ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – JoAnne Dahl

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. Prosocial behavior is characterized by a concern about the rights, feelings and welfare of other people. Behaviors that can be described as prosocial include feeling empathy and … Read more about this episode...

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 group, as a nation and on our earth. Prosocial behavior is defined as voluntary behavior intended to benefit another. A … Read more about this episode...

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 studies have shown that caring for others provides resilience to the damaging effects of stress on the heart, for example. But there is also a … Read more about this episode...

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 the new culture, their cultural identity is likely to change and that encourages a degree of belonging; they also attempt to settle down by either assimilation or … Read more about this episode...

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 of oneself. How you define yourself, your beliefs, your values, your limits and so on predicts your behavior. The problem … Read more about this episode...

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 tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts. Worldwide, breast cancer accounts for 22.9% of all cancers. Prognosis and survival rates for … Read more about this episode...

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 relationship, a society or spiritual community places rules on your behavior that don’t coincide with your own values. Recently we had a program … Read more about this episode...

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 struggling with overweight using the ACT model. It is authored by Jason Lillis, myself and Sandra Weinerland. … Read more about this episode...

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 difficult things in school or helping patients to learn how to cope with an illness. You may be a parent trying to help you … Read more about this episode...

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. This has resulted in all kinds of treatments for children with the aim of controlling their behavior. Probably children are pretty much the same as … Read more about this episode...

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 and unmarried men have higher rates of mortality and are more prone to substance abuse and depression than married men. Breaking up in general increases stress, weakens the … Read more about this episode...

. 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 works with ACT to help people get flexible around fears and rigid thoughts about having the diagnosis of diabetes in order to get space to take … Read more about this episode...

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. What happens the day you feel that these rules don’t coincide with your own values? This type of conflict causes physical and psychological uneasiness like anxiety, … Read more about this episode...

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 night or early in the morning. Asthma affects people of all ages, but it most often starts during childhood. In the United States, more than 25 million people are … Read more about this episode...

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 depression or anxiety). But this doesn’t really give us an indication of women who are struggling who don’t meet ‘cut off’ criteria for depression or anxiety or whose experiences … Read more about this episode...

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 to function in better ways. How can evolution science help as an agent of change in general? What happens when change is left unmanaged, left to evolution? what are the … Read more about this episode...

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 most complex object know in the universe. Understanding some basic characteristics about how our brains work can be of great help to us in … Read more about this episode...

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 there is no abnormality in the structure. So, in IBS, the function of the gut is upset, but all parts of the gut look normal, … Read more about this episode...

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 special health issues. In the next decade, more women than ever before will be age 50 or older. Women face unique health … Read more about this episode...

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 increasing at alarming speed.. Low-income minority children have a greater risk of being overweight or obese, eating fewer fruits and vegetables and engaging less in physically active lifestyles.… Read more about this episode...

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 the civil rights movement in America. Where are we 50 years later? Are we any closer to MLK Jr’s dream that … Read more about this episode...

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 way towards ourselves. Self compassion. Self compassion is about developing a kind and helpful relationship with yourself. It is the opposite … Read more about this episode...

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 manifest themselves differently across countries, communities, religious groups and individuals. They occur alongside other forms of stigma and discrimination, such as racism, stigma based on physical appearance, … Read more about this episode...

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 of the difference between the actual reality felt by your 5 senses in contrast to what your mind is telling you about this … Read more about this episode...

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 is a clinical psychologist and co-founder and director of Portland Psychotherapy Clinic, Research, & Training Center in Portland, Oregon in the USA. He provides … Read more about this episode...

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 most innovative persons in the ACT community is Dr Louise Hayes from Australia who has developed something called Values Cards for working with adolescents. In … Read more about this episode...

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 responses to text messages and it hard to remember the weeks we waited for responses handwritten and sent thru the post … Read more about this episode...

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 today, Dr Lance McCracken is certainly an expert on ‘acceptance’ in the field of pain. Lance is a Professor of Behavioural Medicine and Consultant Clinical Psychologist and … Read more about this episode...

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 arise. These processes for flexibilty are: being in the present moment, taking steps in valued directions, acceptance of what ‘is’, a word called ‘defusion’ meaning to … Read more about this episode...

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 center of stockholm during Christmas shopping rush and the terrorist bombing of the government building in Oslo and the following massicre at young people’s … Read more about this episode...

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 their choice, have a wonderful social life develop as human beings. Or? In one study examing the mental health of college students shows that … Read more about this episode...

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 terrorist attack since 1970. Since the Oklahoma city bombing, a greater port of terrorist attacks have been carried out by individuals rather than … Read more about this episode...

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 that are directly effected by also to society as a whole. It can be loss of human life, loss of public confidence in these services. Examples … Read more about this episode...

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 someone close with an addiction. I know from personal experience the frustration and feelings of hopelessness you can feel around having … Read more about this episode...

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 four persons will suffer from anxiety disorder and one in five will experience serious depression at some point in life. Anxiety and mood disorders are … Read more about this episode...

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 prisons. It has been recently shown that the prevalence of mental disorders among prisoners is at least 5 times the rate as in … Read more about this episode...

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 is excruciating and despite the fact the we know better we likely get overwhelmed and do anything to stop the child’s suffering. If … Read more about this episode...

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 feel shame from time to time. Shame makes our problems seem bigger and makes us seem smaller and alone with what … Read more about this episode...

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. Think about why you eat. You already know what foods are healthy for you and what are so called ‘junk foods’ . … Read more about this episode...

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 medical illness, possible suicide and may have shorter life span. About 60 % of people who become depressed are likely to become depressed again. Statistically most depressions last for about … Read more about this episode...

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 their own balance and well being. Most of us have probably played some sports during our school years. When I grew up in … Read more about this episode...

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 childhood, adolescence, young adults, middle aged persons and right through to those who are at the end stages of life. Intimacy. … Read more about this episode...

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 brought up. We are going to talk about sex. Sexual feelings are unpredictable, confusing and many times hard to control. Some of us are lucky to … Read more about this episode...

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 feeling unhappy. we may have just experienced a loss. This could be a loss of a function, like a hearing… Read more about this episode...

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 don? t have long to live. We all know we will die at some point and most of… Read more about this episode...

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 of what makes us happy. But on the other hand the word ?work? is often thought of as a necessary evil. … Read more about this episode...

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. Something we might called displacement. You have probably moved from one town to another, one school to another. Maybe one country to … Read more about this episode...

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 needs children, it may be even more of a challenge. In this program we are going to discuss about the special difficulties for … Read more about this episode...

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 think. Stigma. Stigma is defined as the dehumanization of an individual based on a social identity or participation in a negative or undesirable social … Read more about this episode...

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. Tinnitus. The word tinnitus means simply ringing. It is defined as the perception of sound with the ear when there is no corresponding … Read more about this episode...

Join me for a discussion of something which is very important and very secret for many, painful intercourse. If you get pain during intercourse, you are not alone. In a recent Swedish survey taking, 1 out of 10 women experience pain, with a higher frequency among younger more sexually inexperienced woman and fewer if you are over 50. This is … Read more about this episode...