In episode 38 of The OCD Stories podcast I interviewed Morgan Rondinelli. Morgan is studying ecology and evolutionary biology, she is an OCD advocate and mental health blogger. She is on the executive board of the Healthy Minds Coalition as the Mental Health Monologues Director, and is also involved with Active Minds and the Peer-To-Peer Depression Awareness Campaign.

I chatted with Morgan about her OCD story. She shared the importance of sleep, opening up, and offered some tips around how to stick to your ERP homework.  She talks about the mental health monologues, scheduling time for fun, not being tough on yourself when you make a mistake. Near the end we talk about values and how these can help recovery, and why we need to embrace uncertainty. Enjoy.

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Show notes:

Morgan’s OCD Story (3:30)

Apart from ERP, what else helped Morgan? (8:00)

How opening up helped Morgan in her recovery (9:00)

Advocacy (10:50)

Not being afraid of stigma (12:30)

How to stick to your ERP homework (14:30)

The 24 hour challenge (15:45)

The coping box (17:45)

Morgan’s biggest realisation about OCD (19:40)

The IOCDF conference (21:00)

The Mental Health Monologues (23:00)

Morgan’s one piece of advice people with OCD should start doing (25:30)

Living by your values (26:10)

Morgan’s one piece of advice people with OCD should stop doing (27:00)

Morgan’s one piece of advice for dealing with OCD (27:50)

Morgan’s advice for living an amazing life (28:20)

What Morgan would have on her billboard (29:10)

Find out more about Morgan:

Website: https://myocdvoice.wordpress.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@MorgansVoice_

Morgan’s story on The OCD Stories website

Resources:

Dr Jonathan Grayson – Virtual Camping

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To your success,

Stuart and The OCD Stories team

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