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Explaining Obsessive Thoughts To Your Partner: Sexual, Harmful, and Religious

by Ryan Light | Feb 2, 2024 | Anxiety, OCD, Relationships

Explaining Obsessive Thoughts To Your Partner: Sexual, Harmful, and Religious, requires not just courage but a profound sense of trust and openness. It’s about creating a space where vulnerability is met with understanding, and fears are addressed with...

How to Use Mindfulness With CBT

by Ryan Light | Jul 7, 2021 | Anxiety, Depression, Health and wellness, meditation, mindfulness, OCD, Self-Help, Trauma

Mindfulness is the practice of ‘getting out of your own head’ and of simply being rather than constantly thinking, worrying, and stressing. While mindfulness is a common part of many meditative practices, it is also an integral part of cognitive-behavioral therapy...

What is Mindfulness?

by Ryan Light | Jun 21, 2021 | Health and wellness, mindfulness, OCD, Self-Help, Self-worth, Trauma, Uncategorized

Mindfulness is a term that gets thrown around a lot in the moment and is often hailed as some kind of ‘solve all’ for every kind of problem under the sun. Mindfulness is part self-help technique and part clinical tool; lately, it has grown to spawn countless e-books,...

Extreme Rituals of Anxiety (AKA OCD)

by Ryan Light | Jun 12, 2020 | OCD

Some superstitions and rituals seem harmless and may actually help us to become productive and produce positive results. However, when these rituals are taken to extremes and begin to affect normal daily function, it becomes an anxiety disorder that may lead to...

Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Anxiety Disorder

by Ryan Light | Jan 14, 2019 | OCD

Understanding Obsessive-Compulsive Anxiety Disorder Anxiety disorder covers different types of unconventional phobias, pathological anxieties, and fears. Anxiety, according to medical terminology, is the emotional state or condition that an individual regarded as...

Sensorimotor Obsessions: A less well-known type of OCD

by Ryan Light | Feb 28, 2018 | Anxiety, OCD

Sensorimotor Obsessions: A less well-known type of OCD You might think twice before calling someone “so OCD” in jest, as it’s an insult to people with an actual mental disorder called obsessive-compulsive disorder. The prevailing stereotype is that people with OCD are...