Hey guys are welcome to this sort of bonus midweek episode so I recently interviewed Catherine Benfield at the

ACD Action Conference. It was a live interview and there was opportunity for people

to ask questions and Catherine to answer them. So if you bought a ticket to the event you can access the video and get all the questions.

For this episode I cut out the the Q&A section at the end, But yeah, absolutely go to the OC Action website to check that out if you want,

but I wanted to release this interview anyway.

I've interviewed Kaplan a couple times,

but I wanted to share this one with you if you weren't at the conference.

Thank you to OCD Action for allowing me to use the audio and for inviting me to do the live interview in the first place.

But in this I chat with Catherine about her story, maternal O. C. D.

getting support from her husband, starting her advocacy journey, raising awareness of Perynatal OCD or post-Natal OCD among midwives,

working on kindness and self-compassion because of the way she felt about herself.

Her blog Taming Olivia, changing the perception of

O. C. D. Becoming an exec producer on a short film about O. C. D. and much, much more.

There are no show notes for this episode so any links mentioned will be in the episode

description on wherever you're listening to this podcast. And in a moment, CAF from OCD Action will introduce me as a child and adolescent psychopherapist.

Child psychopherapist is a protected term in the UK based on specific training,

so I'm a child and adolescent counselor and

psychotherapist just to clarify that as always thank you so much for

listening and without further ado is Catherine. Good morning everybody

welcome to this session with Stuart Ralph and

Catherine Benfield on the OCD stories. So Stuart is a child and

adolescent psychotherapist. He founded and hosts the O. C. D. Stories

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