Podcasts by ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope - JoAnne Dahl
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Is prosocial behavior a short cut to valuing? Guest Dr Steve Hayes from 2014-04-28T16:19:27
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today, in our final program we are going to continue to talk about prosocial behavior. Remember that Prosocial behaviors are those intended to help other peop...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–What is Prosocial Behavior Guest David Sloan Wilson from 2014-04-21T04:00:40
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today Iwould like to take up the concept of prosocial behavior. What it is, how is can be trained and what kind of effects it has for us as individuals and as...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–The Caregiver Syndrome Guest Tom Szabo from 2014-04-14T04:00:41
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about the challenging side of caring for others who are at times acting out and acting aggressively towards the caregiver. Several ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Migration and homesickness Guest Andrew Gloster from 2014-04-07T04:00:16
According to an article in the British Medical Bulletin, When people migrate from one nation or culture to another they carry their knowledge and expressions of distress with them. On settling d...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with‘Who You Think You Are’ from 2014-03-31T04:01:41
Who you think you are might be more important than you think. Usually we use the term self in general to refer to how you think about or perceive yourself. To be aware of oneself is to have a co...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Breast Cancer from 2014-03-24T04:00:13
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to continue our series on ACT and Health issues and talk about cancer. Breast cancer. Breast cancer is a type of cancer originating from br...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Radio Program with Mats Rothman from 2014-03-17T04:00:22
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are continuing on the theme of what happens when you find yourself in a values conflict. When the context around you, whether it is a working place, ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–New ACT book The Diet Trap from 2014-03-10T04:00:22
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today you are going to have the chance to hear about a new ACT book that has just been released called *the Diet Trap.’ This is a self help book for peo...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with your own feelings when helping others from 2014-03-03T05:00:28
Struggling with your own avoidance when trying to help others Many of us work with people. Many of us try and help people to develop and grow in different ways. You may be helping children learn...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling in Daily Conflicts with Children from 2014-02-24T05:00:45
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope.Today we are going to discuss about the difficulties involved in parenting. We see on TV and in popular media, often program for ‘so called’ Out of control chi...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–New ACT book ACT and RFT in Relationships from 2014-02-17T05:00:40
There are many good reasons to work on and keep vital your intimate relationship. Divorces effect our health negatively. Divorce can take a great mental and physical toll on men. Specifically, d...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–The show this week is about using Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT) for medical challenges that require life style changes from 2014-02-10T05:00:53
. Our guest Dr Jen Gregg is an associate professor at San Jose State University in San Francisco and her website is www.sjsu.edu/people/jennifer.gregg. In this program Jen speaks to us about how...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–When Rules conflict with your Values from 2014-02-03T05:00:32
What happens when rules imposed upon you conflict with your own values? Rules always come from the outside, your parents, your school, the ‘gang’ that you hang around in, your workplace or your ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Asthma from 2014-01-20T05:00:52
Asthma is a chronic lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways. Asthma causes recurring periods of wheezing , chest tightness, shortness of breath, and coughing. The coughing often occur...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with attachment with Newborns from 2014-01-13T05:01:33
Having a baby and learning to be a parent is certainly one of life’s greatest challenges. About 1 in 4 women experiencing mental health difficulties during pregnancy or postnatally (most commonl...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–How can knowing about evolution help us? from 2014-01-06T05:00:53
Change as the mantra for modern life, craving positive changes on all levels from individuals seeking to improve themselves to neighborhoods seeking a greater sense of community to nations attem...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Training the Brain for Compassion from 2013-12-30T05:00:03
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to have an enlightening conversation about the three pounds of soft gooshy tissue we all carry between our ears. Our brains. Our brains are...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with IBS from 2013-12-23T05:00:54
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional disorder of the gut. (The gut includes the bowels.) A functional disorder means there is a problem with the function of a part of the body, ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Health issues for women in Midlife: the invisible group from 2013-12-16T05:00:12
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are continuing our series of ACT and Health Issues. A topic close to my heart is how ACT can approach the growing population of women over 50 and tho...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Stuggling with Choices: Eating problems from 2013-12-09T05:00:29
The rates of obesity in America’s children and youth have tripled in the last quarter century. Approximately 20 percent of our youth are now overweight with obesity rates in preschool age childr...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Titel Struggling with Racism: Training prosocial behavior from 2013-12-01T05:00:43
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. On August 28 of this summer, it will be the 50 year anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, which many believ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–How to develop Self Compassion from 2013-11-25T05:01:02
Working with self compassion Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about something can be helpful to all of us no matter what situation we are in. Acting in a kind and l...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with HIV/AIDS stigma from 2013-11-18T05:00:37
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about something that concerns us all AIDS and HIV stigma and discrimination. AIDS stigma and discrimination exist worldwide, althou...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Chronic illness from 2013-11-11T05:00:49
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope Today we are starting a series of how ACT is used for health issues. Remember that ACT has three components, opening up to the reality of the moment, becoming ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Thoughts from 2013-11-04T05:00:07
This episode concludes the series on ACT processes and focuses on fusion/defusion. Our guest today who helps us to understand how we can relate to our thoughts in a flexible way is Dr. Jason Luo...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–ACT processes: Values work with adolescents from 2013-10-28T04:00:12
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today’s program discusses values work in the ACT model. I have looked at how different researchers around the world work with values in therapy sessions. One ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with ACT processes: Persistency and Commitment from 2013-10-21T04:00:31
We live in a culture of quick fixes, immediate gratification. One of the things I love about my iPad is that I can hear about a book and have it downloaded in my iPad within minutes. We want imm...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with ACT processes: Acceptance from 2013-10-14T04:01:30
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Acceptance of difficult situations, feelings, or physical pain is not easy. In fact, the idea of being asked to accept difficulties can be provocative. Our gu...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with ACT processes: Self as Context and Being here and Now from 2013-10-07T04:00:44
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. We are going to start a series of programs examening the six act process seen to be critical to helping people to become psychologically flexible when challen...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Training Prosocial Behavior using the Matrix from 2013-09-09T04:00:37
Just about every part of the US has been hit by some form of terrorist attack since 1970. Even here in Scandivia where Terrorism has been virtually unknown, we have experience a sucide bomber in...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–The struggle of college students from 2013-09-02T04:00:09
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to do some mythbusting. College students seem to be care free. Well taken care of and with seemedly no responsibility except to study subje...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Contributing to a more compassionate world Steve Hayes from 2013-06-24T04:01:16
Why it matters that we make a more compassion world and what does evolution tell us about cooperation? The Washington post writes that just about every part of the US has been hit by some form o...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–ACT and Building Safety Commitment from 2013-06-17T04:01:44
Safety and the prevention of accidents at the workplace is a subject that interests all of us. Accidents and violation of safety regulations can be disastrous not only to those workers and work ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with family members with addiction from 2013-06-10T04:01:03
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to discuss something that we hope can be useful for many of us. How ACT and a sister therapy called CRAFT can help those family members who...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–ACT and internet treatment from 2013-06-03T04:01:53
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about a relatively new phenomena that makes psychological treatment assessable and affordable to most of us. It is estimate that on...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–ACT behind Bars from 2013-05-20T04:01:44
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope Today we are going to discuss something that many of us know little about but which concerns us all. The mental health of those people that are incarcerated in...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with kids who hurt from 2013-05-06T04:01:43
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. One thing we all share as parents is the emotional pain of watching your child in pain. Something happens inside us as parents when we see our children suffer...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Shame Self Criticism and Self Compassion from 2013-04-29T04:01
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to discuss something that has been said to be the biggest causes of emotional problems: Shame. The word shame means to hide or to cover up....
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Emotional Eating: Feeding [or starving] your Feelings from 2013-04-22T04:01:44
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to have a discussion about something we all do but when we do it alot, we get ourselves into trouble. Eating or not eating for emotional re...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Using Behavior Activation for Depression from 2013-04-15T04:01:40
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are having a discussion about a potentially dangerous psychological disorder called depression. People who suffer from depression are more susceptibl...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–ACT in Sport Psychology from 2013-04-08T04:01:04
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about sports. About how Psychology and ACT can be used to help athletes perform with precision and efficacy and at the same time in...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Intimacy from 2013-03-25T04:01:42
Welcome to ACT , taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to have a conversation about something that is centrally important to all of us in every stage of life from the new born child, through a...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Sexual repression and suppression from 2013-03-18T04:01:26
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we have an especially attractive program for you. Something we are all interested in but may have difficulties in expressing because of the ways we were...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Depression Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. from 2013-03-11T21:32:53
Today we are going to talk about something that we all feel from time to time : Depression. This means that we feel low, or sad or down in the dumps. Sometimes we may have a so called reason for...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with End of Life from 2013-03-04T05:01:09
Welcome to ACT Taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about how we can help ourselves and those dear to us when we get a life threatening illness and or when we are faced with the fact ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Work Related Stress from 2013-02-25T05:01:27
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Join us today for a discussion of something that we probably all have felt from time to time. Stress at the workplace. Work is often listed at the top when we...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–The Struggle of the Refugee from 2013-02-18T05:01:17
Welcome to another episode of ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about a hurt we have all experienced to some degree and probably found our way out of, at least to some degree. ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–The Struggle of parents with special needs children from 2013-02-11T05:01:47
Welcome to ACT, taking hurt to hope. Join us today for a discussion about a special kind of struggle. All of us who are parents know that bringing up children is a challenge. For parents with sp...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Stigma from 2013-02-04T05:01:39
Welcome to ACT: taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about something we probably all do to ourselves and others on a daily basis and something which is more harmful psychological than...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Tinnitus from 2013-01-28T05:01:23
Welcome to another episode of ACT taking hurt to hope on Webtalkradio.net Join us today for a discussion about a common problem, a problem that about 20% of people between the ages of 55 and 65 ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Sexual Penetration Pain from 2013-01-21T05:01:12
Join me for a discussion of something which is very important and very secret for many, painful intercourse. If you get pain during intercourse, you are not alone. In a recent Swedish survey tak...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Drama and ACT therapy: similar processes from 2013-01-14T05:01:53
How is writing stage plays similar to psychotherapy in general and ACT in particular? In general, all drama is telling a story about the adventures of a character who, in trying to achieve an ai...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Dr Andrew Gloster. from 2013-01-07T05:01:42
Lets talk about a psychological state that has gotten a bad wrap. Anxiety. Anxiety is very common just before we are confronted with something challenging like a test, a work interview, public s...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Stress from 2012-12-31T05:01:52
Join us today in a subject that we all talk about, and none of us like it but really we don’t know what it is. Stress. What is stress? In one definition I have seen. Stress us an instincti...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–ACT and Parenting Struggles from 2012-12-24T05:01:22
Join us today for a discussion about what I think is the most difficult, the most painful and the greatest source of joy in my life, parenting children. Parenting is stressful. There’s no way of...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) from 2012-12-17T16:07:53
Join us today for a discussion about one of the most common reasons people stay home from work and one of our best held secrets, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). This is a disorder that may feel ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Substance Abuse from 2012-12-10T05:01:13
Join us today for a discussion about an issue that most all of us have experience of in one way or another. Drinking problems. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) there are at least...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Russ Harris program from 2012-12-03T05:01:50
Join us today for a discussion about what we do when reality slaps us in the face. Events that come out of left field in life can and do hurt. Reality slaps us much harder when identify ourselve...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with chronic illness from 2012-11-26T05:01:22
We never learn in school how to deal with those chronic illnesses that we carry and which break out at some point in our lives. Join us today as we speak with Dr David Gillanders http://www.ed.a...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Suicidal thoughts from 2012-11-19T05:01:57
Suicide means the process of purposely ending one’s own life. Nearly one million people worldwide commit suicide each year, and somewhere between 10 -20 million attempt suicide. For teenag...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Trauma from 2012-11-12T05:01:53
Each one of us has experienced traumatic events and experienced reactions like shock, denial, anger and maybe unexpected emotions. These are natural reactions. In the long term some people conti...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) from 2012-11-05T05:01:27
You have probably stood outside your door and felt unsure you shut of the stove or locked a door and that uneasiness might have sparked some checking rituals. This is natural but problems arise ...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Mental Health of Teenagers from 2012-10-29T04:01:09
Teenagers may look and act grown up but they are inexperienced and need nurturing. They need to learn how to get comfortable with inevitable discomfort of adolescence. Join us today as we talk t...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Using Mindfulness for improving intimacy from 2012-10-22T04:01:38
Join us today for a discussion about mindfulness, what it is, how it can be used to improve your relationships, especially your intimate relationships. Today you will get a chance to try a mindf...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–The Pain Monster: chronic pain in children from 2012-10-15T04:00:52
We would all like to spare children pain and suffering. But it may be more important to help children to face painful challenges and at the same time live a full vital life rather than avoid pai...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Struggling with Psychosis from 2012-10-08T01:12:03
Hearing voices or seeing things other people don’t perceive is a phenomena that isn’t necessarily a problem, but the ways one reacts to these experiences and the ways others around u...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Hope for weight strugglers from 2012-10-01T04:01:43
Most of us are struggling with extra weight and no weight loss program seems to help. In fact they don’t. Research shows that nearly everyone regains lost weight in any available program w...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional from 2012-09-24T04:01:19
When pain was unavoidable, it was bearable, when pain became avoidable it became unbearable. Our health care system and culture has found more and more ways to avoid pain and we get more and mor...
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ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope–Human suffering: finding ways to get unstuck and move on from 2012-09-09T21:45:27
It hurts to live. Living a full life means feeling a full range of feelings. It seems that we have become less and less tolerant of feelings and sensations we don’t like. Maybe instead of ...
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