The Compassionate Mind - The Role of Compassion in Anxiety Recovery (Episode 97)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
If being anxious means you are less than, defective, doing it wrong, or that you are at fault for not being able to control or stop your anxiety, you may be struggling to move forward in recovery. If you feel that being an anxious person is proof that you are unworthy or defective, or if you feel that you are bringing it all on yourself because you do not deserve a better life, you may be struggling with self-compassion.
This is one of the primary obstacles to improvement when addressing an anxiety disorder. The inability to treat oneself with kindness or access feelings of self worth or self love really gets in the way of learning the lessons that facing our fears bring us. It leaves many in our community feeling stuck - and feeling even less worthy or capable!
Dr. Elaine Beaumont is one of the leading voices in the field of Compassion Focused Therapy. We were fortunate to have her stop by and chat with us about the role of compassion self-compassion in the recovery process. If you see yourself in a negative light and that's getting in the way of your recovery, this episode might be for you.
---
Dr Elaine Beaumont is a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist, compassion focused therapist and Europe-approved eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing practitioner. She is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Salford and co-author of the bestselling books:
The Kindness Workbook: Compassionate and Creative Ways to Boost Your Wellbeing
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kindness-Workbook-Compassionate-Creative-Wellbeing/dp/1472143272/
The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self, which has helped tens of thousands of people to learn how to develop greater compassion for themselves and others.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Compassionate-Mind-Workbook-step-step/dp/1472135903
Elaine is co-author of The Self-Compassion app which is the first app to focus on the principles of Compassion Focused Therapy.
https://www.selfcompassion.me/
Fine Dr. Beaumont online at:
https://beaumontpsychotherapy.co.uk/
---
Disordered Roundtables are here. Think of it as "Disordered Live", a way for members of our audience to spend time with us in an intimate virtual setting (attendance is limited) to engage in real time sharing and discussion on specific anxiety disorder and recovery topics. To be notified when new Disordered Roundtable sessions are scheduled, visit our homepage and get on our mailing list.
---
Struggling with worry and rumination that you feel you can't stop or control? Check out Worry and Rumination Explained, a two hour pre-recorded workshop produced by Josh and Drew. The workshop takes a deep dive into the mechanics of worrying and ruminating, offering some helpful ways to approach the seemingly unsolvable problem of trying to solve seemingly unsolveable problems.
https://bit.ly/worryrumination
-----
Want to ask us questions, share your wins, or get more information about Josh, Drew, and the Disordered podcast?
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Compassion-focused therapy sounds a lot like CBT. Does it derive from that? |
| 0:06.0 | Yeah, it can be used alongside other modalities, and often is, or it can be used as standalone. |
| 0:12.0 | It's a great kind of therapy for people that have high levels, maybe of self-criticism, feel shame or guilt. |
| 0:19.0 | Shame, guilt, self-critical thinking sounds so familiar. |
| 0:22.2 | One of the barriers to anxiety recovery we often hear is... |
| 0:25.7 | This guy. |
| 0:26.2 | It's Craig the critic. |
| 0:27.8 | Because sometimes a word compassion and kindness gets confused and people think it's the same. |
| 0:32.8 | A sensitivity to suffering of oneself and other people, but with a deep desire and wish to do |
| 0:40.5 | something about it. So it's not just enough to notice suffering. It's then going into action |
| 0:46.6 | and having that motivation to try and do something about it. |
| 0:52.9 | Welcome to Disorder. This is episode 97 of the podcast entitled The Compassionate Mind. |
| 0:58.8 | And we have a special guest today that we will introduce you to shortly, who's going to talk about this topic, very important in anxiety recovery. |
| 1:05.6 | I am Drew Linzalata. I am a therapist practicing under supervision, specializing the treatment of anxiety and anxiety disorders in New York. |
| 1:12.5 | I am a former sufferer of panic disorder, agoraphobia, probably diagnosable OCD, depression. |
| 1:17.8 | It was a good time for many, many years, but better now. |
| 1:21.2 | Three-time author on the topic, obviously a podcast co-host and social media dude in the area of anxiety disorders and i'm joined as |
| 1:28.4 | always by i'm joshua fletcher also known as anxiety josh i'm psychotherapist and author and previous |
| 1:35.9 | sufferer of anxiety disorders um but i made it look cooler than droos. I am based in Manchester in the UK |
| 1:46.0 | and I'm very happy to introduce today's special guest, |
| 1:49.0 | which is Dr Elaine Beaumont. |
| 1:52.0 | Dr Elaine, who are you? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.