Our Core Beliefs (OCB)
Promoting Hope and Health with OCD
Bryan Ballard, Julia St. Jean, Adira Weixlmann
Category Track: Young Adult. Everyone.
Our Intent...
To create Hope for those struggling to understand OCD.
Foster the development of healthy coping skills.
Highlight inspiring experiences.
Provide opportunity for Q&A into specific topics.
Thanks for coming!
The Takeaway...
For you to walk away with tools to promote happiness and
health in your life.
A Guidepost…
If an idea helps you -- keep it.
If it doesn’t help you -- ditch it.
And that’s it.
Roadmap: Our Core Beliefs
1. Acknowledge and Accept 4. Toolbox, Part II
2. Support
5. Practice
3. Toolbox, Part I
6. Nurture Yourself
Acknowledge and
Accept
Admit to yourself OCD is significant and commit to
becoming better.
Your OCD today will not be the same as the one you
experience years down the road
Support
Community to support YOU, not your OCD.
Therapy--find someone to help you grow with your OCD.
Give OCD less air time.
Toolbox, Part I:
Managing the Compulsions
Challenge the Compulsions.
Set SMART Goals.
Be gentle with yourself. You’re most likely not going to bench
press 300lb on your first workout.
Take Pride in your Accomplishments.
Toolbox, Part II: Working with Obsessions
Awareness
Mindfulness
Shifting focus
Mindfulness is another SKILL that needs to be
DEVELOPED
Practice
Bringing your Toolbox to the Real World
Life Transitions
Stressors
Success Stories
Nurture
OCD can influence why you’re passionate, determined,
resilient, smart, and successful.
You are not your OCD. You are a person first -- A person
with OCD.
Empower yourself, not your OCD -- Stop using heavy
language around OCD.
Believe in yourself.
“Words are, in my not-so-humble
opinion, our most inexhaustible source of
magic. Capable of both inflicting injury
and remedying it.”
- Albus Dumbledore
Beliefs
They can empower you
through OCD. These are
ours.