Shift Happens (Transform Your OCD and Eating Disorder Recovery with Cognitive Remediation Therapy)

Sometimes recovery isn't about trying harder. It's about teaching your brain a few new moves.

If you struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), an eating disorder, or both, you may feel stuck in repetitive thoughts, strict rules, and frustrating cycles that seem to have a VIP pass back into your life. Even when you're ready for change, your brain can feel determined to keep doing things the same old way. The good news? Brains can learn new tricks.

Instead of focusing only on symptoms, Shift Happens targets the underlying cognitive patterns—such as rigidity, perfectionism, and difficulty adapting to change—that can keep OCD and eating disorders running the show. Using cognitive remediation therapy (CRT), you'll learn how to retrain your brain for greater flexibility, clarity, and control.

Through practical, research-backed exercises, you’ll build the skills needed to move out of “all-or-nothing” thinking and into a more balanced way of living.

In this innovative workbook, you’ll learn how to:

• Increase cognitive flexibility, adapt to change, and step outside rigid patterns
• Interrupt obsessive loops before they spiral into compulsions or disordered behaviors
• Strengthen attention and decision-making skills to support long-term recovery
• Reduce perfectionism and overcontrol by learning to tolerate uncertainty
• Approach challenges with creative problem-solving instead of avoidance or repetition
• Build sustainable recovery habits that work in real-life situations

Unlike traditional approaches that focus only on thoughts or behaviors, this book helps you train your brain to respond differently, so change feels possible, not overwhelming.

If you’re ready to move beyond feeling stuck and start building real, lasting flexibility in your recovery, this workbook will show you how, one shift at a time.