Breaking Free from OCD, Anxiety & Stress with Matt Codde

In this episode, I want to talk about exposure and response prevention, commonly referred to as ERP. ERP is the process of experiencing a feared situation and preventing yourself from engaging in behaviors that will immediately relieve your fear. Through the process of ERP, we are able to reprogram and rewire the brain through neuroplasticity. We are also able to challenge and rebuild limiting bel...

In this episode, I want to talk about how to create change in your life. Most people look at change from an external perspective. This leads them to try to change things in the outside world. The problem with this approach is that there are too many things in the world outside of our control. So in today's episode, I want to offer a different route and I want to talk about changing the story we op...

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When it comes to OCD & Anxiety one of the things that keeps people stuck in the loop is a misunderstanding of the problem at hand. The first step to recovery, which is often the hardest, consists of shifting your perspective and the way you view your struggle with OCD & Anxiety. The reason is simple. How you understand a problem is going to determine the actions you take to resolve it. The...

Today I want to talk about the power of gratitude. Thanksgiving is just a few days away and it is by far one of my favorite holidays to celebrate. Not only because we get to eat great food, but because it's a reminder for us to appreciate the amazing parts of life we often overlook, and take for granted. In this episode, we will talk about all the great blessings you have in your life, how to appr...

In this episode, I want to talk about the power of acceptance and its role in OCD & Anxiety recovery. The reason we have difficulty with acceptance is that we are often clinging to something. Oftentimes we are clinging to an idea of a past or future that we would prefer. So the first step of acceptance is letting go of our attachment to the alternative. Only then, can we begin to move towards...

In this episode, I want to talk about the importance of getting the proper guidance with OCD & Anxiety Recovery. When it comes to OCD & Anxiety recovery, everyone has their own unique journey and experience. Like almost anything else in life, in order to be successful in your recovery, one of the most important things you can do is get guidance from someone who has already been successful....

In this episode, I want to talk about the experience of living with OCD & Anxiety. Being open and transparent about your experience with OCD & Anxiety is difficult, most people never actually take this step. But it is such a critical part of the recovery process. I often hear a lot of frustrations from my clients about how hard it is to effectively communicate the experience of OCD & A...

Hey Everyone, Welcome to Part 3 of our series on Overcoming Intrusive Taboo Thoughts with my amazing colleague and friend Kristina Orlova who also hosts the OCD Whisperer Podcast. In part 1, Kristina and I both opened up about our personal journeys with OCD and provided an overview on common themes with intrusive thoughts. In part 2, we broke down different mental and physical compulsions that peo...

Hey Everyone, Welcome to Part 2 of our series on Overcoming Intrusive Taboo Thoughts with my amazing colleague and friend Kristina Orlova who also hosts the OCD Whisperer Podcast. In part 1, Kristina and I both opened up about our personal journeys with OCD and provided an overview on common themes with intrusive thoughts. In this episode we will be going into different mental and physical compuls...

Hey Everyone, I am excited to announce a Special 3-part series on Overcoming Intrusive Taboo Thoughts in honor of OCD awareness. This special 3 part series was recorded with my amazing colleague and friend Kristina Orlova who is a skilled clinician and OCD Expert and also hosts the OCD Whisperer Podcast. In part 1 of this series, Kristina and I both open up about our personal journeys with OCD and...

Welcome to OCD Awareness Week! Most of OCD awareness is geared towards helping the general public become more aware of OCD and the struggle of living day to day with OCD. And while I support this mission completely, I want to focus this episode on the importance of becoming more aware as individuals. Many people compartmentalize our struggle with OCD into boxes we feel comfortable addressing, and...

In this episode, I want to open up a broader discussion about mental health awareness. I know next week is officially OCD awareness week, but I wanted to start up the conversation early because there is simply too much to discuss to get it all don't in one week. And while it is great that we live in a time where these discussions are reaching broad audiences. Today I actually want to talk about th...

To put it very simply, the real problem with OCD and Anxiety is that our primal alarm system is going off when nothing is actually wrong. It is being set off by intrusive thoughts or “what if scenarios” about the past and future. The point is that your alarm system is trying to move you into survival mode when there is no danger. And the harder we try to resolve this possible threat, the more we i...

To put it very simply, the real problem with OCD and Anxiety is that our primal alarm system is going off when nothing is actually wrong. It is being set off by intrusive thoughts or “what if scenarios” about the past and future. The point is that your alarm system is trying to move you into survival mode when there is no danger. And the harder we try to resolve this possible threat, the more we i...

In this episode, I want to talk about labels and why I believe they are dangerous. This is going to be an episode that branches into the broader concept of mental health and general well-being. We live in a strange time right now where people are carelessly labeling each other and more importantly dehumanizing one another, which is an incredibly dangerous thing to do. In this episode, I just want...

When going through OCD & Anxiety Treatment it is so important to understand how we misinterpret intrusive thoughts and paradoxically give them power over our lives.  When we have intrusive thoughts we often feel compelled to solve them or try to get rid of them. But when we do that we indirectly validate them as a "real" problem which paradoxically makes our brain keep producing them. Onc...

When it comes to OCD Treatment one of the things we have to learn to navigate is the voice of the mind. I often like to use the concept of Propaganda with my clients when describing the voice of the mind. The definition of Propaganda is "communication that is primarily used to influence an audience and further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encoura...

In this series, I am discussing how to do ERP for Pure O OCD. Pure OCD or Purely obsessional OCD is a subtype of OCD where the individual struggles primarily with intrusive thoughts. In this episode, I am going to discuss some common mistakes people make and how to avoid them. Click here to support the show with a donation of your choice: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TZJ5KRSB7LY...