Mindfulness exercises for OCD that will actually help when you're feeling incredibly overwhelmed.

Now, mindfulness is a skill that will supercharge your OCD recovery.

But if not applied correctly, it can sometimes lead to you focusing on the wrong things, maybe doing more

compulsions, maybe catastrophizing some more. And I want to really get to the bottom of this with you

today by teaching you my favorite mindfulness skills. So today we are going to learn how mindfulness

can be used in a way that actually supports your OCD recovery, especially

when you're overwhelmed.

I'm going to teach you my absolute favorite mindfulness skill.

I teach every one of my clients and I teach my students.

And at the end, I'm going to give you some of the tricks that OCD gives you that makes you

fall back into old behaviors. So we're going to really

make sure that we cover all of our bases here today.

Okay, so welcome to your anxiety toolkit. This is a podcast where I teach you everything I know

about anxiety so that you can go and live your biggest, most meaningful life.

Hello, my name is Kimberly Quinlan. I'm an anxiety and OCD specialist. I treat people with

OCD and OCD related conditions and my mission is to help you suffer less. That is my main goal

with all of my students and all of my clients. And that's what we're going to do today.

Okay, so let's first look at what is mindfulness. Mindfulness is simply paying attention

to the present moment. This moment right here, not moments down the road. It's noticing

thoughts, feelings and sensation from a place of non-judgment. And it's allowing them to be

there without trying to fix

them or analyze them, resist them, or change them. That is what mindfulness is. It sounds pretty

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