Hey guys and welcome to episode 19 of the OCD stories.com podcast.

Now in this episode I interview Eric Cooper's

Eric is Associate Professor at Cal State University in the Department of Theatre.

He also co-runs the Dandelion Dance Theatre, which I'll put links in the show notes, so

you can go find out more about that.

Now I got Eric on the show because he has written two stories for the O.C stories.com both

very inspiring one was actually his, another one was his story through almost like a script. I don't know how you describe it like, it was a creative arts project arguably that he's going to use at the Dandelion Theater. I really like that

approach, it was the first one of its kind. So I wanted to get him on, go deeper into his recovery,

what's helped him, and that's what we do we touch on

obviously the core the platinum standard the RP but we also go into things like

meditation edMR if I said that right, and just other things.

And it was a great conversation, he's a great guy.

I've thoroughly enjoyed it.

I learned a lot.

I know you guys are learned a lot.

So I think you will enjoy this one. Other than that announcement from me is I got engaged last week and that's relevant for those don't know.

I don't know. I ROCD has been one of the areas

OCD heavily kind of attacked me.

And, you know, definitely a year ago,

I never thought I would be here in this position, you know, when you're kind of hopeless,

you really are up against the ropes and you don't see it and you think even if it does get better you know it's now tainted

the ratio is never going to be you know what it was or what it could be and that's an

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