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66. Rewire Your OCD Brain With Dr. Catherine Pittman


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My anxiety mentor, Dr. Catherine Pittman, joins us on the show for the third time to discuss her latest book Rewire Your OCD Brain: Powerful Neuroscience-Based Skills to Break Free from Obsessive Thoughts and Fears.

Catherine is a professor and teaching is one of her greatest joys, so I thought it would be fun to switch things up a bit. Rather than me asking questions, I wanted to give you a look into what it’d feel like to sit inside one of her classes.

Today’s lecture focuses on how and why your brain gets stuck in a loop of obsessive thinking, uncertainty, and worry, and the tools you need to short-circuit this response and get your symptoms under control—for good.

Today, we're chatting about...

  • Who Rewire Your OCD Brain is for 
  • What OCD is 
  • Where anxiety comes from in the brain 
  • Why you have symptoms when anxious 
  • The role the cortex plays in anxiety
  • Why the amygdala is important 
  • Were fear memories are stored 
  • The importance of keeping your cortex calm if you live with OCD
  • Why you need to get off the worry channel 
  • The benefits of worry 
  • How you can heal OCD 

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