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 live your life.

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Help my OCD subtype keeps changing.

Today we're talking about three steps to generalize your ERP skills.

Now, have you ever felt like just when you start to make progress with your OCD theme,

another one pops out of nowhere?

It feels like Wackermole. I don't know if you've ever played

the game of Wackermall, but when you manage one, another one pops up over here. And you manage that

one and another one pops over here. That is so common. We often call it Wackamol Obsessions,

and we're here to talk about it today. The majority of my clients have had this to some

degree. And here is one thing that one of my students said and I thought it was so validating.

They said, OCD is the ultimate trickster. It can flip flop all over the place and make your

recovery feel like you're constantly starting over. So ultimately, what I'm here to tell you is you don't

have to start from scratch each time. And what I'm going to give you today is an idea or an approach

that you can use if you struggle with this sort of switching between subtypes. And I'm going to give you

some specific tools, three in fact, that you can

use anytime, anywhere, and hopefully you'll use them with a lot of self-compassion. So let's talk

about the agenda today. In this episode, we are going to cover why your OCD subtype keeps shifting.

We are going to cover how to generalize your ERP skills so that no matter how tricky they are,

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