Do you struggle with unwanted intrusive sexual thoughts and images about kids that torment you? That lead you to worry you snapped and turned into a pedophile overnight? Are you filled with doubt about yourself, your intentions, and what you are capable of?

Do you know that you’re not a pedophile but doubt yourself because of how real OCD feels (the visceral images, groinal responses, “command” thoughts, etc.)?

Do you fight with these scary thoughts and perform compulsion after compulsion to make sure nothing bad happens? Are you spending your days compulsively avoiding children (even your own), checking your bodily sensations and feelings to prove the obsessions wrong, replacing “bad” thoughts with “good” thoughts, avoiding sex and intimacy because you worry an intrusive thought will arise during? Do you feel immense guilt and shame because of these thoughts that are out of your control?

If so, this workshop is for YOU!

In the hour presentation, we will address:

• Common POCD obsessions and compulsions

• Evidence-based treatment for OCD (specifically as it relates to POCD obsessions)

• Unwanted “urges,” intrusive images, “command” thoughts

• Unwanted arousal and POCD

• POCD vs. Pedophilia

• Doubt vs. Uncertainty (and why it’s not always necessary to accept uncertainty to recover from OCD)

• Mindfulness/Acceptance skills

• My POCD story

• And more!

This workshop is 1 hour of presentation and 30 minutes of a live Q&A.

If you cannot attend live, you can purchase a ticket and receive a copy of the workshop recording. Everyone who purchases a ticket will receive the recording.

The Zoom link will be sent to your email one hour prior to the workshop on Saturday, November 8.