On this episode of Jennifer from the Block I spoke with Monique. She is the administrative assistant for a local winery, and former journalist. Monique has a form of OCD known as harm OCD. 

• Fear of thoughts that you will cause harm to others (either accidentally or purposely)
• Excessive worry and mental analysis about these thoughts
• Compulsive behaviors to avoid the risk of causing harm to others

In this episode Monique gets personal about those thoughts that pushed her to not only get a diagnosis, but become an advocate for those that also suffer from forms of OCD and anxiety.

For those that need help and resources that helped Monique: NPR Invisibilia podcast called “Dark Thoughts”: https://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/375928124/dark-thoughts

Jeffrey Schwartz’s book called “Brain Lock.”

On this episode of Jennifer from the Block I spoke with Cindy Bandow, but for those of us from Junction City, she's known as Bandow. Bandow opens up about her mental health struggles as a teacher over the past year while adjusting to the new ways of teaching, and also coping with the fear of the virus. 

On the first episode of Jennifer from the Block I spoke with Jessica about the struggles of mental health and self image as both growing up in the church and being a mother of three. 

So many of us deal with mental health struggles in our every day lives. Yet so few of us feel comfortable or even safe talking about it. 

Host Jennifer Williams hopes to change this.