{"podcast":{"title":"Breaking Free from OCD, Anxiety & Stress with Matt Codde","slug":"breaking-free-from-ocd-anxiety-stress-with-matt-codde-1194100","podcast_index_feed_id":1194100,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ef0923c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.restoredminds.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/2406471/2406471-1744361311983-79e1f5d38f99e.jpg","author":"Matthew Codde LCSW","episode_count":538,"summary":"The Breaking Free from OCD, Anxiety & Stress Podcast is hosted by Matt Codde. Visit www.restoredminds.com/about to know more about Matt! In this podcast, you’re going to learn practical steps on the journey to recovery. In each episode, we will discuss common challenges and provide you with evidence-based strategies to help you overcome them. At Restored Minds, we believe that recovery is possible for everyone and it's our mission to give you the tools to help you build better mental health so you can become the best version of yourself.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T10:20:57.350764+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-free-from-ocd-anxiety-stress-with-matt-codde-1194100"},"episode":{"title":"How Long Does OCD Recovery Take? An Honest Answer","slug":"how-long-does-ocd-recovery-take-an-honest-answer","published_at":"2026-04-16T22:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-free-from-ocd-anxiety-stress-with-matt-codde-1194100/how-long-does-ocd-recovery-take-an-honest-answer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-free-from-ocd-anxiety-stress-with-matt-codde-1194100","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/restoredminds/episodes/How-Long-Does-OCD-Recovery-Take--An-Honest-Answer-e3i0hnn","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ef0923c/podcast/play/118555831/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-16%2F422201721-44100-2-21fd61492aa58.mp3","summary":"One of the most common questions Matt receives is: "How long will OCD or anxiety recovery take?" In this episode, he gives an honest, clinically-grounded answer — and it's not what most people expect. Rather than a specific timeline, Matt reframes recovery as a journey that depends entirely on your clarity of purpose and your willingness to keep going no matter what. Matt shares that his own path from the onset of OCD to feeling genuinely free took over a decade — but that the entire Restored Minds mission exists to condense that timeline for you. The goal of Taking Back Control is to give you everything he learned (including what not to do) so you can bypass years of trial and error. If you're stuck wondering whether you'll ever get better — or comparing your timeline to others — this episode is for you. Matt offers two key principles that have consistently accelerated recovery in people he's worked with: knowing what you actually want (not just what you don't want), and releasing time as a metric altogether. 🧭 What You’ll Learn in This Episode ✅• Understand why no one can give you a specific OCD or anxiety recovery timeline ✅•Learn why knowing your "why" dramatically accelerates the healing process ✅•See why focusing on what you want (not just escaping what you don't) changes everything ✅•Discover the mindset of relentlessness that Matt credits with his own recovery ✅•Understand why letting go of time as a metric is itself a recovery skill ✅•Learn what spiral ascension means and how it reframes your recovery journey 🚀 Resources to Help You Heal: 📥 FREE Recovery Guide Start your journey to freedom from OCD and anxiety with expert tools and step-by-step guidance. 👉 Download now: https://www.restoredminds.com/start 📖 Get a Copy of Our Book: From Stuc…","meta_description":"One of the most common questions Matt receives is: \"How long will OCD or anxiety recovery take?\" In this episode, he gives an honest, clinically…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":561,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/breaking-free-from-ocd-anxiety-stress-with-matt-codde-1194100/episodes/how-long-does-ocd-recovery-take-an-honest-answer/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-free-from-ocd-anxiety-stress-with-matt-codde-1194100/how-long-does-ocd-recovery-take-an-honest-answer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}