Ep. 162: OCD and Scrupulosity w/ Mimi Cole
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast. Today on the podcast we have a wonderful interview with OCD and mental health advocate Mimi Cole. Mimi is currently working on her graduate degree in counseling and she is here to talk with us today about her lived experience with OCD, scrupulosity, and an eating disorder. Mimi so beautifully states that she wants to share her story in order to increase awareness, education and resources while decreasing the shame and misconceptions surrounding OCD.
Mimi shares her OCD story, specifically her struggles with scrupulosity. She describes how her religion and her religious upbringing became intertwined with perfectionism and OCD. She shares a bit about her exposures for scrupulosity and what motivated her to begin ERP.
Mimi also describes her experience with orthorexia and her obsessions surrounding clean eating and how she feels this became a link between OCD and an eating disorder. We discuss that intersection between body image, clean eating obsessions, restrictive food intake and how these are all connected to OCD. Mimi is currently exploring a research project on eating disorders as a coping mechanism for OCD.
Towards the end of the interview, Mimi shares how she manages her OCD in recovery. She talks about self-compassion and accepting our common humanity as a few tools she uses to help.
This interview is full of such great information particularly about scrupulosity, a theme of OCD that is not often discussed. I found it so uplifting and informative and I think you will as well.
Mimi's instagram @the.lovelybecoming
Mimi's website www.mimi-cole.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 162. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is |
| 0:16.4 | fueled by three main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage |
| 0:22.3 | your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And |
| 0:29.8 | number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, |
| 0:36.8 | because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you, |
| 0:41.1 | let's go. Welcome back, my lovely friends. How are you all? Let's all just stop for one minute and take a nice deep breath, check in, |
| 0:59.5 | and maybe just allow whatever discomfort you're feeling to just be there in this moment. |
| 1:05.8 | Try to be non-judgmental about it. Try to not be hard on yourself for having it, and just sort of make an |
| 1:13.6 | awareness of it, an invitation to it. We want to continue this art of allowing our discomfort |
| 1:23.1 | instead of resisting our discomfort, right? An ongoing message and an ongoing lesson, I think we're all trying to learn. |
| 1:31.4 | So, okay. |
| 1:36.4 | Today we have the amazing Mimi Cole with us. |
| 1:40.7 | She is here and is an amazing guest. |
| 1:47.8 | She's talking about her experience with having OCD and an eating disorder, how religious obsessions and moral obsessions really complicated |
| 1:55.1 | that for her and how that was a major theme of her OCD. She's talking about her, you know, ongoing hope to |
| 2:05.1 | spread hope and to share her tools. And I just adore her. She is wonderful. I had such a fun time |
| 2:12.1 | speaking with her. I wish you could see it because Mimi has the most infectious smile. |
| 2:17.7 | The minute she smiles, I can't help, but my whole body just smiles. |
| 2:21.1 | She's wonderful. |
| 2:22.9 | So I'm not going to talk for too much longer. |
| 2:25.0 | I'm going to go straight into this episode. |
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