Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is an effective non-pharmacological treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), supported...

Exposure and response prevention, or ERP for short, is an approach within cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) where we literally expose...

We often think of compulsions as behaviors in response to our obsessions and the discomfort those obsessions create. For example, after...

Our Optic Blind Spot can serve as a great metaphor...

Some of you may be familiar with sensory grounding. If you're not, you will be after this :) Sensory grounding is a tool or set of...

Blending is: A type of thinking error (cognitive distortion) where feelings and thoughts from one event get conflated with another.

The idea of The Clean Slate is a rule that many sufferers of OCD and anxiety follow. It essentially says “You cannot move forward and...

The OCD Workbook for Teens: Manage Intrusive Thoughts and Compulsive Behavior with CBT and Mindfulness is now available at major...

Be sure not to miss this year's Online OCD Conference organized by the International Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Foundation (IOCDF)....

One obvious answer to this question is there is something else going on in an individual's life, such as depression or life...

On Saturday July 31st, 2021 from 9am to 5:30pm Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), OCD SoCal will be hosting (virtually) their 5th Annual OCD...

This article is not meant to be an all-encompassing explanation of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive-compulsive disorder...

Remember the days of balancing a checkbook? What's a checkbook you might ask? Or better yet, what's a check? Ha. Back in the day,...

For any novice meditator or human being for that matter, it doesn't take much to realize how noisy the mind can be. How often do we find...

In short, it depends! This question cannot be answered with a simple "yes" or "no." The importance, value, or relevance of the content,...

SPOILER ALERT: There will be spoilers. If you haven't seen this film, I highly suggest watching it. It is available on Amazon Prime...

This past Christmas my mom gave me a Himalayan salt lamp. She packaged it in a box that had an image of Santa Claus and his reindeer...

When I got sober in 2014, it was the beginning of a brand new life for me. Getting sober allowed me to build a life that I could be...

As humans, we have the capacity to shift our attention from one thing to another. Sometimes it's helpful to have a very narrow focus of...

OCD and anxiety are attempting to serve a purpose in our lives. It may not feel like it, but they truly are. When we experience anxiety,...