Nick Pearce: Doing good and feeling 'just right'
Show notes
Nick Pearce, Co-Founder and former CEO of iconic streetwear brand and social enterprise, HoMie, and host of new podcast None of Your Business, joins Penny and Angie in this wonderful episode. Nick has experienced OCD for most of his life, with re-occuring themes of contamination and moral scrupulosity OCD. They talk about:
- An amazing Obsession Confession featuring a prop
- The feeling of always having to be and do 'good'
- Feeling like the OCD worsened once he left school
- Contamination and counting OCD- Nick would have to obsessively clean his room, but if someone set foot in his room he felt like he had to start again
- His first experience with a psychiatrist
- Developing a feeling of moral scrupulosity and how this has helped and hindered his life
- Stepping back from full time work so that his wife, Dani, can propel her career forward
- How moving house triggered his OCD
- Getting back on medication and starting therapy again
- Starting his podcast, None of Your Business and how that has helped his feeling of identity and purpose
- The desire to be a better partner and father driving his return to therapy