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Dr Russ Harris: Rumination, urge surfing, and dropping anchor (#328)

The OCD Stories

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Is There a Taye Abbreviation for Urge Surfing?

In the book, you use tame acronym. I just wondered if you could talk maybe a little about urge surfing and the tame acronym. The idea is that urges are a lot like waves. They rise and they reach a peak and then they fall again. And if we can learn how to surf those waves rather than resisting them, it's very liberating for people.

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