What Acceptance is & What it Isn't

[@lilywood6696]

Nick you should do audio books you have such an engaging voice! Great vid. Acceptance vs agreement is still such a difficult thing to fully embody but I am working on it :)

[@axonhealth]

I never thought of that! That would be awesome lol! And yes! It def takes a little while than we would like, but it's amazing when we really start embracing those shifts! Thank you for the support Lily!

[@lilywood6696]

@@axonhealth its amazing how little I rage at the news now too lol. Feelings like finally living now I have these tools. Thanks for all you guys do

[@maha_chalawi]

I love your videos Nick you are very genuine. Keep it up✨

[@hgraphicspro]

That's All in one video in acceptance 💜 Excellent Nick

[@Rajat63]

Love the way you enjoy everything from coffee to making videos, I can feel you're in NOW your presence. Great. Keep going buddy.

[@axonhealth]

Rajat! This was a great reply to read! Thank you for the support and coffee is GREAT haha! hope all is well!

[@brycek2033]

Thank you so much Nick, fellow ex-New Yawker (I was from Staten Island)! This helped explain a topic that is both simple and complex. Describing the acceptance "experience" (thoughts/emotions/feelings) could be a paragraph itself! I appreciate the way you combine the technical and philosophical aspects of OCD recovery with real-life scenarios and your own experiences. It greatly helps me understand not only what I'm going through but how to approach it which is very powerful. The pups at the end were awesome as well!

[@axonhealth]

My man! I miss the food in NJ and NY so much LOL. Thank you so much for the support! More videos coming weekly brotha!

[@nikita2560]

Recently what has been really helping me is this, and I am not sure if its the healthiest way to deal with my OCD so I wanted to ask. Basically my typical OCD self talk in my head is like this... thought pops up as a result of a feeling or vice versa "why do I feel tired around my girlfriend" I respond "well maybe I had a long day or maybe I simply feel tired and its okay to feel this way" or I have a thought and then I start telling my self how that thought is okay. But recently what I have been doing is that as soon as that thought or feeling pops up that I am uncomfortable with or want to respond to it by telling my self its okay or not okay I simply focus back on my task at hand. And I dont respond in any way to my thought or feeling. I have been finding that this is the best way to avoid talking to my self while I am doing something and it keeps me from having conversations in my head that go on and on. Whenever I do this I feel this lump in my chest that screams "TELL YOUR SELF ITS OKAY YOU FELT THAT OR THAT IT MAY OR MAY NOT BE TRUE" and I still do not respond to it. And I am seeing a lot of progress quickly. But my fear is that I am avoiding my thoughts instead of facing them (when this thought pops up I also completely avoid talking with it), its just in my head my OCD changes its side over and over and I find that any kind of talk to my OCD results in me wanting to say more and more. So recently I have been practicing quick pick stick with my decisions and I have been not responding to my thoughts in any way and only thinking about things I want to think about and not things that feel like I have to think about them. Is this the wrong approach?

[@olivep7920]

Great video! Thank you.

[@chetanyasinghbhatti69]

Again Great Video Nick, Just Wanted To Ask That I Have Suicide OCD. What Needs To Be Accepted ?

[@mominmasood]

Copy-pasting something Oliver recently said: You don’t know you won’t do it. Nobody can have that certainty. It’s trying to get that certainty that is the problem, not that it’s uncertain in itself. Often with suicide there is two common fears to work on; what if you leave people behind that need you and what if you leave a tainted legacy. Seeing that others could cope without you, even if it would be challenging and also changing our perspective on others committing suicide, to one of compassion seeing that they would have been struggling desperately are key here. Above all is the part that’s seems so scary but have to move towards. Try lean into those emotions of ‘depression and sadness’, and ‘take the risk’, those ones that scare you the most

[@chetanyasinghbhatti69]

@@mominmasood Thank You So Much, l'll Definitely Try To Bring This In My Life.