HOCD Harm OCD – Fear of Harming Others
I used to have Harm OCD – fills the mind with violent, dangerous intrusive thoughts the opposite of who you truly are. This is common and part of Pure OCD.
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The Many and Varied Types of OCD – But They are all just OCD!
OCD can attack through contamination, harm thoughts, relationships, health fears and many other themes — but the underlying pattern is the same. Learn why the content keeps changing and what actually helps.
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Sensorimotor OCD Help: Stop Monitoring Your Body & Start Living
Practical help for sensorimotor OCD. Learn why standard ERP can worsen Pure O symptoms and how Positive iStory ERP helps you trust your body and reclaim your life.
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Warriors, Settlers and Nomads, Clashing Personality
WSN – How childhood suppression of playfulness or dominance may feed adult anxiety or OCD — and how reclaiming those parts restores balance and energy.
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The Enneagram Personality Profiling Process
I have found the Enneagram personality profiling method to be a very useful tool to use as part of becoming a new person who has less anxiety.
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Myers Briggs – MBTI Personality Profile
Understanding your MBTI personality is key to breaking the cycles of anxiety and depression. By gaining insight into your behaviours, you can identify patterns that contribute to these issues.
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Working on Your Half of a Relationship
You are only responsible for your half of the relationship. Learn why trying to control a partner’s feelings creates drama, and how clearer responsibility leads to calmer love.
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Who Am I? It’s a Big Question – Let me Help
Understanding your identity is a crucial aspect of recovering from anxiety or any mental health issue. My course delves into this topic in depth to assist you in discovering your true self.
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Epigenetics – How Environment and Thoughts Express Genes
Epigenetics shows that genes respond to your environment, stress and repeated patterns of thought — they are not a fixed destiny.
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What Does Spirituality Mean to Me?
I can’t prove to you that Nature possesses intelligence or that your soul continues to exist after your physical body expires. However, two things intrigue me:
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Smart Therapist Resources to Treat Anxiety / OCD
Clever videos from an Anxiety and OCD Therapy Specialist to help you treat people with anxiety disorders.
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Releasing Trapped Trauma or Stuck Energy
Anxiety (or a panic attack) is often stuck energy that never finished moving through the system. Learn to release the trauma and painful, stuck energy. This is a game-changer.
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Interrupting Panic attacks and Calming Your Nerves
When anxiety rises, the body reacts as if the threat is real. Here’s the process to follow that will quiet your mind and calm your body.
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What is Depression & what can you do about it?
I escaped depression, and this is how I did it – you have to see it differently, let me show you.
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When Anxiety Escalates to OCD – Types of OCD
If anxiety is not sensibly treated with iStory ERP, it may escalate to OCD. Let me explain the many types of OCD.
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The Many Types of Anxiety Explained Clearly
We discuss the many strategies that our unconscious brain uses to trick (and self-sabotage) us into retreating from life through fear, worry, doubt and exhaustion with the condition we call anxiety.
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The Six-Month Anxiety Development Phase – John Glanvill
Anxiety rarely appears from nowhere. Learn how a six-month period of stress and depletion often precedes it — and why the trigger is not always the real cause.
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Our Body Thinks Our Brain’s Thoughts Are True!
Your body responds to thoughts as if they were real. Learn how mental patterns drive emotions, drain energy and keep anxiety alive — and why changing your story changes the body.
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Anxiety & OCD Treatment Course – Video 2 Review
You are less in control than you think. Learn how thoughts trigger the body, why the observer matters, and how understanding these parts of you reduces anxiety. Who Are You, Really? Thoughts, Feelings and the Observer (This piece is drawn from Lecture 2 of the Calmness in Mind course.) Most people assume they are in
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Time… The only reality is NOW! Live in the Now…
Most anxiety lives in imagined futures and most depression in rewritten pasts. Learn why there is only now — and how returning attention to the present reduces mental load.
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Pure O (OCD) – Obsessive & Compulsive Disorder
Pure OCD, or Purely Obsessional OCD, is a specific type of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. It is marked by intrusive and unwanted thoughts, known as obsessions, without the overt compulsions usually seen in OCD, like repetitive handwashing or checking behaviours.
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ERP – Exposure & Response Prevention Course
ERP works to reduce anxiety, and if you are not doing it, this is self-sabotage. My unique iStory ERP course deeply explains how to do it on your life as well as symptoms.
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What is Anxiety?
I have been working with anxiety for over two decades, and I think I know a lot about what it is – but more importantly, what you can do to escape it! You could read all the information below – or save time by starting my course, where my videos show you what is happening
Anxiety & OCD Recovery Course – Free Introduction Video
Check out the first video from my anxiety and OCD treatment program – this course works, and this first video is free.
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My Value To You is My Real World Experience (RWE)
I overcame anxiety, OCD and Bipolar, so I know what works and have been teaching The Calmness in Mind Process for 20 years. Here’s how I tested everything on myself.
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Demystifying the Symptoms of Anxiety
The symptoms of anxiety are just normal (or exhausted) natural bodily responses that occur at the wrong time, at the wrong intensity and for the wrong duration.
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Generalised Anxiety Disorder – GAD
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is the name given to any form of anxiety, severe worry or panic – where the individual can’t specifically say what is causing their overwhelming emotions or fear-based responses. What is GAD? GAD is one of the common forms of anxiety and often affects people who are quite clever, logical and
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John Glanvill Accreditations & Certifications Experience
John Glanvill was accredited in CBT, NLP, Board Certified Master Clinical Hypnotherapist, Diploma in Integrated Mind Therapy, MBTI, DISC & Enneagram Personality Profiling methodologies.
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OCD – Obsessive & Compulsive Disorder
OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, I believe, is a very misunderstood condition of the brain and body. These videos explain how I see OCD.
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Frequently Asked Questions About My Calmness Course
Here are some frequently asked questions about John Glanvill’s online anxiety and OCD education program and recovery course.
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