I’ve joined the guys on the Rust Belt Running podcast twice now for interviews. It’s been awesome to explore a mental fitness approach with a podcast that’s focused on running and physical fitness. And of course everybody that goes running, also has a brain, which means they also have mental health. No matter how far…
We have this strange approach to incentivizing change and growth, like you can win a gold medal for suffering, and somehow that suffering is going to make us perform better. The thing is, all we’re learning is that stress and anxiety and fear and struggle are prerequisites to going where we want to go. And then we wonder why we’re always so stressed, always taking on more work than we can handle, always leaving things to the last minute…
The past year has been wildly disruptive to community and social relationships. I did not expect to find more community in a year of so much isolation, but that’s what happened with the Mental Fitness Discord Server. It was totally unexpected. I only knew of Discord as something for video games. So when a viewer…
It helped me with recovery to recognize that judgments are the first compulsion. Non-judgment is something I now work on frequently with clients. We have a superpowered label maker in our skulls. It’s incredibly useful, but when we start slapping those labels on random brain indigestion, we can create so much struggle for ourselves.If we…
I get asked questions like this a lot when I’m doing presentations or Q&As on Twitch and YouTube. The simple fact is I’m not struggling with or managing or dealing with any of the mental illness diagnoses I had in the past. I’m not managing OCD or GAD or depression or addiction. And it’s been…
In my book, YOU ARE NOT A ROCK, I shared a bunch about the anxieties and compulsions I struggled with around driving. I wasn’t just anxious. I would see terrible things happening to other people, worry about them happening to me, be constantly checking my memories about driving experiences I had in the past. So…
I always enjoy collaborating with OCD UK because they have such a helpful focus on recovery and promoting effective treatments for overcoming OCD, so when they launched an online conference this year, hosted at “Hotel Recovery”, just as I’m wrapping up a decade post recovery, I figured it’d be a great time to talk about…
Something that helped me immensely with recovery was learning that I would experience whatever I believed was a valid reason to do compulsions. So if physical sensations and pain were reasons that made compulsions ok, then I’d be having all sorts of physical issues and checking Dr. Google or taking weird supplements. If real events…