Kimberley Quinlan: Self-Compassion for OCD (#297)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In episode 297 I interviewed Kimberley Quinlan. Kim is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who treats people with OCD and related disorders, Eating Disorders and Body Focused Repetitive Disorders. She runs her own podcast called Your Anxiety Toolkit. She also runs CBTschool.com.
In this episode we talk about her new book 'The Self-Compassion Workbook for OCD', the roadblocks to self-compassion, applying self-compassion to Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP), some of the exercises and practices in the book, why Jon Hershfield wrote the foreword to the book, Kim guides us through a self-compassion practice, how self-compassion can help you lean into fear, setting boundaries as an act of self-compassion, feeling like you don't deserve compassion, we discuss self-criticism, when Kim has had to practice self-compassion for herself recently, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.2 | The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding |
| 0:10.0 | around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
| 0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories. |
| 0:22.1 | So welcome to episode of 297 and in this one I get back on Kimberly Quinlan. |
| 0:27.7 | Now many of you will be familiar with her from this podcast or from the many ways she puts out her good work. |
| 0:34.0 | But for those of you that aren't familiar with Kim, Kim is a licensed marriage and family therapist |
| 0:38.0 | who treats people with OCD and related disorders. |
| 0:41.0 | She runs her own podcast called Your Anxiety Toolkit and also runs |
| 0:45.0 | CBT school.com. Now I got her on to talk about her new book which has just been released |
| 0:50.6 | called the Self-Compassion workbook for OCD. |
| 0:53.0 | In this episode we talk about roadblocks to self-compassion, |
| 0:56.0 | applying self-compassion to exposure response prevention therapy, |
| 1:00.0 | some of the exercises or practices in the book, |
| 1:03.0 | Why John Hirschfeld wrote the foreword to the book, |
| 1:05.0 | Kim guides us through a self-compassion practice. |
| 1:09.0 | How self-compassion can help you lean into fear. |
| 1:12.0 | When Kim has had to practice self-compassion for herself recently and |
| 1:16.3 | much more. And thank you as always to NOCD for supporting the show and the work that |
| 1:20.9 | I do. And OCD now operate in the USA, the UK, Australia and parts of Canada. therapy services head to go dot treat my ocd.com forward slash the ocd stories |
| 1:37.0 | or click the link in the episode description and thank you to you guys for |
| 1:41.0 | listening as always I deeply appreciate it |
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