Marrying Intention and Attention
OCD and your smartphone both send you notifications when they want you to so something, but marrying your attention to your intentions can keep you from getting lost in either the digital world or OCD hell.
Q&A for Interrupting OCD’s Mental Rituals with “May or May Not”
Here are the questions submitted about my blog Interrupt OCD’s Mental Rituals with “May or May Not” (MOMN) and my answers.
Interrupt OCD’s Mental Rituals with “May or May Not”
If you have trouble using Shoulders Back/Man in the Park because you keep transacting with your OCD in your mind, otherwise known as “mentally ritualizing” or what some call “pure-O,” read about an ERP technique that’s a bridge tool to help you develop the strength to do Shoulders Back/Man in the Park effectively.
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 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 UnWholly
There are certain science fiction books I just love, and UnWholly by Neal Shusterman is one of them. Unwholly is [...]