The Self-Compassion Workbook for Ocd
Lean Into Your Fear, Manage Difficult Emotions, and Focus on Recovery
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A compassionate guide to help you manage OCD symptoms, overcome feelings of shame and stigma, and revitalize your life!
If you're one of millions who suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you're all-too-familiar with feelings of anxiety, panic, shame, and uncertainty. In addition, the stigma associated with OCD can make you feel unworthy of receiving the compassion and kindness you need and deserve. You may even experience unwanted intrusive thoughts that result in harsh self-judgment--which can actually hinder your recovery and lead to additional mental health problems. So, how can you break this destructive cycle and start feeling better?
The Self-Compassion Workbook for OCD outlines a step-by-step program to help you understand the emotional experience of OCD, and develop the tools you need to manage your disorder and build a better life. Drawing on a powerful combination of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure and response prevention (ERP), and compassion-focused therapy (CFT), this breakthrough guide will teach you how to balance intense emotions, lean into your fear, and focus on recovery. Over time, you'll learn to replace self-judgment with kindness and self-compassion, so you can stop suffering and start thriving.
Living with OCD can be extremely challenging, but it doesn't have to rob you of your self-worth. You are so much more than your disorder! Let this book be your guide to discovering, supporting, and loving the best you that you can be.
Kimberley Quinlan
Kimberley Quinlan is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has a private practice in Calabasas, California, specialising in anxiety, OCD and related disorders, and eating disorders. Kimberley is the founder of CBTschool.com, an online psycho-education platform that provides online courses for those with obsessive compulsive disorder and body-focused repetitive behaviours. Kimberley is the author of The Self-Compassion Workbook for OCD: Lean into Your Fear, Manage Difficult Emotions, and Focus on Recovery, as well as the host of Your Anxiety Toolkit podcast. Martin Ingle is a writer, filmmaker, actor, and obsessive-compulsive worrywart who lives and works on Yuggera land. Patrick Marlborough is a neurodivergent nonbinary writer, comedian, journalist, critic, and musician based in Walyalup (Fremantle), Whadjuk Boodja. They have been published in VICE, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Junkee, Noisey, Meanjin, Overland, Crikey, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, Going Down Swinging, The Betoota Advocate, and beloved other. They are a passionate mental health and disability advocate, regularly writing about their experiences with depression, suicide, bipolar, high functioning autism, and OCD. Dani Leever is a genderqueer nonfiction writer from Naarm. They're a staff writer at MTV and they're currently the Online Deputy Editor at Archer Magazine. They've been published in JUNKEE, Pedestrian.TV, SBS, Voiceworks, Scum Magazine, Broadsheet, and more. They previously sat on the Voiceworks Editorial Committee and have appeared at the National Young Writers' Festival. They write about gender, mental illness, pop culture, and queerness. Outside writing, Dani performs as a genderbending drag DJ called DJ Gay Dad and has performed at stages around the country. Katharine Pollock is a Sydney-based writer who lives and writes on Eora land. Her debut novel, Her Fidelity (Penguin Random House, 2022), is the comedic story of a young(ish) woman working in a struggling Brisb
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