Love, Anything
a gallery impression
The Ryyan Chacra Foundation’s goal is to draw conversations about OCD and anxiety into the open through Ryyan’s photography and presentations by experts.
Gossard Forum Speaker Events
Rachel A. Davis, MD, DFAPA, The Lens of OCD: The Brilliance and the Burden of Seeing Everything
Dr. Rachel A. Davis - Presentation
Dr. Rachel Davis - Q & A
Moksha Patel, MD, MBA, Unlocking OCD’s Grip: My Journey Toward Taming Anxiety
Dr. Moksha Patel - Presentation
Dr. Moksha Patel - Q & A
Lissa Soep, PhD, Love, Loss and the Language that Lives On
Lissa Soep - Presentation
AND A CONVERSATION WITH LYNN LYONS
Lynn Lyons discusses the role of information in helping families cope with anxiety and OCD
LOVE, ANYTHING MEDIA COVERAGE
Denverite’s feature story by Maggie Donahue
CBS-4’s gallery opening story
Sentinel’s exhibition story by Katie Fisher
CU Anschutz CBH’s coverage by Meleah Himber
Speaker BIOS:
Rachel Davis
THE LENS OF OCD: THE BRILLIANCE AND THE BURDEN OF SEEING EVERYTHING, April 10
Rachel A. Davis, MD, DFAPA, is a Professor and Division Chair of Adult Psychiatry, Medical Director of OCD Program and interventional psychiatrist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She lives with OCD and depression and brings both clinical expertise and lived experience to her work. In her professional and personal life, she has seen how OCD shapes perception—intensifying meaning, responsibility, and doubt, while also influencing creativity and moral seriousness. In this talk, she reflects on what it means to experience the world through a different lens, and how understanding OCD from the inside can deepen compassion, reduce shame, and open space for more honest conversations about suffering and survival.
Moksha Patel
UNLOCKING OCD’S GRIP: MY JOURNEY TOWARD TAMING ANXIETY, May 4
Moksha Patel, MD, is an internal medicine physician specializing in hospital care and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He is also a life-long OCD warrior, having dealt with the crippling disease since his early childhood. Moksha holds a unique position of having to deal with OCD from both sides of the divide – as MD and as patient. A journey that helped him realize that anxiety, OCD and related brain disorders are rooted in physiology. And that brain health can be greatly helped when the right insights and timely interventions can produce life-altering change. Moksha’s journey toward taming OCD staged two critical successes. First, being able to break his silence about OCD and become his own best advocate, and second, becoming one of 300 candidates nationwide to undergo Deep Brain Stimulation surgery - a potentially life-saving medical intervention that offers hope by charting pathways to better accommodate brain disorders. Today, Moksha hopes to share his journey and some of the lessons he learned along the way.
Lynn Lyons
OCD and Anxiety Impact Families: the Power of Information and Support, June 10
Lynn Lyons is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Concord, New Hampshire. She has been in private practice 35 years specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders in adults and children. Lynn travels internationally as a speaker and trainer on the subject of anxiety, its role in families, and the need for a preventative approach at home and in schools. She is a sought after expert, appearing in the New York Times, Time, NPR, Psychology Today, Good Morning America, Today Show and other media outlets. Lynn is a featured expert in the 2023 documentary Anxious Nation. With a special interest in breaking the generational cycle of worry in families, Lynn is the author/coauthor of several books and articles on anxiety, including Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children, and the companion book for kids, Playing with Anxiety: Casey’s Guide for Teens and Kids. Her latest book for adults and teenagers, The Anxiety Audit was released October ’22. Lynn is the co-host of the popular podcast Flusterclux.
Lissa Soep
LOVE, LOSS AND THE LANGUAGE THAT LIVES ON, June 18
Lissa Soep, PhD, is an award-winning writer, editor, producer, and scholar whose work across media explores the ways that we love and learn, lose and find one another through language, and how our words can both serve and betray us when we need them the most. Blending memoir and philosophy, her 2024 book, Other People’s Words, reveals the power of language to keep us in dialogue with the people we’re missing. She is a senior editor at Vox Media, editorial lead on Language Please, and founder of an audiobook experiment called Bonus Chapter. As Executive Producer at Youth Radio, Lissa's collaborations with emerging journalists advanced reforms in criminal justice and child welfare and appeared on NPR, the New York Times, Teen Vogue, and many other outlets. Her next project is a narrative nonfiction exploration of intrusive thoughts in minds and culture.
ARPIL 10 OPENING
Opening Photos: Angel Tran