Episode #28: The Dark Days: Interview with Alison Dotson

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

Self-improvement, Education, Anxietymindfulnessmeditation, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Hello there Everyone! Today, I am thrilled to have guest, Alison Dotson on the Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast. During this podcast, Alison shares her journey from not even knowing what OCD was to what helped her with her recovery. Alison and I had a fun time also managing technological hiccups, which ended up being a wonderful practice of mindfulness. Alison Dotson is the author of Being Me with OCD: How I Learned to Obsess Less and Live My Life. In this book, Alison shares her personal journey with obsessive-compulsive disorder and includes some of the most heart-wrenching details. Her genuine goal is to spread awareness and helping teens and young adults with OCD. Resources Mentioned in this this Podcast: Alisondotson.com facebook.com/beingmewithocd Imp of the Mind IOCDF.org twitter- beingmewithocd OCD Twin Cities [email protected]

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Kimberly Quinlan and this is your anxiety toolkit.
0:17.5	Well, happy holidays. I am so excited to bring to you an interview I did with Alison Dotson. And the reason
0:28.5	why I'm so thrilled to give this is number one, Alison is just one of the most amazing humans I know.
0:34.6	And number two, I thought this was a perfect time as we go into the holiday period
0:40.1	to give you someone who gets it and to someone who can share with you what they've been through
0:50.1	and how they've worked through their struggles and hopefully it gives you just a little bit of
0:55.9	inspiration in this holiday time which I know can be very taxing and can sometimes leave us
1:02.9	feeling quite isolated. So that being said, I am going to hand it over to Allison and the interview that we did together.
1:13.8	I hope you enjoy it and I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and a very happy new year.
1:21.0	Okay, well welcome.
1:23.2	This is Your Anxiety Toolkit podcast.
1:25.7	My name is Kimberly Quinlan and today I am so honored to have
1:29.5	with me, Alison Dotson. Alison is the author of Being Me with OCD, how I learn to obsess less and live my
1:39.0	life. She's the president of the OCD Twin Cities and she's the proud owner of Tuffy and Gracie,
1:46.4	her two dogs, who are going to probably chime in and give some advice at some point during
1:51.0	this podcast, and we are going to let them take the stage.
1:54.9	So welcome.
1:56.0	Thank you for being with me.
1:56.8	Thank you so much for having me.
1:59.3	Oh, I'm so pleased.
2:00.6	I've actually been wanting to do this since we
2:02.7	met in person at the OCD conference. That seems like kind of forever ago, but it wasn't that long.
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