PSP 315: Turning OCD Pain into Passion | Shaun Flores
AT Parenting Survival | Raising Kids with OCD & Anxiety
Natasha Daniels: Child Therapist, Child Anxiety and OCD Expert, Parenting Coach and Parent
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🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Shaun Flores had been suffering from OCD for years without knowing it. He hopped from OCD theme to OCD theme, listening to OCD’s lies and searching for certainty with each new worry.
It wasn’t until 2022, when he finally met the right therapist, that he learned that all of his fears had one explanation, OCD.
Shaun has turned his OCD pain into a passion to advocate. Since his diagnosis he has added a new face to the OCD advocacy scene. A face that was desperately underrepresented. As a black man, he is helping normalize a disorder that doesn’t care about race, ethnicity or gender.
In this week’s episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, I had the honor to talk to Shaun about his journey with OCD and the incredible work he is doing to help others.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the AT Parenting Survival Podcast, where you get help and guidance through |
| 0:08.1 | the chaos of parenting a child with anxiety or OCD. |
| 0:12.1 | This show is for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the guidance of |
| 0:16.5 | a qualified professional. |
| 0:18.0 | Here's your host, Child Therapist Natasha Daniels. |
| 0:22.2 | Hello there, and welcome to another episode at the AT Parenting Survival Podcast. |
| 0:29.1 | Hope your life is going pretty good. |
| 0:31.2 | We're chugging along, getting ready for the summer in, like, this is May. |
| 0:36.0 | And so, yeah, my kid's got out of school at the end of May, and so it's just a weird transition. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm sure a lot of you are in that boat, too. |
| 0:42.9 | Well, today I had the pleasure of talking to Sean Flores, who was an amazing person to |
| 0:48.2 | speak to. |
| 0:49.2 | I mean, he was actually one of my favorite guests and my new favorite person, because he |
| 0:53.5 | was just so raw and authentic, and just such goodness coming from that man, because he |
| 1:01.2 | has struggled, has diagnosed with OCD just last year, but really struggled and had OCD |
| 1:06.6 | symptoms for a very long time. |
| 1:08.0 | You'll hear his story in a minute. |
| 1:10.0 | And within that time, he has turned his struggles into this perotious appetite to advocate |
| 1:18.5 | and be a face for OCD that we don't often see. |
| 1:21.8 | As a black man in the UK, his voice is particularly helpful as an OCD advocate, because we need |
| 1:29.6 | kids and teens to see a face that looks like them, or a story that sounds like them. |
| 1:36.5 | And the more diversity and the more brave people we have that are willing to come forward |
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