The Healthy Compulsive Project
For five 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...
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Episodes (250)
Ep. 70: Are you a compulsive hero or a heroic compulsive?
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Ep. 69: How Self Control and Inhibited Expression Hurt Relationships
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Ep. 68: Wield Your Shield Wisely: How Not to be Defensive
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Ep. 67: The Power of Lists to Tyrannize or Harmonize
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Ep. 66: Welcome All Guests: Aging with OCPD (Obsessive-Compulsive Personality)
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Ep. 65: Letting Go and Holding On: The Essential Life Skills No-One Taught You
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Ep. 64: Driving Nowhere: The Dangers of Being Overly Conscientious
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Ep. 63: Can Mindfulness Meditation Make You Less Compulsive?
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Ep. 62: Being Frugal: Good Self-Care or Too Emotionally Expensive?
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Ep. 61: Feeling Stuck? Try Generosity.
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Ep. 60: The Role of Self-Deception in Perfectionism
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Ep. 59: Navigating the Crossroads: 5 Steps to Becoming More Decisive
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Ep. 58: People Pleasing, Resentment, & Other Relationship Killers
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Ep. 57: Regarding Your Battle with the World's Stupidity
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Ep. 56: In Praise of Healthy Perfectionism
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Ep. 55: What Happens When a Compulsive Meets the Archetype of the Saint
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Ep. 54: Chronic Urgency Stress Syndrome (CUSS) and That Monster Hiding Under You...
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Ep. 53: Perceived Chaos and the Need to Control
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Ep. 52: Do You Live With Ease Or Urgency?
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Ep. 51: How Compulsive Perfectionists Can Cultivate Happiness
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Ep. 50: How To Not Waste Your Time In Therapy
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Ep. 49: Naming and Taming the Core Fears That Control Us
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Ep. 48: 4 Lessons Perfectionists Learn When They Befriend the Archetype of the F...
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Ep. 47: Should You Tell Your Partner How to Be a Better Person?
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Ep. 46: Perfectionistic Partners and Moral Gaslighting
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Ep. 45: How to Build a Foundation That Prevents Imposter Syndrome
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Ep. 44: 5 Unintended Effects of Type A Parenting, and 17 Tips for Obsessive-Comp...
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Ep. 43: Demand Resistance: What It is, What Drives It, and How it Serves or Chea...
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Ep. 42: Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder: A Disorder of Priorities
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Ep. 41: How to Let Go Without Giving Up
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Ep. 40: How to Keep Psychological Hoarding from Crowding Your Mind and Blocking...
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Ep. 39: What is shame and What is the Best Way to Deal with It?
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Ep. 38: The Battle for the Mind of the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality: Growth...
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Ep. 37: Want to Be Certain? Don't Be So Sure
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Ep. 36: Enough Already. Why You Need to Know that You Are Enough. Already.
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Ep. 35: Psychotherapy for the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality
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Ep. 34: How to Get Your Compulsive Drive to Work for You
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Ep. 33: Does Avoidant Attachment Cause Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder...
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Ep. 32: How to Tame Your Tyrannical Guilt Complex
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Ep. 31 The Origins of OCPD: Genes, Environment, and the Two Other Factors Most P...
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Ep. 30: Turning Chaos into Order: Meaning and Burden for the Obsessive-Compulsiv...
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Ep. 29: Self-Compassion: The Evidenced-Based Antidote to Maladaptive Perfectioni...
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Ep. 28: Four Keys to Handling Obsessive-Compulsive Anxiety and Fear
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Ep. 27: Work Engagement, Work Addiction and Work Burnout
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Ep. 26: The Triggers that Lead to Unhealthy Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
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Ep. 25: Why Compulsives Need Mastery in Their Lives
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Ep. 24: What Are You Trying to Prove By Being So Good?
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Ep. 23: The Compulsive Thinker-Planner: Obsessive Procrastinator or Productive V...
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Ep. 22: Managing Holiday Expectations, and Carl Jung Analyzes Ebenezer Scrooge
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Ep. 21: The Compulsive Server-Friend: People Pleaser or Well-Rounded Helper?
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