Alexandra Reynolds: Navigating shame around health anxiety (OCD) (#501)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In episode 501 I chat with Alexandra Reynolds. Alexandra is an OCD Advocate, Community Support Group Leader at NOCD, and is currently doing her graduate clinical training.
We discuss her health anxiety story, stigma around the diagnosis, running her health anxiety support group, shame and guilt around having health anxiety and the compulsions, experiencing stigma or judgement from family and health care professionals, compassion, how family members can support their loved ones, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.5 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.1 | compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people |
| 0:16.8 | who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:25.6 | And welcome to episode 501. So as you can hear, my voice isn't quite back yet. I'm still struggling a bit. I'm doing okay. Just my voice is a bit |
| 0:31.4 | weak. So I'll keep this brief. The actual podcast was recorded before my voice went a bit funny. |
| 0:37.0 | So the actual, I sound fine on the actual episode. |
| 0:41.0 | It's just right now. |
| 0:41.8 | So in this one, I chat with Alexandra Reynolds. |
| 0:45.5 | Alexandra is an OCD, community support group leader at OCD, and is currently doing her graduate clinical training. |
| 0:53.4 | In this, we discuss her health anxiety story, |
| 0:56.9 | stigma around the diagnosis, |
| 0:59.1 | running her health anxiety support group, |
| 1:01.6 | shame and guilt around having health anxiety and the compulsions, |
| 1:06.5 | experiencing stigma or judgment from family and healthcare professionals, |
| 1:11.4 | compassion, |
| 1:16.6 | health family members can support their loved ones and much more. And thanks to our podcast partners, NoCD. If OCD is interfering with your life, NoCD can help. They're licensed |
| 1:23.1 | therapists specialise in exposure and response prevention therapy, the most proven therapy for OCD. |
| 1:29.4 | With NoCD, effective treatment that is 100% virtual is available for children and adults with OCD. |
| 1:35.8 | And most members can get started within seven days on average. |
| 1:39.2 | No hassle, just real, science-backed help and support between sessions. |
| 1:43.7 | Begin your journey at nocd.com or I'll put the link in the episode description. |
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