Ep28: How to face treatment - Part 2 ACT

Make room in life for uncomfortable thoughts and feelings?! Has Glynn lost his mind?!

Cancer treatment brings with it all sorts of challenging thoughts, feelings, urges and body sensation…and he reckons you can just let them be?

This is part two of a mini-series looking at the different mental approaches to treatment that we might take…and what Glynn did at different times to get through. On the docket this episode is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). From this approach, we learn to dance with thoughts and feelings differently; mostly by making room for them, so we can get on with chasing our values-driven life. Extra suffering can be created, sometimes, when we don’t do this.

In this episode, Glynn shares with us the ACT concepts, as well as some of the times he used this approach to be who he wanted to be in some really hard times in his own treatment journey.

Again, this isn’t about pretending treatment is easy or fun if you just follow some simple steps. This is about stepping into behaviours that help us be who we want to be in the midst of hard times.

In this episode we refer to some great books that discuss ACT, which can be found at the links below.

The Happiness Trap by Dr. Russ Harris - https://amzn.asia/d/41KODhw

Unstuck: A guide to finding your way forward to the life you want to live - Dr. Emily Musgrove - https://amzn.asia/d/g08b5Ew

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