ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope - JoAnne Dahl

Life’s challenges are diverse. They may be circumstantial or broad-based. Suffering and lack of momentum are common results of life’s ups and downs. JoAnne Dahl will help guide listeners to spend less time with their problem and more time focusing on ‘values’ based action as in Acceptance Commitment Therapy. Opinion leaders from a variety of modalities will join JoAnne for candid discussions focusing on general principles for living as well as specific solutions for difficult problems.

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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Trauma

Each one of us has experienced traumatic events and experienced reactions like shock, denial, anger and maybe unexpected emotions. These are natural reactions. In the long term some people continue to experience problems related to trauma that create obstacles for living a valued life. Join us today for a discussion of how ACT approaches trauma. My guest today is Dr Robyn Walser, http://www.TLConsultationServices.com an admired ACT therapist who has worked for many years with trauma at the Veter...

Nov 12, 2012•34 min

ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

You have probably stood outside your door and felt unsure you shut of the stove or locked a door and that uneasiness might have sparked some checking rituals. This is natural but problems arise when these rituals take up more and more time and energy from your valued life. In today’s program you will learn from an expert, Dr Michael Twohig, http://psychology.usu.edu/people/Michael-P-Twohig / Associate Professor at the department of Psychology at Utah State University about how ACT approaches OCD...

Nov 05, 2012•32 min

ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Mental Health of Teenagers

Teenagers may look and act grown up but they are inexperienced and need nurturing. They need to learn how to get comfortable with inevitable discomfort of adolescence. Join us today as we talk to Dr Louise Hayes from Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Orygen Youth Research Centre at The University of Melbourne, in Australia who develops treatment for adolescent mental health. Louise is the author of Get out of your mind and into your life for teens . Louise gi...

Oct 29, 2012•32 min

ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Using Mindfulness for improving intimacy

Join us today for a discussion about mindfulness, what it is, how it can be used to improve your relationships, especially your intimate relationships. Today you will get a chance to try a mindfulness exercise and get some advice from an expert on how you can use these mindfulness skills to help you relate better to those close to you. In Acceptance and Commitment therapy, Mindfulness is a core component in helping people become aware of the difference between what is actually going on in the mo...

Oct 22, 2012•27 min

ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – The Pain Monster: chronic pain in children

We would all like to spare children pain and suffering. But it may be more important to help children to face painful challenges and at the same time live a full vital life rather than avoid pain at the cost of a full life. Join us today as we talk to Dr Rikard Wicksell , a clinical researcher and and ACT therapist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm working with children with chronic pain. Listen to how Rikard uses the Pain monster to help children go from hurt to hope. Subscribe with your...

Oct 15, 2012•29 min

ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Psychosis

Hearing voices or seeing things other people don’t perceive is a phenomena that isn’t necessarily a problem, but the ways one reacts to these experiences and the ways others around us react can create severe problems. Rather than trying to alleviate these experiences, it is more helpful to make room for them and put your valuable energy back into you life. Join us today as we talk to Dr Joe Oliver who is a clinical psychologist in London working within a Early Intervention for Psychosis Service ...

Oct 08, 2012•27 min

ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Hope for weight strugglers

Most of us are struggling with extra weight and no weight loss program seems to help. In fact they don’t. Research shows that nearly everyone regains lost weight in any available program within 2-3 years. Join us today as we talk to Dr Jason Lillis, a psychologist and Assistant Professor at Brown University , author of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy , as he tells us the latest trends in effective ways to lose weight. Discover why self compassion is the best place to start rather than dissatis...

Oct 01, 2012•28 min

ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional

When pain was unavoidable, it was bearable, when pain became avoidable it became unbearable. Our health care system and culture has found more and more ways to avoid pain and we get more and more sensitive and intolerant of pain. Join us today as we speak to Dr Brian Kirsh http://www.uhn.ca/clinics_&_services/clinics/pain.asp a psychiatrist with a pain specialty from the University of Toronto who shows us how he works with people suffering from chronic pain using Acceptance and Commitment Th...

Sep 24, 2012•28 min

ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Human suffering: finding ways to get unstuck and move on

It hurts to live. Living a full life means feeling a full range of feelings. It seems that we have become less and less tolerant of feelings and sensations we don’t like. Maybe instead of trying to feel GOOD all the time, we should try and FEEL good, and actually allow all our natural feelings and sensations move through us, rather than just those we like. Join me as I discuss with Dr Steven Hayes , stevenchayes.com A Nevada Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada, and founder of Accept...

Sep 09, 2012•27 min

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