Welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm Coach Sammy and I am so glad you are here.

The teen years can be fun and exciting, but also filled with self-doubt, insecurities, and lots of frustration.

I am here to help you along your teen

journey and make sure you enjoy your teen years as much as possible. Let's get started.

Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast this week. It is officially October. So excited. I love October. It's my

favorite month. And I know I tell you guys that every October, but I still love October. And as I sat down to

record this episode, a storm just decided to pick up outside my house. And so if you hear the wind whistling in the background, it's because there's a beautiful

October storm starting.

So a couple announcements.

Number one, if you are a parent listening and you would like some help raising your

teen with anxiety, there is a download for you in the show notes that is super helpful.

Okay, so go ahead and download that from the show notes. And number two, if you haven't left

a review for the podcast, please do so. It helps the show reach more people and gets this show

out to people who need it. Your reviews, they support the show.

So if you could just take a few seconds to leave a review for the show, that would be great.

And then number three, since it is October, we are going to be talking about OCD all month.

And October 9th through the 15th is OCD Awareness Week. And I was like,

let's talk about OCD all month. Okay. So I've got some great guests coming on the podcast that I'm

really excited about. And I'm really excited to bring awareness to you guys about OCD. So for today's episode, I wanted to teach you about what

OCD actually is. And it's not really what people think it is. We kind of, if you've ever heard of

like OCD, you kind of have maybe some ideas about what it's like. But I want to share with you

my experience with OCD. I have a daughter, Cameron,

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