The Five Things My OCD and I Learned in the South of France
Why my OCD is very sorry it threw a tantrum in a train station. Read this post on my Beyond [...]
What My OCD and I Are Packing for Our Trip to France
Why I never leave home without four special keys...that don't unlock my house. Read this post on my Beyond [...]
Aha! Moments from a magazine encouraging us to “Be a little OCD.”
I'm not going to say which magazine put "Be a little OCD" in print because this is not about shaming them; that would be doing the very thing that I'm advocating against. Instead, this is about education.
Aha! Moments from Stopping the Noise in Your Head
On Monday, as I was boarding a flight from Baltimore to Atlanta, I asked the flight attendant standing by the cockpit door [...]
Aha! Moments from The Five Things We Cannot Change
When you have OCD and/or anxiety, your life can be dominated by attempts to attain the BIG Cs: CONTROL and CERTAINTY. [...]
Aha! Moments from an Aha! Moment … and dog toys … and questionable holiday merchandising choices …
Why do I have a dog toy with a tissue taped to it sitting on my desk? And how does [...]
Aha! Moments from Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
I read the following paragraph from Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams [...]
Aha! Moments from the 2015 IOCDF Conference, Part 2
"You can do this," I said as I held Lily's hand, the scene before me becoming blurry as my eyes [...]
Aha! Moments from the 2015 IOCDF Conference, Part 1
As I sit here thinking about what an amazing time I had at the 2015 IOCDF Conference—the fun I had [...]
The 2015 IOCDF Conference
We're less than one week away from one of my favorite events of the year: the International OCD Foundation Annual Conference. This [...]
Aha! Moments from Brené Brown on Empathy
One of the most basic human desires is to be understood. To be heard fully and deeply by another [...]
Aha! Moments from Self-Compassion
Let's talk about something seemingly unrelated to OCD: the Stockholm syndrome. Named after a situation in the early 1970s where [...]
Aha! Moments from Frozen
When I was a little girl, I used to daydream that I had fantastic, magical powers. I would imagine myself standing [...]