Jon Hershfield On Mindfulness, ERP And Acceptance For OCD (Ep 6)

Jon’s OCD Story (1:30)

What Jon did before he retrained into therapy (7:10)

Risk and OCD (9:00)

What mindfulness is, and how can it be used to treat OCD (11:40)

Mindfulness and ACT (14:45)

Jon’s tips to stay on track with mindfulness training (16:15)

Using mindfulness for anger (22:00)

Good meditations for beginners (26:40)

How to meditate even though you are getting intrusive thoughts (31:50)

How mindfulness can work alongside ERP (39:20)

Jon’s tip for starting and sticking with ERP (44:20)

The acceptance script and how to use it (51:20)

Mental reviewing, scenario bending, mental rehearsal and mental hoarding (1:00:30)

The one bit of advice Jon would give if he only had 30 seconds (1:12:00)

Jon’s new book “When a family member has OCD” (1:14:15)

What Jon would have written on his billboard (1:16:40)