🧠 #99: Can’t get in
This update shares a vacation win, a vacation struggle, and a new sharing practice.
🎧🎙️ In your body
In the most recent Jocko Underground podcast, Jocko answered a question of someone who was heartbroken. His answer was so perfect to me as the course to deal with my OCD, or with any strong and debilitating emotions.
The first step is to think of the emotions as waves. This perfectly matches the dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) skill of “Ride the wave.”
🧠 #98: Walks on the beach
In a quick vacation update, I share a lesson learned from running into my daughter while walking on the beach.
🧠 #97: Making friends
This week I share another step forward in my peacemaking with the monster that is OCD in my life.
🧠 #96: Confronting the criminal
In a shocking turn of events (🙄), allowing a known trigger into my life last week caused some issues. This week, I share how I confronted and adjusted, putting OCD to work for good, and sitting in the chemical experimentation phase.
🧠 Falling prey to OCD
I thought it might be helpful to share a recent free writing entry. I had wanted to process my thoughts and feelings as OCD was starting to take over in my life. The realization that was happening struck me as I was writing my latest weekly update, #95: Experimenting with discomfort.
🧠 #95: Experimenting with discomfort
This week included a reprise in my role as a limited-time stay-at-home dad, a chilly discovery, and allowing a known trigger into my life.
🧠 #94: Finding monkeys
This week’s update shares my experience with yet another psychiatrist and noticing my recent increase in OCD symptoms.
🎧🎙️ Routines are overrated
As someone with OCD, it is all too easy for routines to become cruel overlords instead of helpful assistants. This episode of the Art of Manliness Podcast was helpful and encouraging for me: #821: Routines are Overrated.
In the podcast, Madeleine Dore explains that discipline can be more productively viewed as a skill, rather than a trait.
🧠 #93: Flooding and Dragons
Forced flexibility from flooding, leaning into uncertainty, and my first concert. It was a big week!