Gary Trosclair
Psychotherapist & Jungian analyst Gary Trosclair explores the perils & potentials of the driven personality for compulsives and their loved ones–removing the disorder from Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD). Whether you’re perfectionistic, obsessive, or Type A, The Healthy Compulsive Project has tons of information & inspiration to make life fulfilling. The mission of The Healthy Compulsive Project is to help people make the best use of their personality traits to improve their relationships, functioning, and mood. Each episode explores difficult aspects of life in clear, practical, and sometimes humorous ways, bringing hope to a personality style far too often misunderstood and pathologized.
Ep. 103: 7 Vexing Questions & Encouraging Answers for Therapists Who Treat Obsessive-Compulsive P...
Ep. 102: Interview with Endurance Coach Travis Macy about the Driven Personality
Ep. 101: 4 Ways Perfectionists and Obsessive-Compulsives Try To Avoid Humiliation
Ep. 100: How a Goddess Became a Modern Disease: Ananke, OCPD, & the Need for Control
Ep. 99: From Alienation to Connection: Healing the Spiritual Side Effects of Compulsive Perfectio...
Ep. 98: How to Pivot to a Life Worth Living Through Flexibility: A Review of ACT
Ep. 97: 3 Reasons You're Having Anxiety Dreams
Ep. 96: 4 Tools to Help Obsessives Move Past Creative Blocks
Ep. 95: No Laughing Matter: What Being So Serious Does to Your Life
Ep. 94: 2 Novels About Perfectionists Sure to Entertain and Inspire You
Ep. 93: Breaking Horses: 6 Signs That You're Micromanaging
Ep. 92: A Review of RO DBT, Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy—A New Treatment for Overc...
Ep. 91: Navigating Challenges for the Perfectionist Father: From the Horrific to the Heroic
Finding the Meaning of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Traits
Ep. 89: Should You Unearth the Past? How Looking Back Can Help us Move Forward
Ep. 88: Am I Being Passive-Aggressive? How to Know—and What to Do About It
Ep. 87: Beyond the Switch: The Dark and Subtle Side of Punishment
Ep. 86: The Hidden Drive Behind Compulsive Behavior: Carl Jung’s Path to Wholeness
Ep. 85: This is Not a Test: 3 Steps to Winning the Battle Against Insecurity
Ep. 84: Is Psychotherapy Effective? A Note for the Skeptical
Ep. 83: 7 Ways Spending Time in Nature Heals the Driven Personality
Ep. 82: Want to Make Life Easier? Break the Habits that Make It More Difficult Than It Needs to Be
Ep. 81: A Short Guide to Love Languages for People with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality
Ep. 80: Why We Don't Forgive: Four Psychological Blocks and How to Break Them
Ep. 79: Authenticity Vs. Persona: How to be Real Without Being Reckless
Ep. 78: How to Harness the Power of Lists for Your Well-Being
Ep. 77: How to Help a Partner, Friend or Relative Who Feels Suicidal
Ep. 76: The Need to Control: A Compulsive Recipe for Poor Health
Ep 75: 6 Steps to Stop Being Judgmental
Ep. 74: Four Ways that Control Smothers the Flames of Romantic Love