Life Changes

Welcome to life changes, a place to explore the changes life brings and ways to bring about positive changes. Sometimes we can control change, other times it is thrust upon us. Either way, we have choices. We can choose how to change our lives, and we can choose what to do with the changes we can’t control.

Change is an ongoing process. We are never done, never complete. We continue to grow and change throughout our lives. While alive, we change, rather we want to or not. So the changes may as well be positive and may as well be controlled, to a certain extent. If change is going to happen anyway, why not influence those changes?

Many ideas, people, and circumstances have influenced my life, bringing about changes and encouraging me to make changes. Nothing, no one, has affected me more than my Christian faith, so you will find an abundance of biblical influence throughout our exploration of life changes, especially in the Spiritual Journey section of the Life Changes Website.

Cherry’s Books

After spending twenty years working in hospitals and home health as a registered nurse, I made some changes in my professional life. I teamed up with two excellent psychologists to write books that are helping people make major changes in their lives.

The OCD Workbook:
Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

I wrote The OCD Workbook with Bruce Hyman, Ph.D. to help people struggling with OCD make changes that can put them on the road to recovery. Read more about OCD at Cherry’s Website for Turning OCD Caterpillars into Butterflies.

The Habit Change Workbook:
How to Break Bad Habits and Form Good Ones

I wrote The Habit Change Workbook with James Claiborn, Ph.D. to help people change all kinds of habits, from nail biting to overspending, from junk food  to procrastination, from chronic lateness to excessive Internet use.

OCD Book Store in affiliation with Amazon.Com

I was the contributing editor for OCD at Suite101 for over two years. I am now contributing editor for a subject area: “Habits.” You can still access the OCD site at Suite101 at http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/obsessive_compulsive. This site includes articles and links to the best OCD sites on the Internet.

Visit my new Suite101 website about habits at http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/habits. There, you’ll find links and articles based on the research I’ve done for my new book, The Habit Change Workbook, How to Break Bad Habits and Form Good Ones.

I have also written a continuing education home study course about OCD for nurses. Click here for more information.

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I, Cherlene Pedrick cannot be held legally responsible for any of the medical information, articles, or features appearing on these Web Pages. My intention is to provide information about OCD, habits, and life change only, not medical advice. This information is not intended as a substitute for consultation with a physician or other qualified healthcare professional.

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