Our first Weekly Wins of 2026 🎆

On New Year’s Eve I dog sit for a friend overnight all alone. That’s a huge win for me with contamination. I walked on their floor barefoot, and touched their remote, used their bathroom, and slept in the guest room. I didn’t even bring soap with me because I planned to shower the next day when I got home.

I read 5 physical books in the past month. For the longest time I simply couldn't concentrate on text, my mind was far too frantic. I still love audiobooks, but it feels great to have the brain space to pick up a book.

I went out on New Year's Eve and despite starting to have some anxiety, I had a lot of fun.

I'm being consistent with my medicine and seeing the fruits of my "labor", which is a healthy mind to allow me to do the things I want to do and not just doom scroll on TikTok.

I used to have trouble with reading books. I wouldn’t be able to get through more than a page without thinking I “read the words on the page wrong” and if I didn’t read it again something bad would happen. In the past week, I’ve finished three books and I’m now almost halfway through my fourth! (Extra points because they are part of the thriller genre which used to trigger bad intrusive thoughts for me)

Weekly Win: my whole family got the flu, and my dad even developed pneumonia. Now it’s my turn, and so far I haven’t had a panic attack and ended up in the ER for fear of death. Big win for me! And u also haven’t freaked out worrying that my family member will die. I’ve had faith in God, faith in my physical and mental resilience, and faith in my family.

The urge to jump ship from my relationship inspite of having an amazing partner has become negligible. My relationship with him is now much more stable ☺️💕

Went to see a movie with a friend. That may sound insignificant, but I don’t watch many movies since my ocd makes me overthink everything. I actually enjoyed it like I did when I was younger.

Haven’t been feeling guilty when saying “no” lately

I did so many things recently. I can’t remember anything specific, but I am so proud of myself.

When someone got upset at me, instead of taking it as an attack and feeling bad, I explained how I felt and my side of things. She totally changed around. It was amazing. Amazing to see how with the power of explaining, we can get people to understand things and change.

I made it a New Year’s goal to be more mindful of my “confessing,” as I’ve identified this to be a compulsion and something that strengthens my OCD instead of truly helps it. I’ve made it thus far without confessing, even when it felt challenging, and I actually noticed my anxiety fall. Hoping to keep this goal (and my others), while still being gentle to myself if I slip. I’m proud of you all and Happy New Year! 😄

I asked my mom if she can look after my phone when I needed to be away from my phone and asked my dad if he can walk with me outside when I was having one of my days where my needs are higher

I started therapy !

Started reading a physical book after being afraid I wouldn’t comprehend it or stick it out. I love audio books but not it’s time to finish a physical book this year. I made it through New Year’s Day after experiencing sharp abdomen pain that had me thinking all kinds of horrible scenarios then it went away after a few hours. Still left me wondering what caused it.

I didn’t reread and dwell on any texts today 😁

Kids and I took down tree and lights, packed everything, and stored bins in their place in the garage. Spent some time in our backyard enjoying the fire pit this evening. Something I haven't had the mental energy to do for a long time. It feels SO GREAT laying down knowing I was active today AND accomplished several things

I gained more followers on my Instagram.

Though I was anxious about my adult daughter going to a new year’s party 20 min away from home, I did not check Life360 or text her the entire time. - Responsibility OCD didn’t win, I did.

I went and got my shingles vaccine

I was able to navigate through a situation where resisting compulsions felt almost entirely impossible by putting everything into disengagement and I actually did it

Started hearing my own voice again.

I got popcorn and soda at the movies despite my OCD telling me I shouldn’t.

I have found more time to rest the past couple of weeks. Normally, I am always finding something to do. I was able to engage in some activities I enjoy!

I’m finally going to the doctor for medication

Two weeks before Christmas I made it through 2 kids getting the flu, one kids surgery, a death in the family and hosting dinner. I only had small meltdowns lol

Today I was trying to do something fun with my computer and that is to make a cursor on this website called custom cursor, and I was having a little difficulty with like trying to find a way to be able to save it and find it in my files so that I could use it. There is definitely snow city like needing to make sure that I choose the right one, double checking to make sure that there was an extra stuff that didn’t need to be there and also making sure that nothing important was changed with lead at so that kind of hung in my head for a good portion of the early morning you know what I’ve decided to not let it ruin my day. I still did everything I wanted to do without OCD trying to control my mood and now only that I got the best news ever today which was getting done the 2025 season of my job really really early due to rides being closed

Started my own business this week making custom wrapping paper! I find that with OCD, ADHD & anxiety (I know….I’m a triple threat 😉🤣), I tend to hold back on things I’m interested in doing out of fear of what might go wrong or fear of failure. I didn’t let those pesky thoughts win this time! Now to test the ADHD to see how long this will last before I start getting bored. 😂😂😂

I have been doing so many values based activities and learning that I can do it all despite the fear that ocd creates . Also the urgency. It’s ok to not have all figured out and do it anyway