The Peaceful Practice

After seeing a meme poking fun at continuing education classes for addiction, Alan and Dawn have a discussion about the role of professional organizations in the management of mental health issues.  

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After the season of giving leaves Dawn feeling drained, Dawn and Alan discuss the book "The Giving Tree" and the importance of setting boundaries in relationships. 

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On the eve of Alan's 20th year of sobriety, Dawn and Alan have a conversation about what this milestone means, what it has been like to get here and how to examine our own habits with drugs and alcohol.  

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In this episode, Alan expresses that he is grieving his pre-COVID life.  Dawn and Alan discuss the importance of letting go of the past and accepting reality.  

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Using cat lawyer as inspiration, Alan and Dawn discuss the pitfalls of taking on the identity of 'serious professional.'

Russell Brand's viewing of 'Cat Lawyer' can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlP9ebZmyLs

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Alan and Dawn are back after a 6 month break from recording!  In this episode, we discuss the benefits of taking a break. Whether it's 5 minutes or 5 months, there is value in any downtime.   Pieces cited are from the Harvard Business Review at hbr.org

You can reach Alan and Dawn in the following places:     Email us at: [email protected] 

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After a hard day at the office, Dawn goes home feeling lonely.  Turns out, she's not alone.  On this episode, Dawn and Alan take on the topic of loneliness in the professions, which is not only common but also a huge factor leading to burnout.  

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Dawn and Alan discuss the phenomenon of decision fatigue and the fact that our ability to make decisions is a measured resource and does go down over the course of a day.  

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Dawn and Alan tackle a list of 11 common thought/cognitive distortions compiled by Cornell University's Allan Filipowicz.  These are painfully common and if we can learn to spot them as they arise, we can get off the train of negative thinking and overreactions and correct our thinking to correspond with reality.  

Here is the list: 1. All or nothing thinking -- 1 mistake means total failure 2. Overgeneralization -- Drawing broad conclusions from one event 3. Magnification -- Exaggerating difficulties and shortcomings 4. Labeling -- Attaching personality tags to behaviors 5. Mental Filters -- Ignoring positive or dissenting information 6. Discounting the positive -- If positive information gets in, it doesn't count 7. Jumping to conclusions -- Going straight to the most negative interpretation of events 8. Mind reading -- Guessing what people are thinking, without asking 9. Crystal ball gazing -- Predicting negative events in the future 10. "Should" statements -- Turning preferences into moral imperatives 11. Personalization -- Feeling responsible for events out of your control, or confusing influence with control.

You can reach Alan and Dawn in the following places:    

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On the web:  http://www.peacefulpractice.com/podcast/ 

 

Episode 48:  Suffering is Optional

After Alan reviews his texts and realizes that problems that seemed so big a week ago no longer mattered at all, he and Dawn are inspired to discuss the impermanence of all things and how we process our emotions from moment to moment.   The Netflix special they refer to is: https://www.netflix.com/title/81010166   To contact Dawn or Alan:  Email us:  [email protected]

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