When Life Hits Hard: Extra Bits

Free Acceptance and Commitment Therapy resources by Dr Russ Harris

Find practical tools to help you and your clients move through grief, crisis, and loss with strength and compassion. These free ACT therapy resources from Dr Russ Harris, author of The Happiness Trap and When Life Hits Hard, include guided mindfulness audios, self-compassion exercises, and values worksheets to support emotional healing and resilience.

Based on the 2nd edition of The Reality Slap, this collection offers simple, powerful practices to ground yourself, make room for pain, and reconnect with meaning when life feels overwhelming.

Free downloads include:

• Dropping Anchor mindfulness audios 

• Making Room for Difficult Feelings guided exercise

• Kind Hand and Kind Energy self-compassion practices

• Support for the Younger You reflection

• Mindfulness of the Breath audio

• Values checklist and Goal setting worksheet

• Bonus tools: Handling Setbacks and Dealing with Dilemmas mini-guides

Learn more with our ACT courses, led by Russ Harris: practical, evidence-based training to help you apply Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with confidence.