Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com In today's episode, we focus on the transformative power of choice and how it can lead to greater personal empowerment for those challenged by OCD. What You'll Learn Today: The role choice plays in managing OCD symptoms. Practical techniques for making empowered decisions despite OCD's influence. The psychological impact of making choices and how it can shift the narrative of OCD. As always I hope you enjoy and find it helpful. ...
Jan 21, 2024•16 min•Ep. 357
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Today we dive into the world of digital solutions designed to support individuals living with mental health struggles and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This episode unpacks a variety of innovative apps and tech tools that are making managing OCD a much more interactive and engaging experience. What's in This Episode: Introduction about tech & OCD and a caveat - Although tech can be helpful, we should also use it in a ...
Jan 17, 2024•21 min•Ep. 356
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Welcome to latest episode of the OCD & Anxiety Podcast where each week we explore how to take back control from OCD. In this episode, "From Intrusive Thoughts to Inner Peace," we delve deep into advanced coping mechanisms that go beyond the basics. Whether you're a mental health enthusiast, someone living with OCD, or a supportive friend or family member, there’s something here for everyone in our inclusive community. In Thi...
Jan 13, 2024•19 min•Ep. 355
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Relationship OCD is an often misunderstood form of OCD. People can sometimes even question if it's actually a thing at all. ´Doesn't everyone worry abut their relationships?´is a common remark. But when normal concerns and worries turn into obsessions that consume your days, when anxiety about whether to end a relationship or remain, is crushing your spirit and making git feel impossible to enjoy your relationship, then you may ...
Jan 10, 2024•19 min•Ep. 354
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Perhaps one of the most important things in overcoming OCD is learning how to feel our emotions. We may come up with all sorts of reasons for why we shouldn't do this. Or we might know that we need to do it, but simply convince ourselves that we don't have the time. When we do find the time to feel our emotions on a regular basis it's amazing what can happen with OCD. Again it isn't going to be the perfect 'cure all' that many p...
Jan 06, 2024•20 min•Ep. 353
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Many people just do not understand OCD. Some might have empathy and really try to get it, but others simply do not understand just how difficult OCD is to manage. The image of OCD in popular culture is people who like to keep things orderly or who simply like to clean their hands a little more than the average person. These vague and simplified understandings of OCD serve to undermine people who are struggling with it. This is n...
Jan 03, 2024•17 min•Ep. 352
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com It doesn't matter how long OCD might having been controlling your life, at any moment you can start to turn things around. Today's episode is all about making the most of 2024 by deterring how you are going to get OCD under control this year. Thank you so much for listening throughout the year and I very much look forward to making many more OCD and anxiety podcasts in 2024. Perhaps 2024 is the year you get OCD under control.- D...
Dec 30, 2023•14 min•Ep. 351
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com It's a bit of a funny title for today's podcast, but what I'm really trying to get at is the importance of determining where your attention goes when it comes to OCD. Do we allow it to wander? Or do we get it fully under our control, so that we can keep it where we need it. Remember OCD is not the boss and we can do so much more than we think. Taking control of attention and focus is a big part of this. Want to support the podca...
Dec 27, 2023•16 min•Ep. 350
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Christmas is an incredibly important time of year, but as we know, OCD likes to attack those important things. Whether Christmas is difficult or not this year for you, try to keep in mind that it's just a passing moment, more often than not it's over before it's started and the new year is here. At Christmas I like to focus on what I have achieved over the year, the achievements I've made, large or small and the improvements I'v...
Dec 23, 2023•17 min•Ep. 349
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Does ERP always work for OCD is a question that I often hear. The research shows that ERP really does work well for OCD, so why do some people find that it doesn't work for them? Today we take a look at some of the problems people can encounter with ERP to help you find find ways to overcome those problems. In my personal experience exposure work is an important part of the puzzle with overcoming OCD and if it isn't working, tha...
Dec 20, 2023•17 min•Ep. 348
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com In today's episode I talk about the concept of compassionate determination and how it has helped me to overcome OCD. It's a process that evolves getting in the face of OCD and refusing to let it rule our lives. I hope you enjoy and if you have any questions then please feel free to let me know. Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Checkout my Patreon tiers. www.patreon.com/user?u=880...
Dec 16, 2023•15 min•Ep. 347
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Today's episode is all about the importance of acceptance and why accepting OCD does not mean that you are simply giving in to it. In my experience acceptance is more about learning how to allow the difficult sensations, thoughts and demands for certainty that OCD so often creates. By bring acceptance to these challenges we can actually learn how to transcend them. I hope you enjoy and find it helpful. Want to support the podcas...
Dec 13, 2023•13 min•Ep. 346
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Checkout my Patreon tiers. www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 Today I chat with Angie Read about overcoming adversity and dealing with anxiety and change. Angie Read is a driven and devoted mother of three who had a massive stroke at age 46. She had a career she loved and thrived in, one she never expected to be ripped away without warning. Following...
Dec 09, 2023•33 min•Ep. 345
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Checkout my Patreon tiers. www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 Having a plan and knowing what you can fall back on in everyday life with OCD is an important part of overcoming the challenges that it presents. In my experience, when we have a good idea of the best tools for getting ourselves unhooked from our obsessions in typical day to day settings, ...
Dec 06, 2023•20 min•Ep. 344
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Checkout my Patreon tiers. www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 Today I speak with business thought leader, speaker and mental health expert Nick Jonsson. We cover a lot of ground including, anxiety, loneliness, struggles with addiction, speaking up about mental health, suicide and much more. Nick has a book called Executive Loneliness which you can fi...
Dec 02, 2023•39 min•Ep. 343
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Checkout my Patreon tiers. www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 Today's episode is all about what to do when we find ourselves second guessing decisions, both large and small. The temptation in these situations is to go into the decisions and to to look for perfection. Decision making OCD can be very difficult to deal with, but you don't have to stay s...
Nov 29, 2023•17 min•Ep. 342
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Checkout my Patreon tiers, any help is much appreciated :) www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 Is it a contradiction to talk about mindful obsessions? In my experience no, we can become much more mindful of our obsessions and in the process begin to transform them. I hope you enjoy and if you have any questions, then please let me know. Disclaimer: Ro...
Nov 25, 2023•15 min•Ep. 341
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Checkout my Patreon tiers, any help is much appreciated :) www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 One of the questions I get asked a lot about OCD is 'because I've been struggling with OCD for so long, does that mean I'm always going to be stuck'? It is of course a very negative question, but I totally get where it is coming from. Many people fear being ...
Nov 22, 2023•12 min•Ep. 340
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Checkout my Patreon tiers, any help is much appreciated :) www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 Many people with OCD struggle with the fear of making mistakes. A big part of getting over this is in my experiences learning how to allow ourselves to make mistakes sometimes. My view is taken from the work of Carol Dwek who pioneered the idea of having a g...
Nov 18, 2023•16 min•Ep. 339
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Checkout my Patreon tiers, any help is much appreciated :) www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 What do we mean by OCD? Apart from the obvious, OCD can at times be quite mystifying. In today's episode we aim to take back control by demystifying OCD. We do this by getting back to basics and really trying to understand what OCD is and how we can learn to...
Nov 15, 2023•19 min•Ep. 338
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Check out my Patreon tiers, any help is much appreciated :) www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 Today's episode is all about counting compulsions and OCD. This is something that impact many different people and in different ways. Often people get so used to counting, that they almost forget that they are doing it. For other counting compulsions might ...
Nov 11, 2023•16 min•Ep. 337
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com To really be able to deal with OCD we have to have good understanding that OCD is not out to get us, but that it is a habit we have picked up over time. Understanding OCD is about knowing why we perform compulsions and how we can let go of this behaviour. I hope you enjoy and find it helpful. Disclaimer: Robert James Pizey (of Robert James Coaching) is not a medical professional and is also not providing therapy or medical treat...
Nov 08, 2023•12 min•Ep. 336
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com When I was really struggling I would often hear about self-compassion but it didn't really make that much sense to me. I would keep asking myself what really is self-compassion for OCD. In today's episode we explore this and find out more. I hope you enjoy and find it helpful. Disclaimer: Robert James Pizey (of Robert James Coaching) is not a medical professional and is also not providing therapy or medical treatment. Robert Jam...
Nov 04, 2023•11 min•Ep. 335
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com These three tips for calming the nervous system when OCD gets out of hand are very helpful. In the past I have so often found myself caught up in racing thought and negativity, but realising that I could calm my nervous system down has been a real game changer for me. I hope you enjoy and find it helpful :) Disclaimer: Robert James Pizey (of Robert James Coaching) is not a medical professional and is also not providing therapy o...
Nov 01, 2023•21 min•Ep. 334
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Today I chat with wellness expert & meditation teacher Tom Cronin. Tom spent 26 years in finance markets as one of Australia’s leading bond and swap brokers. He discovered meditation in the early stages of his career, when the anxiety and chaos he was experiencing had hit a crisis point, and it completely transformed his world, both personally and professionally. Founder of The Stillness Project, a global movement to inspire...
Oct 28, 2023•50 min•Ep. 333
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Is it an OCD thought or not? This questions can be very hard for a lot of people with OCD. It's almost as if trying to get to the bottom of whether a thought is OCD is the most pressing one of all. But learning to let go of this incessant search for certainty is an essential skill for overcoming OCD. Today I discuss my struggles with trying to work out if a thought is OCD or not and how I try to let this go. I hope you enjoy and...
Oct 25, 2023•15 min•Ep. 332
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Check out my Patreon tiers, any help is much appreciated :) www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 Today I discuss why I believe most people can do a lot more than they think. I hope you enjoy and find it helpful. Disclaimer: Robert James Pizey (of Robert James Coaching) is not a medical professional and is also not providing therapy or medical treatment...
Oct 21, 2023•17 min•Ep. 331
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Check out my Patreon tiers, any help is much appreciated :) www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 Today's episode is all about exploring our emotions, rather than habitually pushing them away. I hope you find the meditation helpful and if you have any questions, then do please let me know. Disclaimer: Robert James Pizey (of Robert James Coaching) is not...
Oct 18, 2023•15 min•Ep. 330
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Check out my Patreon tiers, any help is much appreciated :) www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 Today I look at the painful reality of why so many people with OCD find it difficult to be self-compassionate. I hope you enjoy and find it helpful. Disclaimer: Robert James Pizey (of Robert James Coaching) is not a medical professional and is also not prov...
Oct 14, 2023•19 min•Ep. 329
Book your free session directly, visit: www.robertjamescoaching.com Want to support the podcast in return for exclusive content and more access to me? Check out my Patreon tiers, any help is much appreciated :) www.patreon.com/user?u=88044382 In today's episode I speak with the fantastic Paul Mc Carroll for World Mental Health Day. We discuss Paul's top tips for managing OCD. I hope you enjoy. To find out more about Paul you can check out his website: https://www.befreefromocd.com Or you can fin...
Oct 11, 2023•29 min•Ep. 328
