Consilience Podcast

Compassion Focused Therapy for Body Shame with Dr Alicia Carter


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Dr Alicia Carter is a psychologist who works as a tutor and research assistant at School of Psychology, University of Queensland. She has facilitated compassion-based workshops at the Biomedical Institute of Yoga and Meditation and recently defended her PhD on "Compassion Focused Therapy for Body Weight Shame.

We discussed:

  • What is Compassion Focused Therapy?
  • An evolutionary functional analysis of emotion
  • How does social rank theory explains body shame
  • How shame impacts health-seeking behaviours
  • The difference between shame and guilt
  • Fears, blocks and resistances to developing compassion
  • Improving health- engaging behaviours through compassion
  • You can find out more about Dr. Alicia Carter and her work HERE, or get in touch with her at [email protected]


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