37. How playing-it-safe can be helpful or unhelpful in your life

We all play it safe, that's the norm and not the exception. Our playing-it-safe tendencies move in a continuum from being adaptive on one end to being unhelpful on the other. And one of the ways we play it safe is by pushing hard and working hard.In this conversation, I interview Diana Hill, a clinical psychologist, co-author of the book ACT daily Journal and co-host of the psychology podcast Psychologists Off The Clock. Dr. Hill discussed how you can catch the cycle of striving.And in the second part of the conversation, Dr. Hill answers this question: How do yoga and acceptance and commitment skills blend together?Dr. Hill shares how to:- Move from mental experiences into the real direct experiences- How to start using an embodied approach to notice internal experiences- How you can practice the exercise "one eye in and one eye out" as a starting point to step back from internal experiences.Finally, at the end of the conversation, you will hear Dr. Hill's recommendation on how to make the best of the ACT Daily Journal, if you just started working on it.You can find more on Dr. Hill on her website.IMPORTANT NEWS: ACT beyond OCD is coming in JANUARY 2022!ACT beyond OCD, a live, cohort-based, online class for any person struggling with OCD is opening its doors in January.If you want to learn how to tackle pesky obsessions using Acceptance and Commitment Skills and Exposure, make sure to register on the waitlist.Please keep in mind that we only run this class twice a year!(*) Show notes and resources of this episode(*) Receive free weekly science-based, compassionate, and actionable skills to stop ineffective playing-it-safe(*) Figure out your playing-it-safe profile in 5 minutes and identify the key thinking strategies that keep you living in your head(*) Learn ACT skills for anxious achievers by taking Dr. Z. ACT courses Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.