Bonus Ep: How to FORGIVE Yourself for Intrusive Thoughts: Self-Compassion for OCD Shame & Guilt
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Release Date: 03/17/2026
479 Why the Most Responsible People Struggle in Silence (with Dr Margaret Rutherford)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
In this episode, we explore how perfectly hidden depression can live beneath strength and success, and how learning to gently open up can begin to set you free.
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Bonus Episode: Cognitive Defusion: 4 Techniques to Detach from Intrusive Thoughts (Mental Compulsion Tool)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
n this episode, I teach you a simple but powerful shift called cognitive defusion, a way to create space between you and your intrusive thoughts. So often, thoughts can feel urgent, dangerous, or completely true, like warnings you have to act on. But just because a thought feels real doesn’t mean it is.
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478 OCD Core Fears with Michelle Massi
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
If you find yourself compulsively Googling symptoms and feeling more anxious than reassured, this episode offers a compassionate, evidence-based 3-step plan to help you break free from cyberchondria and health anxiety.
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Bonus Episode: OCD Subtypes Explained: Which ONE Is Holding You Hostage?
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
In this episode, I walk you through the many ways OCD can show up, because it’s not just about germs or checking. OCD can attach itself to anything that matters to you, like relationships, health, morality, identity, or past experiences. If you’ve ever felt confused or alone in your thoughts, I want you to know there’s a reason your OCD looks the way it does, and you’re not alone in this.
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477 When Your OCD Brain Tricks You
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This week’s episode is a heartfelt and practical conversation about how OCD can change shape over time, the ways it tricks the brain, and the grounding tools that can help you move through fear with more courage and self-compassion.
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Bonus Ep: How to FORGIVE Yourself for Intrusive Thoughts: Self-Compassion for OCD Shame & Guilt
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
In this episode, we talk about one of the most painful parts of OCD and anxiety: the shame that comes from intrusive thoughts. Many people experience sudden thoughts that are violent, sexual, blasphemous, or completely against their values—and when they do, they often assume it must mean something terrible about them.
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How to SILENCE Your Inner Critic: 3 Self-Compassion Skills To Use IMMEDIATELY 476
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
In this episode, I walk you through how to retrain your inner critic using science-backed self-compassion skills so you can reduce anxiety, increase resilience, and build a healthier relationship with your own mind.
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475 Social Anxiety TRICK: Focus on THIS ONE THING to Instantly Feel More Confident in Groups
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
In this episode, I share a powerful mindset shift that helps you stop performing in social situations and start connecting, even when anxiety comes along for the ride. If social situations leave you replaying conversations for hours afterward, this episode is going to give you a completely different way to respond.
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474 ERP at Home: How to Build an Exposure Plan Without a Therapist
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
In this episode, I walk you step-by-step through how to build your own exposure and response prevention (ERP) plan so you can start breaking the OCD and anxiety cycle with clarity, courage, and compassion.
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473 Mindfulness vs. Distraction: Which is Better for Anxiety & Panic? (A Therapist Explains)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
In this episode, I break down the difference between mindfulness and distraction for anxiety so you can stop second-guessing yourself and start responding in ways that actually support long-term recovery.
info_outlineIn this episode, we talk about one of the most painful parts of OCD and anxiety: the shame that comes from intrusive thoughts. Many people experience sudden thoughts that are violent, sexual, blasphemous, or completely against their values—and when they do, they often assume it must mean something terrible about them.