Hey Everyone, 

Welcome to Part 3 of our series on Overcoming Intrusive Taboo Thoughts with my amazing colleague and friend Kristina Orlova who also hosts the OCD Whisperer Podcast. 

In part 1, Kristina and I both opened up about our personal journeys with OCD and provided an overview of common themes with intrusive thoughts. 

In part 2, we broke down different mental and...

Hey Everyone, 

Welcome to Part 2 of our series on Overcoming Intrusive Taboo Thoughts with my amazing colleague and friend Kristina Orlova who also hosts the OCD Whisperer Podcast. 

In part 1, Kristina and I both opened up about our personal journeys with OCD and provided an overview of common themes with intrusive thoughts. 

In this episode, we will be going into different...

Hey Everyone, 

I am excited to announce a Special 3-part series on Overcoming Intrusive Taboo Thoughts in honor of OCD awareness.

This special 3 part series was recorded with my amazing colleague and friend Kristina Orlova who is a skilled clinician and OCD Expert and also hosts the OCD Whisperer Podcast. 

In part 1 of this series, Kristina and I both open up about our personal...

Welcome to OCD Awareness Week!

Most of OCD awareness is geared towards helping the general public become more aware of OCD and the struggle of living day to day with OCD. And while I support this mission completely, I want to focus this episode on the importance of becoming more aware as individuals. Many people compartmentalize our struggle with OCD into boxes we feel comfortable...

In this episode, I want to open up a broader discussion about mental health awareness. I know next week is officially OCD awareness week, but I wanted to start up the conversation early because there is simply too much to discuss to get it all don't in one week. And while it is great that we live in a time where these discussions are reaching broad audiences. 

Today I actually want...

If you wrestle with OCD & Anxiety it is important for you to understand that you are giving away your internal peace. It may not feel like it, but that is exactly what is happening. When your mind gets locked on a subject in the past or future it creates an internal disturbance in the present moment. Then you try to resolve the internal disturbance by engaging in various compulsive or...

To put very simply, the real problem with OCD and Anxiety is that our primal alarm system is going off when nothing is actually wrong. It is being set off by intrusive thoughts or “what if scenarios” about the past and future. The point being that your alarm system is trying to move you into survival mode when there is no danger. And the harder we try to resolve this possible...

In this episode, I want to talk about labels and why I believe they are dangerous. This is going to be an episode that branches into the broader concept of mental health and general well-being. We live in a strange time right now where people are carelessly labeling each other and more importantly dehumanizing one another, which is an incredibly dangerous thing to do. In this episode, I just...

When going through OCD & Anxiety Treatment it is so important to understand how we misinterpret intrusive thoughts and paradoxically give them power over our lives.  When we have intrusive thoughts we often feel compelled to solve them or try to get rid of them. But when we do that we indirectly validate them as a "real" problem which paradoxically makes our brain keep producing them....

When it comes to OCD Treatment one of the things we have to learn to navigate is the voice of the mind. I often like to use the concept of Propaganda with my clients when describing the voice of the mind. The definition of Propaganda is "communication that is primarily used to influence an audience and further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to...