Dr Russ Harris: We practice ACT and compassion skills for OCD (#438)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In episode 438 I chat with Dr Russ Harris. Russ is a medical practitioner, author of the international best-selling self-help book ‘The Happiness Trap’ (as well as nine others), and is a world-renowned trainer of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT).
We discuss his new Happiness Trap card deck, rumination, the skill noticing and naming, he guides us through the ACT skill Dropping Anchor, the problems with distraction, self compassion, and he guides us through the kind hands exercise, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.3 | The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding |
| 0:10.1 | around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
| 0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. And welcome to episode 438 of the podcast and in this one I got |
| 0:27.0 | back on Dr Russ Harris. Russ is a medical practitioner and author of the |
| 0:32.1 | international best-selling self-Help book The Happiness Trap. |
| 0:36.0 | Russ has been on the show before to talk about acceptance and commitment therapy and some of his |
| 0:40.3 | ideas and in this episode we talk about his new card deck based on the |
| 0:44.9 | principles and ideas and exercises from the book The Happiness Trap. We also talk about |
| 0:50.2 | the skill of noticing and naming he guides us through the act skill dropping anchor, |
| 0:55.2 | the problems with distraction, self-compassion, and he guides us through the kind hands exercise. |
| 1:01.3 | And much, much more. |
| 1:03.0 | And thank you to NoCD for supporting the podcast. |
| 1:05.7 | NoCD offers effective and convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. |
| 1:10.9 | To find out more about NoCD, theirD. their therapy plans if they currently take your |
| 1:14.7 | insurance or to download their free app, head to go. Treat My O.CD.com |
| 1:20.3 | forward slash the O. C. D. S. The O or the link will be in the episode |
| 1:23.8 | description thank you to all of our patrons for supporting our work to sign up to |
| 1:28.6 | our patron and to check out the other benefits you'll receive as a patron please see the link in the show |
| 1:33.8 | notes so thank you to Russ for his time and expertise always a pleasure to chat with |
| 1:38.1 | him and of course thank you to you guys for listening about for a ado, here is Russ. |
| 1:44.8 | Welcome back to the podcast Russ. |
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