Welcome to your anxiety toolkit.

I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan.

This podcast is fueled by three main goals.

The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your anxiety.

Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you manage your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you.

Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life.

And number three, and I leave the best for last,

is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug

because experiencing anxiety ain't easy.

If that sounds good to you, let's go.

Thank you. anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you, let's go. Welcome back. My name is Kimberly

Quinlan. I am an anxiety specialist and an OCD specialist. And today we are talking about

the five types of OCD compulsions you must know and understand. Now, why is this so important?

Let me explain. Having OCD is an incredibly confusing experience. It often feels like the whole

experience is so overwhelming. It takes you away from the things

that you value, the people you value, the things you love to do.

And often the way in which we can start to overcome OCD is to actually work backwards,

reducing the symptoms by working backwards.

Now, I have an online course called ERP School.

You can go over to CBT School.com to learn more about it.

And we do go deep into this way deeper than we will today.

But for today, I want to explain to you how we can identify those five compulsions so that you can be

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