Subscribe using your favourite podcast platform by hitting one of the icons below:
This podcast is the narrated version of my article 4 Ways To Help Your Client Stop Worrying.
Worrying is not harmless; it has consequences possibly leading to clinical depression. Helping your clients to stop worrying can have multiple benefits.
In this episode I talk about:
- Worrying becomes a habit
- The role of the imagination
- Get distance from the worry
- Organize the worry
- Write down solution steps
- Throw your worries away
Or watch this episode of the podcast on video below:
References/Notes:
- Hunting dogs would ‘worry’ their prey to death – that is, they would grab them by the throat.
- See Joseph Griffin’s interview with Barbara Kiser, ‘The Dream Catcher’ in The New Scientist (2003).
- Xiuping Li at NUS Business School asked 80 students to write about a recent decision they regretted. Half of them were told to seal their written recollection in an envelope. Afterwards, the envelope students felt less negative about the event than control students who just handed in their recollection without an envelope. The finding was replicated with forty female students who were asked to write about a strong personal desire that hadn’t been satisfied. ‘Grab it, bag it, bin it – a new approach to psychological problem solving’, British Psychological Society Research Digest, 6 September 2010.
Subscribe to Mark Tyrrell's Therapy and Counselling Tips Podcast
Twice a week, Mark reads one of his therapy tips articles and occasionally discusses psychology-related topics.
Listen & Subscribe to Clear Thinking Out Loud here
FREE Reframing Book! Just subscribe to my therapy techniques newsletter below.
Download my book on reframing, "New Ways of Seeing", when you subscribe for free email updates
About Mark Tyrrell
Psychology is my passion. I've been a psychotherapist trainer since 1998, specializing in brief, solution focused approaches. I now teach practitioners all over the world via our online courses.
You can get my book FREE when you subscribe to my therapy techniques newsletter. Click here to subscribe free now.
You can also get my articles on YouTube, find me on Instagram, Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook.
