You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.

The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding

around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.

So welcome to episode

279 and in this episode I chat with Cheryl Paul.

Cheryl is a counselor informed by young and depth psychology

and she's author of the book The Wisdom of Anxiety. So it's a real pleasure to get

Cheryl on and pick her brain for over an hour and in it we talk about her story.

It's both her sort of own mental health journey and her professional journey.

We talk a lot about transitions, transitions being such things as marriage, birth, death and we explore the anxiety

that these transitions can bring us. We talk about the highly sensitive person

we talk a lot about relationship anxiety and love and we explore differing views of

OCD and the joining of certain therapies with CBT and ERP. We also discuss a

youngian view of OCD. We talk about the spirituality and beauty of

E. R. P. and that facing fear as an innate human skill. We discuss the timetable

of healing, emptiness, and the youngian idea of gathering gold. So quite different to my usual

podcast, but I think if you go into it with an open mind, I think there's going to be some stuff

in there that will hopefully resonate with you

and if it doesn't that's okay too and thanks as always to no CD for supporting the

show and the work that we do no CD are now operating in Australia as well as UK and USA. So good work

to NCD for continuing their expansion and thank you to them for sponsoring the

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