Ocd and Other Gods

With the goal of reclaiming our natural spontaneity and aliveness, OCD and Other Gods presents a multifaceted approach to healing from obsessive and compulsive lifestyles. While acknowledging the importance of traditional interventions such as SRI medication and exposure and response prevention behavior therapy (ERP), the reader is provided with nine additional interlocking elements essential to OC-Spectrum recovery including: - Unique complementary and alternative medicine tools - Preventive self-care and lifestyle skills - Stress and anxiety management techniques - Obsession-inoculation and cognitive restructuring strategies - Pathways for recovering the natural doing-being balance - Techniques for transcending aliveness-blocking fears and personality dynamics - Peer and family support elements - Relapse prevention - Links to educational resources and support organizations All of these innovations are designed to assist the reader in the central task of transforming both core and obsessional fears and reclaiming the individual's ability to experience spontaneity and the joy of "being." OCD and Other Gods is must reading for all people with OC-Spectrum Disorders, or who find themselves trapped in any compulsive lifestyle and who wish to recover the keys to aliveness and centered spontaneity that is the paradoxical gift waiting to be unwrapped at the core of compulsion.