The Healthy Compulsive Project
By Gary Trosclair
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For six years The Healthy Compulsive Project has been offering information, insight and inspiration for OCPD, obsessive-compulsive personality, perfectionism, micro-managers and Type A personality. Anyone who’s ever been known to overwork, overplan, overcontrol or overanalyze is welcome here, where the obsessive-compulsive personality is explored and harnessed to deliver what it was originally meant to deliver. Join psychotherapist, Jungian psychoanalyst and author Gary Trosclair as he delves into the pitfalls and potential of the driven personality with an informative, positive, and often playful approach to this sometimes-vexing character style.
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What Carl Jung Would Tell You About Your Perfectionism. Ep. 122
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Perfectionism Burnout and The Myth of The Total Couch Potato Collapse, Ep. 121
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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The “Should Effect”: When Desire Gets Lost in Self-Discipline, Ep. 120
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Ep. 119: Inner Conflict: What Happens When You Silence Half of Yourself
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Ep. 118: Letting Go of Resentment: Why You’re Obsessed with People Being Good
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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Ep. 117: Karpman's Triangle: 3 Roles that Destroy Relationships
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Ep. 116: Codependence Is a 'Muscular Glue' — Here's How to Break Free
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Ep. 115: Why You Can’t Stop Using Willpower--Even After It Drains You
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May 26, 2026 |
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Ep. 114: Can't Identify Your Feelings? You Might Have Alexithymia—The Unspeaking Heart
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May 15, 2026 |
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Ep 113: 6 Reasons Perfectionists Struggle to Change
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Ep. 112: Break Free from the “Shoulds”: How Old Soul and Young Soul Archetypes Can Run Your Life
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Ep. 111: Your Outdated, Risk‑Averse Comfort Zone Is a Prison — Chuck It
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Ep. 110: The Hidden Wisdom of the Compulsive Personality
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Ep. 109: 5 Steps to Respond to an OCPD Diagnosis
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Ep: 108: A Dog's Eye View of OCPD
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Ep. 107: Waking Up from the Strange Comfort of the Obsessive-Compulsive Dream
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Ep. 106: Marriage Is Not for Sissies: Courage, Projection, and Projective Identification
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Ep. 105: Quieting the False Alarms of "Not Just Right Experiences"
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Ep. 104: Befriending Adaptive Perfectionism: From Villain to Ally
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Ep. 103: 7 Vexing Questions & Encouraging Answers for Therapists Who Treat Obsessive-Compulsive Personality
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Ep. 102: Interview with Endurance Coach Travis Macy about the Driven Personality
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Ep. 101: 4 Ways Perfectionists and Obsessive-Compulsives Try To Avoid Humiliation
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Ep. 100: How a Goddess Became a Modern Disease: Ananke, OCPD, & the Need for Control
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Ep. 99: From Alienation to Connection: Healing the Spiritual Side Effects of Compulsive Perfectionism
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Ep. 98: How to Pivot to a Life Worth Living Through Flexibility: A Review of ACT
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Ep. 97: 3 Reasons You're Having Anxiety Dreams
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Ep. 96: 4 Tools to Help Obsessives Move Past Creative Blocks
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Ep. 95: No Laughing Matter: What Being So Serious Does to Your Life
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Ep. 94: 2 Novels About Perfectionists Sure to Entertain and Inspire You
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Ep. 93: Breaking Horses: 6 Signs That You're Micromanaging
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Ep. 92: A Review of RO DBT, Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy—A New Treatment for Overcontrol
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Ep. 91: Navigating Challenges for the Perfectionist Father: From the Horrific to the Heroic
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Ep. 90: Finding the Meaning of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Traits
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Ep. 89: Should You Unearth the Past? How Looking Back Can Help us Move Forward
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May 27, 2025 |
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Ep. 88: Am I Being Passive-Aggressive? How to Know—and What to Do About It
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May 20, 2025 |
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Ep. 87: Beyond the Switch: The Dark and Subtle Side of Punishment
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May 13, 2025 |
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Ep. 86: The Hidden Drive Behind Compulsive Behavior: Carl Jung’s Path to Wholeness
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May 06, 2025 |
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Ep. 85: This is Not a Test: 3 Steps to Winning the Battle Against Insecurity
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Ep. 84: Is Psychotherapy Effective? A Note for the Skeptical
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Ep. 83: 7 Ways Spending Time in Nature Heals the Driven Personality
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Ep. 82: Want to Make Life Easier? Break the Habits that Make It More Difficult Than It Needs to Be
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Ep. 81: A Short Guide to Love Languages for People with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Ep. 80: Four Blocks to Releasing Resentment and Offering Forgiveness
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Ep. 79: Authenticity: Why Being Realistically Real Matters
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Ep. 78: How to Harness the Power of Lists for Your Well-Being
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Ep. 77: How to Help a Partner, Friend or Relative Who Feels Suicidal
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Ep. 76: The Need to Control: A Compulsive Recipe for Poor Health
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Ep 75: 6 Steps to Stop Being Judgmental
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Ep. 74: Four Ways that Control Smothers the Flames of Romantic Love
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Ep. 73: Taoist Wisdom for Compulsive Perfectionists
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Ep. 72: 7 Ways to Achieve More Flexibility in Your Relationships
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Ep. 71: Clinging to Sacred Cows: Identity and Worth in the Compulsive Personality
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Ep. 70: Are you a compulsive hero or a heroic compulsive?
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Ep. 69: How Self Control and Inhibited Expression Hurt Relationships
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Ep. 68: Wield Your Shield Wisely: How Not to be Defensive
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Ep. 67: The Power of Lists to Tyrannize or Harmonize
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Ep. 66: Welcome All Guests: Aging with OCPD (Obsessive-Compulsive Personality)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Ep. 65: Letting Go and Holding On: The Essential Life Skills No-One Taught You
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Ep. 64: Driving Nowhere: The Dangers of Being Overly Conscientious
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Ep. 63: Can Mindfulness Meditation Make You Less Compulsive?
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Ep. 62: Being Frugal: Good Self-Care or Too Emotionally Expensive?
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Ep. 61: Feeling Stuck? Try Generosity.
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Ep. 60: The Role of Self-Deception in Perfectionism
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Ep. 59: Navigating the Crossroads: 5 Steps to Becoming More Decisive
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Ep. 58: People Pleasing, Resentment, & Other Relationship Killers
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Ep. 57: Regarding Your Battle with the World's Stupidity
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Ep. 56: In Praise of Healthy Perfectionism
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Ep. 55: What Happens When a Compulsive Meets the Archetype of the Saint
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Ep. 54: Chronic Urgency Stress Syndrome (CUSS) and That Monster Hiding Under Your Bed
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Ep. 53: Perceived Chaos and the Need to Control
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Ep. 52: Do You Live With Ease Or Urgency?
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Ep. 51: How Compulsive Perfectionists Can Cultivate Happiness
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Ep. 50: How To Not Waste Your Time In Therapy
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Ep. 49: Naming and Taming the Core Fears That Control Us
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Ep. 48: 4 Lessons Perfectionists Learn When They Befriend the Archetype of the Fool
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Ep. 47: Should You Tell Your Partner How to Be a Better Person?
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Ep. 46: Perfectionistic Partners and Moral Gaslighting
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Ep. 45: How to Build a Foundation That Prevents Imposter Syndrome
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May 28, 2024 |
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Ep. 44: 5 Unintended Effects of Type A Parenting, and 17 Tips for Obsessive-Compulsive Parents
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May 14, 2024 |
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Ep. 43: Demand Resistance: What It is, What Drives It, and How it Serves or Cheats Us
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May 07, 2024 |
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Ep. 42: Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: A Disorder of Priorities
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Ep. 41: How to Let Go Without Giving Up
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Ep. 40: How to Keep Psychological Hoarding from Crowding Your Mind and Blocking Fulfillment
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Ep. 39: What is shame and What is the Best Way to Deal with It?
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Ep. 38: The Battle for the Mind of the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality: Growth Mindset Vs. Fixed Mindset
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Ep. 37: Want to Be Certain? Don't Be So Sure
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Ep. 36: Enough Already. Why You Need to Know that You Are Enough. Already.
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Ep. 35: Psychotherapy for the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Ep. 34: How to Get Your Compulsive Drive to Work for You
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Ep. 33: Does Avoidant Attachment Cause Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Ep. 32: How to Tame Your Tyrannical Guilt Complex
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Ep. 31 The Origins of OCPD: Genes, Environment, and the Two Other Factors Most People Don’t Consider
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Ep. 30: Turning Chaos into Order: Meaning and Burden for the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Ep. 29: Self-Compassion: The Evidenced-Based Antidote to Maladaptive Perfectionism
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Ep. 28: Four Keys to Handling Obsessive-Compulsive Anxiety and Fear
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Ep. 27: Work Engagement, Work Addiction and Work Burnout
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Ep. 26: The Triggers that Lead to Unhealthy Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Ep. 25: Why Compulsives Need Mastery in Their Lives
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Ep. 24: What Are You Trying to Prove By Being So Good?
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Ep. 23: The Compulsive Thinker-Planner: Obsessive Procrastinator or Productive Visionary?
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 22: Managing Holiday Expectations, and Carl Jung Analyzes Ebenezer Scrooge
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Ep. 21: The Compulsive Server-Friend: People Pleaser or Well-Rounded Helper?
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Ep. 20: Delaying Gratification: The Good, The Bad and The Downright Destructive
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Ep. 19: The Compulsive Worker-Doer: Destined for Burnout or Fulfillment?
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Ep. 18: Can Someone With OCPD Change?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Ep. 17: The Compulsive Teacher-Leader: Bully or Mentor?
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Ep. 16: What Is Shame and What Is the Best Way to Deal With It?
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Ep. 15: Closed: The True Cost of Not Being Open to Our Experience
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Ep. 14: What Exactly Do They Want From You? How The Demand Sensitivity Lens Mucks Up Our Livess
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Ep. 13: The Ten Commandments of the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Ep. 12: How Do I Know if I Have OCPD? And So What If I Do?
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 11: Who's in Charge? You or Your Inflated Rogue Ego?
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Ep. 10: The Difference Between Narcissistic and Obsessive-Compulsive Personalities
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Ep. 9: If Your Partner Has Threatened to Divorce You
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Ep. 8: Four Types of Compulsive Personality
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Ep. 7: How to Stop Obsessing and Survive Your Vacation
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Ep. 6. What Inspiration Can Do for Us and Why We Won't Let It
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Ep. 5: The Difference Between OCD and OCPD
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 4: For Partners of People with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality (OCPD)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 3: OCPD (Obsessive-Compulsive Personality) and Depression
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 2: Introducing The Healthy Compulsive Project Podcast
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 1: The Healthy Compulsive Project | Trailer
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Jul 10, 2023 |