Hey guys and welcome to episode 134 of the OcD stories.

Now in this episode I got to interview Aaron Harvey of

intrusiveforts.org I'm sure many of you listening are aware of that website. It is a

great website that Aaron started several years ago I believe

around the same time as this podcast so it's cool to see how both have grown

alongside each other so it was great to finally get him on I've had the pleasure of getting to know him over the last sort of six months personally.

This was one of my favorite episodes actually just because of how real Aaron was both in the graphical detail of the thoughts he shared, but in the motion

in which he shared it.

I think it was really open and honest.

That being said, he does swear quite a bit, and I know some of you listen in the car sometimes so if you've got kids in the car

I'll let you make that parental judgment I just wanted you to give their heads up

But I think you will appreciate the honesty, sincerity and truthfulness of this conversation. I certainly did.

We talk about Aaron's story. We talk about sort of his recovery journey, A lot of his intrusive thoughts were sexual

orientation and violent intrusive thoughts. We talk about why rumination will

never give you the answer.

The importance of psycho education and recovery,

noticing when I see is OCD, the importance of joining community,

the OSC community, mindfulness, how we finds surfing, allows him to be fully present

and get in a flow state.

He shares a mindfulness exercise called 478, which is really interesting. Then we go into a bit about intrusiveforts.org, you know, why he

started, how people can use it, what they can get out of it. And then towards the end he talks

about how helping others has really helped him and the power of sharing his

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