Jack: Understanding and practicing ACT skills (Client’s perspective - part 1) (#466)

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Stuart

Bdd, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Hocd, Cocd, Rocd, Bodydysmorphicdisorder, Ocd, Anxiety, Obsessivecompulsivedisorder, Mental Health, Help, Mentalhealth, Depression, Advice

4.8 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In episode 466 I chat with Jack who came back on to talk about his approach to learning ACT skills and practising them between his therapy sessions.

We discuss his therapy including exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and compassion focused therapy (CFT), his approach to doing home practice and practicing skills outside of session, Jack recaps some of the ACT skills he learned, the importance of practising often, repetition and consistency, and much more. Hope it helps.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.
0:05.5	The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive,
0:11.1	compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people
0:16.8	who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD Stories.
0:25.3	And welcome to episode 466 of the podcast.
0:32.8	And in this one, I got back on Jack. Jack kindly shared his story with us in episode 440. So if you haven't checked that out, feel free to go do so, but you don't need to, for context for this episode. I think
0:39.3	Jack shares enough context if you haven't heard his story, that this episode should still be
0:43.7	interesting and useful for you. I got Jack back on because one of the things I really liked
0:48.4	about his story was his commitment to the home practice or homework to understanding and implementing the skills
0:56.5	between his therapy sessions and that's always impressed me about Jack's.
1:01.2	I wanted to get him on to explore this in a bit more detail, his mindset around this and other
1:06.4	things. But in particular, we talk about his therapy, including exposure and response prevention therapy, and acceptance commitment therapy, or act for short, as well as compassion focus therapy.
1:18.2	We discuss his approach to doing home practice and practicing skills outside of session. Jack recap some of the act skills he learned.
1:26.8	The importance of practicing often, repetition and consistency, and much more.
1:33.0	And thank you to NoCD for supporting the podcast.
1:35.9	NoCD offers effective and convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US.
1:40.8	To find out more about NoCD, their therapy plans, if they currently take your insurance,
1:45.7	or to download their free app, head to go.treatmyoced.com forward slash the OCD stories, or the link
1:53.1	will be in the episode description. Thank you to all of our patrons for supporting our work. To sign up to
1:58.8	our Patreon and to check out the other benefits you'll
2:01.2	receive as a patron, please see the link in the show notes. So thank you to Jack for coming back on
2:06.4	and sharing his view on this. I really, really appreciate it. This is called part one, because there
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