In this episode Dr. Z. chats with Russ Harris, M.D., author of The Happiness Trap, The Reality Slap and many other self-help books. Russ shares how he applies skills from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) – grounding, defusion, acceptance – to his writing process.
Jason Adam Katzenstein, author of Everything is an Emergency & a cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine, shares his creative process when drawing, his successes dealing with obsessions, and handling all types of fears as a cartoonist.
In this episode, I chat with Clarisa Ong, a predoctoral intern at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. We discussed the difference between values and pliance, how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy approaches perfectionistic behaviors, and how to pay attention to rules when wanting to do things right and perfect.
Are you spending hours and hours getting things done to the point that you get trapped in your mind and don’t take action? If the answer is yes, this is a series you can listen to.
Are you invested in doing things right and perfect? In this episode, I discuss what’s behind those perfectionistic behaviors and what you can do to handle them effectively.
In this episode, I share five skills you can practice to handle the fear of making mistakes when it’s getting in your way of living a rich, purposeful, and meaningful life.
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