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Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

Ep. 74: I challenge you to ONE day of Non-Judgment

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

Self-improvement, Education, Anxietymindfulnessmeditation, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9802 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

ONE Day Non-Judgment Challenge

Non-Judgment Challenge Self-Judgment Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD Anxiety Depression Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT Your Anxiety Toolkit Kimberley QuinlanHello and welcome back to Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast.  Today we are talking about an interesting challenge.  

You see, recently I was dared to take an entire day to just listen to my body and feel my feelings and sit in peace.  I thought this was a fabulous idea so I shipped my kids and husband away for one day (I never do this BTW)

What quickly arose was one thing that was taking the joy out of what could have been a lovely day.  That thing was Self-judgment.  Self-judgment is the thing that kept bringing me out of simply spending the day with myself. 

“I should be doing this instead” 

“You are being lazy” 

“Why did you choose that activity?” 

“You have to do it this way because that way is a waste of money” 

“You shouldn’t be feeling this way” 

“You don’t deserve this” 

“Why did you do it that way?” 

“Why are you the way you are?

Here are just a few of the self-judgment statements we say to ourselves during the day.  When you see it on paper, it sounds so awful.  Yet, these are things we say to ourselves without hesitation or even awareness sometimes.   

So, I decided to change the focus of the day away from it being a day of freedom and pleasure and towards a day where I practiced non-judgment.  I called it the NON-JUDGMENT CHALLENGE DATE DAY (or #nonjudgmentdateday on social media).  

So, here is the challenge.  Non-Judgment Challenge Day is a day where you go out on your own for a whole day (or an hour or two) and you practice doing things you enjoy doing.  Do something pleasurable or exciting or new.  As you do this, be very aware of the thoughts in your mind.  During this date with yourself, observe your thoughts, both positive and negative, about yourself and the activity you are engaging in.  

Non-Judgment Challenge Day was a complete eye opener for me and I strongly encourage you to try it.   Listen in to this episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast to hear about my reflections and struggles with my very own Non-Judgment Challenge Day. 

Also, I just wanted to let you know about “What if?”, a collaborative film project by Robin Roblee-Strauss for his senior thesis project at Hampshire College.  “What if?” Is a movie that documents the experiences of living with OCD. The film focuses on the voices of those struggling with OCD as the experts on their own internal experiences and recovery processes. And guess what....you can be involved in its creation! Go to www.whatifocdmovie.com to learn how you can be a part of the project by sharing your story, contributing cinematic or artistic expertise, or donating. By creating a movie with the help of individuals with OCD, Robin hopes to empower sufferers to speak out and show the world a brave and honest look into the struggle with uncertainty and anxiety.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 74.

0:10.1

Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is fueled by three

0:17.0

main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your

0:22.3

anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And number

0:29.7

three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you,

0:40.7

let's go. Welcome back. It is so wonderful to be here with you today. I just love you guys.

0:58.5

Let me just start with that. This is just so wonderful. I was just thinking, I'm going to share with you a lot about my day today, but I was just thinking today

1:04.2

about how brave you guys are and how courageous you guys are. And I'm just so honored and blessed to be here with you on this

1:13.7

journey. And so I just wanted to start with that. The feedback you guys give me, the reviews,

1:21.3

the group members in the Facebook group, I just can't tell you how much I appreciate,

1:26.5

how engaged you guys are with our community,

1:29.9

the CBT school community, and how kind you are to me and in your feedback. So I am just really,

1:39.1

really grateful. I just want to start and make sure we leave a bunch of space for that.

1:46.6

Now, in addition to that, I just want to start this episode with a really deep breath.

1:58.6

Right.

2:00.2

And just give you guys an opportunity and myself to just let go of what we don't need in

2:08.7

this moment as we move on into this podcast episode and let go of anything that isn't ours to hold. Let go of anything that's not yours.

2:21.5

You know, we don't want to be carrying other people's stuff around with us, if possible.

2:28.1

We definitely don't want to be carrying around what we think they think about us either. So I do encourage us to just set an intention

2:37.9

with this podcast episode and just do our best to let go of anything that doesn't serve us,

2:45.0

release any tension that we may be holding in our shoulders or our hands, soften them if you can.

2:52.7

And then let's just do this, shall we?

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