Ep.45: FIVE Roadblocks to Anxiety Recovery (w/ Sheva Rajaee)
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Sheva Rajaee (forgive me for the error with her maiden name in the podcast) is a lovely friend of mine and I was lucky enough to get to work alongside her at the center where we were trained. Sheva is an OCD Advocate rockstar and was a speaker at last years UCLA TEDx Talk event, presenting the talk titled, “Addicted to the answer – anxiety in the age of information”. In this interview, Sheva comes very well prepared (as she always is) and she details what she calls the FIVE ROADBLOCKS TO ANXIETY RECOVERY, including tools to help manage Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRB's). Sheva details ways you can compliment Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools and she uses a wonderful metaphor that we discussed in such depth that we ended up in hysterics! We talk about doing the hard work, staying committed and some mindset shifts that can help with recovery success. Sheva and I also talk about those who are not currently in therapy and how they can utilize their own resources to keep them going. Sheva has her own private practice in Irvine, CA called the Center for Anxiety and OCD. You can find Sheva on Instagram @theshrinkwrap.Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 45. |
| 0:09.9 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. |
| 0:14.6 | This podcast is fueled by three main goals. |
| 0:17.9 | The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your anxiety. |
| 0:23.2 | Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And number three, |
| 0:30.2 | and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, because experiencing |
| 0:37.3 | anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you, |
| 0:40.5 | let's go. Welcome back. I am so thrilled again to share this time with you. Now once again, I have been so honored to have an |
| 0:58.2 | amazing guest with us, who I am also honored to say is an incredible friend and colleague, |
| 1:04.7 | Shiva Rajai. Now, Shiva and I were again, similar to that episode with John Herschfield, we worked at the |
| 1:13.0 | same center, the OCD Center of Los Angeles. |
| 1:15.6 | That's where I was trained. |
| 1:17.4 | And I am so thrilled to have had that time to really get to know Shiva. |
| 1:22.0 | She's an incredible OCD specialist and anxiety specialist. |
| 1:26.3 | And today I have her on, and she is going to share with you |
| 1:30.9 | some mic drop wisdom about the roadblocks to recovery. She has so beautifully put together five main |
| 1:41.5 | points that she believes are the roadblocks to recovery with anxiety, with OCD. |
| 1:48.8 | We even sort of wrapped this into body-focused repetitive behaviors. |
| 1:53.7 | I think they totally apply to eating disorder recovery as well. |
| 1:58.2 | But she so beautifully outlined some of the most important things that can prevent us |
| 2:03.3 | from really moving forward with either our treatment in with a therapist or even our management |
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