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🗓️ 14 June 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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In episode 230 I chat with Nora Shalaway Carpenter who has kindly agreed to share her story with us. We talk about OCD and pregnancy, and we talk about her book “The edge of anything”, as well as much much more. Hope it helps.
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0:00.0 | Hey guys and welcome to episode 230 of the Ocede stories |
0:10.7 | com podcast in this episode I chat with Nora Shala Wei Carpenter |
0:16.0 | who is kindly agreed to share her story with us. |
0:18.0 | So in the episode we talk about her Ocid story, |
0:22.0 | a trauma she experienced, going through OCD and pregnancy, |
0:26.8 | so we go into detail of what it was like for having OCD while she was pregnant. |
0:30.7 | We talk about her book The Edge of Anything, which I ended up reading after recording |
0:37.0 | this episode. It's a fiction and I think she did a very good job of capturing what ICD was like. |
0:44.0 | So if you're into fiction, then maybe check it out. |
0:47.0 | The link will be in the show notes to her book. |
0:49.0 | But she talks about that in detail. |
0:51.0 | She talks about the characters in the book, why she did it and how she tried to be as accurate as possible. |
0:56.0 | We talked about her therapy journey, medication, how her partner held her accountable with therapy homework, feeling understood in therapy, |
1:05.0 | and how what she learned about anxiety through therapy helped her in parenting her children, |
1:11.0 | words of hope, and much, much more. |
1:13.0 | So thank you as always to you guys for listening and to Nora for sharing her story and talking |
1:18.7 | about her book. |
1:20.0 | And before we start, a thanks to our sponsor, No C.D. |
1:24.0 | With no C.D, you can now receive live face-to-face video therapy sessions with an |
1:28.1 | O. C. D.'s therapy services are only available in the US currently, but the free tools in their |
1:34.6 | mobile app are accessible to all. |
1:37.4 | If interested, you can give No CED's care team a call and they can help by learning |
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