Jessica Serber: Siblings, mindfulness and self-compassion in OCD treatment (#325)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In episode 325 I chat with Jessica Serber. Jessica is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist as well as the founder of Mindful CBT California.
In this episode we discuss her therapy story, being a sibling of someone with OCD, how she supported her sister, how Jessica brings mindfulness into the therapy room, working with mindfulness sticking points, she shares an ice cube exercise for learning to tolerate discomfort and uncertainty, we discuss self-compassion, self punishment, an exercise for self-compassion, and much more. Hope it helps.
Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/jessica-serber-325
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.3 | The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding |
| 0:10.1 | around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
| 0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. |
| 0:21.6 | I welcome to episode 325 and in this one I chat with Jessica Serba |
| 0:26.3 | Jessica is a licensed marriage and family therapist as well as the founder of |
| 0:30.8 | mindful CBT California. |
| 0:33.0 | And in particular we talk about her therapy story, |
| 0:36.0 | being a sibling of someone with OCD, |
| 0:39.0 | how she supported her sister, |
| 0:41.0 | how Jessica brings mindfulness into the therapy room. Working with mindfulness |
| 0:45.6 | sticking points, she shares an ice cube exercise for learning to tolerate discomfort and |
| 0:50.3 | uncertainty. We discuss self-compassion, self-punishment, an exercise for self-compassion and much more. |
| 0:58.0 | And thank you to NOCD for support in the podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | NOCD offers affordable, effective and convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. if they currently take your insurance or to download their free app, head over to go. |
| 1:14.8 | TreatMy O.com forward slash the O. C.d stories. |
| 1:19.0 | The link will be in the episode description. |
| 1:21.1 | So thank you to Jessica for sharing her knowledge and of course thank you to you guys for listening. I deeply appreciate it. |
| 1:28.0 | Without further ado, here is Jessica. |
| 1:30.0 | Welcome to the show Jessica. |
| 1:32.0 | Thank you. It's Jessica. Thank you. |
| 1:34.0 | It's good to have you here and of course we met in person. |
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