Podcast with Fear Facers participant among 2019’s best

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The Daily, a podcast of The New York Times, recently revisited its favorite episodes of 2019, including an interview with Ella Maners, a participant in the University of Florida’s Fear Facers Summer Camp, hosted by the Center for OCD, Anxiety & Related Disorders.

At the end of the original podcast, Ella is introduced to a 70-year-old woman who was inspired to seek help to conquer her fears after hearing Ella’s story.

The camp, held each summer, helps kids with with obsessive-compulsive disorder and other types of anxiety find personal growth and improve behavior, while contributing to research efforts at UF Health.

Listen to the updated episode of The Daily podcast.

Read the article in the New York Times.

Read our story about Fear Facers.