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Self compassion is often confused with being weak, being too easy on oneself and avoiding taking on life’s challenges. When in fact, I think nothing could be further from the truth.

I saw a new client yesterday and I asked one of my usual opening questions for a new client “Tell me what it is you most want to accomplish by working with me”, and my new client responded (as most new clients do)

Sometimes we might want to better understand our OCD/worry and perhaps even take a crack at managing it on our own or would like some reading material to refer to as we go through therapy. Certainly if your

One of the versions of OCD that is most frequently misunderstood, even by some fellow professionals, is what has been called “Pure O”, or more recently, and more specifically Pedophilia OCD (POCD) or Harm OCD (HOCD). The term “Pure O” stands for Pure Obsessional because initially it was thought that there were just obsessions and no compulsions with this…

Anxiety treatment is full of paradoxes. We have evolved over the history of our species to avoid danger - and those of us who are alive now are here, in part, because our ancestors were the ones who could anticipate danger and carefully avoided it and thus survived,