Hey guys! I just wanted to apologize to anyone whose been waiting in membership purgatory. The site was having trouble and I could not add anyone for a while....
Hi Alix and Maria (and all!), I'm not sure if I sent this correctly, so here it is again: Thanks for kindly offering to share your experience in running ACT ...
Dear Stella and all, Good questions. I look forward to your comments. I just took Steven's training and was wondering how to use ACT with AN. Health and self...
Dear Stella, Sorry for the delay in responding. I have not had an experience with BN groups per se. For the last 3 years I have been working individually with...
Hi all... We've been getting a little bit of a rush in membership activity, only to find that the conversation very very quiet here recently. So I'm sitting...
Hi group, I work as a psychotherapist at a residential eating disorders facility. I'm new to ACT work. I'd done some reading on it and recently went to a ...
Tyler, Thanks for introducing yourself and welcome! I know that experience of being attracted to the theory but having trouble practicing it when really scary...
Rikke, Not sure if you're on the main ACT listserv, but there are two review articles of the "thrid wave" or mindfulness/acceptance movement that were recently...
I read this Emily message few days ago and I was encouraged to talk a little of my work. I hope not to bore and my english be understandable. I work prevantely...
Hi All, Emily - thanks for the invitation to us to participate more in this group. I really appreciate the idea that there are other ACT clinicians out there...
Hi Tyler, I'm not sure if I've got any big ideas for that issue, I'm really wanting to write back to support your wonderings and keep the conversation alive. ...
Hi Giovanni, A few things came to mind as I read your email. Would it be different to ask the patients to show the passengers to you? This would get around the...
Hi Carla Thanks for your answer. I think you have seen trought in all the issues! I completely agree with you about having a greater sense of doing something...
Hi Carla, Thanks for your response! I find myself using the very same strategies you describe. In my opinion, I think this works well in longer term...
Tyler, Thank you for the candid description of the challenges of working with this population from an ACT perspective. This is hard work. It is nearly ...
You know, I think of every moment in therapy as an opportunity to practice the skills the ACT model suggests are useful in helping people to move towards...
Hi Tyler, Thanks so much for expanding on your email and being as transparent as possible. As you say, working in an outpatient setting is a whole different...
Hi Carla, I like your take on the classroom-on-fire metaphor: there's smoke, but no fire. But your mind insists 'Where there's smoke there's fire'. I often use...
Thanks for your replies. I agree with you, Carla that our environment is a great opportunity to do the work in vivo. I am very fortunate in that another...
Hi Carla Thanks for all your posts. I always learn alot from what you have to offer. This is my first. Could I get you to expand on the notion of "sitting...
Hi Chris, Welcome to the listserve and congrats on your first post. I look forward to more from you! The idea of 'sitting inside the question' is something...
Hi Carla Thanks for the welcome and the time taken for your most thoughtful reply. What I read was one of the clearest bits of writing on ACT I have seen. So ...
Dear Groups I don't know whether anyone of you will be awake yet. I just had a phone call from a client whom I have seen 5 times so far, introduced iView and...
Jan, I can only imagine the thoughts and feelings that would be tormenting me, were I to find myself in your situation. I want to say that I greatly admire...
Hi Jan, I'm guessing you've already had the appointment by now, since it's just morning in Australia and I've just received your email. I'm really intrigued by...
Hi All Also just got your email in Australia. Carla has expressed the thought that came to me. In working with clients with eating disorders for a long time,...
Hi All Thank you very much for your responses, allowing me to see different angles of this difficult situation; and for your kind and caring words, I feel...
Hi all, I'm interested to hear what people are doing in other places in terms of Eating Disorder research. If you're on this listserve and currently engaged in...
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