OCD Is An Earthquake In The Brain with Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith, co-founder of the teletherapy platform NOCD, joins us to share his lived experience with OCD (sexual obsessions, relationship obsessions, and more) that fueled him to create a a virtual...
16 Aug 202457min
Healing from CPTSD with Stephanie Foo
Stephanie Foo, author of the New York Times bestseller What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, brought CPTSD to the forefront of mental health care. She joins us to talk about her...
7 Aug 202452min
Brain on Fire with Susannah Cahalan
Susannah Cahalan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire, joins the Lobotomommies today! She talks the doctor who saved her life, the importance of holistic mental health care, physiolo...
24 Jul 20241h 14min
Surviving Suicide with Chrissie Hodges
In part two of this discussion, Chrissie opens up about her suicide attempt that led to her hospitalization and OCD diagnosis. She also shares her OCD treatment experience utilizing Exposure and Respo...
17 Jul 20241h 3min
Sexual Orientation OCD with Chrissie Hodges
Peer support specialist and OCD advocate Chrissie Hodges joins Books, Looks, and Lobotomies to talk about her memoir Pure OCD: The Invisible Side of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In part one of this ...
10 Jul 20241h 6min
OCD and Mental Compulsions
On this week’s episode of Books, Looks, and Lobotomies, licensed therapist and OCD specialist Alegra Kastens talks Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and mental compulsions. She provides information ...
3 Jul 202456min
Amanda Montell's "The Age of Magical Overthinking"
Welcome back, Lobotomommies! This week, Alegra chats with Amanda Montell (Wordslut, Cultish, Sounds Like A Cult Podcast) about her latest book, The Age of Magical Overthinking. While discussing the co...
26 Jun 20241h 2min
Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
In the first episode of her new podcast, Alegra reads "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath; a semi-autobiographical novel that covers all of this podcast's talking points: books, gender issues and feminism,...
19 Jun 20241h 6min
