I’m an OCD Therapist With OCD. And I Don’t Do ERP Perfectly
How to turn OCD's little wins into BIG victories for your recovery. Read this post on my Beyond the Doubt Psychology [...]
How to turn OCD's little wins into BIG victories for your recovery. Read this post on my Beyond the Doubt Psychology [...]
But you can have an amazing, joyful life anyway! Read this post on my Beyond the Doubt Psychology Today [...]
Three ways to use the art and science of cursing to power up your recovery. Read this post on my [...]
What manspreading, "c is for center," and a Buddhist equation mean for recovery. Read this post on my Beyond the [...]
Why my OCD is very sorry it threw a tantrum in a train station. Read this post on my Beyond [...]
Why I never leave home without four special keys...that don't unlock my house. Read this post on my Beyond [...]
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.
On Monday, as I was boarding a flight from Baltimore to Atlanta, I asked the flight attendant standing by the cockpit door [...]
When you have OCD and/or anxiety, your life can be dominated by attempts to attain the BIG Cs: CONTROL and [...]
Why do I have a dog toy with a tissue taped to it sitting on my desk? And how [...]
I read the following paragraph from Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams [...]
"You can do this," I said as I held Lily's hand, the scene before me becoming blurry as my [...]
As I sit here thinking about what an amazing time I had at the 2015 IOCDF Conference—the fun I [...]
We're less than one week away from one of my favorite events of the year: the International OCD Foundation Annual Conference. [...]
One of the most basic human desires is to be understood. To be heard fully and deeply by another [...]
Let's talk about something seemingly unrelated to OCD: the Stockholm syndrome. Named after a situation in the early 1970s where [...]
When I was a little girl, I used to daydream that I had fantastic, magical powers. I would imagine myself [...]
When I attended my first International OCD Foundation conference in 2010, the whole thing was one huge Aha! Moment [...]
Watching Amy Cuddy's TED Talk, "Your body language shapes who you are," gave me an aha! moment about a new way [...]
It was an auspicious coincidence that I decided to read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl and Unbroken: A World War [...]
I love the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. I have read the books and watched the movies countless times. [...]
One of the things I love most about Freedom from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Jonathan Grayson, PhD is Dr. Grayson's [...]
For as long as I can remember, I have personified my OCD and thought of it as an entity [...]
I grew up in the 80s, and with the exception of the "big hair" phenomenon, nothing defines that decade for [...]
My parents saw one of the authors of The Emotional Life of Your Brain, Richard Davidson, Ph.D., interviewed on Charlie [...]
During Brene Brown's ecourse, The Gifts of Imperfection, she once said, "Vulnerability is uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. Showing up [...]
The pills Several days after Abby's passing, I was driving to work listening to Still Alice. Alice's memory was failing [...]
I don't mean to be overly dramatic, but there are two things I've learned in the past few years [...]
The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts, by Lee Baer, PhD, is a [...]
OCD can be a little overwhelming at times. You can feel like your whole life is defined by OCD [...]
In November of 2012 on a flight home from a training given by the International OCD Foundation in Boston, I [...]
On no page of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail will you find any mention of OCD. [...]
The basic premise of The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz, is how to live a life free from [...]
There are certain science fiction books I just love, and UnWholly by Neal Shusterman is one of them. Unwholly [...]
In The House of Velvet and Glass, Sybil Allston is trying to make sense of the death of her [...]
Recently I read the novel Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg. The main character, Cece Ross, is a motivational [...]