PLAYING-IT-SAFE

Imagine what would happen if you made choices to give just 10% more of yourself to your career? 

Imagine if you make choices to give just 15% more of yourself to your relationships?

Imagine how your li…

One way in which we play-it-safe is by “discounting what’s important to us or minimizing our needs.” Of course, in relationships sometimes we prioritize the relationships’ needs versus our individual…

I never have heard a person say "I'm concerned about how kind, caring, and compassionate I'm with myself."

Most of us may go into a judgmental mode when making a mistake, saying the wrong thing, or lo…

The fear of being a failure is more common than what we know, and it drives many struggles: perfectionism, procrastination, low moods, and many more.

But are you aware of how it shows up and how you h…

Do you ever wonder how a person makes ideas happen? How a person creates a concept and puts it into action in a campaign, art, or book? How do ideas scale to the point that they're so popular and wel…

When I ask people how often they get lost in their thoughts, most of them say "a lot." There wasn't a single I've talked to who said "never." Perhaps, that's not a surprise.

Our minds are a powerful c…

"Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of

worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection

to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets don…

A lot of our struggles come from holding onto thoughts as rules - ruling-thoughts - without checking how they work in our day-to-day life. In this episode, I discuss 3 specific ruling-thoughts that c…

Imagine for a moment that all knowledge is represented in the shape of a pie that adds up to 100%; there is maybe 5% of things we know, another 15% of what we don’t know, and 80% of things we don’t k…

In this week's episode of the Playing-it-Safe podcast, I chat with Sarah Peck, M.A., founder of Startup Parent, an open water swimmer, a trained yoga teacher, and a writer.

In this conversation, Sarah…

"Values" is a word that gets thrown around a great deal these days, and it means different things to different people. In this episode, Dr. Z describes what values are within Acceptance and Commitmen…

From the outside our lives may look great, fun, and perfect!

But sometimes, our lives get messy, complicated, and hard to handle because unexpected things happen. On top of that, some contextual situa…

Do you struggle with overthinking problems? Do you think and think to the point of feeling anxious, hopeless, or stressed out? Have you ever tried to “think your way out” of one of these thought spir…

In this conversation you will hear how Dr. Jill Stoddard, a TEDx speaker, author, ACT clinician, and mother of two children, practices self-compassion, develops a growth- mindset, and faces her fears…

In this episode, Dr. Z. share with you some tips on how to practice mindfulness-on-the-go when things go wrong, south, and terribly bad.

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Few times we have the opportunity to see how therapists walk the walk, put into action what they know about managing fears, anxieties and worries, and what it means to make a shift from struggling to…

Mindfulness practices go hand-in-hand with compassion practices. There are so many ways to put them into action in our lives.

In this episode, I share a brief tip that you can practice anytime and any…

One of the roots of humility comes from Latin and it means "from earth." Humility is about being grounded and recognizing that we're humans, flawed, and fallible.

This second part of my conversation w…

In this episode, Dr. Z shares how to practice mindfulness on-the-go when dealing with overwhelming fear-based emotions, why practicing mindfulness-on-the-go in your day-to-day life is important, and …

Many of us grew up in a world that told us that we should be fearless, jump off the cliff, and eliminate fear from our lives. In a very intimate conversation, I chat with Steve Hayes, Ph.D., a co-fou…