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The OCD Stories

Beyond The Doubt - Jeff Bell & Shala Nicely

The OCD Stories

Stuart

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8933 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2016

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In episode 11 of The OCD Stories podcast I interviewed Jeff Bell & Shala Nicely. Jeff and Shala have a personal and professional journey with OCD, and have come together to create Beyond The Doubt.

Show notes:

Shala & Jeff's OCD story (2:10)

What worked other then ERP/CBT? (14:20)

The importance of meaning (17:10)

Seeing the Universe as friendly (22:45)

Power of personal responsibility (26:30)

How to deal with dull looming anxiety (38:00)

"The only way to effectively manage uncertainty, is to embrace uncertainty?" (32:30)

Advice for conquering ERP (41:40)

The ultimate goal for OCD recovery (46:30)

Shala's advice for changing careers and becoming a therapist (49:20)

The purpose behind BeyondTheDoubt.com (56:30)

The one piece of advice (59:30)

What Jeff and Shala would have on their billboard (1:01:00)

Find out more about Chris and Kelly:

Beyond The Doubt - BeyondTheDoubt.com

Twitter: Jeff / Shala

Shala's website - ShalaNicely.com

Jeff's initiative - Adversity to Advocacy

Jeff's books: Rewind, replay, repeat (Amazon.co.uk/Amazon.com) & When in doubt, make belief (Amazon.co.uk/Amazon.com)

Resources mentioned:

Jon Hershfield

Viktor Frankl's book Man's search for meaning (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com)

Tamar Chansky's book Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (Amazom.co.uk/Amazon.com)

Steven Hayes' podcast episode

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to episode 11 of the OCD stories

0:03.0

dot com podcast.

0:05.0

Now in this episode I have Charla Nicely and Jeff Bell.

0:09.0

They've both done a lot for OCD, they both continue to do a lot for a C.

0:13.6

and recently they've joined ventures to create beyond the doubt.

0:17.3

com. I had a wonderful conversation with them. We touched on many areas but

0:22.1

we also brought in one of my other passions,

0:23.6

which is personal development. They're both of that mindset of bringing personal

0:29.1

development, self-development, philosophy, looking at ways you can take self-ownership and

0:34.5

and being better and applying these principles to therapies like ERP and CBT

0:39.9

and I think it's such a wonderful attitude and I think it's one a lot more therapists can adopt and

0:47.2

help their patients adopt is this kind of can-do attitude.

0:53.0

See what you think? I think you enjoyed this episode.

0:56.0

I'm also riding 100 miles for OCD UK.

1:01.0

Riding is in cycling in July 31st of this year. I'm going to try and

1:08.0

update you best I can on my coverage on my training and how I'm getting along I did my first training ride today. It was incredibly hard

1:15.2

especially when I hit the hills. It's going to be an adventure. I'm proud to support the charity O. C.

1:22.4

If you can support me anyway there be a link on the site but

1:26.5

just your kind of moral support would be enough. I hope you enjoy this episode and I'll see you soon.

1:33.0

In today's episode of the AC stories podcast I have Jeff Bowe and Sharlo Nicely.

1:37.0

Jeff is the author of When in Delt, Make Belief and Rewind, replay, repeat.

1:42.0

He is also a radio news anchor in San Francisco and a public speaker on

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