You are not your anxious body or your looping thoughts. The feeling of I is the rider. The body is the horse. The rider can stay steady even when the horse is not. Video 13, in plain language.
Who Is the Feeling of I? The Rider Can Be Calm When the Horse Is Anxious Read More »
Anxiety keeps you stuck, proving the latest fear is right. Learn how content, context and perspective, Warrior, Settler, Nomad personalities, and iStory ERP help you choose a happier life over winning the argument with your mind.
Right or Happy? Content, Personality and iStory ERP for OCD Read More »
Anxiety and OCD keep you stuck in the content of the latest thought. Learn why moving to context and changing perspective is how you grow into someone the old loop cannot run.
Get Out of the Content: Context and Perspective in OCD Read More »
You do not see the world as it is. You see your brain’s best guess. How your clumsy senses keep anxiety and OCD alive, and how iStory ERP, plus a new inner briefing, retrains what you do with those feelings.
Your Senses Are Trickable. Retrain Them to Recover from Anxiety Read More »
OCD runs on doubt, fear and pessimism. Lasting change comes from becoming someone who practises trust, courage, and optimism—and uses iStory ERP on the life they actually want, not just the latest feared thought.
Overcome OCD: From Doubt and Fear to Trust and Courage Read More »
Your beliefs decide what short-term memory becomes long-term memory — and what the Reticular Activating System lets you notice. Sleep clears the desk each night. The filing rules decide what you wake up believing.
How Anxious Beliefs Filter Memory and Your RAS Read More »
Happiness, forgiveness and courage are not moods you wait for. They are conscious attitudes you can choose and act on — so your inner reality improves even when the outer world does not. This is a common-sense way of living.
Positive Conscious Attitudes: The One Thing You Can Actually Choose Read More »
Anxiety sometimes covers for missing practical life skills. Learn how underdeveloped abilities in communication, decision-making and self-assertion can quietly maintain anxiety — and what to do about it.
OCD Sabotage and the Stories We Call Truth Read More »
Anxiety sometimes covers for missing practical life skills. Learn how underdeveloped abilities in communication, decision-making and self-assertion can quietly maintain anxiety — and what to do about it.
Could Poor Life Skills Be Feeding Your Anxiety? Read More »
Real recovery from anxiety and Pure O means becoming someone new, not returning to who you were. Stop the victim stance, take action, and build a stronger self. With the right guidance and lots of effort massive change is possible. Becoming Someone New: The Real Work of Recovering from Anxiety and Pure O Many people
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Long-term anxiety often trains people to live in constant preparation instead of actual living. Learn why this pattern develops and how stepping out of it rebuilds courage and presence.
How Anxiety Keeps You Stuck in Preparation Mode Read More »
iStory ERP is a practical method for changing the internal stories that keep anxiety and Pure OCD going. Learn how this form of Exposure & Response Prevention rewires daily thinking patterns.
iStory ERP for Anxiety & OCD Recovery by John Glanvill Read More »
Pure OCD thrives by shocking you with thoughts that contradict who you really are. Learn why it is a system rather than a personal failing, and how stopping the mental rituals and applying ERP to real life can starve it of power. Pure OCD: Why It Attacks What You Value Most (This is a
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Guilt explained in 3 minutes! Watch this video. The simplest way to understand guilt is as a contract between two people: the guilter, who tries to impose it, and the guiltee, who receives it.
Guilt Is a Contract — And You Don’t Have to Sign It Read More »
This is why you can’t think your way out of anxiety! It is doing ERP that changes anxiety, which is facing your fears and living your life.
Why Anxiety Happens: Emotional Creatures Who Learned to Think Read More »
Only you are responsible for the experience of your life! A practical look at how your inner subjective reality influences your outer subjective reality and, thus, your life experience.
Your Inner Reality Shapes Your Outer Reality | The Calmness in Mind Process Read More »
(LoC) describes how much a person believes they can control the events of their life. External: Out of Control. Internal: In Control and responsible (to the best of your ability) for what happens to you.
Locus of Control – Where is Yours? Read More »
Avoiding fear keeps life small and fuels anxiety. Learn how to find more calmness, courage and optimism with common-sense teachings.
Is avoiding discomfort a sensible strategy? Read More »
This fearful condition is a subset of OCD based in fear and control (fear of being out of control) and a repressed dominant nature.
Emetophobia, Fear of vomiting Read More »
The painful truth is… These are based in anxiety, using energy unwisely, people-pleasing, being too nice and having a repressed dominance.
Chronic Fatigue, ME & Fibromyalgia Read More »
Characterised by a sense of disconnection from reality, oneself, or the environment. But it is a trick (of anxiety/thinking), as we dissociate to fall asleep, lose ourselves in music, etc. And when we die, we dissociate from matter back to energy – our Soul.
Help for Disassociation, Depersonalisation, Derealisation Disorder DDD Read More »
OCD focused on abstract, philosophical, spiritual, or existential themes. Often found in very clever, creative, but rigidly logical personality types. The OCD looks for answers to unanswerable questions; it is a trap/loop.
Esoteric (OCD) Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Read More »
Those who act, then think, then adjust, then react will always outperform those who sit and think (or worry)… Step up, take action, engage – play the game!
Become the Lead Character in This, Your Game of Life! Read More »
This video and workbook help you answer those questions and teach you how to program your brain in those directions.
Who do you wish to become & and desire for your life? Read More »
When standard approaches leave you stuck, the next ERP step is to test the non-linear: energy, trauma release, and higher-frequency states—without needing proof first.
Applying ERP to Energy and Universal Consciousness Read More »
Effective ERP means acting toward the life you want while anxiety is still present. Learn how to reverse negative patterns by repeating new intentions.
Tips & Techniques for Effective ERP (Exposure & Response Therapy) Read More »
Positive ERP uses real-world action data points and optimistic stories to rewrite the old system—rather than reinforcing the negative old one.
Using ERP to Consciously Hack your Unconscious Brain! Read More »
The missing piece of ERP is the new internal Story (iStory) of who you will become after anxiety abates. Learn how anxiety scares you with the opposite of who you are and what you can do about it.
iStory ERP – The New Gold Standard for Exposure & Response Prevention. Read More »
Common sense says building resilience and immunity by exposure to life and gaining more energy from food and the sun, and learning to self-reassure and trust are key to recovery.
From Health Anxiety (Hypochondria) to Trusting Health & Life.. Read More »
Most people never ask how their partner actually wants to be loved — or how to influence their own inner chemistry. Practical tools from Lecture 41.
Smarter Relationships & Accessing your Feel Good Chemicals Read More »
