Lauren Rosen: Mental Compulsions in OCD (#522)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In episode 522 I chat with Lauren Rosen, LMFT. Lauren is a therapist and founded the Center for the Obsessive Mind, an outpatient clinic serving individuals in California, Florida, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania and select other states and countries. Lauren is the author of The Mental Compulsions Workbook for OCD. Lauren also hosts the Purely OCD Podcast.
We discuss her Mental compulsion workbook for OCD, what are mental compulsions, rumination, noticing mental compulsions, some skills for addressing mental compulsions, mindfulness, attention, mindfulness meditation, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.5 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.1 | compulsive symptoms. |
| 0:12.8 | I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people who have experienced OCD. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:24.9 | And welcome to episode 522 of the podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | And in this one, I got back on Lauren Rosen. Lauren is a therapist and founded the Center for the Obsessive Mind, an outpatient clinic serving individuals in California, Florida, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, |
| 0:40.3 | and a select other states and countries. So it's great to get Lauren back on. Lauren recently has |
| 0:48.0 | offered the Mental Compulsions Workbook for OCD. She also co-host the Purely OCD podcast. So in particular, we go into |
| 0:57.4 | the details of her new book. What are mental compulsions, rumination, noticing mental compulsions, |
| 1:04.1 | some skills for dealing with mental compulsions, mindfulness, attention, mindfulness meditation, |
| 1:15.6 | and much, much more. And thanks to our podcast partners, |
| 1:22.0 | NoCD. If OCD is interfering with your life, NoCD can help. They're licensed therapists, |
| 1:27.0 | specialize in exposure and response prevention therapy, the most proven therapy for OCD. |
| 1:33.2 | With no CD, effective treatment that is 100% virtual is available for children and adults with OCD. |
| 1:34.1 | And most members can get started within seven days on average. |
| 1:37.4 | No hassle, just real, science-backed help and support between sessions. |
| 1:42.0 | Begin your journey at nocd.com or I'll put the link in the episode description. So if you struggle with rumination and mental compulsions, I think this episode could be quite useful for you. Thank you to you guys for listening as always. It means a lot. And of course, thank you to Lauren. As always, it's a pleasure to chat with her. Without further ado, here is Lauren. Welcome to the podcast, Lauren. Thank you for having me. It's good to have you back on. It's been, obviously, we've spoken a lot since then, but it's been a long time since I've had you on the show. Yeah. Well, it was a pleasure then and it's a pleasure now. And yeah, I'm glad that we've gotten to connect in the meantime, too. |
| 2:20.1 | Yeah, yeah, absolutely. |
| 2:21.8 | So what have you been up to? |
| 2:24.1 | Well, quite a bit, actually. |
| 2:26.8 | I've been working on a mindfulness course for anxiety disorders, which I'm really enjoying with a couple of |
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