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Each year offers opportunities to raise awareness about BDD and OCD—the 1 Million Steps 4 OCD Awareness Walk, the Annual OCD Conference, and OCD Awareness Week. Each involvement makes publicly visible these invisible brain disorders that cripple the lives of sufferers, their families, and friends. Collectively as a society, we are as healthy as the hardest hit of our members, so we’ve got work to do. To remove the stigma of brain disorders and to help cure them, we invite you to get involved: become a member of the International OCD Foundation, be an OCDvocate, volunteer, organize/attend a fundraising event, or make a donation.
Annual 1 Million Steps 4 OCD Awareness Walk
The 1 Million Steps 4 OCD Awareness Walk was created in 2013, the year after my pilgrimage from Cheyney, PA to Boston, MA in memory of Nathaniel, a 525-mile journey by foot. Like the original, this annual walk event builds community and raises awareness, funds, and hope. This year, we want to see how many million steps we can walk for OCD awareness together.
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Where: Christian Herter Park, Boston
When: Saturday, June 1, 2024
Registration, music, lawn games & exhibits: 9:00am
Welcome & Grand Marshall Remarks: 10:30am
Ribbon cutting & Walk: 10:45am
Food trucks, lunch, raffle & closing ceremony: 11:30-1:00pm
Category Archives: 2012 Walk
June 7, 2012 Day 45 — Cambridge to Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park (6 miles)
Endings and Beginnings Perhaps these two are the same. We had a full, stimulating day (and no rain), and are resting in the knowledge that awareness has grown, that conversations are happening that might not have otherwise, that BDD sufferers … Continue reading
June 06, 2012 Day 44 — Belmont to Boston (12.3 miles)
Final Steps Arriving at McLean Hospital and the OCD Institute — site of so much hope, and so much sadness when Nathaniel’s stay there in 2010 did not last long — brings tears, but only briefly. I am headed to … Continue reading
June 5, 2012 Day 43 — Newton to Belmont, MA (13.6 miles)
Keeping It Sweet and Simple! Webmaster’s news alert: Wonderful Boston Globe article this morning in the paper, and now the Huffington Post! After a three-day rest, it felt good to be … Continue reading
June 03/04, 2012 Days 41 & 42 — Newton, MA (0 miles)
BlogLite Although I’m not walking today (but do some nevertheless), let me share several thoughts with you that have not benefitted from enough miles of simmering. The title “BlogLite” seems appropriate, promising a shorter daily entry and possibly lighter fare … Continue reading
June 02, 2012 Day 40 — Needham to Newton, MA (6.8 miles)
Not Singing in the Rain I wake up early again, but this time in the lovely home of the Matlacks. I’ve been here less than 24 hours, and already I’m “re-calibrated.” What I see falling from the sky outside my … Continue reading