• Have you ever gotten stuck when facing obsessions, dealing with strong urges to do a compulsion and not knowing what to do?
• Do you feel overwhelmed when hearing that to get unstuck from OCD you have to “face all obsessions”?
• Are you afraid that facing your obsessions will prove that something is wrong, immoral, and unscrupulous with you?
• Is your career affected because of sticky thoughts?
• Have you tried to start a hobby but you discontinue it because of intrusive thoughts?
• Are you worried about being asked to do exposures that are against your values and inconsistent with who you are?
• Have you tried to enjoy a TV show and it gets difficult because of sticky thoughts?
• Are you concerned that your relationships are affected because of doubtful obsessions that are hard to let go?
• Are you afraid that if you do exposure exercises something bad will happen to you or your loved ones?
• Are you taking your obsessions as the absolute truth?
• Is your life restricted?
• Are you living in your head?
• Are you disconnected from what matters to you? 

• You have to learn about the different types of exposure exercises
• You have to face all those obsessions that keep you stuck which can feel overwhelming
• You will get stuck with compulsions
• You may get confused not knowing if you are doing a compulsion or if that’s a regular behavior that is not attached to OCD
• You will have to motivate yourself to approach exposure exercises
• You may struggle distinguishing different forms of mental compulsions
• You will worry about not doing exposures right
• You may get frustrated when your brain latches onto other obsessions or compulsions
• You will have to do all those exposure exercises (and a lot more) while juggling other areas of your life – job, school, relationships, health, and religion.
• You may feel hopeless and alone 

• Instead of spending hours in your head holding with white knuckles on to the thought “it’s too much, I can’t handle it” you learn skills to face all those overwhelming obsessions that come with sticky obsessions one-by-one? 

• And if instead of spending all your energy managing your obsessions, wrestling with those feelings, and dwelling on whether you can handle them or not, you put all that energy into handling those troublesome moments and do the stuff that truly matters to you. 
  

• Imagine if you learn to ride the waves of overwhelming fears that come with obsessions without sinking? 

I’m not saying that facing your obsessions will be easy peasy, but I’m saying that once you learn ACT & ERP skills to handle any annoying feeling that comes along with intrusive thoughts, you will stop making fear-based decisions.

If there’s one real “secret” it’s that you want to learn skills to live the life you want to live and be the person you want to be.

You can learn to approach exposures in the service of your personal values without spending a lot of time, energy, and mental effort on compulsive and avoidant behaviors that keep you stuck.

Instead of thinking of exposures as the end goal, you want to think of exposures as the means to living a rich, meaningful, and purposeful life.

This is a new way of getting unstuck from OCD!

• You have been recently diagnosed with OCD and want to learn about ACT & ERP skills
• You want to prepare yourself for exposure therapy
• You’re in the middle of treatment and want to augment your skills to tackle obsessions.
• You're familiar with ERP but not with ACT, you can augment your ERP work by learning ACT skills
• You’re in full recovery from OCD and want to refresh your skills to maintain your progress.
• You're already familiar with ACT + ERP and want a refresher.