Seven Shifts For Beating Religious Scrupulosity
In this webinar recording, Ted Witzig Jr. will walk through seven different ways to pivot your treatments to help improve your condition and to grow.
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| 1. Faith is what I feel. | 1. Walking Faith: living into my beliefs. |
| 2. Taking medication may mask a spiritual problem. | 2. Medication may be one way God helps me overcome OCD. |
| 3. Perfectionism and All-or-Nothing Thinking. | 3. Growth is about progress not perfection. |
| 4. OCD is helping me to be spiritually safe. | 4. God desires that I break OCD rules in order to be free. |
| 5. I must continually analyze the past. | 5. Healing is in moving forward. |
| 6. Picturing God through the distorted lens of OCD. | 6. Viewing God without OCD’s distortion. |
| 7. I must prove to God (and myself) I don’t want these thoughts. | 7. God understands OCD and its treatment. |
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Very helpful. Thank you!
This is helpful, I have suffered OCD for around 4 months and I brought about a hard heart, numb to sin, numb to feelings and constant distress and stress. It is horrible to be under OCD and I would never wish this upon anyone.
I have lived with this for almost 50 yearsI keep going back to wondering if I am really saved it is beyond frightening This has helped some It is so encouraging to know that some people understand the battle
Very encouraging. I just finished reading Osbourne’s book, and this supports what I am finding helpful in his methods.
I understand this battle too. It’s been so encouraging to see others have gone through this too
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