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Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food: The Benefits of Eating Mindfully How often do you grab a meal and eat it in the car, or eat while standing over the sink, thinking about the thousand other things you need to do? When was the last time you truly savored a meal? Today we’re sharing the benefits of eating mindfully with an excerpt from psychologist Susan Albers’ audiobook Eating Mindfully: Ho...

Robert Rabbin on the Trap of Romantic Fantasies When you first meet someone special, it’s common to feel overwhelmed by your desire for them. It’s possible to fantasize a whole life with someone before we’ve ever even spoken to them! Often, our response to this attraction is, “This is the one!” But the problem with this type of desire is the possibility of being caught up in romantic fantasies. Ac...

Practice “Urge Surfing” and Learn how to Handle Urges When you’re in the midst of struggling with an urge, there are some things you can do to decrease your discomfort and minimize the amount of self-control you need. Clinical psychologist Dr. Jennifer Taitz offers a four step process to learn how to handle urges, followed by an exercise to help you practice “urge surfing,” and learn how to avoid...

Emotion Regulation and Mindfulness: A Powerful Combination to Outsmart Anxiety Sometimes emotions can have unwanted consequences, especially when they cause us fear or anxiety. Today, psychologist Dr. David Klemanski tells us about two fields of psychological research—emotion regulation and mindfulness. Together they can provide a powerful framework for helping people gain mastery over anxiety. To...

Dr. Karyn Hall Discusses Overwhelming Emotions Do your emotions repeatedly overwhelm you? If you are tired of feeling hurt and helpless when it comes to your feelings, there are effective techniques that can help you manage overwhelming emotions before they take over your life. Today, psychologist Dr. Karyn Hall joins us to offer advice for emotionally sensitive people and to talk about her her au...

Change Your Interpretations to Reduce Anxiety The interpretations you make in stressful situations can strongly affect the emotional responses you experience. Recognizing when your interpretation of a situation, rather than the situation itself, is causing anxiety gives you a new way to reduce anxiety and take charge of your emotional reactions. The brain is a powerful tool, and the more you can c...

Progressive Muscle Relaxation: A Simple Method to Quiet Your Mind What can you do when your mind is spinning and your thoughts just won’t stop? Today we’re offering a guided relaxation exercise by psychologists Dr. Colleen Carney and Dr. Rachel Mamber. This guided progressive muscle relaxation will teach you to relax muscles, release tension and experience a quiet mind. Today we’re sharing an exce...

Robert Rabbin on Meditation Practice Why do we practice meditation? When we practice meditation, what do we hope will change? In our own way, each of us is seeking liberation. If you’re seeking a life of greater introspection, freedom and love, then we hope you find inspiration in Robert Rabbin’s thoughts on the power of meditation practice. Today we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook...

A Simple Way to Address the “Panic Trick” There’s a “Panic Trick” that’s central to all phobias: You experience discomfort and treat it like danger. Anxiety expert and clinical psychologist Dr. David Carbonell has helped thousands of people overcome fears of all kinds. Today he’s sharing a simple, counter-intuitive approach to reducing fear, anxiety and panic. Today we’re s...

A Habit Change Exercise Habit change can be challenging, so it helps to know if the benefit of a change will outweigh the effort involved. Today we’re sharing an exercise that will help you approach habit change the way a psychologist might: methodically and in small steps. This episode presents an excerpt from the audiobook The User’s Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy,...

Telling A New Story Can Make Change Easy We all have a story of our lives—a narrative we tell ourselves about who we are. Often the stories we tell limit our lives. But what would happen if you started telling yourself a new story? How can you make change easy? You might want to tell a new story. In today’s episode, we’re sharing an excerpt from Bob Litwin’s audiobook, Live the Best Story of...

A Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution Are there foods you constantly crave or can’t stop eating once you start? Many of us have trouble regulating our intake of some foods, as well as anxiety about our eating habits. How do we get back to feeling sane and happy around food? How can we cope with the part of our mind that never stops craving and demanding more? According to psychologist Dr. Lynn Rossy...

How to Break a Habit by Using the Power of a Pause Often the difference between making a rash decision and the right decision is a just matter of moments. It is much easier to break a habit when we learn to pause, assess, and then plan before we act. Even a pause of just a few moments can help us regain control. Today, we’re sharing an excerpt from the audiobook The Little Book of Big Change: The...

Free Yourself from the Cycle of Emotional Eating If you eat to help manage your emotions, you may have discovered that it doesn’t really work. If you’re an emotional eater, you’ve probably wondered how you can conquer it once and for all. The good news is that a life free of emotional eating is possible! There are tried and true ways to free yourself from the cycle of emotional eating. Today...

Why Our Brains Make Us Anxious: A Conversation with Psychologist Shawn Smith According to psychologist Dr. Shawn Smith, your mind is not built to make you happy; it’s built to help you survive. So far, it’s done a great job! But in the process, it may have developed some bad habits—like avoiding new experiences or scrounging around for problems where none exist. Is it any wonder that worry, anxiet...

A Weekly Self-Improvement Podcast Robert Rabbin on Dealing with Loneliness Most of us want to avoid being touched by loneliness. When we sense it coming into our awareness, we may feel nervous, fearful, angry, or frustrated—feelings we’d rather not experience. But Robert Rabbin has some inspiring words today about dealing with loneliness: You don’t need to be intimidated by the symptoms of lonelin...

What Makes You Feel Passionately Alive? Spiritual teacher Jeff Foster asks: “What will you do with this one precious, fleeting gift of life?” The answer, he says, is simple, because life is short. Do whatever makes you feel passionately alive. Find a way—however much you have to struggle at first—of doing what moves you and connects you to the deepest truth of yourself. Today we’re sharing a...

How to Find What You Want Most As we come to the end of the year and the start of a new one, many of us are setting goals and resolutions. If you really want to change your life, you need to know what you really want. You need to know how to find what you want most. So… What do you want more than anything in your life? You might be surprised to learn that it’s probably not what you first thi...

You Can Overcome the Fear of Flying One out of every six people fears flying. It is a solvable problem, and yet, people often have a lot of trouble solving it. Many people who’ve tried to face their fear of flying find that the harder they try to control it, the worse it gets. Anxiety expert and clinical psychologist Dr. David Carbonell has helped thousands of people overcome fears of all kinds. T...

Anxiety & The Science of Emotion Regulation Are your emotions causing you anxiety? Emotions can be quite beneficial, but sometimes, they can have unwanted consequences—especially when they cause us fear or anxiety. Today, Psychologist Dr. David Klemanski talks about the science of emotion regulation, as well as the latest and most effective techniques available to reduce and eliminate anxiety....

Anxiety and Depression are Helpful in Small Doses In moderate amounts, anxiety and depression can improve our focus and performance. That doesn’t mean that depression and anxiety are always useful. In large doses, they are debilitating. However, one of the most important truths about our minds is this: we don’t always have to obey them. Today we’re sharing and excerpt from the audiobook The User&#...

A Soothing Guided Meditation for Stress Today we’re sharing a soothing guided meditation that will help you find your center in stressful moments. This guided meditation for stress can also help any time you just want to feel more grounded. This meditation is an excerpt from psychologist Ted Zeff’s audiobook The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide: Essential Skills for Living Well in an...

Step-by-Step Instructions for a Simple Mindfulness Practice Mindfulness practice can help us transform our relationship to the way we feel, think, and relate to others. It brings us, moment by moment, into a greater sense of spaciousness, calmness, and a deeper connection with ourselves and the world. Today we’re offering step-by-step instructions for a simple mindfulness practice you can return t...

Robert Rabbin on Accessing Inner Wisdom and Clarity We all want to live a fulfilling, authentic, and expansive life. But how do we do that? How can we access our deepest inner resources? Today, author and coach Robert Rabbin shares his thoughts about discovering the wisdom, clarity and direction that lies inside of everyone. Robert Rabbin is the author of the audiobook The Sacred Hub: Living in th...

A Simple Technique to Stop Stress Quickly We can all benefit from a quick and easy way to stop stress and bring ourselves back to the present moment. QUIET is an acronym for a simple technique that helps you quiet your mind in any given moment. Best of all, it only takes a few seconds! Today we’re sharing an excerpt from psychotherapist Dr. Arnie Kozac’s audiobook The Awakened Introvert: Practical...