Jon Hershfield On Mindfulness, ERP And Acceptance For OCD (Ep 6)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2016
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In episode 6 of The OCD Stories podcast I interviewed Jon Hershfield. Jon is the author of two books on OCD and a therapist who specialises in OCD treatment.
Show notes:
- Jon's OCD Story (1:30)
- What Jon did before he retrained into therapy (7:10)
- Risk and OCD (9:00)
- What mindfulness is, and how can it be used to treat OCD (11:40)
- Mindfulness and ACT (14:45)
- Jon's tips to stay on track with mindfulness training (16:15)
- Using mindfulness for anger (22:00)
- Good meditations for beginners (26:40)
- How to meditate even though you are getting intrusive thoughts (31:50)
- How mindfulness can work alongside ERP (39:20)
- Jon's tip for starting and sticking with ERP (44:20)
- The acceptance script and how to use it (51:20)
- Mental reviewing, scenario bending, mental rehearsal and mental hoarding (1:00:30)
- The one bit of advice Jon would give if he only had 30 seconds (1:12:00)
- Jon's new book "When a family member has OCD" (1:14:15)
- What Jon would have written on his billboard (1:16:40)
Find out more about Jon:
- Jon's website - OCDBaltimore.com
- Jon on Twitter - @CBTOCD
- The mindfulness workbook for OCD (Amazon UK/Amazon USA)
- When a family member has OCD (Amazon UK/Amazon USA)
Resources mentioned:
- OCD Georgia talk
- Peaceful warrior film
- Dr James Claiborn
- Headspace
- 10% happier app and book (Amazon UK/Amazon USA)
- IOCDF
- Shala Nicely
To your success,
Stuart and The OCD Stories team
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to episode six of the OCD stories dot-com podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Now in this episode I interviewed John Hirschfield. |
| 0:07.6 | John is a therapist working out of Baltimore in America and he is the co-author of the Mindfulness Workbook for |
| 0:15.0 | OCD. A lot of you have read it a lot of you give me some credible feedback on |
| 0:19.0 | it and I indeed used it myself and it has wonderful advice. It neatly breaks down everything and it also, or |
| 0:27.0 | John also gets you to write down various sports, various exercises so you're actually engaging with the self-help. |
| 0:35.0 | John had amazing advice to share around mindfulness and its application towards |
| 0:41.1 | OCD treatment. |
| 0:42.9 | We go into depth in a lot of topics, |
| 0:45.3 | which I think you'll find interesting. |
| 0:47.4 | He's just released another book called |
| 0:49.2 | When a family member has OCD. |
| 0:51.3 | It came out in December. |
| 0:52.3 | I encourage you to check that out. But I hope you |
| 0:54.7 | enjoy. I hope you learn something. If you do enjoy it, please leave a review on |
| 0:59.3 | YouTube or on iTunes and you can find it via the O. C. D. stories on iTunes. It's also on Stitcher. |
| 1:06.0 | Enjoy and I'll speak to you soon. |
| 1:08.2 | My guest today is John Hirschfield. |
| 1:10.0 | John is a psychopherapist who specializes in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder. |
| 1:14.8 | He is the author of two books, the Mindfulness Workbook for OCD, |
| 1:19.1 | if I got there in the camera, and when a family member has OCD C.D. Welcome to the O. C. Stories podcast, John. |
| 1:26.0 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
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