One of the most classic telltale symptoms of a religious compulsion—especially in the life of someone struggling with scrupulosity—is a deep, unshakable sense of spiritual urgency. It’s not the healthy urgency you feel when a baby is about to ...
Jaimie Eckert
Aug 17, 2025
A string of strangely meaningful events happen all at once, just as you’re trying to make an important decision. You wonder: is God giving me a sign? How would you find out if it’s really from God, or if ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jan 26, 2025
Falling in love ought to be one of the sweetest seasons of life. Discovering the person that you’ll spend the rest of your life with, for most people, is a time filled with excitement, warmth, and butterflies in the ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jan 10, 2025
There’s a difference between knowing how to forgive and knowing how to forgive well. “I know I have to forgive my father,” said one of my clients. She was stuck in a web of various struggles—scrupulosity, daddy issues, and ...
Jaimie Eckert
Oct 6, 2024
Living with scrupulosity is is a real thorn in the side. It can take its toll on your spiritual life, your career, and of course the relationships that mean the most. Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to ...
Jaimie Eckert
Sep 22, 2024
I can still remember the frenzied, anxious cloud that hung over me, more than a decade ago, as I hunched over my dorm room desk. I was listening to an 8-hour apologetic sermon series on the existence of God. ...
Jaimie Eckert
Aug 9, 2024
Have you ever gone through a trial so severe that it completely obliterated your view of the Father? Have you felt your strength melting away in dark valleys where God is hidden? Believers with mental health struggles feel this ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jul 19, 2024
One question we often hear almost daily in the scrupulosity recovery community: “Does God forgive blasphemous thoughts?” It’s one of the stickiest and most repetitive conversations, and if you’ve had this conversation with a loved one or a spiritual ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jun 30, 2024
Are you the spiritual mentor of someone with religious OCD? God bless you, dear soul, for bearing with us. Today’s post is for you–anyone who finds themselves offering spiritual guidance to those with an overly sensitive conscience. A dear, ...
Jaimie Eckert
May 27, 2024
You’re striving against sin or against your OCD, but you’re not winning. You keep failing, and each failure makes you feel further and further from God. You want so badly to stop your sin or your compulsive behaviors, but ...
Jaimie Eckert
May 13, 2024
