Hey guys and welcome to episode 83 of the OCD stories.com podcast. Now today's

episode is sponsored by the O. Clyclinics.com they have locations in Dallas

Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin metro areas.

They treat individuals suffering with moderate to severe OCD and related disorders.

They offer personalized one-to-one care, customized treatment plans, and they have highly trained

experienced staff working to achieve maximum symptom relief on your

behalf. If you're in one of those areas and are looking for treatment head

over to the O.

O. C. C.com. That's the O. C. C. C. C. C. D. clinics.com.

And don't forget to say you heard it on the podcast. Now in this episode I

interview Chrisy Hodges. We talk a lot about Pureo and of course

Chrissie is famous for Pureo. She has that type of OCD herself.

She wrote a book called Pure OCD.

She's a peer support coach and a mental health advocate.

She won the Hero Award at the IOCDF Conference in San Fran this year year and I had the privilege of meeting her there which is where we arranged the podcast.

So it was great to get her on. It was really good to go into detail and go into depth into a lot of these topics. We talked about her

OCD story, how she overcame it or is still overcoming it because it's a journey.

We talk about ERP for Pure Road because I know it's a tricky subject to get your head round sometimes.

It's sometimes simpler to see how ERP would work for contamination OCD, but we get into that.

We talk about the awareness of the term puree, its use and how it's changed over the years

and how it continues to get more and more awareness which is a good thing. She talked about

her book and we answer the first listener question which is tips for dealing with sort of

...