'Wins' board idea/technique to aid you on your journey to recovery...

Sorry, definitely didn't intend it that way and you're right it's mostly a recognition of my own tendencies. Poor wording on my part.

 

Would this be by talking to one's brain like Dr Sarno advised? Or saying just saying something like: "Leg muscles work! It's safe and I know you can move just fine"?

 

No worries, Mr Hip Guy - I still like you!

 

Dots would probably be too much for some people. ❤️

 

Do you care to share any wins today?
Today for me:

• I didn’t let my pain bully me into thinking I’ll fall in the bathroom.
• I didn’t let my anxiety overwhelm me when I first woke up.
• I started tapping again on the tapping app. (Did this awhile ago but stopped).
• I also started again on the curable app. It’s nice. (Both the tapping and Curable are based on pain reprocessing therapy; so a good fit for me.)

 

It can still work with OCD - you just build in ways to deal with it.
I’m a retired teacher who taught children and adults with presumed cognitive differences in the earlier days of “behavior modification” - many of my students had OCD tendencies. Still responded extremely favorably to reward vs correction (correction was big back then, I favored only using reward eg. Spending extra time with a person doing something they enjoyed eg. One guy loved dancing so we danced his reward - create rewards that do not feed into OCD.

 

Fab @Diana-M! My wins so far today:

• I started worrying and catastrophizing about what might go wrong with some work we're having done to our house next week, but immediately stopped those thoughts in their tracks, stopped them from spiralling me into a pit of doom and gloom and moved my thoughts on to other things, e.g. thoughts about looking forward to starting a book that was recommended on @Rabscuttle's non-TMS book recommendations thread.
• I went back to doing some light 'non-linear movement' exercises in my bed before I got up today, which only take a few minutes yet I had recently given up doing them.
• I stood in the kitchen and made my husband and me a fruit salad to eat for our afternoon snack; he loves it when I make a fruit salad and the thought of his pleasure in eating my efforts made me smile.
• I spent 10 minutes doing a new visualisation where I imagined all the cells in my body were as light as clouds

 

Love your wins!

 

I started journaling and meditating again last night.
I did a legs-focused strength workout today and biked despite my legs being my biggest fear point.