Psychologists Off the Clock

Whether you are planning a holiday dinner, a work conference, or a group therapy session, how you design your gathering has a big impact on its outcome. In this episode, Diana and Debbie use the book The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker to explore strategies to make your groups transformative. Grab a slice of pie, some people you love, and enjoy an episode all about meeting with purpose!Listen and Learn:- How to use purpose to design your next party, meeting, or friends’ weekend away- Examples of successful gatherings that Diana and Debbie have designed and attended- What group therapy teaches us about designing effective meetings- Why Debbie is practicing “scruffy hospitality” and why Diana likes to visit her purse at parties- Ideas to make your Thanksgiving, Winter Holiday or New Year’s celebration impactfulWith the help of this episode, we hope you gather well this holiday season, and beyond!—————————Thank you for joining us on this episode of Psychologists Off The Clock. We appreciate your feedback. Please take a moment to leave a quick rating and review of the show on Apple Podcasts. It helps us spread the word to more folks like you!Click Here to Subscribe via Apple PodcastsClick here to Subscribe via Google PodcastsClick Here to Subscribe via StitcherClick Here to Subscribe via Spotify—————————Sponsor: Praxis Continuing EducationACT BootCamp® with Steven C. Hayes, PhD, Robyn Walser, PhD, and Kelly Wilson, PhD, cofounders of ACTPortland, OR | February 20-23, 2020; up to 32 CE/CME credits availableSign up with a friend to save 20% off professional registration price!

Ready to take your mindfulness practice to the next level? What if you could approach life by relaxing back and down into an already awake mind and heart? Join Diana for an inspiring and illuminating discussion with Loch Kelly, seasoned meditator and author of the bestselling book The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life about awake awareness, an advanced form of mindfulness that, through little efforts and shifts of awareness, imbues living from a more spacious, interconnected, and heart-centered space.

Listen and Learn:

What is awake awareness?

What does “effortless” have to do with it?

How does awake awareness differ from deliberate awareness?

Awake awareness vs empathy

The value of “glimpses”

About Loch Kelly:

Loch Kelly, MDiv, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and expert in the field of meditation and psychotherapy. He has also authored the best-selling book The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life and founded the Open-Hearted Awareness Institute in New York City. Loch’s primary mission is to teach others how to access awakening and to live from open-hearted awareness. Loch contributes to research at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, and New York University on how training in awareness improves compassion and wellbeing. He received his degrees from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary.

Resources

Open-Hearted Awareness Institute

The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life, book by Loch Kelly  

Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-hearted Awareness, book by Loch Kelly  

Effortless Mindfulness Now: Awakening Our Natural Capacity for Focus, Freedom, and Joy, audiobook by Loch Kelly

Shift into Freedom: A Training in the Science and Practice of Open-hearted Awareness, audiobook by Loch Kelly

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 Ready to take your mindfulness practice to the next level? What if you could approach life by relaxing back and down into an already awake mind and heart? Join Diana for an inspiring and illuminating discussion with Loch Kelly, seasoned meditator and author of the bestselling book The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life about awake awareness, an advanced form of mindfulness that, through little efforts and shifts of awareness, imbues living from a more spacious, interconnected, and heart-centered space. 



Listen and Learn:* What is awake awareness?* What does “effortless” have to do with it?* How does awake awareness differ from deliberate awareness?* Awake awareness vs empathy* The value of “glimpses”* Why awake awareness is not a spiritual bypass About Loch Kelly:




Loch Kelly, MDiv, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and expert in the field of meditation and psychotherapy. He has also authored the best-selling book The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life and founded the Open-Hearted Awareness Institute in New York City. Loch’s primary mission is to teach others how to access awakening and to live from open-hearted awareness. Loch contributes to research at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, and New York University on how training in awareness improves compassion and wellbeing. He received his degrees from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary.Resources* Open-Hearted Awareness Institute* The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life, book by Loch Kelly  * Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-hearted Awareness, book by Loch Kelly  * Effortless Mindfulness Now: Awakening Our Natural Capacity for Focus, Freedom, and Joy, audiobook by Loch Kelly* Shift into Freedom: A Training in the Science and Practice of Open-hearted Awareness, audiobook by Loch KellyThank you for joining us on this episode of Psychologists Off The Clock. We appreciate your feedback. Please take a moment to leave a quick rating and review of the show on Apple Podcasts. It helps us spread the word to more folks like you!Click Here to Subscribe via Apple PodcastsClick here to Subscribe via Google PodcastsClick Here to Subscribe via StitcherClick Here to Subscribe via SpotifyEpisode Transcript Loch Kelly: [00:00:00] awake awareness is like opening behind the...

Parenting can be joyful, but, let’s be honest, it can also be a rough ride sometimes! We try to be good parents to our children and still discover that we feel we are falling short. Author and clinical expert, Dr. Susan Pollak, joins Yael for a discussion about how self-compassion can help you journey through parenting more effectively, confidently, and happily.

Join the conversation to learn:

What self-compassion is and why it’s so useful in parenting

The core components of self-compassion

Several mindfulness exercises to build self-compassion (Try them while you are listening!)

Self-compassion practices that can be done in three minutes, even with eyes open and your kids in the room!

About Dr. Susan Pollak:

Dr. Susan Pollak is the President of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, a co-founder and teacher at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion. She is also the author of Self-Compassion for Parents—Nurture Your Child by Caring For Yourself.

Resources:

Susan’s website

Guided meditations with accompanying handouts from Susan

A recent piece on A Mindful Exercise to Heal Old Wounds, by Susan Pollak

Welcome to Holland piece, by Emily Kingsley

Sitting Together, by Susan Pollak

Self-Compassion for Parents, by Susan Pollak, Thomas Pedulla, and Ronald Siegel

Susan’s Psychology Today Blog, The Art of Now

The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy

Diana’s interview on Self-Compassion with Dr. Christopher Germer

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 Parenting can be joyful, but, let’s be honest, it can also be a rough ride sometimes! We try to be good parents to our children and still discover we feel we are falling short. Author and clinical expert, Dr. Susan Pollak, joins Yael for a discussion about how self-compassion can help you journey through parenting more effectively, confidently, and happily.



Join the conversation to learn:* What self-compassion is and why it’s so useful in parenting* The core components of self-compassion* Several mindfulness exercises to build self-compassion (Try them while you are listening!)* Self-compassion practices that can be done in three minutes, even with eyes open and your kids in the room! .About Dr. Susan Pollak:




Dr. Susan Pollak is the President of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, a co-founder and teacher at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion. She is also the author of Self-Compassion for Parents—Nurture Your Child by Caring For Yourself. Resources:* Susan’s website* Guided meditations with accompanying handouts from Susan* A recent piece on A Mindful Exercise to Heal Old Wounds, by Susan Pollak* Welcome to Holland piece, by Emily Kingsley* Sitting Together, by Susan Pollak* Self-Compassion for Parents, by Susan Pollak, Thomas Pedulla, and Ronald Siegel* Susan’s Psychology Today Blog, The Art of Now * The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy* Diana’s interview on Self-Compassion with Dr. Christopher Germer __________________________Thank you for joining us on this episode of Psychologists Off The Clock. We appreciate your feedback. Please take a moment to leave a quick rating and review of the show on Apple Podcasts. It helps us spread the word to more folks like you!Click Here to Subscribe via Apple PodcastsClick Here to Subscribe via StitcherClick here to Subscribe via Google PlayPlease note that the information in the podcast and on this site is intended for informational purposes only. It should not be used as a substitute for psychological or medical care. If you are looking professional help, visit our resources page for guidance on how to find a therapist. If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, call 9-1-1.

You might sometimes wonder if it’s nature or nurture driving the differences between people. For example, why are some of us extroverts and others introverts? Why are some children risk-takers while others are more inhibited? Well, it turns out that both nature and nurture are important! The nature part of the equation is sometimes overlooked, but our biological temperament plays an important role in the kind of person we become.

In this episode, Debbie and Yael discuss Childhood Temperament, the topic of Debbie’s dissertation research at Harvard. They delve into some longitudinal research on the temperamental underpinnings of shyness and behavioral inhibition. They also discuss the clinical implications of individual differences in emotional reactivity, and the personality constructs of introversion and extroversion.

Listen and Learn:

How “high-reactive” infants differ from “low-reactive” infants

How early reactivity correlates with behavioral inhibition and shyness later in childhood

Why Attachment research may leave out some important information

The importance of “goodness of fit” between parents and their children

Whether you a “carpenter” or a “gardener” as a parent parent

What introversion and extroversion really means and how to appreciate your personality style

Resources:

The APA’s list of Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century

Brief Video Showing Kagan’s Temperament Study with Infants

Books by Kagan on Temperament:

Galen’s Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature by Jerome Kagan

The Long Shadow of Temperament by Jerome Kagan and Nancy Snidman

The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children by Alison Gopnik

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

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The delineation that we like to make between mind and body is really an illusion. It’s one complete circuit.

-Dr. Cynthia Li

In Brave New Medicine: A Doctor’s Unconventional Path to Healing Her Autoimmune Illness Dr. Cynthia Li, an internal medicine physician by training, writes about how her world came crashing down after developing an autoimmune thyroid condition and how she had to journey beyond what Western medicine has to offer to truly heal. Join Diana for a fascinating and important discussion with Dr. Li about functional medicine, a client-centered, science-based approach to looking at and treating the root cause of chronic imbalances in our body.

Listen and Learn:

How functional medicine differs from both Western and Integrative medicine

What are the five main causes of chronic imbalance according to Functional Medicine

Tips on specific classes of foods that promote optimal wellness

How healing emotional wounds impact physical healing

Suggestions for detoxifying your house, re-inhabiting your body, and more!

About Dr. Cynthia Li

Cynthia Li, MD is a physician, functional medicine practitioner, and author of Brave New Medicine: A Doctor’s Unconventional Path to Healing Her Autoimmune Illness, a memoir about chronic illness and return to wellness that challenges the current healthcare system model. Dr. Li has a private practice in integrative and functional medicine in the San Francisco Bay Area and serves as faculty at the University of California San Francisco Medical School. She is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the Institute for Functional Medicine, and Integrative Medicine for the Underserved. Dr. Li is also a contributing author to the Huffington Post’s “Thrive Global” and Psychology Today. Dr. Li received her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

Resources:

Brave New Medicine: A Doctor’s Unconventional Path to Healing Her Autoimmune Illness by Dr. Cynthia Li

The Institute for Functional Medicine

Dr. Cynthia Li’s website, where you can access her blog and links to Functional Medicine resources

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In Brave New Medicine: A Doctor’s Unconventional Path to Healing Her Autoimmune Illness Dr. Cynthia Li, an internal medicine physician by training, writes about how her world came crashing down after developing an autoimmune thyroid condition and how she had to journey beyond what Western medicine has to offer to truly heal. Join Diana for a fascinating and important discussion with Dr. Li about functional medicine, a client-centered, science-based approach to looking at and treating the root cause of chronic imbalances in our body.Listen and Learn:· How functional medicine differs from both Western and Integrative medicine· What are the five main causes of chronic imbalance according to Functional Medicine· Tips on specific classes of foods that promote optimal wellness· How healing emotional wounds impacts physical healing· Suggestions for detoxifying your house, re-inhabiting your body, and more!__________________________Thank you for joining us on this episode of Psychologists Off The Clock. We appreciate your feedback. Please take a moment to leave a quick rating and review of the show on Apple Podcasts. It helps us spread the word to more folks like you!Click Here to Subscribe via Apple PodcastsClick here to Subscribe via Google PodcastsClick Here to Subscribe via StitcherClick Here to Subscribe via Spotify

Caring for a newborn has its challenges, but imagine the challenges of caring for two or more newborns at once! More feedings, diapering, laundry and gear to schlep. We are hardwired to respond to our infants so how do you handle more than one infant crying at once? And when the heck do you sleep? It’s no wonder that parents of multiples experience increased sleep deprivation and mental health issues even as they face greater logistical barriers to accessing mental health treatment and care. In this episode, Yael speaks with Dr. Susan Wenze, a mother of twins and clinical psychologist. Sue offers advice for parents of multiples and describes research on the perinatal mental health of parents with multiples.

Listen and Learn:

Specific mental health concerns for both mothers and fathers of multiples

Clever ways to practice self-care in the midst of parenting twins or more

How parenting multiples can bring partners closer together and other benefits of parenting twins and more

How to ask friends and family for the help that you need

Ways to help non-twin siblings also feel special

How to do self-care when you are a parent of multiples (terrific advice that can be used by all tired parents!).

About Dr. Susan Wenze

Susan Wenze, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at Lafayette College in Easton, PA. She conducts research on depression in the general population and perinatal mental health for parents of multiples. Dr. Wenze is also the parent of elementary school-aged identical twins. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from American University and completed her clinical residency and postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University.

Resources: 

Sue’s Lafayette College research website

Sue’s work, as featured on NPR

National Organization of Mothers of Twins Club, an online resource and community for parents of multiples

Twiniversity, an online resource and community for parents of multiples

Twins and Multiple Births Association (recently changed the name to Twin Trust), an online resource in the UK

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 Caring for a newborn has its challenges, but imagine the challenges of caring for two or more newborns at once! More feedings, diapering, laundry and gear to schlep. We are hardwired to respond to our infants so how do you handle more than one infant crying at once? And when the heck do you sleep? It’s no wonder that parents of multiples experience increased sleep deprivation and mental health issues even as they face greater logistical barriers to accessing mental health treatment and care. In this episode, Yael speaks with Dr. Susan Wenze, a mother of twins and clinical psychologist. Sue offers advice for parents of multiples and describes research on perinatal mental health of parents with multiples.



Listen and Learn:* Specific mental health concerns for both mothers and fathers of multiples* Clever ways to practice self-care in the midst of parenting twins or more* How parenting multiples can bring partners closer together and other benefits of parenting twins and more* How to ask friends and family for the help that you need* Ways to help non-twin siblings also feel special* How to do self-care when you are a parent of multiples (terrific advice that can be used by all tired parents!).About Dr. Susan Wenze




Susan Wenze, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at Lafayette College in Easton, PA. She conducts research on depression in the general population and perinatal mental health for parents of multiples. Dr. Wenze is also the parent of elementary school-aged identical twins. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from American University and completed her clinical residency and postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University. Resources: Sue’s Lafayette College research websiteSue’s work, as featured on NPRNational Organization of Mothers of Twins Club, an online resource and community for parents of multiplesTwiniversity, an online resource and community for parents of multiplesTwins and Multiple Births Association (recently changed the name to Twin Trust), an online resource in the UK __________________________Thank you for joining us on this episode of Psychologists Off The Clock. We appreciate your feedback. Please take a moment to leave a quick rating and review of the show on Apple Podcasts. It helps us spread the word to more folks like you!Click Here to Subscribe via Apple PodcastsClick here to Subscribe via Google PodcastsClick Here to Subscribe via StitcherClick Here to Subscribe via Spotify