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Jan 2025
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5 Small Steps to Break Free from OCD in ...

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Welcome to episode 457. In this inspiring edition, we dive into how you can navigate OCD more effectively in the new year. Robert shares five actionable tips to help you break down the overwhelming challenge of OCD into manageable steps, empowering you to live a life of choice rather than fear.

Our journey begins with practical advice on focusing daily on value-driven actions, allowing the discomfort of OCD without resistance, and establishing a gratitude practice using music to enhance your emotional connection to gratitude. We also explore the power of small, incremental changes through resisting compulsions and the importance of celebrating every win, no matter how small.

Join us in this episode to break free from the oppressive hold of OCD, embrace hope, and awake to the possibilities of personal growth in 2025. Subscribe and leave a review to continue supporting this transformative journey

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Robert James Pizey (of Robert James Coaching) is not a medical professional and is also not providing therapy or medical treatment. Robert James Pizey recommends that anyone experiencing anxiety or OCD to seek professional medical help straight away to get a medical opinion and rule out other conditions or illnesses. The comments and opinions as written on this site are simply that and are not to be taken as professional medical opinions. Robert James Pizey provides coaching, education, accountability and peer support around Anxiety through his own personal experiences.

 

 

 

 

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