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The fear of the harm becomes the harm. When you are terrified of that harm event, your fear becomes the calamity, your f...
10/22/2026

The fear of the harm becomes the harm. 

When you are terrified of that harm event, 
your fear becomes the calamity, 
your fear becomes your captor. 

Even if the bad thing never happens, you have suffered. The harm is real, not because something bad happened, but because OCD convinced you it could. 


OCD wants us to avoid everything associated with our panic attacks. For example: I had a panic attack doing this activit...
10/18/2026

OCD wants us to avoid everything associated with our panic attacks. For example: I had a panic attack doing this activity, or wearing this dress, or driving in this city, and I can’t put myself in that position again.
Panic Attack experiences become an “ I can’t ” story.

So we must build back our faith in ourselves and our nervous systems by facing different components of this panic experience, one by one.
Do the activity with a comfort person, wear the dress at home, drive for 5 minutes in the city.

Show your body and your self that a panic attack will not deter you from life. Do an exposure.
Create a revised story: an “I can” story. For support to our community and uplifting those who are earlier on their journey, consider posting a “I can” story, where you confronted and revised the fear. Comment 👇 👇 👇 Hugs to you all!

09/30/2026

The TICES log helps us document and understand the memories that are affecting us today, in the here and now. These memories might be getting in the way of healing. 

Unprocessed memories can manifest as inexplicable physical, emotional, or sensory reactions. 

People may experience a wide range of symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, tension, nightmares, or flashbacks. You may have mood swings or struggle to cope with everyday challenges. Unprocessed memories might show up as dark, intrusive thoughts such as “I’m not safe” or “Something bad is going to happen.”Perhaps the most significant impact of unprocessed memories is on behavior.

 When you have experienced unresolved difficult experiences , you may act as if you are still in danger. You may be hypervigilant and have difficulty trusting 
yourself or others.

 The most common behavior for people with anxiety and OCD is avoidance – we avoid the triggers of unprocessed, difficult  memories. 

EMDR helps break that pattern of avoidance.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a well-researched and effective technique for trauma healing. EM...
09/14/2026

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a well-researched and effective technique for trauma healing. EMDR can also support your OCD and Anxiety recovery, when used in conjunction with ERP. You integrate EMDR into OCD treatment by choosing memories that trigger the specific fears of your OCD.

For example:
If you have emetophobia (fear of vomiting), you reprocess difficult memories of getting sick, so that you don’t feel as triggered when remembering them.

Or, if you have social anxiety, you use EMDR to reprocess embarrassing moments that still feel activating.
For perfectionism, EMDR can help soften raw feelings around past mistakes.

EMDR will help you reframe your relationship with difficult experiences, which your OCD is using to scare you away from exposures.

After you utilize EMDR, your OCD will not be able to scare, control, or shock you with those memories. Those experiences will be put away in your long-term memory – in the category of, “it happened and it’s ok.”

Want to learn more? Comment Book Below and I will send you a free printable PDF of the first chapter.





Do you think EMDR can help you process and release some of your trapped difficult experiences? Comment BOOK below and I ...
09/07/2026

Do you think EMDR can help you process and release some of your trapped difficult experiences? Comment BOOK below and I will send you a free printable PDF that will start to teach you how. 







The Safe Space:

Find a comfortable position. Take a few deep breaths with a hand on your belly. Now close your eyes and visualize a peaceful, safe place. You can use the Bilateral Beats music (link below) while you do so. The place can be imaginary or real. Hold that image in your head until it feels like you connect with your safe space.
You can close your eyes, take deep breaths, and bring this image to the forefront of your mind whenever you need to take a pause from a difficult memory or situation. 

The Container:

Imagine a container. It can be anything – a mason jar, a junk drawer, a chest in an old house. It can be real or imagined. Don’t overthink it, just choose something that you can easily picture. 
Find a comfortable position. Take a few deep breaths with a hand on your belly. Now close your eyes and visualize yourself putting something away in that Container. After getting triggered, you can use this visualization to imagine yourself putting away a difficult memory or experience. The container is a great tool to use when you no longer have the time, energy, or emotional bandwidth to keep processing something hard. 

Dual Awareness:

Dual awareness is a technique of keeping one part of your here in the present moment – feeling, smelling, seeing, touching, hearing – while another part of your touches on memory from the past. You can think about something hard from the past while also noticing that you are safe in this present moment. You can feel your body pressed against a chair, your feet on the ground, or your hands against your legs. You can hug yourself while accessing a memory, and be your own grounding force. You can also listen to bilateral beats (link below) to help you stay present even when your mind wants to wander to the past.  

Do you think EMDR can help you process and release some of your trapped difficult experiences? Comment BOOK below and I will send you a free printable PDF

09/02/2026

Explaining how to choose a memory to effectively use self-guided EMDR to advance your OCD and anxiety treatment. We want to choose wisely, because self-guided EMDR is safest when we choose uncomfortable memories (not traumatic ones!) The goal is reprocessing an incident that your OCD uses to scare you out of your exposures. Once the memory loses its charge, we feel less activated by our fear. Everyone wins ❤️ (except the OCD!)

When difficult experiences happen related to your OCD themes, your brain can essentially trap these memories in your ner...
08/31/2026

When difficult experiences happen related to your OCD themes, your brain can essentially trap these memories in your nervous system. They remain unprocessed, stuck, and easily triggered. 

For example, a moment that I tripped near a balcony ledge remains seared in my memory and now my body shakes whenever I am near the edge. When things happen that reinforce our fears, our OCD keeps those experiences alive and replays them to help keep us scared. 

EMDR helps your brain process those memories out of a place of raw panic and fear, and move them into normal storage.

After you utilize EMDR, you can remember those triggering incidents, but they no longer feel raw. Your brain learns to attribute neutral or even positive emotions to that memory.
Most importantly, when the memory isn’t triggering, the OCD can no longer weaponize it to give your body panic.

Want to learn more? Comment Book below 👇 and I will send you a free printable PDF of the first chapter.





08/30/2026

Urge Surfing: Explained in 30 seconds.
Urge surfing is a mindfulness technique. Urges and emotions feel like they are going to last forever. But urges and emotions, like waves, rise and peak, then naturally break and vanish. You ride the wave instead of fighting it. You stay with the uncomfortable feeling or the strong urge as it gets stronger and reaches a high point. Acknowledge. Observe. Breathe. If you can just hold on, calmly, steadily, through this peak, the emotion or urge will crash and go away. Watch with appreciation and curiosity as the tension fades away.

Fear is just an emotion, and it will pass like all the other emotions. Do not let the fear control you, stop you, make y...
05/25/2026

Fear is just an emotion, and it will pass like all the other emotions. Do not let the fear control you, stop you, make you compulse. Believe in your ability to withstand it, until it passes.

Rumination is complex - it is not just overthinking! It is repetitive looping meant to soothe anxiety, but actually fuel...
05/24/2026

Rumination is complex - it is not just overthinking! It is repetitive looping meant to soothe anxiety, but actually fuels it!

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