Hello everybody, welcome back.

Let's just take a breath together as we get started here, shall we?

Oh my goodness, it has been a whirlwind of a couple of months over here in my world. I just feel like life is just so fast and so

spinning like top. So I often have to pause and I take a breath and I close my eyes and I just take

one breath and I smile even though nobody's watching and I do that just

to slow down and honor that, wow, things are so fast and so busy. I wanted to check in,

how are you? How have you been? I know it's a crazy time for everybody and we must

check in and just do a little personal check in. How are we doing? This weekend, this last weekend,

I went to the Southern California OCD Conference.

It was in Orange County, and I was so honored to be a speaker.

I spoke in two different presentations, and then at the end of the day, we all meet in one room,

and all the speakers that spoke sit up up and they're a part of the panel

and people just get to ask questions and it was like a two-hour Q&A. It was so cool. And you guys,

my heart was just so full. There were people there who literally just found out they had OCD. This was their first

interaction. They sort of came in and they got all of these pieces of information and tools and

support and strategies and just so cool to see people getting access to help and getting support and community.

There were people who have known about their OCD for years and they said they just wanted a little pick me up.

They wanted to feel seen and understood.

There were people here who are therapists, who are newly licensed therapists who were coming to learn about OCD for the first time.

And it was so beautiful. The questions just made me so excited about where we are heading in the

world of OCD. They were questions about AI. There were questions about how family members can support their loved ones, you know, really, truly asking genuinely, like, how can I really show up for my loved ones?

There were people who were asking, you know, therapists about, like, how can I provide ERP in a way that is effective and sustainable and is ethical

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