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 from [...]
When I attended my first International OCD Foundation conference in 2010, the whole thing was one huge Aha! Moment from [...]
Watching Amy Cuddy's TED Talk, "Your body language shapes who you are," gave me an aha! moment about a new way to [...]
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 that [...]
The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts, by Lee Baer, PhD, is a book [...]
OCD can be a little overwhelming at times. You can feel like your whole life is defined by OCD and [...]
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 all [...]
There are certain science fiction books I just love, and UnWholly by Neal Shusterman is one of them. Unwholly is [...]
In The House of Velvet and Glass, Sybil Allston is trying to make sense of the death of her mother [...]
Recently I read the novel Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg. The main character, Cece Ross, is a motivational speaker [...]