Psychologists Off The Clock

By Diana Hill, Debbie Sorensen, Yael Schonbrun & Jill Stoddard

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What's Psychologists Off The Clock about?

Ever wonder what therapists talk about over coffee? We are three clinical psychologists who take a modern and casual look at psychology. In this podcast you will glimpse into the books on our bedside tables, the research we apply in practice, and the behavioral principles we use to thrive in our own lives, "off the clock." Whether you work in the field of psychology or are just curious to learn more, please join us for Psychologists Off The Clock

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164. Pandemic Stress: Strat...

09.22.2020

If you are experiencing Pandemic Stress, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can help! This is a stressful time for most of us; the mental health aftermath of a pandemic is sometimes called a "second pandemic" because of the rise of ...

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09.22.2020 164. Pandemic Stress: Strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Debbie and Diana If you are experiencing Pandemic Stress, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can help! This is a stressful time for most of us; the mental health aftermath of a pandemic is sometimes called a "second pandemic" because of the rise of ...
09.17.2020 163. The Likeability Trap with Alicia Menendez Women are told to be nice, but not too nice. Be successful, but not too successful. Just be likeable. Join Jill for her interview with award-winning journalist and author of the book The Likeability Trap, Alicia Menendez, as they examine ...
09.12.2020 Guidelines on Race and Ethnicity in Psychology In this episode, Diana interviews Dr. Karen Suyemoto, the chair of the APA Guidelines on Race and Ethnicity in Psychology. Race and culture are present in all of our interactions. As mental health professionals, it is our ethical responsibility to ...
09.03.2020 The Gift of Failure Modern parenting is high stakes, leaving parents terrified of failure in their parenting and in their children. But it turns out that the overprotective behaviors driven by our fears undermine our children’s—and our own—successes throughout life. Join Yael for a ...
08.31.2020 Schooling at Home, Pandemic Pods, And Socially Just Parenting Parenting is stressful right now. This is because we are educating our kids at home while juggling work with limited childcare. We are also navigating difficult, important conversations about racism, the pandemic, and world events. How can we regain our ...
08.27.2020 Challenging Times During Adolescence Pandemic, online school, social distancing, climate change… this is an especially difficult time for adolescents, who are already in a transitional time of life. Dr. Louise Hayes is one of the world’s foremost experts on using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ...
08.19.2020 Maybe You Should Talk to Someone In this episode, Jill speaks with Lori Gottlieb, psychotherapist and best-selling New York Times author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, about her smash hit book and the art and heart of therapy. Join their intimate discussion about ultracrepidarianism ...
08.13.2020 The Art of Dying Well Our culture shies away from talking about death. But Katy Butler, author of The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life, argues we have an obligation to think about what constitutes a well-supported death. ...
08.07.2020 The Psychology of Radical Healing Collective Join Diana for an important and empowering discussion with Dr. Helen Neville, Dr. Hector Adames, Dr. Bryana French, and Dr. Grace Chen, four BIPOC psychologists and members of The Psychology of Radical Healing Collective, about steps we can take at ...
07.30.2020 Mindfulness and Recovery You are not alone if you’re feeling more stressed out and using unhealthy means to cope. Four months into the pandemic may find you Netflix binging, stress eating, or reaching for that extra glass of wine more than you would ...
07.25.2020 Healthcare Professional Wellbeing (Part 2) Healthcare professionals usually choose their careers because patient care is meaningful; most want to make a positive impact and help others. However, with a broken healthcare system and unending occupational stressors, burnout is all-too-common, sometimes resulting in tragic consequences. Join ...
07.23.2020 Healthcare Professional Wellbeing (Part 1) Healthcare professionals usually choose their careers because patient care is meaningful; most want to make a positive impact and help others. However, with a broken healthcare system and unending occupational stressors, burnout is all-too-common, sometimes resulting in tragic consequences. Join ...
07.16.2020 Helping the Helper How can we, as helpers, give the best care to our clients, loved ones, and ourselves during this unprecedented time? We’re being called to live through something as massive as a global pandemic while simultaneously helping others experience and process ...
07.14.2020 Intuitive Eating Many of us struggle in our relationship with food and weight. If we are going to have a chance at restructuring our relationship with food, it helps to understand the complex interactions at the individual and systemic levels. In this ...
07.09.2020 Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Over 40 million US residents are foreign-born. Immigrants and refugees face many circumstances impacting their mental health. These include the trauma of the immigration process and the acculturation process that follows. Additionally, many face systemic oppression and the threat of ...
07.01.2020 How Not Lose It with Your Kids Summer is here, which for parents means Season Two of pandemic parenting. Parent tempers are triggered in so many ways now and we’ve lost access to the time and space that we need to calm our buttons. If you’re a ...
06.24.2020 Solitary Confinement and Criminal Justice Reform Criminal Justice Reform is an important, and often overlooked element of Racial Justice. In the U.S., Black men are significantly more likely to be incarcerated. Individuals in the criminal justice system are likely to experience inhumane and dehumanizing practices, including ...
06.18.2020 Extending Compassion Many of us are struggling during this time of COVID-19 and police brutality. It can feel hard to extend compassion to those with different views, let alone to ourselves. In this episode, psychologist and creator of Superhero Therapy, Dr. Janina ...
06.14.2020 Parental Burnout Burnout. It can happen at work, and it can happen to parents, too. Nowadays, with the COVID-19 pandemic, parents are especially stressed. They are navigating new roles and demands while trying to parent, teach their kids, and provide for their ...
06.10.2020 Caring, Compassion, and Cooperation Promote Racial JusticeLike many people across the country, we are distressed and outraged by the current and longstanding prejudice and violence against Black Americans. As psychologists, we are deeply concerned by the mental and physical health consequences of oppression and ...
06.04.2020 Healing Racial Trauma (Re-Release from June 2019) In response to current events, we are re-releasing an interview Diana conducted in June 2019 with an African-centered psychologist and expert on racial trauma, Dr. Kristee Haggins. Racism is a public health crisis with deep, ongoing negative impacts on psychological ...
05.28.2020 Happier Parenting If you – like us – are prone to parental guilt, struggle with pandemic parenting, and wonder if it’s possible to satisfy your own soul while raising kiddos then this is the episode for you! Dive in and join Yael ...
05.21.2020 FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) Wouldn’t it be great to feel more confident, courageous, and less stuck about decision-making? In this episode, Jill talks with Patrick McGinnis, who coined the term FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) about his new book Fear of Missing Out: Practical ...
05.15.2020 Educating Our Kids at Home We have been unexpectedly thrust into the responsibility of educating our children from home. How can we survive the "wandering nomads", boredom, video games, and parental fears that our children are “falling behind”? Is it possible to find magic, a ...
05.09.2020 Neurodharma with Dr. Rick Hanson (Part 2) Join Yael for Part 2 of a truly transformative two-part series with Dr. Hanson about his latest book, Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. Continue to explore what’s happening in the brains of individuals ...
05.06.2020 Neurodharma with Dr. Rick Hanson (Part 1) What if you could grow a little stronger, more loving, calmer, and clearer each day? Starting today? And what if you sustain these qualities even during times of stress? This is possible, according to Dr. Rick Hanson, a neuropsychologist and ...
04.30.2020 Exploring Existence and Purpose: Existentialism with Dr. Robyn Walser Many therapists have had clients who question the purpose of existence, or who are waiting until things change to start living life fully. As Dr. Robyn Walser gently reminds us in her latest book, The Heart of ACT: Developing a ...
04.24.2020 The Complexities of Motherhood with Daphne de Marneffe If you’re anything like us, parenting—and most certainly parenting under quarantine—can feel tedious, exhausting, mundane, and sometimes downright maddening! Yet time and again parents say some of their deepest joys in life stem from the time shared with their children. ...
04.16.2020 Effective OCD Treatment for Teens with Dr. Patricia Zurita Ona Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) can be paralyzing and severely affect one’s life. Successfully diagnosing and treating OCD in the teen years gives young people their lives back by helping them meaningfully re-engage with friends, school, and life in general rather than ...
04.09.2020 Power of Empathy and Motivational Interviewing with Dr. Stephen Rollnick Trying to drag people to change doesn’t work. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative approach that increases people’s inner motivation and commitment to positive change. Motivational Interviewing is used across numerous settings including weight loss, exercise, smoking, substance use, teaching, ...
04.02.2020 Work, Parenting, and Partnership Collide During Quarantine We are facing an unprecedented challenge of how to work, parent, homeschool, and partner in the time of the Coronavirus Pandemic. During this tragedy, many of us have felt overwhelmed by the nuts and bolts of maintaining our most important ...
03.26.2020 Mental Health & COVID-19 with Dr. Robyn Walser In this episode, Robyn Walser, a frequent guest of the podcast, and Debbie explore how we can be our “better angels” in the midst of these extreme challenges. We can do this by making values-based decisions, while still caring for ...
03.19.2020 The Joy Of Movement With Dr. Kelly McGonigal We all know we “should” move our bodies but some of us struggle with wanting to or get caught up in complicated, negative and rule-bound messages about how to move our bodies. Join Jill for an uplifting and motivating discussion ...
03.15.2020 A Gift For You: Pranayama Breathing Meditation Join Diana in a short Pranayama or yogic breathing meditation. Take 10 minutes to savor the present moment and your breath! Related Psychologists Off The Clock Episodes * 81. A Gift For You: 10 Min Breathing Meditation* 70. A Gift ...
03.15.2020 COVID-19 Anxiety, Cultivating Safeness, and Polyvagal Theory with Dr. Stephen Porges Stress and anxiety levels are high right now due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. In this episode, Dr. Stephen Porges offers us a model of our physiology of threat and strategies to boost feelings of safeness, especially with ...
03.12.2020 Working Less with Dr. Alex Pang In this episode, Dr. Alex Pang is back on the podcast to discuss his new book, Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less - Here's How. Last time he came on the show (Episode 45. Rest with Dr. Alex Pang), Alex ...
03.05.2020 Yoga for All and Body Kindness with Dr. Jennifer Webb How often do you find yourself relating to your body as a physical being rather than a physical object? Celebrating what it can do for you instead of fixating on how it looks in the mirror? If you’re like most ...
02.26.2020 ACT For Food Restriction And Anorexia According to Dr. Rhonda Merwin, individuals with anorexia and low weight are, “doing exactly what society has told them makes sense to be a good person.” At the same time, having anorexia and being over-controlled with food narrows your life, ...
02.18.2020 Indistractable with Nir Eyal Do you find yourself so distracted by your phone, email, text, or social media that it’s pulling you away from things that matter? According to Nir Eyal, author of the best-selling book Indistractable, technology is not the enemy. We merely ...
02.13.2020 Surviving Break-Ups and Divorce: How to Mend a Broken Heart Breaking up is hard to do, and time-stamped events (like, say, Valentine’s Day) can make the pain of a broken heart stand out even more than usual. As painful as it may feel, you’re not alone in what you’re experiencing. ...
02.07.2020 Why We Age and the Science of Longevity with Dr. David Sinclair What if you could slow down the clock on your aging? According to aging expert and Harvard geneticist, Dr. David Sinclair, we now have the knowledge and technology to live longer lives, healthier. In his revolutionary research, Dr. Sinclair has ...
01.31.2020 Nutritious Movement and Why it Matters with Katy Bowman Do you want to move your body more but find it hard to fit movement into your schedule and valued activities? It’s not your fault! According to Katy Bowman, bio-mechanist and movement specialist, our modern environment is a mismatch for ...
01.23.2020 Tantrum Survival Guide If you’re a parent you’ve likely had your buttons pushed by your toddler in the throes of a tantrum. We know we have! It’s downright difficult to handle your toddler’s distress and maintain your cool when they’re howling about you ...
01.16.2020 Taking in the Good with Dr. Rick Hanson Your brain is “Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive ones,” according to neuropsychologist Dr. Rick Hanson. What if you could re-wire your brain to be more grateful, loving, and resilient? In today’s episode, Dr. Hanson offers strategies to ...
01.09.2020 Be Mighty with Dr. Jill Stoddard We talk with our mighty new co-host, Dr. Jill Stoddard, about her new book Be Mighty: A Woman’s Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry & Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance.
01.01.2020 Use DBT Skills To Regulate Emotions And Be More Effective In Relationships With Dr. Matthew McKay Some of us have a harder time managing our emotions. Therefore, we find ourselves engaging in destructive behaviors to cope. Enter Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan, DBT is proven to help people manage overwhelming emotions. It ...
01.01.2020 120. Use DBT Skills To Regulate Emotions And Be More Effective In Relationships With Dr. Matthew Mckay “Helping people get down-regulation skills is really important, not only to help them feel better emotionally but to also help them lead less impulsive and dangerous lives.”-Dr. Matthew McKaySome of us have a harder time managing our emotions and find ...
12.25.2019 Holiday Episode Guide The holiday season means joy and connection, but it also means an onslaught of stressors. It can be helpful to think about how to manage the challenges more effectively, as well as enhance the positive elements of what the holidays ...
12.25.2019 119. Holiday Episode Guide The holiday season means joy and connection, but it also means an onslaught of stressors. It can be helpful to think about how to manage the challenges more effectively, as well as enhance the positive elements of what the holidays ...
12.21.2019 Moral Injury and Shame Shame, betrayal, guilt, anger. As social animals, humans are wired to have moral emotions that bind us to our groups. When we experience a transgression against our moral values, we might experience Moral Injury. Moral injury is a normal human ...

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