You're listening to The O. C.D do this for interviewing inspired therapists,

psychologists and people who have experienced O. C. Welcome to the O. C.

stories. I'm going to episode 328 and in this one I got back on Dr

Russ Harris. Russ is a medical practitioner and offer the international best-selling

self-out book The Happiness Trap.

Russ is also a world-renowned trainer of acceptance and commitment therapy, also known as Act.

So in this one we talk about the new edition of his book The Happiness Trap and what's new about it.

How Act can help reduce rumination.

Russ's view of rumination, noticing and interrupting rumination during an exposure, he discusses the exercise dropping anchor, he guides us through dropping anchor live on the podcast, we discuss learning to make space for uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. We talk about learning to

about learning to urge surf, how to stop techniques becoming

compulsions.

Russ shares personal experience of himself putting some of this into practice.

Words of hope and much more.

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episode description and thank you as always to you guys for listening I

deeply appreciate it and without further ado here is Russ welcome back to the show Russ

Thanks for having me back

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