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Jenna Overbaugh, Oconomowoc, WI (2025)

12/25/2025

BUT IT FEELS SO REAL AHHHHHH.

This is one of my favorite OCD tricks to dismantle! The reality is this phenomenon happens to us all the time - not just in OCD.

Of course, throw OCD (aka the doubt disorder) into the mix and it can make everything a MILLLLLION times worse.

BUT 👏 that’s where I come in.

Want to know more about how I teach my 1:1 clients about the OCD and anxiety cycle? DM me or comment below the word CYCLE and I’ll send you some more info. 🥳

12/25/2025

Your uncertainties, doubts, and scary thoughts aren’t the problem.

The problem is when you start to interpret these thoughts or experiences as being *significant* somehow. You’re doing this a few different ways.

This interpretation causes anxiety in your mind and body. Naturally, this feels super uncomfortable and you feel the need to fix it and to do SOMETHING.

That leads you to want to do safety behaviors, rituals, or compulsive acts as a way to reduce the anxiety that you feel from these misinterpretations. MAJOR problems with this kind of response.

If you keep giving into this cycle by responding with rituals, you will have more anxiety next time and your world will get smaller and smaller. But eventually, if you stop feeding the beast, it will starve and die. You get your life back.

And it’s all so much simpler than you think.

I can show you how. DM me or comment the word CYCLE and I’ll send you a link to sign up for the refilming of most popular masterclass, The OCD and Anxiety Cycle. 🥳👏

Sign up before February 6th and get the previously recorded version instantly PLUS live call details for the re-recording taking place on February 6th at 11 AM CST.

Just DM me or comment the word CYCLE and I’ll hook you up.

Break the cycle, starve the beast, get your life back.

12/25/2025

Have you tried to use logic against OCD before?

Chances are, you end up right back where you were because of another doubt or “what if”. That’s one reason we call OCD the doubt disorder, because it can make you doubt even the most logical and rational things.

Imagination and possibility (OCD and anxiety land) will always be more expansive than reality and reasoning.

Which is why using it can feel like a losing battle for many.

For more of what does work - follow me. 😘

Does OCD defy your attempts at using logic?

12/25/2025

I’m just gonna go ahead and say the thing.

Sticking with the facts will make your life (and recovery from OCD) so much better.

I know it.

You know it.

Here’s the thing. Facts are objectively true statements that could hold up in a court of law, that no one would bat an eye at. They’re just.. that. Facts. Statements of truth.

Drama is everything that happens after that fact.

It goes a little like this.

Fact: “I had an intrusive thought of hitting someone with my car.”

Drama: “Oh my God, what does that mean about me? Does that mean I actually did it? I don’t want to have those thoughts anymore. They’re so scary. I can’t handle these thoughts. I just want them to go away!!!”

Let’s try another one.

Fact: “I am mad at my partner.”

Drama: “Does this mean something about my relationship? About them as a person? Does this mean this person isn’t actually for me? I can’t handle not knowing that for sure. I don’t want to spend time with someone who I don’t know is 100% for me. Where would that get me in life? I have to figure this out.”

Or another.

Fact: “My heart is beating really quickly right now.”

Drama: “OHHHHH no, this can’t be happening, not again. This feeling sucks so bad, I need to get out of this, okay, maybe I’ll try some of that deep breathing I read about online. *tries* UGHHH it’s not working, it’s not working, okay what do I do!? I need this to stop, let me go online and see what could be happening.”

Do you see how we play with fire here? Do you see how we can’t just leave well enough alone? Do you see how we take this normal, every day intrusive thought, idea, doubt, what if, obsession, and then make this big juicy dramatic emotional narrative about it?

So instead of getting lost in the juicy details - stick with the facts. And that’s it.

DM me or comment the word CYCLE so you don’t have to keep getting swept up in the emotional charge of it all. No emotional charge, no need to do a compulsion, and … you get your life back.

Because you don’t need to keep ritualizing to keep yourself safe.

You can just stick with the facts.

DM

12/25/2025

Does this sound like you?

It’s one of the most common ways I see people sabotaging themselves in OCD/anxiety recovery.

When you make these really intense and broad, declarative statements such as “I can’t” - you’ve just declared your problem an unsolvable one.

I can’t help you with something you can’t do.

“I can’t stop ruminating”

Well - what have you tried? What haven’t you tried? When do you not ruminate? What other questions from OCD or anxiety or life do you leave alone and what’s special about these thoughts? What does it look like when you’re ruminating? How would me, an observer, be able to tell? What can we work on there?

Stop kicking your own self in the butt. Let’s take a deep breath, take a step away from the emotion and drama and intensity of it. And let’s break this problem down in a way that’s solvable, addressable.

If you say you can’t, you can’t because you’ve shut yourself off from all possibility or flexibility to say or do otherwise.

There’s never been a problem in the OCD or anxiety world I haven’t been able to figure out - as long as the other person acknowledges that it’s possible and that they’re willing to do what it takes.

So let’s not say this word today. Let’s problem solve instead.

DM me or comment below the word TRANSFORMATION for the most popular course in my Blueprint series - for those who are ready to stop settling for an “okay” life and start making their brain their b***h. 💪

12/24/2025

If you haven’t been able to improve your OCD/anxiety, I’d bet it’s because of your lack of resources - NOT BECAUSE OF YOU.

And I’m here to help you change that. 💪💪

And now you get more than ever with my new PAY IN FULL BONUSES. Now, when you pay in full for The OCD and Anxiety Recovery Blueprint, you get “The Masterclass Bundle” and the “Recovery is Yours” bundle - a total of 10 extra videos to get your toolkit locked and loaded so you have everything you need to dig yourself out of the OCD rabbit hole - and stay out - for good.

The Masterclass Bundle features 5 additional videos with guest experts, exclusive Q&As, and added tools to help you feel supported through the struggle.

The Recovery is Yours Bundle is *ANOTHER* 5 videos - consider this your Blueprint prep course to get the most out of recovery.

All yours free when you pay in full for The OCD and Anxiety Recovery Blueprint.

DM me the word “BLUEPRINT” or comment the word “BLUEPRINT” below and I’ll send you the resources you need to reclaim your life.

12/24/2025

Happy holidays, you’ve got this💓

12/24/2025

Building confidence in ANY KIND of change takes time. It also takes willingness. It takes courage.

And I set you up with all of that with my new PAY IN FULL BONUSES when you pay in full for The OCD and Anxiety Recovery Blueprint.

Now, when you pay in full for The OCD and Anxiety Recovery Blueprint, you get “The Masterclass Bundle” and the “Recovery is Yours” bundle - a total of 10 extra videos to get your toolkit locked and loaded so you have everything you need to dig yourself out of the OCD rabbit hole - and stay out - for good.

The Masterclass Bundle features 5 additional videos with guest experts, exclusive Q&As, and added tools to help you feel supported through the struggle.

The Recovery is Yours Bundle is *ANOTHER* 5 videos - consider this your Blueprint prep course to get the most out of recovery.

All yours free when you pay in full for The OCD and Anxiety Recovery Blueprint.

DM me the word “BLUEPRINT” or comment the word “BLUEPRINT” below and I’ll send you the resources you need to reclaim your life.

12/24/2025

You have to address the PROCESS of anxiety, rather than the content.

Content = on a superficial level what it is that you are anxious or worried about. Relationship, health, future, etc. We like to hang out here and engage in safety behaviors like reassurance seeking and avoidance and ruminating. No bueno. 🛑 🛑Distraction from the real work we have to do. Gives credibility to the fact that there is a problem in the first place.

Process = how you are justifying or holding positive beliefs about worry, how you are ruminating instead of legitimate problem solving, how you are resisting the inevitable need to tolerate some level of uncertainty in life, how you are perseverating before you can move onto the next thing you need to do, how you are in past or future instead or present.

We get too stuck on the content and we get pulled into generic strategies like cognitive restructuring and coping skills and thought challenging, which may help temporarily but..

If you don’t address the process, won’t you just have a new content area? 🥲

Kind of like how OCD plays whack a mole…

Kind of like how anxiety just loooves to move from thing to thing.

Focus less on the content (never actually was the problem anyway) and more on the process and you’ll address it all at the root and kick that whack a mole where it hurts.

Need more of this? DM me or comment below the word “BLUEPRINT” and I’ll send you a direct link to my digital course and community that’ll give you alllll the AHA and lightbulb moments.

It’s already changed the lives of over 400 students inside.

DM me or comment the word BLUEPRINT - so you can actually focus on and address the real process, not the superficial problem. 👍

12/24/2025

You might think this is a strange concept.

OCD has likely convinced you that your concerns are valid and worth the intense ritualistic behaviors they require of you.

However.

That’s just another one of its tricks. It latches onto what you take seriously, it makes you second guess the things you value most so that you stop in your travels and engage in that safety behavior *just to be sure*.

The thing is, OCD thrives when you give it attention. It does whatever it can to maintain your attention. It does that by making the thoughts, ideas, and images feel very real and very scary. It makes you second guess who you think you are.

Even though this is a sneaky trick, we can be trickier and get ahead of the game. We can call it like we see it - OCD - and we can actively choose not to engage in that content, ESPECIALLY when we feel it matters most to us. We have to show OCD who’s boss and we have to show that we aren’t playing its game anymore. We have to drop the rope on the awful tug of war game and we have to choose to not participate.

We do that by stepping away from the content of the thoughts and the obsessions and choosing to treat it like the doubt disorder it is.

Next time OCD flares up, remember this. Treat it like the doubt disorder. Refuse to invest in whether this is important or not. Do whatever you can to mess with OCDs expectations of you and try to continue investing in whatever it was you were doing before the intrusive thought came along.

For more on this topic, DM me or comment the word FOUNDATION and I’ll send you my foundational course that’ll help you set the stage for long lasting OCD and anxiety recovery. 💪

12/24/2025

I was one of them.

I am one of them.

I understand what it’s like to feel like you’re losing your mind. I understand what it’s like to love something and be equally terrified of it. I believe in your ability to recover, to access a higher level of freedom you never thought possible, and to be a source of fierce compassion, bravery, and courage.

Have you had thoughts like this before? You’re so not alone. People just don’t talk about it.

Comment below if this is something you’ve struggled with before. What helped you?

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