You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories,

hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and

understanding around obsessive compulsive symptoms.

I do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.

So welcome to episode 275 and in this one I interview Dr Stephen Philipson.

Now if you're a regular listener you would have heard many episodes with Steve over the last few years, but if it's the first time

you're listening to Steve, he is a licensed clinical psychologist based in New York.

And in this episode we chat specifically about his thinking around the brain voice first the gatekeeper voice

Now I thought this was a really interesting topic and I think it's going to help many of you but to be be more specific, we talk about knowing the difference

between the brain voice and the gatekeeper voice. We do a role play using an area that still

causes me anxiety. He uses this role play to demonstrate the brain voice versus the gatekeeper.

We discussed the idea of writing the headline with the gatekeeper, the paradox of anxiety,

self-compassion for the brain voice and much, much more. And thanks as always to NOCD for

supporting the show and the work that we do in OCD are now operating in Australia

as well as UK and USA. So good work in ACD for continuing their expansion and thank you to them

for sponsoring the show. And if you want to find out more head to go. TreatMyocedcom forward slash the OCD stories or click the link in

the episode description and thank you as always for listening I deeply

appreciate it and it means a lot. And about forever ado, here is Dr. Philipson.

Welcome back to the show, Steve.

Steve, as always, it's a pleasure, something I at this point very much look forward to.

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