You Don't Just Have to "Slay The Dragon" of OCD, You Can Also Befriend The Princess It's Protecting 💗 (PART 2) with Michael Alcee

Hi, if you’re new, welcome to 20 Year Old Butterfly! This is a place (hi, i’m Bailey!) for sensitive souls to use our inner wisdom to express creatively, humanly, passionately, magically✨The butterfly’s wings open like a book & the pages are filled with stories that say…🦋“It’s almost like we focus so much in OCD treatment on slaying the dragon, when we should also think about freeing the princess.” 👑"And we’re also aware that the dragon is dangerous, but it had a good reason to be dangerous because it was protecting the princess.”Michael Alcee, during our conversation in this episode of 20 Year Old Butterfly, the podcastIf you haven’t seen last week’s piece/listened to part one of my chat with Michael all about OCD, here’s some things I shared:It wasn’t until discovering, by complete chance, Michael’s (psychologist & author of The Upside of OCD) work that I felt a huge weight lift off me that had been weighing me down for over a decade. OCD is hard enough on its own, but to feel that you aren’t a human being, that your brain is essentially broken & irrational, is an extra layer of shame & heaviness.Listening and reading Michael’s point of view on the human behind OCD (a phrase I had never once come across in all my years of googling OCD), I felt seen and whole. I finally felt like someone was seeing me as a person, a human, a being - not just another robotic, clinical, unnamed patient who has OCD. And not only that, but that my deeply sensitive nature (which with I have been connected to for a very long time & am very proud of/grounded in), is actually interwoven with my OCD.This week’s episode (part TWO), is an even deeper dive and listening back left me nodding along and clapping to myself. I can’t wait for you to dive in.Listen to this week’s episode here on Apple & here on Spotify !!! 🎙️🎧Yay!! See you next Tuesday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or right here on Substack! 🦋Let’s connect with each other! 🩷Connect with Michael:Explore The Upside Of OCD - Michael’s (life changing) Book!The Heart Of OCD - Michael’s SubstackMichael’s InstagramConnect with me (Bailey!) :Explore my book here!Read where the name 20 Year Old Butterfly comes from!Explore my website 🌼(Music) Stock Media provided by marcozannone / Pond5 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit baileycreativity.substack.com