If you love to run with your dog, Canicross Conversations is for you. Canicross instructors Louise and Michelle chat to various guests and experts who love to run with their dogs about how to keep both dog and human happy and healthy. You‘ll find lots of tips about getting started with canicross, as well as tips about your own and your dog‘s health and plenty more! So put on your running shoes, download the podcast, and listen in!
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If you love to run with your dog, Canicross Conversations is for you. Canicross instructors Louise and Michelle chat to various guests and experts who love to run with their dogs about how to keep both dog and human happy and healthy. You‘ll find lots of tips about getting started with canicross, as well as tips about your own and your dog‘s health and plenty more! So put on your running shoes, download the podcast, and listen in!
Ask The Expert (Professor Dawn Carnes): Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Episode 170)
Canicross Conversations
49 minutes
4 months ago
Ask The Expert (Professor Dawn Carnes): Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Episode 170)
In this episode, Michelle Mortimer and Louise Humphrey welcome Professor Dawn Carnes, an expert in musculoskeletal health and chronic pain psychology. Dawn introduces a cognitive-behavioural approach to help runners and canicrossers break through mental barriers. She explains how thoughts, emotions and behaviours are interconnected and offers practical strategies: insight into automatic negative thinking, goal‑setting with SMART objectives, problem‑solving, self‑visualisation, and self‑compassion.
Through a live demonstration, Michelle and Louise explore addressing motivations, reframing “chore” workouts (e.g. running intervals) into enjoyable alternatives (like netball), and challenging negative automatic thoughts mid-run. The episode concludes with encouragement to tackle fears one small step at a time, reinforcing that change is achievable by breaking tasks into manageable chunks.
Topics
Cognitive‑behavioural triad: thoughts, feelings, behaviours
Behavioural activation: how exercise lifts mood with dopamine/cortisol
Finding enjoyable alternatives to boring workouts
Problem‑solving demo: overcoming injury with strength training
SMART goals explained
Challenging negative self-talk & predictions
Avoiding perfectionism & embracing fluctuations
"Compare and despair”: the impact of social media
Five-step action plan for sustainable change
Canicross Conversations
If you love to run with your dog, Canicross Conversations is for you. Canicross instructors Louise and Michelle chat to various guests and experts who love to run with their dogs about how to keep both dog and human happy and healthy. You‘ll find lots of tips about getting started with canicross, as well as tips about your own and your dog‘s health and plenty more! So put on your running shoes, download the podcast, and listen in!
