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106: Finding Gratitude & Peace: Self-Compassion In Troubled Times

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Laura Reagan, LCSW-C

Social Sciences, Science, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.4728 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Buddhist Psychologist and student of Thich Nhat Hahn Tim Ambrose Desmond, LMFT.  

Tim Desmond is a mindfulness teacher, therapist in private practice, and co-founder of Morning Sun Mindfulness Center in Alstead, NH. He is the author of Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy (W.W. Norton, 2015) and offers training and consultation to therapists around the world, helping them to integrate positive psychology and mindfulness practices into their work.

Tim has presented at Yale University, the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy Colloquium, Greater Oregon Behavioral Health Conference, and the International Society for Ethics in Psychology and Psychiatry, as well as to mental health audiences around the country. His writings on mindfulness and positive psychology have appeared in the Psychotherapy Networker and the Mindfulness Bell magazine. Tim was interviewed about self-compassion by the Huffington Post, and writes for major mental health websites such as Madinamerica.com.

He developed and teaches “dialogue-based mindfulness training,” a technique for teaching mindfulness and self-compassion in which the client is guided through a meditation while giving the clinician feedback about their experience in real-time. The clinician uses this feedback to adjust and custom tailor the meditation instructions in order to ensure the client learns the technique effectively.

In 2005, Tim was ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh into the Order of Interbeing after many years of practicing in that tradition. He leads meditation retreats around the US and teaches regularly at Morning Sun Mindfulness Center in NH. In addition to the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Tim teaches Nonviolent Communication and positive psychology.

Resources

https://www.timdesmond.net

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traumatharapistnetwork.com today. Hi, welcome back to therapy chat. Today's episode is an interview on one of my

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very favorite subjects, self-compassion. You may recall last year in episode 36 when I spoke with

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Tim Ambrose Desmond, who is a marriage and family therapist and a student of Ticknod Han, who uses self-compassion in his therapy practice, and he teaches about self-compassion in courses that you can find on his website.

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So Tim has a new book out.

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It's a self-compassion workbook,

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