OCD Coaching Videos
How to Stop Hand Washing with ERPT
My wife, who has been a great ERP Coach for me, along with my therapist, encouraged me to make this one to help others and help myself too. Man, I tell ya' ~ this one is hard for me to edit and watch myself. I mean, who wants to watch their own disorder?. So, be...
Mindfulness
James Callner, OCD Educator, introduces you to an easy way to get into Mindfulness anytime you are anxious. https://youtu.be/i4MvlIT_Jq4
Anxiety First Aid
Part One. James Callner offers practical simple tools to bring down your anxiety. Tools he has learned over 32 years of challenging OCD and anxiety. https://youtu.be/9Vs8zhfe-2g
An Anchor to Manage Your OCD Thoughts
James Callner OCD Educator, talks ,via Skype, to OCD Specialist, Sharon Davies, Director of The OCD Treatment Centre, Taunton England. Discussion of a specific "anchor" to manage your OCD thoughts. https://youtu.be/9c8QJP5cTgw
How to Calm Your Thoughts
James Callner talks about a CBT method to directly calm your obsessional thinking caused by OCD. https://youtu.be/yihcWzxoTfI
How to Breathe Down Anxiety
James Callner shows you how to breathe anxiety away. https://youtu.be/4KCvfTyODIQ
Will I Ever Get Better?
James Callner talks about how we can and will get better from OCD. https://youtu.be/hPoLGrzDljE
Name It to Tame It
Start Your Day Any Time
James Callner talks about a great CBT anchor he learned to tame anxiety. https://youtu.be/fsavWchaTJM
Monkey Mind & OCD
“Ancient Eastern religions and cultures have an intriguing metaphor for the typical human mind, describing human consciousness as “monkey mind.” According to Hindu and Zen Buddhist traditions, the untrained mind is a like a cluttered room filled with wild, unruly,...
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OCD Always Lies
Well, does OCD always lie? It’s safe enough to say that OCD always lies because the percentage of truth within an OCD thought is so low.
I asked a well-known OCD therapist and director of The OCD Treatment Centre in England this exact question: “Can I say to myself and to others whom I help that OCD always lies?”
She replied, “Absolutely, because the outrageous thoughts just don’t hold up to reality enough.”
Is there any amount of truth to an OCD thought? I have to say, in some cases, yes. But there is also some truth in the thought that a meteor the exact size of your house will land on your house tonight. Get my drift?
In my experience, I need to acknowledge and accept that there may be some truth to some OCD thoughts and that accep- tance is part of recovery too. But it’s so minuscule that I can hold onto the anchor that OCD always lies. You can too. JC 💙
God, grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and, the wisdom to know the difference.
The Serenity Prayer is something I have used for over 35+ years to calm myself down. I'm not a very religious person but I do believe in some kind of higher power - whatever you might call it is up to you. But, if you have trouble with the "G" word, I suggest you replace it with your name. And, replace the word "me" with "yourself". It would read like this for me:
Jim, grant yourself the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Hey, still just as powerful. JC 💙🤟