Basically, anybody who wishes to learn common sense life skills for a calm, optimistic, self-loving, courageous, and intention-led life, written by a person who has himself overcome crippling shyness, self-consciousness, anxiety, OCD and depression! Good for: 1. People dealing with anxiety, OCD, or depression. 2. Therapists seeking to expand their toolkit with new techniques, stories, and metaphors. 3. Parents aiming to raise calm, emotionally intelligent children through their own example. 4. Any thoughtful individual pursuing greater calmness, self-love, courage, and life direction. However, my work also targets potentially high-functioning intelligent, extroverted thinkers and those with complex personalities - who I lovingly call 'The Thoughtful Minds' who need to stop trying to fit in and become their true, unique and creative selves. I made this short video to try to explain this.

As an engineer for many years, my brain is really attuned to, and good at, understanding how systems work - so when I became a therapist, it was natural for me to see the brain, body, energy, beliefs, behaviours, etc., all as a system rather than discreet functions. After about 20 years of working with complex OCD (and my own full recovery), I tried to put everything I learned into a metaphor to explain what might be happening. I hope it makes sense!

Because they bother to deeply learn what they need to do, to reverse these conditions, then apply that new knowledge process repeatedly to effect change, then adjust how they think and behave (and their lives) so it becomes harder to fall back into those 'out of wellness' states again in the future. It is just a process - let this be your new positive (life-enhancing) obsession - The Calmness in Mind Process Consciously knowing what to do is irrelevant unless you are consciously retraining your unconscious mind, which is what ERP is all about https://www.skool.com/the-calmness-in-mind-process-1165/classroom/bdc38957?md=584c0c0ba0ae4ce3a9b70ae833ab9837 In this short video clip from video 18 of my course, I explain why it is sooooo important to retrain your brain's RAS - The Reticular Activating System. This should be taught in school.

I am here to offer my experience, opinions, and hypotheses on what they are and what you can do about them. I recovered from all three and have been a complex anxiety therapist for two decades. Ask away. John

This is just my hypothesis; however, it is based on 20 years as an OCD therapist and on being married to an intensely (and lovely) ADHD woman. I have seen a strong correlation between people with ADHD/ADD (and bipolar) and Pure OCD - especially if a creative, extroverted person had those natural attributes suppressed or repressed during childhood by parents, school, bullying, or some other traumatic event. In this video, I try to outline the patterns I have witnessed. It is not scientific, but it is what I have seen time and time again, and so many people have told me that this knowledge has changed their lives. Much love, John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip-fXAoqkik&t=124s