Hey guys I welcome to episode 158 of the Ocity stories.

podcast. Now in this episode I interviewed Johnny Say.

Johnny is a mindfulness teacher.

He is also currently training as a psychotherapist here in the UK and he has lived experience of

OCD and I met Johnny at one of my London meetups I used to run last year. It was

great to meet him and you know get to know him that way so I've got him on the

podcast because I wanted him to talk about some of the things he's interested in

such as my mindfulness and compassion and also his O C. C. D. Story. So it starts off by him going into his OCD story and he goes into a lot of detail which is great.

And then we talk about the various things like the things he's learned, the epiphanies, any roadblocks and then we the second part we break down into you know initially what is mindfulness what's his daily practice

How can you be mindful when you're having obsessive thoughts?

You know these difficult thoughts.

Also, how to be mindful or meditate when you feel very anxious.

We talk about a lot of other things around mindfulness and meditation, which hopefully you'll find

useful.

But Johnny is a great guy and I feel privileged to share this episode with you.

So without further ado, here is Johnny.

On the podcast today I have Johnny say.

Johnny is a Marathiness teacher and has been practicing Marathiness and

meditation for over 17 years. He is currently training as a psychotherapist and he has lived experience of OCD.

Welcome to the show Johnny.

Thanks to you, real pleasure to be here, big fan of the show, so yeah, it's great. great thanks man it's good to have you here and of

course we met for the people listening at the London meetup I were used to run now I've actually

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