Insight Maximizers

Have you ever wondered the difference between venting, complaining, or gossiping? Have you ever noticed how much energy you waste with those habits? The hazard of those behaviors is that they can lead to resentment, which is a waste of our time and energy! How do we let go of negativity and find possibilities? Listen and find out! Suze Gadol Anderson lives in Eugene, Oregon. She is a Licensed Clin...

Do you ever struggle with change? Do you find yourself digging in your heels when change is something you don't want? Just know that you are not alone! Listen to this episode to gain some insight into coping with change! Suze Gadol Anderson lives in Eugene, Oregon. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Texas and Oregon. Request a free consult to work with Suze at https://www.authe...

Jenni and Suze come to the end of season four with a message to not get stuck in the triggers and to use the PAUSE as our emergency or first responder plan. Owning triggers and not blaming others is a boundary mindset that enables us to gain insight. This insight can be used to psychologically prepare ourselves for similar events in the future.   They encourage everyone to ask "How" questions to g...

  As Jenni and Suze worked out the Maxer Method, looking at a personal problematic pattern, they acknowledged that feeling activated or triggered is an ongoing part of the human experience. Continuing their work on acceptance has helped to reveal alternatives to dealing with situations in their lives. Pausing, when activated, still proves helpful in assisting them to feel better about how they nav...

The past is the past, right? Not according to Jenni and Suze! In the continued effort to gain insight and use it for better interactions internally and with others, Suze and Jenni discuss how insights from the past can help us plan for the future. They remind us that ignoring the past can potentially cause issues internally and with others. It can also lead to repeating impulsive reactions over an...

Suze and Jenni continue their exploration into how to create acceptance for challenging things in life. They reviewed their thoughts about acceptance, including the fact that this topic was never taught to them when they were growing up. Actually, quite the opposite was something they experienced in their families! Jenni generously shared her example of applying the Serenity Prayer to a recent sit...

  What would life be like for us if we decided to accept things just as they are? Jenni and Suze know that they weren't taught by their parents about acceptance because it was seen as a weakness. It was only through all their psychological work as adults did they learned what acceptance is and the power of it.  Listen as they discuss the benefits of acceptance and consider doing the Maxer Method f...

Now that Jenni and Suze have said the "F" word, they review what forgiveness means and what it isn't. They remind us of the hazards of resentment and its darkness. They question why to even forgive in the first place, and thankfully there are benefits such as peacefulness, better health, compassion, self-confidence, and more! To continue encouraging their listeners to do the Maxer Methods, they di...

Here comes a really challenging topic: forgiveness! Suze and Jenni look at what forgiveness isn't and what gets in the way of forgiving, including looking at resentment. In their usual fashion, Jenni and Suze look to Merriam-Webster's current and 1828 to define forgiveness. They learned about the 9 steps of forgiveness from Dr. Frederic Luskin of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, which they have a...

Jenni and Suze review what they know about the impact that emotions and thoughts have on each other. Suze added information about the correlation between the intensity of emotion and how that impacts thoughts, behavior, and how we feel in our bodies. To help visualize what she discussed, Suze created a handout for y'all to download for FREE at www.insightmaximizers.com/handouts !  Suze and Jenni b...

Jenni and Suze decide to dive in a little deeper into the connection between thoughts and feelings. They look at how our beliefs are created, starting in our early childhood. Beliefs, as they learned, affect how we feel about past experiences. That's the creation of "old stuff."   Fast forward to today, and we have something happen that feels familiar or similar to that past experience. We have em...

After reminding themselves of what they were focusing on with feelings stacking, building tolerance to emotions, feelings flooding and emotional hangovers, Jen and Suze discussed the insight they gained from doing the most recent Maxer Method.   They shared experiences in which they noticed how they reacted to their initial emotions, particularly regarding interactions with others in their lives....

How do we experience our emotions? Jenni and Suze have discussed how we experience our feelings in our bodies. Now they discuss things that can happen with our emotions by how we deal with them. Have you had more than one emotion about a specific situation? That's what most of us experience. Having an emotion as a result of an emotion is a different story. What about the flight, fight, or freeze r...

Jenni and Suze review consciousness, using mindfulness and biofeedback to access information internally to understand how they were reacting to challenging and enjoyable events in their lives. They utilize their new tool, the Self-Awareness Worksheet located at www.insightmaximizers.com/handouts , both realizing that the more detail they wrote out, the better they understood themselves.  They hope...

Jenni and Suze delve into the components of self-awareness, exploring what it means to be conscious and aware. They remind us that insight comes from awareness, particularly of what we experience in our bodies, the emotions we have, the thoughts we create, and the actions we take or think about taking. How do we become self-aware? Mindfulness is discussed, and a reminder that biofeedback helps us...

  Suze and Jenni reconnect to continue their investigation into triggers and activators. They remind themselves and their listeners how we tend to look at triggers as being negative, originating with the Merriam-Webster dictionary and in our internal safety system in our brains.  They decided to look for positive triggers in their lives, and boy, did they find them! It was refreshing to hear that...

Suze and Jenni return to discuss triggers or activators, the good, the bad, the ugly! They learn that Merriam-Webster denotes a trigger as causing an intense and usually negative reaction in someone, which perpetuates the bum rap that triggers get! Despite how our brains are wired, we can override the tendency to react negatively to things that used to upset us. Jenni and Suze also explain how pos...

Jen and Suze want the Maxer community to be encouraged about insight, so they spend some time defining insight as well as intuition. They remind themselves and people listening to that insight will help us all feel better, even if it doesn't feel good in the moment. They both thought about recent upsetting events and asked themselves questions about how they handled the events. Listen to hear the...

  Jenni and Suze reflect on how their project and podcast all started. They wanted to turn challenges into opportunities to improve their lives, and help others improve theirs.  In this episode, they talk about why they've put together skills and tools to be better prepared psychologically for those moments when we get thrown off emotionally. If you want ways to prepare psychologically for upcomin...

Over the break of their podcast, Jenni and Suze practiced the trigger plan PAUSE. In the season opener, they discuss what PAUSE stands for, their questions for gaining insight when activated, and the gift that PAUSE has been for them both. They shared what they observed and learned from practicing PAUSE , and they hope this encourages all who listen to integrate PAUSE into their daily lives like S...

As Season 3 comes to an end, so does 2023. Jenni and Suze reflect on how the approaching holiday season and new year can bring challenges. They suggest it's a perfect time to observe ourselves and reduce the chances of reacting impulsively and regretting it. They presented questions to ask and a simple acronym to help themselves and listeners remember to observe themselves more than they observe o...

  Jenni and Suze created a booklet compiling skills from coaching and therapy to help them and listeners debunk and dispute thinking. They highly encourage anyone to download it for free from their website: www.insightmaximizers.com/handouts .  In the booklet, there are three journaling exercises. Jenni chose one of the therapy techniques, and Suze chose the coaching method of debunking limiting b...

Jenni and Suze have spent this season identifying thinking and thoughts that can be challenging. What do listeners do now? You learn how to debunk limiting beliefs. You also learn how to untwist distorted thinking and dispute irrational beliefs. To help with this undertaking, Suze and Jenni have created a gift for everyone, including themselves! Go to insightmaximizers.com/handouts to download the...

In a constant effort this season to understand the impact thinking has on us, Suze and Jenni reviewed the Insight Maximizers definition of a belief and coaching work on empowering beliefs, limiting beliefs, and self-limiting beliefs. Both practiced the Maxer Method from the last episode, journaling despite their resistance. Jenni has had years of coaching herself, and she was still able to learn a...

In their continued search for insights into the impact of thoughts, Jenni and Suze discuss coaching concepts about limiting and empowering beliefs . Coaching is a culmination of human's lifelong search for the " good life, " from the times of Aristotle all the way to the influence of Positive Psychology, as Jenni gives us a little history and context.  To create a better life, we have to look at h...