468 Mindfulness Exercise for OCD

强迫症正念练习

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

2026-01-14

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In this episode, I share the one mindfulness skill I teach every OCD client to help you respond to intrusive thoughts without getting stuck in rumination, urgency, or compulsions—especially when you're feeling overwhelmed.
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  • Mindfulness exercises for OCD that will actually help when you're feeling incredibly overwhelmed.

  • Now mindfulness is a skill that will supercharge your OCD recovery.

  • But if not applied correctly, it can sometimes lead to you focusing on the wrong things,

  • maybe doing more compulsions, maybe catastrophizing some more.

  • And I want to really get to the bottom of this with you today by teaching you my favorite mindfulness skills.

  • So today we are going to learn how mindfulness can be used in a way that actually supports your OCD recovery,

  • especially when you're overwhelmed.

  • I'm going to teach you my absolute favorite mindfulness skill.

  • I teach every one of my clients and I teach my students and at the end I'm going to give you some of the tricks that OCD gives you that makes you fall back into all behaviors.

  • So we're going to really make sure that we cover all about bases here today.

  • Okay, so welcome to your anxiety toolkit.

  • This is a podcast where I teach you everything I know about anxiety so that you can go and live your biggest,

  • most meaningful life.

  • Hello, my name is Kimberly Quinlan.

  • I'm an anxiety and OCD specialist.

  • I treat people with OCD and OCD related conditions, and my mission is to help you suffer less.

  • That is my main goal with all of my students and all of my clients,

  • and that's what we're going to do today.

  • Okay, so let's first look at what is mindfulness.

  • Mindfulness is simply paying attention to the present moment.