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Story time with Ali. I can tell you that during my own recovery from ocd, I went to see a therapist and a therapist made me do hierarchy scripting and on purpose exposures. I did it. I didn't know anything about ocd, just came in completely broken, completely green, not understanding anything. This was 20 years ago. And I did the scripting outright. Didn't do. But I did hierarchy on purpose exposures. And guess what happened? My theme switched. And then the therapist was like, well, we'll just do another hierarchy. I'm like, lady, I'm not here to do hierarchies with you endlessly. Clearly your method is ineffective because I was green and nobody told me I couldn't recover. I felt that I had the power to say it. And a lot of the times, what I see now online is people almost accept that as a given. A lot of the times in the first session, the client will come in and they'll say, I was already told that I can't recover. I already accepted I can't recover. And I'm like, why? Who told you this? Why are you accepting it? It's so incredibly sad because the person already gave up and then I have to reel them back from the giving up. And then we start to do recovery work and then they recover and they're like, wow, I could recover after all. I'm so shocked. So it's. Never listen to naysayers. This is, this even goes beyond ocd, but definitely with ocd, if a person says, if a mechanic says they cannot fix your car, trust that that a they cannot fix your car and seek a better mechanic, you absolutely can do this. You absolutely can recover. But recovery requires work. Daily work, not one off exposure for an hour a day and you're done. No, no. Every time the thought came in, you need to be choosing to disregard. You need to be doing the work every time to the best of your ability. And think of it like a muscle. You're training the muscle all day long. You don't get it perfectly right every time. Sometimes it's a complete mess, but you're still training. And little by little, what I see with clients, what I showed you, what they're tracking, I think some people talked about it with testimonials as well, that little by little you get better at disregarding because you're gaining that skill. This is about learning the skill of disregarding. It's going to take a little bit of time, but you got to push all day long. You will get there. You will recover. You are capable of full recovery emergency session is available. The link is in the description.