Rebecca Hunter, MSW
Take Out Therapy: End Overthinking & Overwhelm for Empathic High Achievers
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 mome...
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Rebecca Hunter, MSW
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Feb 6, 2026
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Episodes
The ONLY Place to Begin Personal Growth Work for Less Overwhelm, Overthinking & More Inner Peace, Self Love 25.07.2025 17:15
The 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! If you're trying to work on yourself—but feel like you're getting nowhere...THIS is the clarity you've been waiting for. In this episode, I’ll share my exact therapy-informed...
How to Let Go of Control for Less Overthinking, Overwhelm and a More Peaceful Life 21.07.2025 8:31
The 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! You’ve been taught there’s a right way to do life. But what if that entire narrative is… wrong? In this short Mini Session, I’ll offer a totally different perspective that mig...
3 Life Changing Ways You Can Improve Your Overthinking Problem and Be More Present 18.07.2025 20:58
The 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! In this episode, you’ll discover three powerful mindset shifts that will completely change the way you move through life—starting today. As I reflect on my 52nd birthday (whil...
When You're Sick, Exhausted or Overwhelmed, This Therapy Tool Will Help 14.07.2025 11:17
The 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! Ever feel worse about being sick than the sickness itself? In this mini session, I share a simple but powerful mindset shift for those moments when exhaustion hits and self-cr...
Reset Overwhelm With a Simple Therapy Tool for People Pleasers & High Achievers 04.07.2025 9:49
The 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 stretched too thin? This episode introduces a ridiculously simple therapy-based tool to help you assess your energy, understand your burnout, and reset with clarity. I...
When You're Drowning In Distraction Mindfulness Based Therapy Tools Will Help 27.06.2025 26:22
The 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! Is distraction quietly wrecking your ability to focus, connect, and feel like yourself? In this episode of Take Out Therapy , Rebecca Hunter explores how technology-fueled dis...
The Compelling Question You Need To Answer When You're Empathic 23.06.2025 6:03
The 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! Are you taking on more than your share of the emotional load? In this short episode, I ask one powerful question that might shift how you walk through the world this week. If...
Highly Sensitive People Are Gifted & Challenged With Empathy and Overthinking 20.06.2025 20:33
The 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! Being highly sensitive doesn’t mean you’re broken—it means your brain is wired for depth, empathy, and perception. But in a noisy, chaotic world, that can lead to overwhelm, b...
Simple Relationship Improvement Advice From The Therapy Office 16.06.2025 7:09
The 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! In this short therapy episode, discover how to reconnect in relationships that feel off—even when the distance feels unfixable. Whether it’s a parent, partner, or friend, emot...
The Empath's Guide to Family Drama 13.06.2025 14:43
The 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 off in your family relationships but can’t quite name why? In this therapy-informed episode, discover why emotionally attuned people often feel the most destabilized b...
Are You Living In Your Head? Why Overthinking Is Easier Than Presence. 09.06.2025 6:16
The 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! Are you always stuck in your head—organizing, fixing, overthinking everything to death? In this short episode, Rebecca explores why we retreat into rumination, and what it tak...
Rumination is a Type of Overthinking That Makes You Lose Trust In Yourself 06.06.2025 16:00
The 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 feels productive—but it’s actually confidence poison. In this episode, we unpack how endlessly rehashing conversations and analyzing every detail doesn’t make thing...
"Ask Before You Help" Is A Simple Therapy Tool For Overwhelm 02.06.2025 7:13
The 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! Always stepping in to help—even when no one asked? This short episode offers a powerful reality check for empathic overdoers. When helping becomes a habit, not a conversation,...
How Empathic People Get Stuck in Toxic Relationship Dynamics 30.05.2025 26:22
The 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! Always the calm one? The fixer? The peacekeeper? When empathy goes unchecked, it can become a trap—especially in toxic relationship dynamics. In this episode, Rebecca explores...
The Easiest Therapy Reset You’re Not Using (Yet) for Overthinking and Emotional Overwhelm 26.05.2025 6:21
The 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, cranky, or stuck in your head? There’s one simple, sensory trick that can reset your mood, calm your nervous system, and bring you back to yourself—withou...
Emotional Explosions Will Blow Up Your Peace Without This Therapy Based Plan 23.05.2025 19:42
The 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! Ever felt like your reaction was way bigger than the situation? In this episode, therapist Rebecca Hunter breaks down the real reason we lose it—and why it’s not your fault. L...
Stop Mind Reading and Focus on Yourself for Peace - 5 Minute Mini for the Exhausted Empath 19.05.2025 5:46
The 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! In this therapy-informed mini session, Rebecca Hunter shares how your empathic mind reading—constantly trying to figure out how others feel and what they need—is quietly exhau...
The One Therapy Phrase That Stops Overthinking and Emotional Spirals Fast 16.05.2025 19:18
The 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! What if one simple phrase could stop emotional spirals in their tracks? In this episode, we explore how to use “The story I’m telling myself…”—a powerful insight from Brené Br...
Mindful or Just on Autopilot? A Therapy Take on Overthinking 12.05.2025 6:51
The 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! In this short and powerful Mini Session, we’re unpacking the real difference between mindfulness and mindlessness—and why it matters if you’re an empathic overthinker. You’ll...
When Unwanted Thoughts Hijack Your Peace: Therapy for Overthinking 09.05.2025 15:25
Feeling like your brain just won’t shut up ? You’re not imagining it. In this episode of Take Out Therapy , we’re diving into the relentless stream of automatic thoughts—the mental chatter that keeps empathic high achievers locked in self-judgment, overthinking, and emotional overload. You’ll learn: - how to recognize these habitual thought loops for what they are (hint: not facts), -how they hija...
From Overthinking To Empowered: The 5-Minute Empathic Practice That Works 05.05.2025 6:22
Do you feel trapped in a loop of overthinking that drains your confidence and energy? This mini episode delivers a quick, therapy-informed mindset shift designed specifically for empathic people who tend to spiral into self-doubt. If your inner critic is loud and relentless, this tool will help you hit pause and shift direction—fast. Learn a simple CBT-inspired practice called "labeling" to interr...
When You Feel Like You’re Not Enough Try These 3 Simple Therapy Hacks 02.05.2025 24:30
Want to work with Rebecca in her 90 Day Reset Program? Head to www.takeouttherapy.com for more info! Feel like you’re constantly falling short—no matter how much you give, do, or succeed? That quiet background hum of “I’m not enough” might seem like just a thought… but it’s actually shaping everything: your relationships, your stress levels, and your sense of self-worth. In this episode of Take Ou...
Handling Big Emotions Without Overthinking (Therapy Tools Inside) 28.04.2025 6:53
In this Mini Session, you'll discover why emotions sometimes feel way bigger than the situation at hand — and how to meet them without overthinking. Learn a simple therapy-informed approach to handle emotional waves with more curiosity and less criticism. 🎧 Tune in for a quick mindset shift and real tools you can use this week. Rebecca Hunter, MSW helps empathic high-achievers (like you) learn pr...
Manage Your Anger Without It Hijacking Your Life: Therapist-Backed Strategies For Empathic Overthinkers 25.04.2025 15:07
For more helpful resources head to TakeOutTherapy.com ! Are you tired of feeling like your anger is running the show — leaving you overwhelmed, overthinking, and exhausted? For empathic high achievers, unmanaged anger quietly chips away at mental well-being, fueling overwork and emotional burnout. In this episode, discover why anger feels so unbearable, what it’s really trying to protect you from,...
Why is It So Hard to Ask For Help?! 6 Minute Mini Session to Set Boundaries and Cultivate Healthy Relationships. 21.04.2025 7:01
Feeling overwhelmed before the week even starts? In this short Mini Session, you’ll learn 3 questions to reduce overwhelm, stop spinning , and get grounded, fast. These check-ins will help you clear your mind, manage stress, and create more ease in your week. Take a few minutes to reset and start your Monday with clarity and calm. Rebecca Hunter, MSW helps empathic high-achievers (like you) learn...
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