Chronic Illness and Relationships: How to Thrive with Lisa Gray

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Psychotherapist and host Jessica Fowler interviews Lisa Gray this week about relationships and chronic illness.  We discuss her book:  Thriving in a Relationship When You Have Chronic Illness: Navigate Challenges and Keep Your Relationship Strong Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (affiliate link).  We explore how chronic illness changes couple dynamics and how acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can help.

Highlights:

How couples change

Bargaining and Money

ACT Skills

Values as a couple

About the author:

Lisa Gray is a licensed mental health professional with a private practice in the San Francisco Bay area. She is the author of two books and is passionate about teaching conflict and coping with chronic illness. She reads 200 books a year and lives with her family and three large dogs.