468 Mindfulness Exercise for OCD
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Release Date: 01/14/2026
Bonus Episode: What to Say When Your Brain Freezes in Conversation: Social Anxiety Rescue Script
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
In this episode, I talk about what to do when your brain freezes in conversation and social anxiety suddenly takes over. So many people experience that moment where their mind goes blank and they immediately assume they’ve failed, but I want to help you understand that this is a freeze response, not a personal failure. When anxious brains feel pressure, freezing is a very common response.
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480 People Pleasers and the Shame They Hide (with Maggie Nick)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
In this heartfelt episode, I sit down with Maggie Nick to explore why so many “good kids” grow into adults carrying deep shame, people-pleasing patterns, and fear of disappointing others—and how healing begins with compassion and understanding.
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Bonus Episode: The 3 Hidden Causes of Your UNEXPECTED Panic Attacks (And How to Fix Them)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
In this episode, I talk about why panic attacks so often feel like they come out of nowhere when, in reality, there are usually hidden triggers building beneath the surface.
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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
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
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.
info_outlineIn this episode, I share the one mindfulness skill I teach every OCD client to help you respond to intrusive thoughts without getting stuck in rumination, urgency, or compulsions—especially when you’re feeling overwhelmed.