Chrissie Hodges - Peer support for OCD (#262)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In episode 262 I chat with Chrissie Hodges. Chrissie is a certified peer and family support specialist in Colorado, and co-founder of OCDPeers.com. Chrissie was awarded the hero award by the IOCDF for her advocacy work.
In this episode I chat with Chrissie about what’s new with her and her work, what’s new with the OCD Gamechangers, what is (certified) peer support, what it is not, what does a peer conversation look like, how peer support can support the therapy process, what is OCD peers, the most attended group topics at OCD peers, what Chrissie has learned about OCD in the last 12 months, her learnings about advocacy, and much much more. Hope it helps.
Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/chrissie-hodges-peer-support-for-ocd-262
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| 0:00.0 | Trapped inside the maze, I sacrificed so many days. |
| 0:07.0 | And the more I raced to find the exit, |
| 0:11.0 | the more I lost my own way. |
| 0:15.0 | If only I'd stood still and let the daylight touch my face, |
| 0:21.0 | but I was staring ahead just trapped inside the maze. So that song wasn't sung by Chrissy, it was in fact sung by Harper Denhard and if you enjoyed that little snippet I've put the whole song at the end of the |
| 0:45.5 | episode so you can listen to it there. Thank you to Harper for allowing me to share her work and |
| 0:51.5 | if you want to support her I'll put the link to the |
| 0:53.6 | YouTube version of the song in the show notes so welcome back to the |
| 0:56.7 | O. C. D. Stories podcast this is episode 262 with Chrisy Hodges now many of you will be familiar with Chrissy and her work because I've had her on the show several times. |
| 1:07.0 | She is a certified peer and family support specialist in Colorado and I got her on specifically to talk about that you know what is |
| 1:15.1 | peer support why can it be useful how can it be useful so we break down that in all |
| 1:21.0 | its detail we also go into her new company called OCDPears.com |
| 1:27.0 | where she offers group peer support sessions based on themes, topics around OCD, where people can meet others |
| 1:36.7 | of OCD in a supportive and safe environment which is run by a certified peer specialist. |
| 1:44.0 | We also talk about OCD advocacy and the things she's learned doing that |
| 1:48.0 | and the things she sort of wish she knew. |
| 1:50.0 | We get a general update on Chrissy and as always Chrissy delivers and tells several stories |
| 1:55.8 | so I hope you enjoy it. The podcast is sponsored by OCD Jacksonville and affiliate of the |
| 2:01.5 | International OCD Foundation. D. Jacksonville have teamed up with |
| 2:06.6 | natural life to create an apparel and gift range called Fearless. A portion of the |
| 2:11.1 | proceeds goes back to fund the good work O. C.D. Jacksonville are doing. |
| 2:14.6 | Shop the Natural Life Fearless Range collection at natural life.com. |
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