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 [...]
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 to [...]
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 that [...]
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 book [...]
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 and [...]
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 all [...]
Aha! Moments from UnWholly
There are certain science fiction books I just love, and UnWholly by Neal Shusterman is one of them. Unwholly is [...]
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 mother [...]
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 speaker [...]