How to Keep Psychological Hoarding from Crowding Your Mind and Blocking Your Fulfillment
We’re all familiar with the results of typical hoarding behavior: newspapers piled in towers reaching...
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How to Get Your Compulsive Drive to Work for You.
Some people seem to use their compulsive tendencies adaptively, while others are used by their compulsive tendencies maladaptively. This could mean the difference between being productive and connected, versus being stuck and at odds with others. This interview explores what makes the difference, and how to get your compulsive tendencies working for you.
The Compulsive Thinker-Planner: Obsessive Procrastinator or Productive Visionary?
This is the last in a series of four posts describing in greater detail four...
The Compulsive Server-Friend: People Pleaser or Well-Rounded Helper?
This is the third of four posts describing in greater detail four types of obsessive-compulsive...
The Compulsive Leader-Teacher: Bully or Mentor?
Key to becoming a healthier compulsive is identifying the type of obsessive-compulsive personality (OCP) that...
Announcing the Healthy Compulsive Project Podcast
Wait, The Healthy Compulsive? Isn’t that an oxymoron? Not in my book. And I’ll tell...
Naming and Taming The Core Fears That Control Us
In a previous post [podcast episode 28] I wrote about the anxiety that people with...
Can Someone With OCPD Change?
I recently finished therapeutic work with a man whom I’ll call Fred. His story addresses...
The Origins of OCPD: Genes, Environment, and the Two Other Factors Most People Don’t Consider
Many people wonder how they became controlling, driven, and perfectionistic. Or, to use the clinical...
Understanding the Four Types of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality to Achieve Balance
[Available in audio format at Google Podcasts and Apple, and Spotify.] As I’ve gotten to...
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The Healthy Compulsive book is now available in paperback in addition to hardcover and e-book format:
Healthy Compulsive Book
If you’d like to use your time in psychotherapy more effectively, check out my book on therapy.
