This was a hard year. I’m glad to see it go. I have high hopes for next year. 2017, come at me.
What was your best memory of 2016?
JACKIE LEA SOMMERS
Author & Advocate
This was a hard year. I’m glad to see it go. I have high hopes for next year. 2017, come at me.
What was your best memory of 2016?
JACKIE LEA SOMMERS 
I bought a house! I also got to meet Meg Cabot. 😍
So cool, Akilah! Where did you meet Cabot? How do you like your house???
She did an author event in Orlando. I love my house! I’ll love it even more when I get a chance to unpack/put some stuff up on the walls.
Hi Jackie,
Happy New Year!
On another note, Thank you so much for your support for me combating OCD! Im currently reading Dr. Grayson’s book and it’s made me realize so much!
Best wishes!
I’m so glad! Great to hear!
Hi Jackie,
Since pure o and its compulsions are mental, what should the exposures be? Is it normal to always feel like you can’t do anything right and always feel guilty about everything?
Hi Jackie!
I’m doing better (at least for now) but I’m still plugging ahead with self-directed ERP therapy and planning to take natural supplements because people around me are nervous about me taking medication. The thoughts still distress and bother me but the severity level is down this week. However, I’m not taking any chances because, like your blog said, the possibility of OCD theme hopping is likely, especially with me because I do recall having obsessions of me unknowingly having a fatal disease and obsessive about not falling ill.
Can Pure O and OCD cross paths (with mental and physical compulsions about a fear…) I hope I’m making sense.
I’m taking up cooking. This weekend, hopefully, I’m making homemade pizza from scratch.