SNR #236: Kevin Ashworth, MSc - Understanding Anxiety & How To Deal With It

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Kevin received his Bachelor’s in Psychology from Washington State University, before completing his Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology at Pacific University. His focus remained on anxiety and models for working with children, which led to completing anxiety focused training during his tenure at Pacific University. During this time, he authored three publications on anxiety and completed his dissertation on the effectiveness of Collaborative Problem Solving. Kevin has earned certification in treating OCD and Hoarding Disorder from the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation (IOCDF) Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI). Though he has presented at local and national conferences, he has found his true calling with public speaking on the topic of anxiety, often being recruited for providing lectures and workshops in the Portland community.

Kevin aims to provide effective, evidence-based treatment to individuals struggling with anxiety disorders using humor, kindness, and compassion. He believes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is effective when he is able to help clients shift their relationship with anxiety while not taking themselves too seriously. Kevin likes to empower his clients by saying (in regards to Exposure Response Prevention) “you’re already miserable, you may as well be miserable on purpose.”

In This Episode We Discuss

Defining anxiety accurately
“Am I doing the action based on fear or preference?”
How to not be crippled by uncertainty
Relationship between anxiety and depression
Exposure therapy and evidence-based strategies used in practice
Focused on the past: feelings of guilt, shame, perhaps depression. How do we prevent ruminating on things that happened in the past?

Transcript

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0:00.0	For an anxiety disorder to exist, we really think about it loading on two things.
0:15.0	One is the intolerance of uncertainty and then intolerance of any distress.
0:21.6	Because when your emphasis is on how can I change something that has already happened,
0:26.6	the answer is always you can't.
0:28.6	And so I tell people in a very simplistic way, you know, anxiety is a problem in the future.
0:33.6	What if?
0:34.6	Depression is a problem of the past.
0:36.6	Should it could or would have whatever and so being present is
0:40.3	you know the very difficult task and the solution of both of those and so we're always pulled between all three of those Hello and welcome. You are listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:07.8	As always, I am your host, Danny Lennon, and we're at episode 236 of the podcast today. Thank
1:15.4	you to everyone who continues to listen into the show and to talk about it on social media,
1:21.2	to pass on to other people, to leave us a rating and review, all that stuff. Thank you so much
1:26.1	for doing so. And I think today is
1:29.0	going to be an extremely popular episode. So of course, a few weeks ago, I had Ted Rice on the show,
1:36.7	and we talked about some really important concepts that are kind of outside of our usual realm
1:43.0	of nutrition and sleep and training and talked
1:47.3	about ideas around loneliness and social isolation and just what a profound impact they can
1:54.3	have on health and really only scratched the surface of the idea I didn't really get into too
1:58.8	much kind of clinical scenarios and And today I wanted to take
2:04.8	a look at another area that's particularly prevalent right now and that I think affects just such a
2:11.0	huge number of people that can have not only a fundamental impact on their health and their overall life,
2:20.5	but really getting a handle on this will have so much other benefits to other areas of their life
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