Don’t step on the cracks on the sidewalk. Turn off the light ten times with each hand. Count every sign you see on you way home. Otherwise something bad will happen…

Obsessive thoughts and actions like these can start small but grow to take over daily life. Drawing from my own experiences and the tools my mum and I used to overcome my compulsions as a child, I created a notebook to help children—and their parents—get free of the thoughts. The notebook allows the child to track progress daily, witch space to write about the day, rate how much the thought affected them, and choose a sticker reflecting their mood or success.

It also includes a child-friendly comic explaining obsessive thoughts and a final ritual to symbolically "throw away" the thoughts by writing them down, crumpling them up, and discarding them together.