Hey guys and welcome to episode 198 of the O. C stories.com podcast. Now in this episode I chat with

Laurie Johnson who is a therapist based in Denver who specializes in O. C.D.

anxiety and addiction and you may be familiar with her because I've got her on the show before. And I wanted to get her back on in particular to talk about families, supporting families and how families can support their

loved ones of O. C. D. In this particular episode we talk about boundaries,

loving boundaries in particular and how boundaries can help the

family, help themselves, but help, you know, if they look after themselves, they can better

help those people with O. C.

We talk about preventing burnout when helping a loved one with O. C.

Talk about authentically praising people with O. C. D.

Then we talk about what to do and someone is asked for

reassurance, what to do when someone is compulsively confessing something, what to do if you

catch someone in the act of doing a compulsion and if you should do anything

Lorry then talks about I ask your question about meaningful life

so I haven't asked for a while on the podcast.

And because Lori specialises in addiction as well as OCD, we also talk about boundaries, self-care,

and helping someone who is affected by both addiction and I see

yeah I think it's an important episode I hope if you have

O. C. Can help you work with your family in different ways.

If you have a love on VOCD I hope it gives you some ideas on how

better to help them and also you know look after yourself too. So without for a redo, here is Lori on the podcast today. I have Lori Johnson

Lori is a therapist based in the Denver area who specializes in OCD, anxiety and

addiction Lori runs a private practice called in-focused

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