Hey guys and welcome to episode 76 of the OCD stories.

Now in this episode I had a great chat with Kimberly Quinlan.

Kimberly is a therapist over in the States.

And we talked about various things,

but the podcasts and the chat was mainly

comprised of questions that you guys gave me.

So I put out on, I think Facebook and Twitter basically saying do you have any

questions I've got a OCD and anxiety specialist coming on and you gave me quite a few questions and I asked seven of them.

Things including like how to deal with repetitive thoughts, how to overcome fear, what to do if you're having a panic attack, and

Kimberly goes some great answers. We also talked about mindfulness for OCD and

some general advice about things she thinks people start and stop doing with O. C. D.

And she put a real emphasis on compassion, which is something I fully believe in.

You know Professor Paul Gilbert on before around compassion, she really emphasized that.

And yeah, just the real kind of of the mindfulness aspect talked about kind of Buddhism as well a little bit and

I think you're going to really like Kimberly and what she had to say she gave some real practical advice and she you can tell she she

loves what she does and brings a lot of humanity into her practice which I

appreciate thank you to Shala nicely,

he's been on the podcast a few times.

She actually put me in contact with Kimberly,

so thank you for the recommendation, Shala.

And without further to do, here is Kimberly.

On today's show, I have Kimberly Quinlan.

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