skills to reduce stress and anxiety in a few minutes a day. GET IT!Feeling pulled in too many directions is one of the fastest paths to emotional exhaustion.In this Take Out Therapy Mini Session, Rebecca Hunter teaches a simple one sentence boundary that helps protect your energy without guilt or confrontation.You will learn why burnout often comes from over responding, how subtle boundaries work better than dramatic ones, and two sentences you can use immediately to preserve your emotional bandwidth.Get more calm without disappearing from your life.Rebecca Hunter helps busy people reduce anxiety, stop overthinking, and build emotional balance. Get the Everyday Calm app for daily stress relief tools that take only a few minutes a day.Try the free class to understand and interrupt overthinking.Book a consultation call if you want straightforward, personal support.Book a session to get focused, therapist informed guidance with zero long term commitment.Get the BRICK to stop your cell phone addiction.Take Out Therapy is a podcast for people who want to reduce anxiety, recover from burnout, and live more authentically with topics ranging from mindfulness and emotional intelligence to emotional resilience and anxiety relief; discover actionable tips for managing stress, cultivating inner peace, overcoming overwhelm, setting boundaries, and mastering emotional regulation, all while supporting empathic high-achievers on their journey toward self-compassion, work-life balance, and freedom from overthinking and people-pleasing habits.
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