Act: Taking Hurt To Hope Joanne Dahl

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. […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Trauma appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 Orygen Youth Research Centre at The University of Melbourne, in Australia who develops treatment for adolescent mental […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Mental Health of Teenagers appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Using Mindfulness for improving intimacy appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – The Pain Monster: chronic pain in children appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Psychosis appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Hope for weight strugglers appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Human suffering: finding ways to get unstuck and move on appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.