Through Her Eyes: Understanding Anxiety, OCD, and the Truth That You Are Not Broken

What does it feel like to grow up with anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder?

In Through Her Eyes: Understanding Anxiety, OCD, and the Truth That You Are Not Broken , Natalia Yurecko shares her lived experience navigating intrusive thoughts, panic, and the exhausting cycle of obsessive compulsive disorder. With honesty and courage, she invites readers inside the mind of a young person learning to separate her identity from her diagnosis.

Alongside Natalia’s voice are reflections from her mother, Nanette Yurecko, who shares the parallel journey of parenting a child with anxiety and OCD while confronting fear, guilt, and the pressure to “fix” what feels out of control. Together, they offer a rare dual perspective: what anxiety and OCD feel like from the inside, and what steady, compassionate love looks like from the outside.

Blending personal storytelling with practical reflection exercises for youth and caregivers, the book introduces THHRIVE, a seven-part framework that helped their family move from survival to resilience.

This is not a clinical manual. It is a lived story of mental health, growth, and healing. A reminder that mental health challenges do not define who we are. That wholeness exists beneath fear. And that healing is possible, even when it is not linear.

For children, teens, parents, and educators walking alongside anxiety or obsessive compulsive disorder, Through Her Eyes offers insight, practical tools, and hope.

You are not broken.