Hey guys welcome to episode 118 of the Ocede stories.com podcast. Now in this episode I interviewed Ethan Smith.

I met Ethan briefly before at the IstF conference last year and I interviewed him along with Jeff Schmanski from the I.

I believe in 2016 or 2017.

Either way, Ephong was at Chrisi's ACD Game Change event in Denver this year so I got to spend some real quality time of Ethan.

It was a pleasure to get to know him.

Find out more about his life story, his journey and what he's doing now and in OCD advocacy and it's

really inspiring and a little background Nathan he's a professional writer, director and producer.

He's also a national ambassador for the charity the I SDF and we talk

about many things we talk about his story which is fascinating he's so vulnerable

with it and open and I really respect and appreciate that and I think you guys will too.

We ask the general sort of questions around kind of what therapies have helped turning point

main any problem areas in treatment, dealing with lapses or relapses, his advocacy

work.

So we briefly talk about a few things like obviously ERP, how that massively helped him.

He talks about acceptance and commitment therapy, how that also played a part in his recovery, which is interesting

to see and he breaks down the parts of

examined-sclement therapy that helped him in particular.

Talk about the need for self-compassion, how nature can be a support or has been for him.

Talk about choices and decisions and things like motivation in this.

It's a really broad, I think, well-rounded episode. He's a funny guy as well, so I think this should be an easy listen for you guys and an informative one.

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