When life feels too much, our emotions can feel like the ocean in a storm, drop an anchor. Dr Russ Harris came up with an exercise called Dropping anchor. If we imagine your boat (you) is in the harbour during…

This metaphor is taken from a special edition episode of The OCD Stories featuring Dr Alec Pollard who shares his view of the futility and pointlessness of compulsions. He says, “The joke, I tell sometimes to illustrate this is, the…

As we all know, doing compulsions does not help, and in fact hinders recovery from OCD. There is another side to compulsions called accommodation. Accommodation is when a family member, loved one or anyone helps us to do a compulsion.…

With the exception of the last decade, for most of the last 50 years OCD has primarily been viewed from the lens of fear and anxiety. However, over 100 years ago Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis and the birth of…

As the image says, “We do not need to engage with intrusive thoughts”. Dr Steven Phillipson has shared several times on the podcast that the brain is self-healing. He shares that if we get out of our own way, the…