Scrupulosity often looks like devotion — but when fear takes over, even our spiritual life can become consumed by doubt, checking, and the search for certainty. In this episode, Dr. Greg Bottaro continues the series on OCPD and perfectionism, exploring the difference between a healthy conscience and a scrupulous one, why mercy can be hard to trust, and how our experiences shape the way we see God. Holiness was never meant to be an endless audit — it was meant to lead us into relationship with the One who loves us.
Key Topics:
How reciting the truth about mercy in your head does nothing to change what your body still believes
Why certainty about being forgiven is the one thing this pattern can never actually get
Why confession, meant to bring peace, can quietly become just another form of checking
How the voice you call your conscience might actually be a punishing voice in disguise
Why the face you're afraid God is making at you was never really His
How the saints wrestled with scrupulosity — and what finally brought them peace wasn't more proof
Why doing this work alone almost always makes the pattern worse
How the way out can feel too easy to trust
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