Center for Healing Kansas City

10/26/2025

NOCD is an online platform that connects people with licensed therapists who specialize in obsessive-compulsive disorder and delivers live video therapy, in-app tools, and a peer community for ongoing support. The service focuses on **Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)**, the evidence-based gold standard for treating OCD. NOCD’s app offers 24/7 messaging with clinicians, ERP tools for in-the-moment practice, symptom tracking, and educational resources that make homework and between-session work easier.

Reduce OCD severity significantly in just 10 weeks on average. Schedule a FREE phone call with team, and we'll connect you with a licensed OCD Therapist.

10/19/2025

In this eye-opening interview with NOCD, bestselling author John Green opens up about his lifelong struggle with OCD. He shares how his mind and day-to-day life were hijacked by relentless, intrusive thoughts that would lead to hours upon hours of compulsive checking.

"I felt like I wasn’t the captain of the ship of my consciousness… It really did feel like somebody else was running the show,” he told us during our convo.

For years, OCD shrunk his world, leaving him feeling trapped and powerless. But everything changed when John found specialized care that helped him fight back. Through ERP therapy, he slowly began to wrestle back control of his mind and life.

Listen to our sit-down interview to hear John’s heartfelt story of struggle and recovery. It’s a powerful reminder that with the right tools, it IS possible to manage OCD — no matter how bad it feels.

In this eye-opening interview with NOCD, bestselling author John Green opens up about lifelong struggle with OCD. He shares how his mind and day-to-day life ...

10/12/2025

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition characterized by a cycle of obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images, or urges that cause significant anxiety and distress. To temporarily relieve this distress, a person with OCD feels driven to perform repetitive behaviors or mental acts called compulsions. This cycle becomes a severe mental health burden, as obsessions and compulsions can consume more than an hour a day, interfering with work, school, and social life. The constant anxiety, distress, and feeling of a lack of control often lead to secondary mental health issues like depression and other anxiety disorders. Individuals may experience profound shame, social isolation, and a diminished quality of life because of the time and energy dedicated to managing their symptoms. Overall, OCD is a debilitating condition that can severely impair a person's ability to function and maintain relationships.

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09/28/2025

Check out this month's blog, written by our Clinical Therapist, Andrew M. Forbeck, MA, LPC, SATP 💻📝

“Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at all costs. Emotional health, rather, is embracing reality at all costs.”
~ Scott M. Peck, The Road Less Traveled

Perhaps you have heard of the Twelve Steps but are unsure what they entail. The coauthor of the Twelve Steps was an alcoholic named Bill Wilson, who found recovery as a result of this “Damascus Road-like” spiritual experience in a hospital room where he lay dying of alcoholism. The Twelve Steps originated from the teachings of a Christian group called the Oxford Group; however, Wilson reworked them in such a way that they were accessible to all people, regardless of their religious experiences, allowing anyone to benefit from them. What Bill Wilson and countless others have come to discover is that the addict’s main problem was principally spiritual, not psychological or moral, and therefore required a spiritual solution.

“The craving for alcohol is the equivalent, on a low level, of the spiritual thirst of our being for wholeness, expressed in medieval language: union with God,” wrote Carl Jung. This sentiment of the spiritual solution is echoed once more through the words of John Ortberg, who writes, “We have a spiritual thirst for transcendence. If we cannot satisfy it through the real thing, we will look for substitutes. Addictions are, in essence, a shortcut back to Eden...."

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Perhaps you have heard of the Twelve Steps but are unsure what they entail. The coauthor of the Twelve Steps was an alcoholic named Bill Wilson, who found recovery as a result of this “Damascus Road-like” spiritual experience in a hospital room where he lay dying of alcoholism. The Twelve Steps ...

09/14/2025

Podcast recommendation: Become New with John Ortberg 🎧

The 12 Steps Aren't Just For Alcoholics

In this episode, John discusses that as we walk and live out the 12 steps, we see they become a mirror of the Christian journey: repentance and Lordship under Jesus. These practices—honest self-examination, confession, making amends, and persistent prayer—ignite a spiritual awakening that replaces reliance on external “solutions” with intimate dependence on Christ, the Higher Power who renews the heart and refreshes the soul. As believers progress—embracing vulnerability, seeking reconciliation, and ultimately carrying the message to others—they experience sanctification in action: disordered attachments give way to grace-filled freedom, fellowship fosters accountability, and daily surrender molds their lives ever more into the likeness of Christ.

Become New with John Ortberg · Episode

09/07/2025

Recommended Resource: Steps by John Ortberg 📖

Admiration, comfort, love, power, success, pleasure, escape, control: we’re all addicted to something, whether we realize it or not.

In this deeply heartfelt book, author John Ortberg offers a guide for transformation when we know something needs to change, but we can’t do it on our own. Rooted in the teachings of Jesus and using the framework of AA's 12 steps as a guide, Ortberg offers all of us a freeing roadmap for:

Giving up our exhausting and fruitless efforts to fix, manage, and control our own lives

Distinguishing between when willpower is essential and when it is futile

Discovering how God can do for us what we can’t do for ourselves, and

Living authentically, joyfully, and in communion with God and other people.

Ortberg shows us how to discover:

Our spiritual attachment styles

Our core doubts

The benefits of practices like prayer, meditation, and mindfulness
God’s sufficiency in our inadequacy

In Steps, find what’s needed to experience a new freedom, a new fellowship, and a new happiness, no matter our circumstances.
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09/01/2025

When betrayal, abuse, or deep loss shakes your life, everything changes. Some days you feel ready to face the world, while others it takes everything you have just to breathe. You may wonder, “Why can’t I just get over this?”

The truth is, healing isn't about “getting over” anything. It’s about reclaiming what was taken, learning to trust yourself again, and knowing that your pace is the right pace. The road forward asks for patience and kindness toward yourself. You were never meant to do this alone.

Here are six truths to keep close as you heal:

Your body is part of your healing, not separate from it.

Curiosity is more powerful than judgment.

Healthy love sees you as an equal, not as property.

It’s okay to move slowly—slow is still progress.

Your values can guide you to healthy sexuality.

You don’t have to do this alone—help is a strength.

You are not behind. You are not failing. You are healing, one brave step at a time.

6 truths to remember while you heal

When betrayal, abuse, or deep loss shakes your life, everything changes.
The way you see yourself.
The way you trust others.
Even the way your body feels in the world.

Some mornings you wake up ready to face the day. Other times, it takes all your energy just to breathe. You may wonder, “Why can’t I just get over this?”

Here’s the thing — healing isn’t about “getting over” anything. It’s about reclaiming what was taken. It’s about slowly learning to trust your own body and instincts again. It’s about knowing that your pace is the right pace.

The road forward will ask for patience. It will ask for kindness toward yourself. And it will remind you that you were never meant to do this alone.

Here are 6 truths to keep close as you move forward:
1️⃣ Your body is part of your healing, not separate from it.
2️⃣ Curiosity is more powerful than judgment.
3️⃣ Healthy love sees you as an equal, not as property.
4️⃣ It’s okay to move slowly — slow is still progress.
5️⃣ Your values can guide you to healthy sexuality.
6️⃣ You don’t have to do this alone — help is a strength.

You’re not behind. You’re not failing.
You’re healing — one brave step at a time.

🎧 Listen to this episode of Betrayal Recovery Radio “Understanding the Body's Role in Healing” and start hearing what your body’s been trying to tell you!