In todays episode we discuss the traps we fall into when things don’t pan out as we expect. Do we fall into our inflexible patterns which lead to suffering or are we able to adapt and be flexible. From avoiding movie trailers to not pinning our hopes that the Dave Matthew’s Band will play a particular song, we discuss the importance of utilizing our ACT skills to “go with the flow” rather than become ridges and resort to being “no with the flow ..read more

Cue the foreboding music from the movie Jaws todays episode focuses on the sharks in all of us that want to keep swimming because if the shark stops we sink into deep dark waters. Today we talk about the difference between committing action as an act of attraction versus an act of avoidance and the importance of facing our demons while chasing our stars ..read more

Let’s face it, only playing defense isn’t enough in the battle against psychological inflexibility. The truth is we need a good offense as well as a good defense. Today we have a chat about using defense with defusion and offense with fusion and knowing how to use them differentially. Pulling simple wisdoms from Dave Matthew Band songs and avoiding the case of the Mondays the secretary from Office Space warned us about we discuss differential defusion and how it contributes to our pursuit of psychological flexibility ..read more

We go unplugged, no script, all stutters, “ums”, and popped “p’s” to discuss the art of listening and how invalidating advice can be when people we care about are being vulnerable… And some how Pulp Fiction gets mentioned ..read more

From really bad Neil DeGrasse Tyson impersonations to the band Tool; comes a conversation about how we develop an aversion to effort and how it leads to psychological inflexibilities ..read more

Today we talk concerts; from Dave Matthews Band, to Mutemath, to that great School of Rock band in South Miami down the street from my office we have a conversation about the Eternity we have in the Now and the importance of embracing the Now with gratitude, for later is not guaranteed, so start embracing Now with a big warm Hug ..read more

Tapping into the imagination, inspiration, and commitment of Walt Disney comes a conversation about the kind of psychological flexibility one needs to chase dreams and the dangers of the Four Horseman of the InFlexibility Apocaplypse; FEAR ..read more

We are back! Chatting about the torment of golfing, to the trials in CrossFit, and the tone deafness of guitar playing. Today’s episode is a discussion of the importance of mindset, how a growth mindset breeds resiliency, and uses the processes of psychological flexibility to help us keep swimming, while a fixed mindset traps us into a world of limits and stagnation, a place of psychological inflexibility ..read more

Not quite an episode about the Animaniacs, but an episode about Apopheniacs, and our tendencies to pull from our fused judgments in making mountains out of molehills, when our minds desperately create stories in the absence of information. A conversation about the need to see things free from our preconceived notions and to fight our inner Sherlock Holmes, fighting the urge to connect dots that are not to be connected in an effort to be psychologically flexible ..read more

A conversation about what we put into our bodies and minds, and an analysis of where we put our energies, efforts, and resources; how we fall into the trap of being victims of the moment, rather than nourishing ourselves for tomorrow in the continued pursuit of psychological flexibility, in the direction of progress rather than the aimless direction of digression or regression ..read more