Navigating Religious OCD
Religion has long been a means of supporting connection to God.
But what of times when a religious experience, previously hoped to bring connection and peace, becomes a source of serious anxiety and deep fear?
This podcast creates space to discuss the journey of navigating religious OCD by sharing experiences, resources, and practical tools.
Episodes
8 episodes
My prayer was fueling the OCD
In this podcast episode, Sariah Harrison shares a moment of anxiety and concern where she turned to God in prayer and then realized that her prayer was actually fueling an experience with OCD. She shares what God told her when she recognized th...
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Episode 8
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8:33
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What real OCD can look like: Part 2
In this podcast episode, Sariah Harrison explains many different subtypes of OCD including purely obsessional OCD, real event OCD, relationship OCD, responsibility OCD, suicidal OCD, and religious OCD or scrupulosity. She shares pieces of her p...
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Episode 7
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20:56
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What real OCD can look like: Part 1
In this podcast episode, Sariah Harrison explains many different types of OCD including checking OCD, contamination OCD, hoarding OCD, and just right or perfectionism OCD. She shares examples for how some of these have shown up in her experienc...
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Episode 6
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17:17
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OCD Explained: It's not what most think
In this podcast episode, Sariah Harrison explains how OCD makes a lot of sense when you understand the anxiety cycle. OCD is not what most people think and it can be disguised in an individual's experience. YouTube “OCD E...
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Episode 5
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19:22
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The Anxiety Cycle: We All Experience It
In this episode, Sariah expresses that we all experience the anxiety cycle and it can be a powerful tool to keep us safe. However, when we're consistently in the anxiety cycle, this can be unhealthy. Sariah uses stories to explain some differen...
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Episode 4
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11:56
Anxiety is at the Core of Religious OCD or Scrupulosity & Anxiety vs. the Spirit
In this episode, Sariah expresses that anxiety is at the core of Religious OCD or Scrupulosity. She discusses an article by Psychologist Debra Theobald McClendon that brings the differences between anxiety and the spirit to the lig...
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Episode 3
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19:51
My LDS Mission Experience: Returned Early due to Religious OCD
Sariah Harrison could not have been more excited to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Dominican Republic back in 2022. Her mission experience was far from what she ever expected. Shortly afte...
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Episode 2
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42:46
Introduction to Navigating Religious OCD
Religious OCD, also known as Scrupulosity, is commonly misunderstood. Podcast host, Sariah Harrison, begins to shed light on what Religious OCD can look like by sharing pieces of her personal experience while she was serving a missi...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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