The Mental Compulsions Workbook for Ocd: CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Navigate Intrusive Thoughts and Mental Traps

It's time to break free from mental traps, and take back your life!

If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you may struggle with mental compulsions--such as ritualistic counting or "emotional checking." You may even believe that these compulsions will reduce your anxiety or prevent something "bad" from happening. But the truth is that mental compulsions can be debilitating, and greatly impact your life, your career, and your relationships. So, how can you break free from this vicious cycle of overthinking?

This workbook offers evidenced-based skills drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness to help you reduce rumination, worry, and other mental traps, so you can live with more freedom and vitality. You'll gain a better understanding of what mental compulsions are, how they differ from obsessions, and how they interfere with your life. You'll also learn proven-effective skills and strategies to help you gain control of your mental compulsions, and guided journaling exercises to help you put these tools into practice.

You don't have to let intrusive thoughts, overthinking, and worry hold you back. This step-by-step workbook will help you reduce the rumination and other mental compulsions that keep you trapped in your mind, so you can finally take charge of your life.

Lauren Rosen, LMFT, has dedicated her career to providing compassionate, evidence-based psychotherapy to those with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety disorders. She graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with her BA in psychology, earned her master's in clinical psychology from Antioch University, and trained at the OCD Center of Los Angeles. In 2022, Lauren 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. She and her team use exposure and response prevention (ERP), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (MBCBT), to help people take their lives back from anxiety, distress, and intrusive thoughts. Lauren is author of The Mental Compulsions Workbook for OCD.You can find Lauren on Instagram and via the Purely OCD Podcast.

Foreword writer Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT, is a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in the treatment of OCD and related disorders. She is host of the Your Anxiety Toolkit podcast, and founder of www.cbtschool.com--an online psychoeducation platform for OCD, anxiety disorders, and body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs).