Making Peace with a Noisy Mind

If you’ve ever felt trapped by your own thoughts, you’ll recognize yourself in Jenna Overbaugh’s remarkably insightful and reassuring approach. Jenna has the rare ability to write like both a highly skilled expert and a friend who truly understands what it’s like to live with a noisy mind. Her clever, engaging explanations reveal the common thread running through OCD, anxiety, and intrusive thoughts – making her approach wonderfully simple without sacrificing its power. Most importantly, she doesn’t just teach you how to quiet your mind; she shows you how to stop letting it run your life. – Reid Wilson, PhD, Author of Quiet Your OCD Brain
If you’re exhausted by a noisy mind that just won’t quit, this is the book for you. Jenna Overbaugh has a gift for making the complexities of OCD and anxiety feel easy to understand, deeply relatable and surprisingly fun to read. This is one I’ll be recommending to clients again and again. – Carrie Howard, LCSW, Author of Why Your Brain Won’t Shut Up
A complete guide to navigating recovery from OCD and struggles with intrusive thoughts. It’s got not only the tools, but the real personal and clinical experience of applying them. – Mark Freeman, Author of You Are Not A Rock
Jenna Overbaugh offers a warm, lively and deeply practical guide for people caught in the exhausting struggle with intrusive thoughts and anxiety. Rather than promising a life without difficult thoughts and feelings, Making Peace with a Noisy Mind shows readers how to change their relationship with them – making room for discomfort, stepping out of unhelpful cycles and moving toward what genuinely matters. Grounded in proven behavioral approaches and filled with humanity, humor and useful exercises, this book can help readers stop organizing their lives around fear and start building lives that are larger, freer and more their own. – Steven C. Hayes, PhD, Author of A Liberated Mind
As a therapist, Making Peace with a Noisy Mind is the book about OCD that I have been waiting for. Jenna Overbaugh has done the rare thing of writing from both sides – combining clinical expertise with lived experience, leaving readers feeling deeply understood while also equipped with skills they can use right now. In a world that has become obsessed with healing our anxiety, Making Peace with a Noisy Mind gives us a well needed reality check. – Amanda E. White, LPC, Author of Not Drinking Tonight
Intrusive thoughts have a way of convincing you that you’re the only one who hears them knocking. Overbaugh meets OCD on its own terms, naming its particular tricks with precision and guiding readers out with warmth instead of shame. – Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, New York Times Bestselling Author of Unwinding Anxiety

Jenna Overbaugh, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor specializing in OCD and anxiety. She experienced postpartum OCD firsthand in 2018, which has only increased her passion for helping others find freedom from their thoughts. Jenna holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Towson University and has worked in some of the most prestigious institutions in the mental health field, including Johns Hopkins and Rogers Memorial Hospital. She is the creator of The OCD and Anxiety Recovery Blueprint, a digital course that has supported over 450 individuals in their recovery journey. She also hosts All the Hard Things, a podcast consistently ranking in the top 1% globally, and manages a growing social media platform where she shares practical and empowering mental health content.

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