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 [...]
Why There’s No Cure for OCD
But you can have an amazing, joyful life anyway! Read this post on my Beyond the Doubt Psychology Today [...]
The Hidden Power of Swearing at Your OCD
Three ways to use the art and science of cursing to power up your recovery. Read this post on my [...]
Attitude Matters If You Want to Beat OCD
What manspreading, "c is for center," and a Buddhist equation mean for recovery. Read this post on my Beyond the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Aha! Moments from the 2014 IOCDF Conference
When I attended my first International OCD Foundation conference in 2010, the whole thing was one huge Aha! Moment [...]
Aha! Moments from Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk: Your body language shapes who you are
Watching Amy Cuddy's TED Talk, "Your body language shapes who you are," gave me an aha! moment about a new way [...]
Aha! Moments from Man’s Search for Meaning and Unbroken
It was an auspicious coincidence that I decided to read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl and Unbroken: A World War [...]
Aha! Moments from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
I love the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. I have read the books and watched the movies countless times. [...]
Aha! Moments from Freedom from OCD
One of the things I love most about Freedom from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Jonathan Grayson, PhD is Dr. Grayson's [...]
Aha! Moments from The Onion
For as long as I can remember, I have personified my OCD and thought of it as an entity [...]
Aha! Moments from Glee
I grew up in the 80s, and with the exception of the "big hair" phenomenon, nothing defines that decade for [...]
Aha! Moments from The Emotional Life of Your Brain
My parents saw one of the authors of The Emotional Life of Your Brain, Richard Davidson, Ph.D., interviewed on Charlie [...]
Aha! Moments from Still Alice
During Brene Brown's ecourse, The Gifts of Imperfection, she once said, "Vulnerability is uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. Showing up [...]
Aha! Moments from Still Alice, continued
The pills Several days after Abby's passing, I was driving to work listening to Still Alice. Alice's memory was failing [...]
Aha! Moments from Full Catastrophe Living
I don't mean to be overly dramatic, but there are two things I've learned in the past few years [...]
Aha! Moments from Imp of the Mind
The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts, by Lee Baer, PhD, is a [...]
Aha! Moments from StrengthsFinder 2.0
OCD can be a little overwhelming at times. You can feel like your whole life is defined by OCD [...]
Aha! Moments from The Happiness Project
In November of 2012 on a flight home from a training given by the International OCD Foundation in Boston, I [...]
Aha! Moments from Wild by Cheryl Strayed
On no page of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail will you find any mention of OCD. [...]
Aha! Moments from The Four Agreements
The basic premise of The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz, is how to live a life free from [...]
Aha! Moments from UnWholly
There are certain science fiction books I just love, and UnWholly by Neal Shusterman is one of them. Unwholly [...]
Aha! Moments from The House of Velvet and Glass
In The House of Velvet and Glass, Sybil Allston is trying to make sense of the death of her [...]
Aha! Moments from Tapestry of Fortunes
Recently I read the novel Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg. The main character, Cece Ross, is a motivational [...]