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 »
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 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 »
Anxious people already do ERP — but in the wrong direction! Learn how Negative ERP keeps the fear alive and how to reverse it with deliberate Positive Exposure ERP.
The Negative ERP Trap (Exposure & Response Prevention) Read More »
People with this are rarely fragile by nature. Often intelligent, emotionally intense, caring, stubborn and creative. They dislike conflict and have suppressed anger. Their natural dominance or playfulness was frequently constrained earlier in life.
Health Anxiety, Hypochondria and Contamination OCD Read More »
We are all made of energy. Depression is a lack of energy; anxiety is fearing the release of energy; and OCD is placing your energy on things not beneficial to your life.
It’s all about Energy! Viewing Life with an Energetic Lens Read More »
The art of knowing where your responsibilities end and the other person’s start! This is life-changing knowledge, especially for people-pleasers and those who are very nice…
Boundaries of Responsibility – Exploring and Resetting Them! Read More »
Procrastination is an unconscious choice that keeps a better life at arm’s length. Learn why action creates motivation — and how John Glanvill’s iStory ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) rewrites the fear story. Using Common Sense To Stop Procrastination Extract from lecture 44 of John Glanvill’s – The Calmness in Mind Process for your mental
How to stop procrastinating and get on with your life Read More »
Everything we can see and everything we can’t is energy. We sit within an ocean of energy. Trees, people, thoughts, emotions, the ground under our feet — all of it is vibrating, interacting and influencing what happens next.
Are Humans Affected by the Energy of Nature/Universe? Read More »
Today I’d like to explore OCD compulsions – whether they are good or bad, changeable or not, restrictive or empowering? I guess the first question to ask is “What is a compulsion?” We see compulsions as innately irresistible urges to do certain things that will avoid some form of pain (offering relief) or lead us to an action offering
OCD Compulsions Can’t (or Won’t) Ignore Them? Read More »
Learn the three practical modality questions that help to clarify how you (and they) actually need to give and receive love in a relationship.
How Do You Desire to be Loved? Do You Know? Read More »
How adopting genuinely new perspectives on energy, death, thinking , values, beliefs, opinions and other people can transform your experience of life.
Starve (the fear) of Anxiety by New Life Perspectives Read More »
We explore the shift from a conditioned small self to Big Self-Awareness. Practical insights on anxiety, Pure OCD, iStory ERP & becoming someone new for clever, exhausted overthinkers.
Move from Self-Consciousness to Loving Self-Awareness Read More »
This video shows you all the options for living life now, regardless of what happens after your death. Clever stuff. Let’s start now.
What Do You think Happens When You Die? Read More »
A great video exploring traps that keep anxious people stuck, how ADHD-type wiring is often a repressed superpower and ways to quiet the mind so intuition and clearer decisions can emerge.
Anxiety Traps, ADHD as a Superpower, Trust & Intuition Read More »
In this powerful video, we explore how most clever people with complex anxiety or Pure OCD are sabotaging their own recovery without realising it.
Truth, Sabotage & Reassurance in Complex Anxiety & OCD Read More »
Practical tools for rebuilding trust, optimism and temporary purpose when anxiety or OCD have left you feeling lost. The REPLICATOR model: reparenting yourself and shifting from fear to deliberate action. Trust, Optimism & Purpose (REPLICATOR Model) Long periods of anxiety or depression often leave people feeling detached from who they are and what they want.
Trust, Optimism & My REPLICATOR Model for Life Purpose Read More »
My definition of an addiction (which anxiety and OCD are) is straightforward: something you cannot consciously stop. If you were truly in conscious control, you would simply say “stop”, and it would stop.
Anxious or OCD People, Let Go of Your Demons! Read More »
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. The Many Faces of OCD – And Why It’s Still Just OCD One of the hardest things for a person with OCD to
The many and varied types of OCD Read More »
OCD usually develops when ordinary anxiety is no longer enough to force a retreat from exhaustion. Learn how the mind escalates, why the themes keep changing, and what actually helps. When Anxiety Becomes OCD (This excerpt is drawn from Lecture 6 of the Calmness in Mind Process course.) OCD rarely appears out of nowhere. In
When anxiety escalates to OCD Read More »
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. The Six-Month Run-Up to Anxiety (This piece is drawn from Video 4 of the Calmness in Mind course.) Anxiety, OCD and depression are rarely random. For most
The fundamentally important six-month anxiety development phase Read More »
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
Anxiety & OCD Treatment Course – Video 2 Review Read More »
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. There Is Only Now – Thinking, Time and Letting Go of Baggage (This piece is drawn from Lecture 10 of the Calmness in Mind course.) Most
Time… The only reality is NOW! Read More »
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. Despite its designation, people with Pure OCD often perform mental rituals or subtle behaviours to alleviate their
Pure O (OCD) – Obsessive & Compulsive Disorder Read More »
Anxiety and OCD rarely disappear while you stay the same person. Lecture 1 introduces a practical path for updating the patterns that keep exhaustion and fear in place. Starting the Journey of Becoming a New You! (This piece is drawn from Lecture 1 of the Calmness in Mind course.) Anxiety, OCD and depression are rarely
Living a calmer and more courageous life – Video 1 Read More »
Here are some frequently asked questions about my online anxiety and OCD education program and recovery course. Why is it so affordable? I understand what it’s like to experience anxiety and depression, and I recognise that seeking professional help can be quite expensive. Many people struggle to afford the number of therapy sessions needed to
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