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Dr Alice Nicholls returns to tell me all about CFT and its relevance for personal injury work.Keywords:
threat, clients, soothing, drive, compassionate, system, compassion, personal injury, oncology, compassion-focused therapy, CBT, CFT, shame, critical, evolutionary, motivational systems, cortisol, dopamine, oxytocin, threat-drive loop, burnout, trauma, critical internal voice, doing, being, kindness, sustainable, connecting, universality, human, suffering, balance.
1:20 How Dr Nicholls got into CFT
1:49 A history of CFT
3:15 The scientific basis of the model
9:40 The Threat-Drive Loop
12:20 The effects of an overly critical internal voice
13:04 How compassion helps
14:48 Breaking out of the loop
16:48 Ways to activate the soothing system
18:00 Using compassion in your life
19:05 Universality of CFT
21:43 The need for compassion in case management
23:50 The effect of staying stuck
25:10 Tips for personal injury professionals
25:36 Noticing
26:19 Soothing
27:10 Remembering kindness
28:13 Soothing doesn’t need to feel overwhelming
29:30 Framing experiences with CFT
31:02 Fight criticism with compassion
34:16 Generating compassion in difficult cases
35:25 Compassion doesn’t always come easily
Quotes:
18:26 “To be compassionate is to be wise, and to be strong, as well as to be kind.”
31:02 “People who are being critical are people who are in threat… and once you realise that, it’s much easier to be compassionate towards them.”
Guest: Dr Alice Nicholls
Presenter: Dr Shabnam Berry-Khan, Director of PsychWorks Associates
Editor: Emily Crosby Media