Not Alone Notes

Not Alone Totes are still available! These are free care packages mailed to people new to their OCD journey. Request one for yourself or a loved one!

Not Alone Totes are back, and the request form is open!

These are free care packages full of resources for folks new to the OCD community. Request for yourself or a loved one.

Form available at notalonenotes.org/totes or linked in our Instagram bio

P.S. If your brain is saying you aren't [sick/new/worthy/whatever word OCD uses] enough to receive a tote, I challenge you to request one for yourself anyway!

Not Alone Totes are back, and the request form is open!

These are free care packages full of resources for folks new to the OCD community. Request for yourself or a loved one.

Form available at notalonenotes.org/totes or linked in our Instagram bio

P.S. If your brain is saying you aren't [sick/new/worthy/whatever word OCD uses] enough to receive a tote, I challenge you to request one for yourself anyway!

It’s our 9th birthday!🎉 Thank you to those who have followed along on our journey all these years! We can’t believe we have been sending notes this long and look forward to our decade milestone next year 🎈

Not Alone TOTES are so back this fall! Comment your ideas for what we should include in the next round of these care packages for people new to the OCD community.

We love the International OCD Foundation's new resource for books and media about OCD: the OCD Library!
https://iocdf.org/books/

So it's time to revive our Mental Health Book Club!
https://notalonenotes.org/bookclub/

We have some titles in mind, but what would you like to read and then discuss over Zoom? We'd prefer if the book is mental health related, readily available in both print and audio, and under 400 pages.

Comment your suggestions, and join our Facebook group in the meantime.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nanshelfhelp

The answer was #4 👀

Hmm, which could it be?

“TAKE NOTICE OF the beautiful things around you AND LET IT REMIND YOU of what is beautiful about you, too.”
Notes by Writer Brie

Remember in 2023 when Not Alone Notes was one of 11 finalists for the $100,000 G2 Overachievers Grant by Pilot Pen?
No? I'm not surprised if you don't remember. We only made one brief post about it, long after the fact.

After we didn't win, my anxiety (incorrectly) told me I had let the community down. If only I had made a better video or written better answers to their questions. So I hardly talked about it. And I avoided the box of goodies Pilot sent us for over 2 years...

Until tonight because we can do hard things! OCD and anxiety thrive on shame, and I refuse to have shame about this anymore. Instead, I should be incredibly proud that we were chosen as a finalist, amongst what I assume were hundreds of applications.

Anyway, all this to say that shame is common. And it can sound very loud, until we start to take away its power. It's time to put these pens and more to good use for the Not Alone Notes mission. I now have the candle on the warmer.

This is just page 1 of 6. Should I post the whole handwritten letter from our initial application?

-Morgan

Hmm, which could it be?