Tell Me What You're Proud Of with Dr. Maggie Perry

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Have you ever wondered why certain feelings seem to just keep coming back, no matter how hard you try to get rid of them? In this, the third installment of our four-part series, Dr. Anja Schmitz, a licensed clinical psychologist and Chief Clinical Officer at Kip (https://www.hellokip.com/), explains why experiential avoidance is counter-productive, and offers some powerful tools to get you realigned to what really matters to you.

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0:25 - Jim’s strides around emotional awareness

2:00 - Experiential avoidance & ACT

10:20 - The pink elephant exercise

14:14 - The shark tank exercise

18:30 - Values

23:20 - Avoiding the “should” trap

25:20 - What lies beneath your anxiety

27:30 - How sticky content can reveal your values

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How can you succeed at therapy? What’s the difference between doing your homework and committing to the healing process? What happens when you allow yourself to accurately label the full range of your feelings? And when does simply honoring your commitments become an act of courage? Dr. Maggie and patient “Jim” answer all of these questions and more in part two of our four-part real therapy session series.

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0:40 - All feelings are valid (no matter what your family told you)

2:00 - How to develop a rich emotional vocabulary

9:00 - The real usefulness of therapy

14:00 - One main reason people drop out of therapy

19:20 - Homework vs. commitments

26:20 - Overcoming presentation anxiety

29:45 - What stress feels like in the body

33:20 - Reframing emotional struggle as an act of courage

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If you’ve ever worried that getting well might make you soft, or take away your competitive edge, this episode is a must-listen. In this, our first introduction to real therapy patient “Jim,” Maggie helps Jim unpack perfectionism and professional burnout, and identify the tools that have helped him prioritize emotional health.

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0:40 - Professional burnout

3:00 - Falling out of touch with yourself

7:30 - Not all psychotherapy is the same

8:30 - Aversion to certain feelings

13:00 - Perfectionism at work

20:40 - Exercising your therapeutic muscles

28:00 - Making peace with “negative” emotions

33:00 - How psychotherapy creates opportunities for healthy new habits and tools

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In this episode, patient “Nicole” shares her thoughts about what Dr. Pascarzi had to say, and shares the tools that have been most useful in pulling her out of self-criticism and into self-compassion, allowing her to turn the tide when she feels herself getting pulled into a mood spiral or bout of perfectionism. 

1:00 - Self Compassion

2:10 - Catastrophic thinking & mood identification

4:40 - Feelings: inside & out

7:40 - Perfectionism and self-criticism

10:00 - Holding onto hope

12:50 - Cues that you’re going through a down period

14:30 - Mood tracking

19:00 - Dating while depressed

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Dr. Christina Pascarzi is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 7 years of experience providing individual therapy to adults in the Bay Area. Her practice focuses on the treatment of anxiety disorders using compassion, curiosity, and humor. In today’s episode, she and Dr. Maggie delve into the relationship between curiosity and self-compassion, how perfectionism can hinder performance and problem-solving ability, and tools to combat self-criticism.

1:35 - Staying in therapy past the acute crisis

5:29 - Inviting Curiosity

7:46 - Handling push-back on self-compassion

9:09 - The process of self-compassion

10:34 - Shifting out of the “shoulds”

12:43 - Wrangling clinical perfectionism

19:39 - Mood tracking

21:28 - Mood vs. feelings

23:27 - How feelings can trigger mood states

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In this episode, we check back on Nicole’s progress in managing her anxiety and moods. She talks about her habit of keeping track of her moods, the difference between simple loneliness and a mood state, and how she’s keeping her moods in check in the middle of a pandemic.

1:31 Checking up on Nicole’s progress with Psychotherapy

4:19 How mood tracking is helping with Nicole’s condition

8:41 Is mood and anxiety affected by what’s happening around you vs your behavior?

11:15 Catching and managing anxiety triggers

13:26 Overcoming anhedonia

17:33  Managing mood states vs sadness

21:48  Managing anxiety in a pandemic

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Check out http://TellMeWhatYoureProudOf.com/ for this week's TOP 8 Anxiety + OCD relieving strategies and to try our Guided Meditation for Anxiety + OCD Relief.

Follow us on Instagram @TellMeWhatYoureProudOf for more helpful Anxiety and OCD tips. Our goal is to show that you are not alone, there is nothing wrong with you, and help guide you to a more peaceful and enjoyable way of life so if you feel any benefit from this episode please let us know by leaving an iTunes review, sharing this episode on social media and emailing a link to anyone you think would also find benefit here. Thank you.

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In this episode, we talk to "Nicole" about her experience in Psychotherapy dealing with anxiety, self-criticism tendencies, and loneliness in the time of COVID-19.

1:09 Getting to know Nicole 

4:53 When is the best time to seek psychotherapy? 

6:32 Psychotherapy vs Talking to a friend 

8:34  Does everyone think the same way? 

12:16 Attitude changes Nicole did to help with her anxiety 

14:19 The function of self-criticism 

17:21 What changed after Nicole’s psychotherapy? 

21:02 Managing relationships post psychotherapy 

23:13 Dealing with loneliness 

25:12 What changed for Nicole

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We check in on ‘Stephanie’ where she talks about Dr. Jerome’s thoughts on her case, and how she’s been managing her pedophile thoughts. We also talk a bit about her feelings of loneliness, emotional perfectionism, her relationship OCD in the time of quarantine, and how she takes back the power from her intrusive thoughts.

 Disclaimer: Please consult your doctor or therapist before attempting any strategies shared.

 1:36 Stephanie’s thoughts on Dr. Jerome’s assessment 

3:31 Labeling your experiences and distancing from your thoughts 

7:13 Being a good person 9:19 Stephanie’s fear of loneliness 

13:33 Fear of loneliness and how it affects Stephanie’s OCD 

15:21 Emotional Perfectionism and Stephanie’s Relationship OCD 

16:59 Taking the power away from intrusive thoughts 

18:50 - Dr. Jerome’s full stop strategy 

25:40 Stephanie’s message of hope  

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In this episode, we talk to Dr. Al Jerome, a  Clinical Psychologist with extensive training and experience. His practice focuses on anxiety and related disorders, depression, stress disorders, impulse control disorders, problem behaviors among children and teens, and couples therapy. We discuss ‘Stephanie’s’ situation and how she manages her OCD, and how we manage triggering thoughts properly.

1:42 - Recap and Episode Introduction 

2:38 - Dr. Jerome’s Impression of Stephanie  

5:20 - Why people think they should control their thoughts 

6:54 - Triggering thoughts and how they should be handled 

10:54 - Am I A Bad Person? In the context of OCD vs Depression 

13:58 - Conscientiousness to an Excess 

16:38 - Exposures and planned exposures versus incidental exposures 

18:29 - Why we shouldn’t be afraid of dealing with our thoughts

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In this episode patient "Stephanie" gives Dr. Maggie an update on how she’s managing her OCD in the time of Coronavirus, how she’s dealing with relationship OCD, and how she’s managing her triggers and thoughts. This is the second in a four-part series following "Stephanie"s progress.  

1:13 - Recap of last episode 

1:39 - An update on Stephanie’s current situation 

5:15 - The need to get things ‘Just Right’ 

7:20 - Procrastination and OCD  

9:48 - When does it reach a clinical level? 

13:39 - Learning to relax with incompleteness 

17:44 - The hardest part of living with OCD and Relationship OCD 

24:03 - Different themes, different feelings, and sitting with the feelings 

30:07 - Committing to the next steps of coping with OCD

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