In this episode, I want to talk about the importance of getting the proper guidance with OCD & Anxiety Recovery. When it comes to OCD & Anxiety recovery, everyone has their own unique journey and experience. Like almost anything else in life, in order to be successful in your recovery, one of the most important things you can do is get guidance from someone who has already been...

In this episode, I want to talk about the experience of living with OCD & Anxiety. Being open and transparent about your experience with OCD & Anxiety is difficult, most people never actually take this step. But it is such a critical part of the recovery process. 

I often hear a lot of frustrations from my clients about how hard it is to effectively communicate the...

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...