ReImagine Therapy

ReImagine Therapy I'm Jessics Hayes and my company is ReImagine Therapy, where I provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

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26/05/2026

Attention training to manage ruminationa and other mental compulsions.

This is a skill that many of us need to build and expand on.

Over time, it will help you to feel more in control of how you respond to thoughts and will give you ways to manage compulsions like rumination, memory reviewing and monitoring internally.

Here are some tasks you might choose for it to start:
Brushing teeth
Making a hot drink
Washing your face
Shaving
Drinking a drink
Painting your nails

Remember, this is NOT to suppress thoughts or to stop being aware of intrusions. It is designed to help you to bring your brain back to the here-and-now and to manage mental compulsions.

Is this something you think you can try? 🤔

18/05/2026

This is what i mean by fitting in 5 minute activities to help with general coping, rather than having to wait until you can do bigger things.

A quick reset. A pretty mindful activity too. A little bit of self-care.

16/05/2026

This was what we set up for Exposure Lab this week in our that I love to set for clients.

This exposure is really good for a few different OCD themes and can do quite a few things to challenge OCD.

Themes it challenges are POCD, SOOCD, ROCD, and more. Basically, any theme that gets you questioning how you feel about people.

Most of these themes result in people avoiding looking at others, or treating certain people as more dangerous to look at. Alternatively, it gets you analysing thoughts and feelings when looking at people.

But we know that observations, curiosity and just generally noticing people is not dangerous.

By purposely looking at everyone and noticing things about them, it helps your brain to see that this isn't dangerous- no matter who they are.

By adding the fun element of making up stories, it reinforces this being a normal thing and something you can get enjoyment out of.

When you do this, make sure not to add these extra compulsions:
-Monitoring physiological sensations
-Questioning thoughts and emotions
-Asking for reassurance
-Ruminating and memory checking afterwards

Let me know if you give it a go, you can even share your elaborate stories in the comments below!

11/05/2026

Grounding techniques for OCD and health anxiety.

Whether they can help is based on what their purpose is; if you use it to help to split focus when you are magnifying a response then it can be helpful.

Remember, it is NOT supposed to stop awareness of the response you are having naturally.

Grounding can also be really useful for bringing some focus externally and to the present moment when you are stuck in your head- again, not to stop also noticing your thoughts.

Would you like some examples of what these grounding exercises can be?

09/05/2026

This is one for health anxiety or OCD.

Your phone knows if you are researching for reasurrance or if you hover over stories about terrible things happening to people.

If you keep seeing things that relate to something that you fear, there is a really high likelihood that this is the reason why.

On top of this, we all focus on things that we are scared of or that we find relevant to us, and then notice it more than other people so that it feels like we are seeing it more than others.

Again, this isn't a reflection of a risk changing or the universe telling you something, it is because you fear it.

So, this is a sign to reset your algorithms and to stop consuming content relating to your fears.

Have you done it? Let me know!

09/05/2026

This is something I get. alot, particularly with my parent clients who have OCD- wanting to trust their gut, their instincts, but getting it mixed up with their OCD and anxiety.

This is simular advice you have seen me give for delaying big decisions and analyses- not while your OCD is likely in play.

One day, you will trust yourself. You will feel confident in knowing what is your gut and what is anxiety.

For now, base decisions on logic and what you can see and hear in the here-and-now.

What do you think of this?

30/04/2026

Do you have enetophobia or does your OCD focus on illness caused by food poisoning?

Chicken is a scary food for a lot of people who have a lot of food rules and avoidance.

This is an exposure with leftover chicken out of the fridge.

Could you try it?

30/04/2026

Doing things against your OCD can feel scary and like you are losing control of the scary situation.

But that is actually making you more in control.

This is also why it should always be the person with OCD deciding what they want to challenge.


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