Ep. 81: "You WILL get through this!" Interview with Fashion Blogger and OCD Advocate Jemma Mrdak
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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"You WILL get through this!" Interview with Fashion Blogger and OCD Advocate Jemma MrDak
Hello there CBT School Community!
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast. Today, we are so excited to share with you Jemma Mrdak. Jemma is a well-known Australian Fashion and Lifestyle Blogger and an avid Mental Health advocate. I first heard about Jemma on social media after she bravely came out and talked about her experience with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) on the Today show. As soon as I saw her interview, I knew she would be such an inspiration to you all.
In this episode, Jemma talks about her struggles with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), specifically checking and tapping compulsions. Jemma talks about being so overwhelmed with anxiety that she was unable to get to school on time and fell behind in her studies. Jemma also talks about her success with seeking treatment from a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (CBT) and how she used her tools to help her get her life back from OCD. Jemma also shared her love for nature and exercise and how that helped her get in touch with the practice of Mindfulness. If you are feeling hopeless about your future and questioning if you are able to get better at managing your anxiety and OCD, this episode is for you. Jemma is so great at sharing what was easy, what was really hard and what roadblocks she came across in her treatment journey. She is truly an inspiration and will give you some amazing words of wisdom to help with on your journey to mental wellness.
For more info on Jemma, visit the below:
Website: astylishmoment.com
IG: @astylishmoment
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 81. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is fueled by three |
| 0:17.1 | 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 |
| 0:29.8 | three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, because |
| 0:36.9 | experiencing anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you, |
| 0:40.8 | let's go. Well, welcome back. I am so thrilled to have you with me here again. We are on episode |
| 0:54.0 | number 81 for the podcast. We are at 500 members on the CBT |
| 1:02.9 | school campus Facebook group, which I am so thrilled about and so proud of. You guys on the group are incredible. It is such an amazing |
| 1:14.6 | group of people. And even though it's not a huge part of the work that I do, I just love and I'm so |
| 1:22.3 | proud of having this little family that meets and really lines up with the mission of CBT school, |
| 1:29.4 | which is to bring people together, make people feel less alone, get them resources to help |
| 1:34.9 | them with the tools that they need to live the best life that they can have. And it's just so |
| 1:41.4 | wonderful. So thank you to everybody in the group. I'm going to use that as a segue |
| 1:47.2 | right into the I Did a Hard Thing segment. And today we are featuring the hard thing done by |
| 1:56.8 | Tealan and they said, I have contamination and cleaning OCD and a bunch of others. I'm scared of |
| 2:05.6 | contaminating my house. I can't go to hospitals, but this week my mother fell and broke her wrist |
| 2:12.8 | and had to have an operation. Now she is at home and I'm looking after her. I was running away from |
| 2:19.4 | hospitals and now the hospital came to my house. This is nothing I can do except to see my anxiety, |
| 2:28.3 | to see it rise and fall. And I just love this story so much because I think that's kind of how it works out, right? |
| 2:37.6 | When we avoid things, eventually the fear is going to find us and sort of make us do the thing we're most afraid of, |
| 2:46.1 | which I know is really, really scary and probably your worst nightmare. |
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