Ep. 168: Acceptance with Dr. Jonathan Grayson
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast. I am so excited because today we are so lucky to have with us again Dr. Jonathan Grayson. Dr. Grayson is a psychologist who has been specializing in the treatment of OCD for more than 40 years. He is also the author of Freedom from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and founder of The Grayson LA Treatment Center for Anxiety and OCD. We did an episode a couple of weeks ago that I hope you all were able to hear and at the end of that conversation we both really felt that we needed more time to talk about acceptance.
I first want to ask you all how often do you get stuck wrestling with the way things are? Feeling that you don't really like the way things are, that you're sad about the way things are, that you're anxious about the way things are. Maybe you feel anxious or uncertain, or you are beating yourself up because you do not feel that you are good enough or smart enough or well enough? If that sounds like you then you are going to really love this episode on acceptance.
Jon is here to share his amazing knowledge and experience on this topic and he does a great job of walking us through some of the biggest roadblocks to acceptance. I am so grateful that we had this conversation because you all know that I talk a lot about radical acceptance. As we continued through our conversation, I really thought to myself that I need to readjust my definition and my practice of acceptance.
I hope you enjoy this conversation. I think it is such an important discussion and I am so thankful to Dr. Jonathan Grayson for coming on and sharing his wisdom with us.
FreedomfromOCD.com- You can purchase Freedom from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as well as download Dr. Grayson's forms.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 168. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. |
| 0:15.2 | This podcast is fueled by three main goals. |
| 0:18.5 | The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your anxiety. |
| 0:23.7 | Second goal, to inspire you. |
| 0:26.3 | Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. |
| 0:29.7 | And number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug. |
| 0:36.8 | Because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you, |
| 0:41.0 | let's go. Well, welcome back. This is going to be such a good episode. Okay, so how often do you guys get stuck wrestling with |
| 1:00.0 | the way things are, right? Like that you don't like the way things are, that you're sad about |
| 1:06.5 | the way things are, that you're anxious about the way things may be, that you're anxious or uncertain, |
| 1:14.1 | or you're beating yourself up, right, because you're not good enough or smart enough or |
| 1:20.3 | well enough, right? If that is you, you are going to love this episode. We have, again, Dr. Jonathan Grayson is here to share his amazing knowledge, and we're |
| 1:33.0 | talking about acceptance. |
| 1:36.0 | Now, we did an episode a few weeks ago, and at the end of the episode, we both agreed that |
| 1:41.0 | we really wanted to touch on acceptance. |
| 1:43.6 | And I was so grateful that we had |
| 1:45.9 | this conversation because I talk a lot about acceptance. I talk a lot about radical acceptance. |
| 1:52.4 | And even for me, as we talked about, I was like, wait, I think I need to readjust my definition |
| 1:57.8 | here or my practice here. And John really does a great job of working through some of the biggest roadblocks we have to |
| 2:08.4 | acceptance. |
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