An archive of previous Zoom Meeting discussion prompts.
Join us to share your experience disclosing your OCPD diagnosis to close family and friends and how you navigated their various reactions and responses. Prompts for Reflection [Note from Cale] Going to leave this placeholder until I have questions to share.
[Zoom Meeting] OCPD & Navigating Family Reactions 😐👨👩👧👦 Read More »
Hello All! If you’ve had the opportunity to attend one of the monthly Zoom Support Group Meetings then we’d like to inform you about our very first “All Hands” meeting. The format will differ from our usual group discussion based approach and instead function more like a presentation with periods for question and answer time.
1st “All Hands” Meeting for You, Me, & OCPD Read More »
“Is preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost.” OCPD Diagnostic Criteria (1 of 8) This diagnostic criteria is often one that folks with OCPD immediately understand, they have implicit experiences – maybe even from the past few days, or in researching
[Zoom Meeting] OCPD & Getting Lost in Details 🔬 Read More »
In “Atlas of the Heart”, the section on Shame flows directly into Perfectionism and so I thought it pertinent to follow that thread through to completion. If you’re just now joining us, be sure to check out the Shame section for full context. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human
[Zoom Meeting] OCPD & Perfectionism 📐 Read More »
Once again, it seems appropriate to share an entire (slightly abridged) section from the book “Atlas of the Heart” on Shame. For context, the emotion of Shame falls under the heading “Places We Go When We Fall Short” and is grouped with Self-Compassion, Perfectionism, Guilt, Humiliation, and Embarrassment. There’s just too much ground to cover
[Zoom Meeting] OCPD & Shame 😔 Read More »
Setting New Year’s Resolutions Intentions A few years ago I made the switch from setting “New Year’s Resolutions” to “Setting Intentions” and I’m pretty sure I’m never going back! While it might seem like just semantics at first, the biggest difference I’ve experienced is how much kinder I am with myself when I think about
[Zoom Meeting] OCPD & Setting New Intentions 🌱 Read More »
I’ve been cultivating a personal practice/ceremony of reflecting on the year as it comes to a close over the past few years now. I’m know not alone or unique in this practice, as evidenced by the countless lists of great questions and reflection prompts available all over the internet. One of the challenges I’ve encountered
[Zoom Meeting] Reflecting on the Year 2023 📝🔍 Read More »
For this discussion topic I wanted to share the entire section from the book “Atlas of the Heart” on disgust. For context, this emotion is loosely grouped under the broader banner of “Places we go when we feel wronged” so the author will be sharing about disgust in the context of additional core emotions. I
[Zoom Meeting] OCPD & Disgust 🤢 Read More »
