The Wise Effort Show

Shantum Seth is a dharma teacher ordained by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, who leads pilgrimages in the footsteps of the Buddha. In this episode, Shantum Seth shares about the power of spiritual pilgrimage, how to bring compassion into our everyday life, the ethics of the Eightfold Path, and how to cultivate moments of awakening.

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This real play is like stepping into a therapy room with Dr. Diana Hill. Diana demonstrates how to view your problems as an interconnected network of biological, sociocultural, and psychological factors. The DSM is limited when it comes to looking at the complexity of human beings. It lacks individualization, tends to medicalize your problems, overemphasizes symptom reduction, and does not guide well which direction to go. Instead, you can explore the many factors that interact to create your problems so that you can intervene more effectively. Diana walks you through how to do this yourself.

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• >>>Join Diana live October 26 for a free Sangha talk and meditation<<<
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• Get your ticket (in-person and streaming) to Diana’s Tell the Truth Salon Series, a live gathering in Santa Barbara, California.
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Thanks to the team, Craig and Ashley Hiatt, and Benjamin Gould of Bell & Branch for your beautiful music.

Want less drain and more love in your long-term relationship? Becoming psychologically flexible with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can help you get present, refocus on your relationship values, and find deeper connection. In this conversation, Dr. Diana Hill and Dr. Russ Harris explore five things that drain your relationship, the traps of being right and blaming, a powerful skill to ground you when you are overwhelmed with emotions, and strategies to act with love, so you can get the love you want.

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• >>>Join Diana live October 26 for a free Sangha talk and meditation<<<
• Join the Wise Effort Community to access the live Sangha event and previous recordings.
• Get your ticket (in-person and streaming) to Diana’s Tell the Truth Salon Series, a live gathering in Santa Barbara, California.
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Thanks to the team, Craig and Ashley Hiatt, and Benjamin Gould of Bell & Branch for your beautiful music.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based therapy that helps you transform and heal your wounded and protective parts. In this “real play,” Dr. Richard Schwartz demonstrates IFS on Diana Hill’s “binger” and “restrictor” parts. He guides Diana in separating and dialoguing with her inner parts and helps her respond with compassionate and courageous self-leadership. They then unpack and debrief the exercise and connect IFS with Buddhist principles.

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• >>>Join Diana live October 26 for a free Sangha talk and meditation<<<
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Thanks to the team, Craig and Ashley Hiatt, and Benjamin Gould of Bell & Branch for your beautiful music.

According to Dr. Shelly Harrell, soulfulness is a healing, transformative depth of experience that brings us into our interconnected presence. In this special Juneteenth episode, Diana and Dr. Harrell explore the wisdom of African-centered traditions that bring us a more soulful way of living. Dr. Harell shares how she came to soulfulness, the relationship between mindfulness and soulfulness and the role of soulfulness in liberation from oppression-related trauma.

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• >>>Join Diana live October 26 for a free Sangha talk and meditation<<<
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Thanks to the team, Craig and Ashley Hiatt, and Benjamin Gould of Bell & Branch for your beautiful music.

How do we keep our hearts open in our complicated and loving relationships with our parents, especially with our dads? In this “real play” episode, Diana steps out of interview mode and into conversation with her long-time friend Isa Hendry Eaton. Isa shares how she found forgiveness for her late father and how she continues to practice heart-opening in relationships with her teenage kids, friends, and mom. Diana shares how to apply a simple three-step process of building Wise Effort in relationships with curiosity, flexibility, and wise action.

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• >>>Join Diana live October 26 for a free Sangha talk and meditation<<<
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Thanks to the team, Craig and Ashley Hiatt, and Benjamin Gould of Bell & Branch for your beautiful music.

According to Kimberley Wilson, our brains are in trouble. Your brain needs certain nutrients for membrane fluidity, to send messages from one cell to another, and to manage inflammation. However, your brain may not be getting the nutrition needed to thrive across your lifespan. In this episode, Diana Hill talks with Kimberley Wilson about eating to maximize brain health and how we can intervene at the policy level to support healthy brains across our community.

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• >>>Join Diana live October 26 for a free Sangha talk and meditation<<<
• Join the Wise Effort Community to access the live Sangha event and previous recordings.
• Get your ticket (in-person and streaming) to Diana’s Tell the Truth Salon Series, a live gathering in Santa Barbara, California.
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Thanks to the team, Craig and Ashley Hiatt, and Benjamin Gould of Bell & Branch for your beautiful music.

To evolve, we need variability! Diana’s back with Season 5, mixing it up by chatting about change, relationships, and taking leaps with her good friend and positive psychology professor, Dr. Alexis Karris Bachik.

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• >>>Join Diana live October 26 for a free Sangha talk and meditation<<<
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• See Diana at an upcoming event

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Thanks to the team, Craig and Ashley Hiatt, and Benjamin Gould of Bell & Branch for your beautiful music.

Attachment to ego becomes problematic when it gets in the way of your relationships, growth, and life satisfaction. In today’s episode of Your Life in Process, Diana Hill and Dr. Joseph Ciarrochi discuss the practice of non-attachment and how letting go of ego might help you perform better. Non-attachment allows for deeper connection and a feeling of interconnection.

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• >>>Join Diana live October 26 for a free Sangha talk and meditation<<<
• Join the Wise Effort Community to access the live Sangha event and previous recordings.
• Get your ticket (in-person and streaming) to Diana’s Tell the Truth Salon Series, a live gathering in Santa Barbara, California.
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• Order Diana's book, Wise Effort: How to Focus Your Genius Energy on What Matters Most, and receive special bonus gifts.

• See Diana at an upcoming event

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Thanks to the team, Craig and Ashley Hiatt, and Benjamin Gould of Bell & Branch for your beautiful music.

Are you interested in learning quick ways to focus better, be more creative, and improve your mood? In this episode, Diana Hill talks with Elizabeth Ricker about how to use science-backed self-experimentation to upgrade your brain. Elizabeth discusses a new type of IQ that includes executive functioning, emotion regulation, learning and memory, and creativity. She also debunks some myths about neurohacking and walks you through a practice you can try out at home to increase your creativity!

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• >>>Join Diana live October 26 for a free Sangha talk and meditation<<<
• Join the Wise Effort Community to access the live Sangha event and previous recordings.
• Get your ticket (in-person and streaming) to Diana’s Tell the Truth Salon Series, a live gathering in Santa Barbara, California.
• Sign up for Diana's newsletter
• Order Diana's book, Wise Effort: How to Focus Your Genius Energy on What Matters Most, and receive special bonus gifts.

• See Diana at an upcoming event

• Subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
• Leave a 5-star review on Apple so people like you can find the show.
• Follow Diana on Psychology Today, Insight Timer, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Diana’s website.
• Sign up for the free Wise Effort Newsletter.

Thanks to the team, Craig and Ashley Hiatt, and Benjamin Gould of Bell & Branch for your beautiful music.