Hey guys and welcome to episode 29 at the OCD stories.com

podcast now in this episode I interviewed

Katlin Palmer now Katlin is a transformation coach or life, he's got a master's in social work and a BA in psychology.

Now he wrote his story for the website three months ago and I wanted to get him on because he really talked about the harsh truths of having a

mental health condition but also he talks about the kind of the real reality of how you can recover and he laid out so many good

pieces of advice and I wanted to get him on the show to really dig deeper into that

advice which he does and we talk about puree which is

something we haven't really discussed as podcast too much so it was great to go

into that we talk about more kind of self-acceptance and self-love and why that's so

important overall in mental health

beyond kind of mental illness and I think that's such a great message. We also touch on

addiction.

He talks about his addiction to drugs and how he kind of overcome it and he offers some great advice

if that's something you're struggling with.

You know, and everyone struggles with addiction to some degree and it not to say drugs

the alcoholic could be pornography sex it could be junk food that ultimately that's an addiction, too much TV, whatever it is so I'm sure that will help.

So I introduce Katlin soon, but a couple of things, so the Ride 100 update, so cycling 100 miles of

O.D. UK on July 31st. So last Sunday I did 56 miles which was my furthest ride it was tough.

Tomorrow I'm doing another 50 or by the time you hear this I would have done it so I'm probably

very achy and then the following Sunday I'm doing a 70-miler

obviously lots of little rides in between this but I love it. What's for helping me

recycling is it's really forcing me to to accept my brain's telling me you're not

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