Hey guys and welcome to episode 119 of the O. C.D stories. Dot com podcast.

Now in this episode I got on Rose Cartwright.

Now many of you have asked me to interview her and she's someone I've wanted to interview for.

I think I've been chasing her for a couple years now so we finally got on the show and it was a pleasure to talk to her. She's a delight and it's just yeah great to get to know her

find out more about her book Pure which I read I think it was like 18 months maybe longer ago.

Great book kind of reads like fiction, but it is non-fiction.

It is about her life and it's very gripping, very compelling and I know it's helped many people.

So Rose is a writer, author of the book Pure, which has now also been turned into a drama series which is

going to be on channel 4 in the UK at some point later this year or next and

she hopefully will get it distributed elsewhere in the world so sit tight and

Rose is also director over at intrusiveforts.org we talk about her book the TV show and then most of this show is comprised of your questions.

So I put out on Instagram and Facebook I believe and ask your questions.

I didn't get time to ask them all, but stuff we cover is, you know, how

did she feel when it first started happening? How to deal with the kind of embarrassment, shame,

and distraction of intrusive thoughts.

E. R.P. Against Obsessions, what was the most effective thing she did?

Kind of where she's out in recovery now, and he relapses and how she deals with them,

how she had to reconceptualize her sexuality differently as part of her recovery.

And then I kind of get towards the end I ask her a question around stigma

what the community can do you know around dealing with phrases such as I'm so OCD as you see in the media and she gives a good answer to that.

Rose also talks about meditation a lot at the end and how that's helped her learn to love herself

and obviously the importance of things like ERP in her recovery so it's

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