Hey guys and welcome to episode 117 at the Ocede stories.

podcast. Now this is another story episode and I interview

Marco Madioni. Marco is from Italy and he wrote his story for the website a little while ago now and I really enjoyed his story

He comes from a very

meditation focused background. He's done as he gets into this story he did medication

for many years he did CBT ERP and he still uses ERP but he found meditation particularly helpful for him to be able to detach on the

forts, bring more kindness into his awareness around his thoughts and he really explains that we talk about obviously his story

some ways of doing meditation the importance of compassion and kindness and

he really breaks down I guess the psychology and the thinking behind

meditation and much like ERP how it goes against kind of our natural instincts to react to faults and when you do something

like ERP and things like meditation it feels unnatural because you're kind of going against

that natural urge.

But we get into the kind of the psychology behind that.

I really found it interesting.

He just is a great guy gives some really good advice and if you've been thinking about

meditation or you currently do meditation I think this episode will give you

some more guidance and help and even if you don't want to do meditation I think his story is

quite interesting and the way he looks at recovery is very refreshing I

thoroughly enjoyed it he has a YouTube channel around meditation as, so I'll put links in the show notes.

And if you want to become a member of the O C. stories, you can head over to the O. C. stories.

dot com forward slash join. That's the O. C. D.com forward slash join that's the OcD stories dot com forward slash join and

Kimberly Quinlan therapist did a loving kindness meditation for my members last month and you can get access to that if you become a member.

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