ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Tinnitus
Welcome to another episode of ACT taking hurt to hope on Webtalkradio.net Join us today for a discussion about a common problem, a problem that about 20% of people between the ages of 55 and 65 have....
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Stigma
Welcome to ACT: taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about something we probably all do to ourselves and others on a daily basis and something which is more harmful psychological than you...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – The Struggle of parents with special needs children
Welcome to ACT, taking hurt to hope. Join us today for a discussion about a special kind of struggle. All of us who are parents know that bringing up children is a challenge. For parents with special...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – The Struggle of the Refugee
Welcome to another episode of ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about a hurt we have all experienced to some degree and probably found our way out of, at least to some degree....
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Work Related Stress
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Join us today for a discussion of something that we probably all have felt from time to time. Stress at the workplace. Work is often listed at the top when we think...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with End of Life
Welcome to ACT Taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about how we can help ourselves and those dear to us when we get a life threatening illness and or when we are faced with the fact that we...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Depression Welcome to ACT taking...
Today we are going to talk about something that we all feel from time to time : Depression. This means that we feel low, or sad or down in the dumps. Sometimes we may have a so called reason for...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Sexual repression and suppression
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we have an especially attractive program for you. Something we are all interested in but may have difficulties in expressing because of the ways we were...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Intimacy
Welcome to ACT , taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to have a conversation about something that is centrally important to all of us in every stage of life from the new born child, through all of...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – ACT in Sport Psychology
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about sports. About how Psychology and ACT can be used to help athletes perform with precision and efficacy and at the same time increase...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Using Behavior Activation for Depression
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are having a discussion about a potentially dangerous psychological disorder called depression. People who suffer from depression are more susceptible to...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Emotional Eating: Feeding [or...
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to have a discussion about something we all do but when we do it alot, we get ourselves into trouble. Eating or not eating for emotional reasons....
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Shame Self Criticism and Self...
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to discuss something that has been said to be the biggest causes of emotional problems: Shame. The word shame means to hide or to cover up. We all...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with kids who hurt
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. One thing we all share as parents is the emotional pain of watching your child in pain. Something happens inside us as parents when we see our children suffer that...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – ACT behind Bars
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope Today we are going to discuss something that many of us know little about but which concerns us all. The mental health of those people that are incarcerated in our...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – ACT and internet treatment
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about a relatively new phenomena that makes psychological treatment assessable and affordable to most of us. It is estimate that one in...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with family members with addiction
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to discuss something that we hope can be useful for many of us. How ACT and a sister therapy called CRAFT can help those family members who have...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – ACT and Building Safety Commitment
Safety and the prevention of accidents at the workplace is a subject that interests all of us. Accidents and violation of safety regulations can be disastrous not only to those workers and work places...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Contributing to a more compassionate world Steve...
Why it matters that we make a more compassion world and what does evolution tell us about cooperation? The Washington post writes that just about every part of the US has been hit by some form of...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – The struggle of college students
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to do some mythbusting. College students seem to be care free. Well taken care of and with seemedly no responsibility except to study subjects of...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Training Prosocial Behavior using the Matrix
Just about every part of the US has been hit by some form of terrorist attack since 1970. Even here in Scandivia where Terrorism has been virtually unknown, we have experience a sucide bomber in the...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with ACT processes: Self as Context and...
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. We are going to start a series of programs examening the six act process seen to be critical to helping people to become psychologically flexible when challenges...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with ACT processes: Acceptance
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Acceptance of difficult situations, feelings, or physical pain is not easy. In fact, the idea of being asked to accept difficulties can be provocative. Our guest...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with ACT processes: Persistency and...
We live in a culture of quick fixes, immediate gratification. One of the things I love about my iPad is that I can hear about a book and have it downloaded in my iPad within minutes. We want immediate...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – ACT processes: Values work with adolescents
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today’s program discusses values work in the ACT model. I have looked at how different researchers around the world work with values in therapy sessions. One of the...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Thoughts
This episode concludes the series on ACT processes and focuses on fusion/defusion. Our guest today who helps us to understand how we can relate to our thoughts in a flexible way is Dr. Jason Luoma who...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Chronic illness
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope Today we are starting a series of how ACT is used for health issues. Remember that ACT has three components, opening up to the reality of the moment, becoming aware...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with HIV/AIDS stigma
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about something that concerns us all AIDS and HIV stigma and discrimination. AIDS stigma and discrimination exist worldwide, although they...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – How to develop Self Compassion
Working with self compassion Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about something can be helpful to all of us no matter what situation we are in. Acting in a kind and loving...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Titel Struggling with Racism: Training prosocial...
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. On August 28 of this summer, it will be the 50 year anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, which many believe marks the high point of...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Stuggling with Choices: Eating problems
The rates of obesity in America’s children and youth have tripled in the last quarter century. Approximately 20 percent of our youth are now overweight with obesity rates in preschool age children...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Health issues for women in Midlife: the invisible...
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are continuing our series of ACT and Health Issues. A topic close to my heart is how ACT can approach the growing population of women over 50 and those...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with IBS
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional disorder of the gut. (The gut includes the bowels.) A functional disorder means there is a problem with the function of a part of the body, but...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Training the Brain for Compassion
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to have an enlightening conversation about the three pounds of soft gooshy tissue we all carry between our ears. Our brains. Our brains are the...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – How can knowing about evolution help us?
Change as the mantra for modern life, craving positive changes on all levels from individuals seeking to improve themselves to neighborhoods seeking a greater sense of community to nations attempting...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with attachment with Newborns
Having a baby and learning to be a parent is certainly one of life’s greatest challenges. About 1 in 4 women experiencing mental health difficulties during pregnancy or postnatally (most commonly...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Asthma
Asthma is a chronic lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways. Asthma causes recurring periods of wheezing , chest tightness, shortness of breath, and coughing. The coughing often occurs at...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – When Rules conflict with your Values
What happens when rules imposed upon you conflict with your own values? Rules always come from the outside, your parents, your school, the ‘gang’ that you hang around in, your workplace or your church....
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – The show this week is about using Acceptance and...
. Our guest Dr Jen Gregg is an associate professor at San Jose State University in San Francisco and her website is www.sjsu.edu/people/jennifer.gregg. In this program Jen speaks to us about how she...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – New ACT book ACT and RFT in Relationships
There are many good reasons to work on and keep vital your intimate relationship. Divorces effect our health negatively. Divorce can take a great mental and physical toll on men. Specifically, divorced...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling in Daily Conflicts with Children
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope.Today we are going to discuss about the difficulties involved in parenting. We see on TV and in popular media, often program for ‘so called’ Out of control children....
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with your own feelings when helping others
Struggling with your own avoidance when trying to help others Many of us work with people. Many of us try and help people to develop and grow in different ways. You may be helping children learn...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – New ACT book The Diet Trap
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today you are going to have the chance to hear about a new ACT book that has just been released called *the Diet Trap.’ This is a self help book for people who are...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Radio Program with Mats Rothman
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are continuing on the theme of what happens when you find yourself in a values conflict. When the context around you, whether it is a working place, a...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Breast Cancer
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to continue our series on ACT and Health issues and talk about cancer. Breast cancer. Breast cancer is a type of cancer originating from breast...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with ‘Who You Think You Are’
Who you think you are might be more important than you think. Usually we use the term self in general to refer to how you think about or perceive yourself. To be aware of oneself is to have a concept...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Migration and homesickness Guest...
According to an article in the British Medical Bulletin, When people migrate from one nation or culture to another they carry their knowledge and expressions of distress with them. On settling down in...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – The Caregiver Syndrome Guest Tom Szabo
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about the challenging side of caring for others who are at times acting out and acting aggressively towards the caregiver. Several recent...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – What is Prosocial Behavior Guest David Sloan Wilson
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today Iwould like to take up the concept of prosocial behavior. What it is, how is can be trained and what kind of effects it has for us as individuals and as a...
View ArticleACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Is prosocial behavior a short cut to valuing?...
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today, in our final program we are going to continue to talk about prosocial behavior. Remember that Prosocial behaviors are those intended to help other people....
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