Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.

I'm your host, Mikkel, and today we are talking about intrusive thoughts.

Hey guys, how are you doing today? I'm so excited to be here with y'all. And today we are talking

about intrusive thoughts. I had a listener reach out and request an episode on this. And it's

actually something that I personally struggled with a lot, especially as a teen, and I didn't even know it was a thing.

And so we're going to talk about it today and all about what intrusive thoughts are and how to manage them and understand them better.

But first, listener shout out time.

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All right. So what exactly are intrusive thoughts? I'm guessing a lot of you probably haven't

even heard this term before. I didn't know it was a thing until like I was an adult.

But basically intrusive thoughts are thoughts that pop into your

head. They're unwanted thoughts and images and, you know, they kind of just pop up out of nowhere.

And generally by nature, they kind of, they tend to bother or disturb you in some way.

And so it's like, you know, maybe like thoughts about like just worries or death or

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