🧠One-Hour Online OCD Recovery Session (via Zoom)
Session Overview:
This 60-minute interactive session is designed to give you practical tools and strategies to manage OCD and build confidence in your recovery journey. Whether you are new to understanding OCD or have been struggling with it for years, this session will provide education, guidance, and actionable steps you can start using immediately.
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✅ What We’ll Cover
1. Understanding OCD & Its Many Forms
• Learn how OCD works in the brain and why intrusive thoughts “stick.”
• Explore the most common themes of OCD, including:
• Contamination OCD (fears of germs, illness, or being “dirty”)
• Harm OCD (fear of harming yourself or others)
• Relationship OCD (doubts about love or commitment)
• Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity OCD
• Religious/Scrupulosity OCD (fear of sin or moral failure)
• Checking OCD (safety, locks, appliances, etc.)
• Pure O (obsessive thoughts without obvious compulsions)
• Understand that the theme may change, but the cycle of OCD remains the same.
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2. Core Strategies for Managing OCD
• Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP): Learn the gold-standard treatment—facing feared thoughts or situations while resisting compulsions.
• Breaking the Reassurance Cycle: Why asking for certainty makes OCD stronger, and how to respond instead.
• Accepting Uncertainty: Learning to live with “maybe” and tolerate not knowing.
• Mindfulness & Defusion Techniques: How to notice intrusive thoughts without judgment and let them pass without engaging.
• Self-Compassion Tools: Shifting from self-criticism to self-kindness, especially after a setback.
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3. Practical Tools & Exercises
During the session, we’ll practice:
• Thought Labeling: Recognizing “this is an OCD thought, not me.”
• Urge Surfing: Riding out the anxiety wave without compulsions.
• Mini-ERP Exercise: A gentle, guided exposure practice you can continue at home.
• Grounding Strategies: Simple techniques for staying present when anxiety spikes.
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4. Q&A and Personalization
• Time for your questions and discussion about how OCD shows up in your life.
• Tips on adapting these strategies to your personal theme of OCD.
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🌟 What You’ll Gain
By the end of the session, you’ll walk away with:
• A clear understanding of what OCD is (and what it isn’t).
• Practical strategies to interrupt the OCD cycle.
• Tools you can begin practicing right away.
• Encouragement and reassurance that recovery is possible.
⸻
🧠One-Hour Online OCD Recovery Session (via Zoom)
Session Overview:
This 60-minute interactive session is designed to give you practical tools and strategies to manage OCD and build confidence in your recovery journey. Whether you are new to understanding OCD or have been struggling with it for years, this session will provide education, guidance, and actionable steps you can start using immediately.
⸻
✅ What We’ll Cover
1. Understanding OCD & Its Many Forms
• Learn how OCD works in the brain and why intrusive thoughts “stick.”
• Explore the most common themes of OCD, including:
• Contamination OCD (fears of germs, illness, or being “dirty”)
• Harm OCD (fear of harming yourself or others)
• Relationship OCD (doubts about love or commitment)
• Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity OCD
• Religious/Scrupulosity OCD (fear of sin or moral failure)
• Checking OCD (safety, locks, appliances, etc.)
• Pure O (obsessive thoughts without obvious compulsions)
• Understand that the theme may change, but the cycle of OCD remains the same.
⸻
2. Core Strategies for Managing OCD
• Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP): Learn the gold-standard treatment—facing feared thoughts or situations while resisting compulsions.
• Breaking the Reassurance Cycle: Why asking for certainty makes OCD stronger, and how to respond instead.
• Accepting Uncertainty: Learning to live with “maybe” and tolerate not knowing.
• Mindfulness & Defusion Techniques: How to notice intrusive thoughts without judgment and let them pass without engaging.
• Self-Compassion Tools: Shifting from self-criticism to self-kindness, especially after a setback.
⸻
3. Practical Tools & Exercises
During the session, we’ll practice:
• Thought Labeling: Recognizing “this is an OCD thought, not me.”
• Urge Surfing: Riding out the anxiety wave without compulsions.
• Mini-ERP Exercise: A gentle, guided exposure practice you can continue at home.
• Grounding Strategies: Simple techniques for staying present when anxiety spikes.
⸻
4. Q&A and Personalization
• Time for your questions and discussion about how OCD shows up in your life.
• Tips on adapting these strategies to your personal theme of OCD.
⸻
🌟 What You’ll Gain
By the end of the session, you’ll walk away with:
• A clear understanding of what OCD is (and what it isn’t).
• Practical strategies to interrupt the OCD cycle.
• Tools you can begin practicing right away.
• Encouragement and reassurance that recovery is possible.
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