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:
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 <li>What is Compassion Focused Therapy?</li>
 <li>An evolutionary functional analysis of emotion</li>
 <li>How does social rank theory explains body shame</li>
 <li>How shame impacts health-seeking behaviours</li>
 <li>The difference between shame and guilt</li>
 <li>Fears, blocks and resistances to developing compassion</li>
 <li>Improving health- engaging behaviours through compassion</li>
</ul>
You can find out more about Dr. Alicia Carter and her work <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_SRBIcMAAAAJ&amp;hl=en">HERE</a>, or get in touch with her at a.m.carter@cqu.edu.au
 
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