Episode 8: Pain Avoidance and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy with Andrew Kerbs

In this episode, therapist Andrew Kerbs and I chat about about pain avoidance, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, target fixation, and values. We also touch briefly on religious trauma. In our conversation, Andrew and I… reveal that most people live from a place of pain avoidance discuss the limiting paradigm of symptom reduction as a measure of success in mental health treatment discuss the over-prescribing of psychiatric medication, especially to young boys, and how meds potentially prevent us from feeling the very things we want to feel speculate on humans’ reduced ability to cope with trauma and discomfort discuss the weaknesses of popular therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) talk about target fixation discuss how we can do what we want, stay aligned with our values, AND simultaneously feel like shit speak to toxic positivity and how we cannot think our way out of discomfort touch on religious trauma and how religion perpetuates pain avoidance reveal the “miracle question” every person can ask themselves to stay aligned with their values even in the midst of discomfort Subscribe! Follow @iamlindseylockett Support the show Join the Trauma Healers Circle