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"You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose. I'm way beyond that."- Bob Dylan.We often play-it-safe by hiding, avoiding, minimizing, and acting as if we're not struggling. But it's human to struggle; it's human to ask for compassion; it's human to be embarrassed; it's human to be vulnerable.In the first part of this conversation with Seth Gillihan, Ph.D., he kindly shares:- His health struggles- How he uses behavioral steps to navigate his day- How he uses mindfulness to distinguish what he has control of and what he doesn't- How he deals with shameful feelings.In the second part of this conversation, Seth shares how he and his daughter collaborated together to write the CBT Deck for Kids and Teens.I hope you find this conversation helpful and hope it motivates you to be more compassionate with yourself.__IMPORTANT NEWS: ACT beyond OCD is happening, JANUARY, 2022!ACT beyond OCD, a live, and 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 in the waitlist:www.actbeyondocd.comPlease keep in mind that we only run this class twice a year! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

220: Jess Hull's 3000m Indoor NR | Pat Tiernan in Houston   Brad's out of isolation and eases his calf back into running. Julian's also out of isolation and goes hard on his head. Brady returns and catches us up on his training and family life with the new addition. Jess Hull breaks a long standing 3000m Indoor National Record of 8:39.79 at Texas A&M, College Station. https://www.instagram.com/p/CYzkLA4lFon/    Pat Tiernan runs 60:55 to place 6th in the Houston Half Marathon, and stands fourth on the all-time list, after departing the Oregon Track Club and joining Alistair & Amy Cragg's new Puma Distance Group. Pat Tiernan Race Recap & the process of leaving Nike/joining Puma via Flotrack The Houston Marathon also saw an impressive day in female distance running with Sara Hall setting an American Record of 67:15 in the Half Marathon and Kiera D'Amato breaking the American Marathon Record in 2:19:12, running nearly 10 minutes clear of second. Houston Marathon & Half Marathon Results   Boston Marathon Announces a deep field featuring Olympians and returning champions, among them is Paralympian Michael Roeger. 2022 Boston Marathon Elite Field Announcement https://www.instagram.com/p/CYrYsZulGR8/    Duncan Miller from the ACT posts a 3:57.04 Indoor Mile at the UW Indoor Preview in Washington, USA ahead of fellow Princeton teammate and Olympic Steeplechaser Ed Trippas running 4:02.07. 2022 UW Indoor Preview Results Two listener questions, first one asks how the boys would go about designing the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Marathon course. Rob De Castella winning the 1982 Commonwealth Games Marathon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-VvFAFWb3w  Second listener question asks about who's in athlete management and whether there's a way for this to be expanded upon. Brady gets loose on some of the things said during his absence, then Moose goes Loose on the current leadership in Australia. The boys wrap up with their brief tips to take out the upcoming Zatopek:10 on January 26th. Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/insiderunningpodcast Opening and Closing Music is Undercover of my Skin by Benny Walker. www.bennywalkermusic.com For shoes or running apparel contact Julian at: https://www.facebook.com/therunningcompanyballarat/ Join the conversation at: https://www.facebook.com/insiderunningpodcast/ To donate and show your support for the show: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9K9WQCZNA2KAN

What's up to my tremulous tree swallows and concordant cassowaries! Welcome back to the BNP and thank you for joining! To my patrons, y'all are the seed syllable in my mantra meditation, thank you for the kundalini bliss tingles! This week's episode is an exercise in the yin-yang style weaving of opposites. (This is apropos, as this week's featured veggie, the Vishuddhi chakra, harmonizes opposite thought patterns via the purifying filter of the throat center.) You already know, we've got those absurdist audio morsels you know and love. We've got an update on Major Biden, the feistiest and most fun first doggo ever, who kept biting secret service chuds (folks, can we blame him?). And finally, for our most delicious veggies this week, we continue along the path of chakra  progression, alighting upon our 5th chakra, the sublimating vibrational vortex of Vishuddhi, the Throat Chakra, whose seed syllable is HAM. Vishuddhi, or throat chakra,  is the purification center of our energy system, a sort of Brita filter for our voice. In Sanskrit, Suddhi means to purify, and Chakra means a wheel or vortex or energy. Vishuddhi chakra is thus a filter for our communications with the world and the cosmos. Thus, it can be a source of divine nectar or a well of poison (you decide by your vibes!). In the Indian mythology, Lord Shiva is said to have drank the poison of a great snake to save the world, which can be seen as a blue tinge in his throat.  The sage who meditates on Vishuddhi chakra becomes eloquent and wise, enjoys uninterrupted peace of mind, learns about past, present and future, becomes adept at magickal and occult practices, and stays free of diseases and sorrow, so that their words may radiate power and positivity, for the benefit of all beings. Won't you please rate, review and subscribe to the BNP wherever you listen to podcasts? Thank you for spreading the word and telling a friend!There's a new way you can support the BNP! Make a one-time, small donation at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/noetics!Help me stay on the air by becoming a beloved patron at www.patreon.com/noetics.  Signing up at any tier gets you a complimentary mole rat*. Act now: mole rats going fast!Check me out on IG @ barbarian_noetics!Email the pod at: barbarian.noetics@gmail.comUntil next week,be exquisite to one anotherand compassionate towards yourself.One Love,ConanTRACKLIST FOR THIS EPISODE Dykotomi - Corvid CrunkMeditative Mind - Throat Chakra Chants Seed Mantra SAULT - MasterpieceChillhop Year Mix 2021Saturday Night Live Theme (1985)El Michael Affair - Enfant Sasha Marie Radio #55Xitotepec - Musica MayaSylvers - New HorizonDillinger - Cocaine in the BrainLINKSThe Sanskrit Channel: Understanding Vishuddha Chakra (Video)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNFJF2EvSNEEmptying the Cup (Amazing Blog): https://www.emptyingthecup.com/vishuddhi-the-throat-chakra/*no mole rat for you!! Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/noetics)

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Tonight we are going to tell you a tale. A superb tale. A tale as old as time that takes us from the beginnings of civilization until today. This tale will thrill you and chill you. It may elicit feelings of dread and sadness. It may make you angry.  At times it may make you uneasily laugh like the friend at school that was kicked in the balls but couldn't show his weakness. It's a subject that people continually argue about and debate with savage ferocity. Tonight we are talking about executions! We'll talk about the methods and the reasons behind executions throughout the years. Then we'll talk about some famous executions, as well as some of the more fucked up ones. And by fucked up, we mean botched. Bad stuff. This episode isn't meant to be a debate for or against executions but merely to discuss them and the crazy shit surrounding them. So with all that being said, Let's rock and roll!           Capital punishment has been practiced in the history of virtually all known societies and places. The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes.  The Code of Hammurabi was one of the earliest and most complete written legal codes and was proclaimed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, who reigned from 1792 to 1750 B.C. Hammurabi expanded the city-state of Babylon along the Euphrates River to unite all of southern Mesopotamia. The Hammurabi code of laws, a collection of 282 rules, established standards for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice. Hammurabi's Code was carved onto a massive, finger-shaped black stone stele (pillar) that was looted by invaders and finally rediscovered in 1901. The text, compiled at the end of Hammurabi's reign, is less a proclamation of principles than a collection of legal precedents, set between prose celebrating Hammurabi's just and pious rule. Hammurabi's Code provides some of the earliest examples of the doctrine of “lex talionis,” or the laws of retribution, sometimes better known as “an eye for an eye the greatest soulfly song ever!   The Code of Hammurabi includes many harsh punishments, sometimes demanding the removal of the guilty party's tongue, hands, breasts, eye, or ear. But the code is also one of the earliest examples of an accused person being considered innocent until proven guilty. The 282 laws are all written in an “if-then form.” For example, if a man steals an ox, he must pay back 30 times its value. The laws range from family law to professional contracts and administrative law, often outlining different standards of justice for the three classes of Babylonian society—the propertied class, freedmen, and slaves.   A doctor's fee for curing a severe wound would be ten silver shekels for a gentleman, five shekels for a freedman, and two shekels for a slave. So, it was less expensive when you were a lower-class citizen. Penalties for malpractice followed the same scheme: a doctor who killed a wealthy patient would have his hands cut off, while only financial restitution was required if the victim was a slave. Crazy!   Some examples of the death penalty laws at this time are as follows:         If a man accuses another man and charges him with homicide but cannot bring proof against him, his accuser shall be killed. Holy shit.         If a man breaks into a house, they shall kill him and hang him in front of that same house.          The death penalty was also part of the Hittite Code in the 14th century B.C., but only partially. The most severe offenses typically were punished through enslavement, although crimes of a sexual nature often were punishable by death. The Hittite laws, also known as the Code of the Nesilim, constitute an ancient legal code dating from c. 1650 – 1500 BCE. The Hittite laws were kept in use for roughly 500 years, and many copies show that other than changes in grammar, what might be called the 'original edition' with its apparent disorder, was copied slavishly; no attempt was made to 'tidy up' by placing even apparent afterthoughts in a more appropriate position.    The Draconian constitution, or Draco's code, was a written law code enforced by Draco near the end of the 7th century BC; its composition started around 621BC. It was written in response to the unjust interpretation and modification of oral law by Athenian aristocrats. Aristotle, the chief source for knowledge of Draco, claims that he was the first to write Athenian laws and that Draco established a constitution enfranchising hoplites, the lower class soldiers. The Draconian laws were most noteworthy for their harshness; they were written in blood rather than ink. Death was prescribed for almost all criminal offenses. Solon, who was the magistrate in 594 BCE, later repealed Draco's code and published new laws, retaining only Draco's homicide statutes.   In the 5th century B.C., the Roman Law of the Twelve Tables also contained the death penalty. Death sentences were carried out by such means as beheading, boiling in oil, burying alive, burning, crucifixion, disembowelment, drowning, flaying alive, hanging, impalement, stoning, strangling, being thrown to wild animals, and quartering. We'll talk more about that later. The earliest attempt by the Romans to create a code of law was the Laws of the Twelve Tables. A commission of ten men (Decemviri) was appointed (c. 455 B.C.) to draw up a code of law binding on patrician and plebeian and which consuls would have to enforce. The commission produced enough statutes to fill ten bronze tablets.    Mosaic Law codified many capital crimes. There is evidence that Jews used many different techniques, including stoning, hanging, beheading, crucifixion (copied from the Romans), throwing the criminal from a rock, and sawing asunder. The most infamous execution of history occurred approximately 29 AD with the crucifixion of that one guy, Jesus Christ, outside Jerusalem. About 300 years later, Emperor Constantine, after converting to Christianity, abolished crucifixion and other cruel death penalties in the Roman Empire. In 438, the Code of Theodosius made more than 80 crimes punishable by death.    Britain influenced the colonies more than any other country and has a long history of punishment by death. About 450 BC, the death penalty was often enforced by throwing the condemned into a quagmire, which is not only the character from Family Guy, and another word for dilemma but in this case is a soft boggy area of land. By the 10th Century, hanging from the gallows was the most frequent execution method. William the Conqueror opposed taking life except in war and ordered no person to be hanged or executed for any offense. Nice guy, right? However, he allowed criminals to be mutilated for their crimes.    During the middle ages, capital punishment was accompanied by torture. Most barons had a drowning pit as well as gallows, and they were used for major as well as minor crimes. For example, in 1279, two hundred and eighty-nine Jews were hanged for clipping coins. What the fuck is that you may be wondering. Well, Clipping was taking a small amount of metal off the edge of hand-struck coins. Over time, the precious metal clippings could be saved up and melted into bullion (a lump of precious metal) to be sold or used to make new coins. Under Edward I, two gatekeepers were killed because the city gate had not been closed in time to prevent the escape of an accused murderer. Burning was the punishment for women's high treason, and men were hanged, drawn, and quartered. Beheading was generally accepted for the upper classes. One could be burned to death for marrying a Jew. Pressing became the penalty for those who would not confess to their crimes—the executioner placed heavy weights on the victim's chest until death. On the first day, he gave the victim a small quantity of bread, on the second day a small drink of bad water, and so on until he confessed or died. Under the reign of Henry VIII, the number of those put to death is estimated as high as 72,000. Boiling to death was another penalty approved in 1531, and there are records to show some people cooked for up to two hours before death took them. When a woman was burned, the executioner tied a rope around her neck when she was connected to the stake. When the flames reached her, she could be strangled from outside the ring of fire. However, this often failed, and many were burnt alive.   In Britain, the number of capital offenses continually increased until the 1700's when two hundred and twenty-two crimes were punishable by death. These included stealing from a house for forty shillings, stealing from a shop the value of five shillings, robbing a rabbit warren, cutting down a tree, and counterfeiting tax stamps. However, juries tended not to convict when the penalty was significant, and the crime was not. Reforms began to take place. In 1823, five laws were passed, removing about a hundred crimes from the death penalty. Between 1832 and 1837, many capital offenses were swept away. In 1840, there was a failed attempt to abolish all capital punishment. Through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, more and more capital punishments were abolished, not only in Britain but also all across Europe; until today, only a few European countries retain the death penalty.   The first recorded execution in the English American colonies was in 1608 when officials executed George Kendall of Virginia for supposedly plotting to betray the British to the Spanish. In 1612, Virginia's governor, Sir Thomas Dale, implemented the Divine, Moral, and Martial Laws that made death the penalty for even minor offenses such as stealing grapes, killing chickens, killing dogs or horses without permission, or trading with Indians. Seven years later, these laws were softened because Virginia feared that no one would settle there. Well, no shit.   In 1622, the first legal execution of a criminal, Daniel Frank, occurred in, of course, Virginia for the crime of theft. Some colonies were very strict in using the death penalty, while others were less so. In Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first execution was in 1630, but the earliest capital statutes did not occur until later. Under the Capital Laws of New England that went into effect between 1636-1647, the death penalty was set forth for pre-meditated murder, sodomy, witchcraft, adultery, idolatry, blasphemy, assault in anger, rape, statutory rape, manstealing, perjury in a capital trial, rebellion, manslaughter, poisoning, and bestiality. A scripture from the Old Testament accompanied early laws. By 1780, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts only recognized seven capital crimes: murder, sodomy, burglary, buggery, arson, rape, and treason. And for those wondering, The Buggery Act of 1533, formally An Act for the punishment of the vice of Buggerie, was an Act of the Parliament of England that was passed during the reign of Henry VIII. It was the country's first civil sodomy law.   The Act defined buggery as an unnatural sexual act against the will of God and Man. This term was later determined by the courts to include only anal penetration and bestiality.   The New York colony instituted the so-called Duke's Laws of 1665. This list of laws directed the death penalty for denial of the true God, pre-meditated murder, killing someone who had no weapon of defense, killing by lying in wait or by poisoning, sodomy, buggery, kidnapping, perjury in a capital trial, traitorous denial of the king's rights or raising arms to resist his authority, conspiracy to invade towns or forts in the colony and striking one's mother or father (upon complaint of both). The two colonies that were more lenient concerning capital punishment were South Jersey and Pennsylvania. In South Jersey, there was no death penalty for any crime, and there were only two crimes, murder, and treason, punishable by death. Way to go, Jersey Raccoons!   Some states were more severe. For example, by 1837, North Carolina required death for the crimes of murder, rape, statutory rape, slave-stealing, stealing banknotes, highway robbery, burglary, arson, castration, buggery, sodomy, bestiality, dueling where death occurs, (and this insidious shit), hiding a slave with intent to free him, taking a free Negro out of state to sell him, bigamy, inciting slaves to rebel, circulating seditious literature among slaves, accessory to murder, robbery, burglary, arson, or mayhem and others. However, North Carolina did not have a state prison and, many said, no suitable alternative to capital punishment. So, instead of building a fucking prison to hold criminals, they just made the penalty for less severe crimes punishable by death. What the shit, North Carolina?!?   The first reforms of the death penalty occurred between 1776-1800. Thomas Jefferson and four others, authorized to undertake a complete revision of Virginia's laws, proposed a law that recommended the death penalty for only treason and murder. After a stormy debate, the legislature defeated the bill by one vote. The writing of European theorists such as Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Bentham had a significant effect on American intellectuals, as did English Quaker prison reformers John Bellers and John Howard.   Organizations were formed in different colonies for the abolition of the death penalty and to relieve poor prison conditions. Dr. Benjamin Rush, a renowned Philadelphia citizen, proposed abolishing capital punishment. William Bradford, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, was ordered to investigate capital punishment. In 1793 he published “An Enquiry How Far the Punishment of Death is Necessary” in Pennsylvania. Bradford strongly insisted that the death penalty be retained but admitted it was useless in preventing certain crimes. He said the death penalty made convictions harder to obtain because in Pennsylvania, and indeed in all states, the death penalty was mandatory. Juries would often not return a guilty verdict because of this fact, which makes sense. In response, in 1794, the Pennsylvania legislature abolished capital punishment for all crimes except murder “in the first degree,” the first time murder had been broken down into “degrees.” In New York, in 1796, the legislature authorized construction of the state's first prison, abolished whipping, and reduced the number of capital offenses from thirteen to two. Virginia and Kentucky passed similar reform bills. Four more states reduced their capital crimes: Vermont in 1797 to three; Maryland in 1810, to four; New Hampshire in 1812, to two and Ohio in 1815 to two. Each of these states built state penitentiaries. A few states went in the opposite direction. Rhode Island restored the death penalty for rape and arson; Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Connecticut raised death crimes from six to ten, including sodomy, maiming, robbery, and forgery. Many southern states made more crimes capital, especially for slaves. Assholes.   The first profound reform era occurred between 1833-1853. Public executions were attacked as cruel. Sometimes tens of thousands of eager viewers would show up to view hangings; local merchants would sell souvenirs and alcohol. Which, I'm not sure if I hate or absolutely love. Fighting and pushing would often break out as people jockeyed for the best view of the hanging or the corpse! Onlookers often cursed the widow or the victim and would try to tear down the scaffold or the rope for keepsakes. Violence and drunkenness often ruled towns far into the night after “justice had been served.” People are fucking weird, dude. Many states enacted laws providing private hangings. Rhode Island (1833), Pennsylvania (1834), New York (1835), Massachusetts (1835), and New Jersey (1835) all abolished public hangings. By 1849, fifteen states were holding private hangings. This move was opposed by many death penalty abolitionists who thought public executions would eventually cause people to cry out against execution itself. For example, in 1835, Maine enacted what was in effect a moratorium on capital punishment after over ten thousand people who watched a hanging had to be restrained by police after they became unruly and began fighting. All felons sentenced to death would have to remain in prison at hard labor and could not be executed until one year had elapsed and then only on the governor's order. No governor ordered an execution under the “Maine Law” for twenty-seven years. Though many states argued the merits of the death penalty, no state went as far as Maine. The most influential reformers were the clergy, of course. Ironically, the small but influential group that opposed the abolitionists was the clergy.    Ok, let's talk about electrocution. Want to know how the electric chair came to be? Well, Electrocution as a method of execution came onto the scene in an implausible manner. Edison Company, with its DC (direct current) electrical systems, began attacking Westinghouse Company and its AC (alternating current) electrical systems as they were pressing for nationwide electrification with alternating current. To show how dangerous AC could be, Edison Company began public demonstrations by electrocuting animals. People reasoned that if electricity could kill animals, it could kill people. In 1888, New York approved the dismantling of its gallows and the building of the nation's first electric chair. It held its first victim, William Kemmler, in 1890, and even though the first electrocution was clumsy at best, other states soon followed the lead.   Between 1917 and 1955, the death penalty abolition movement again slowed. Washington, Arizona, and Oregon in 1919-20 reinstated the death penalty. In 1924, the first execution by cyanide gas took place in Nevada, when Tong war gang murderer Gee Jon became its first victim. Get this shit. The frigging state wanted to secretly pump cyanide gas into Jon's cell at night while he was asleep as a more humanitarian way of carrying out the penalty. Still, technical difficulties prohibited this, and a special “gas chamber” was hastily built. Other concerns developed when less “civilized” methods of execution failed. In 1930, Mrs. Eva Dugan became the first female to be executed by Arizona. The execution was botched when the hangman misjudged the drop, and Mrs. Dugan's head was ripped from her body. More states converted to electric chairs and gas chambers. During this time, abolitionist organizations sprang up all across the country, but they had little effect. Several stormy protests were held against the execution of certain convicted felons, like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The couple was convicted of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and valuable nuclear weapon designs. At that time, the United States was supposedly the only country with nuclear weapons. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the United States federal government in 1953 in the Sing Sing correctional facility in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to receive that penalty during peacetime. However, these protests held little opposition against the death penalty itself. In fact, during the anti-Communist period, with all its fears and hysteria, Texas Governor Allan Shivers seriously suggested that capital punishment be the penalty for membership in the Communist Party.   The movement against capital punishment revived again between 1955 and 1972.   England and Canada completed exhaustive studies which were largely critical of the death penalty, and these were widely circulated in the U.S.  Death row criminals gave their moving accounts of capital punishment in books and films. Convicted robber, kidnapper, and rapist Caryl Chessman, published “Cell 2455 Death Row” and “Trial by Ordeal.” Barbara Graham's story was utilized in the book and movie “I Want to Live!” after her execution. She was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison on the same day as two convicted accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins. All of them were involved in a robbery that led to the murder of an elderly widow.  Television shows were broadcast on the death penalty. Hawaii and Alaska ended capital punishment in 1957, and Delaware did so the following year. Controversy over the death penalty gripped the nation, forcing politicians to take sides. Delaware restored the death penalty in 1961. Michigan abolished capital punishment for treason in 1963. Voters in 1964 abolished the death penalty in Oregon. In 1965 Iowa, New York, West Virginia, and Vermont ended the death penalty. New Mexico abolished the death penalty in 1969.   The controversy over the death penalty continues today. There is a strong movement against lawlessness propelled by citizens' fears of security. Politicians at the national and state levels are taking the floor of legislatures and calling for more frequent death penalties, death penalties for more crimes, and longer prison sentences. Those opposing these moves counter by arguing that harsher sentences do not slow crime and that crime is slightly or the same as in the past. FBI statistics show murders are now up. (For example, 9.3 persons per 100,000 were murdered in 1973, and 9.4 persons per 100,000 were murdered in 1992, and as of today, it's upwards of 14.4 people per 100,000. This upswing might be because of more advanced crime technology, as well as more prominent news and media.   Capital punishment has been completely abolished in all European countries except for Belarus and Russia, which has a moratorium and has not conducted an execution since September 1996. The complete ban on capital punishment is enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (EU). Two widely adopted protocols of the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe are thus considered a central value. Of all modern European countries, San Marino, Portugal, and the Netherlands were the first to abolish capital punishment, whereas only Belarus still practices capital punishment in some form or another. In 2012, Latvia became the last EU member state to abolish capital punishment in wartime.   Ok, so now let's switch gears from the history of capital punishment and executions in general and get into what we know you beautiful bastards come here for. Let's talk about some methods used throughout the years, and then we'll talk about some famous executions and some fucked and messed up ones.   Methods:   We've discussed a few of these before, but some are so fucked up we're going to discuss them again.   Boiling To Death:   A slow and agonizing punishment, this method traditionally saw the victim gradually lowered — feet-first — into boiling oil, water, or wax (although uses of boiling wine and molten lead have also been recorded).   If the shock of the pain did not render them immediately unconscious, the person would experience the excruciating sensation of their outer layers of skin, utterly destroyed by immersion burns, dissolving right off their body, followed by the complete breakdown of the fatty tissue, boiling away beneath.   Emperor Nero is said to have dispatched thousands of Christians in this manner. At the same time, in the Middle Ages, the primary recipients of the punishment were not killers or rapists but coin forgers, particularly in Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. In Britain, meanwhile, King Henry VIII introduced the practice for executing those who used poison to commit murder.   Shockingly, the practice is believed to have been carried out as recently as 2002, when the government of Uzbekistan, led by Islam Karimov, was alleged to have tortured several suspected terrorists to death by boiling.   The Blood Eagle:   A technique ascribed to ancient Norse warriors, the blood eagle, mixed brutality and poetic imagery that only the Vikings could. First, the victim's back would be hacked open, and the skin ripped apart, exposing the spinal column.   The ribs would then be snapped from the spine and forcibly bent backward until they faced outwards from the body, forming a pair of bloody, shattered eagle's wings. As a horrifying finale, the lungs would then be pulled from the body cavity and coated with stinging salt, causing eventual death by suffocation.   There is some question whether this technique was ever actually used as the only accounts come from Norse literature. Odin did this shit, you know it.   Several scholars claim that the act we know of today is simply a result of poor translating and misunderstands the strong association of the eagle with blood and death in Norse imagery. That said, every account is consistent in that in each case, the victim is a nobleman being punished for murdering his father.   The good news for any poor soul who might have suffered this brutal death? The agony and blood loss from the initial wounds would probably have caused them to pass out long before the lungs were removed from their bodies.    Impalement:   Most famously used by Vlad the Impaler, 15th-century ruler of Wallachia (in present-day Romania) and inspiration for Count Dracula, the act of impalement has a long, grim history. While images tend to depict people skewered through the midsection and then held aloft — in a manner that would almost certainly bring about a rapid death — the actual process was a much longer, horrifically drawn-out ordeal.   Traditionally, the stake would be partially sharpened and planted, point up, in the ground. The victim would then be placed over the spike as it was inserted partway into the rectum or vagina.   As their body weight dragged them further onto the pole, the semi-greased wooden stake would force its way up through their body, piercing organs with agonizing slowness as it eventually penetrated the entire torso, finally tearing an exit wound through the skin of the shoulder, neck or throat. Holy shishkabob. Or bill. Or Karen.   The earliest records of the torture come from 1772 B.C. in Babylon, where the aforementioned King Hammurabi ordered a woman be executed in this way for killing her husband. But its use continued until as recently as the 20th century when the Ottoman government employed the technique during the Armenian genocide of 1915-1923. Which is super fucked up.   According to some accounts, it could take the victim — exposed, bleeding, and writhing in tormented agony — as long as eight whole days to die. Oh my hell!   Keelhauling:   Walking the plank might not be the most pleasant of deaths, but it seems moderately more humane than the other favored maritime punishment of keelhauling.   A punishment that often ended in death due to the severity of the wounds sustained (or was simply carried out until the point of death), it saw the victim, legs weighted and suspended from a rope, dropped from the bow of the ship, and then rapidly pulled underwater along the length of the hull — and over the keel (the beam that runs longitudinally down the center of the underside to the stern.   In the age of old, old wooden sailing ships, the hull of a vessel would generally be coated in a thick layer of barnacles, whose shells could be rock hard and razor-sharp.   As the drowning sailor was yanked relentlessly through the saltwater, these barnacles would strip the skin from his body, gouging out raw chunks of flesh and even, by some accounts, tearing off whole limbs or severing the head.   If the sailor was still alive, they might be hung from the mast for 15 minutes before going in again. In some cases, the victim would have an oil-soaked sponge — containing a breath of air — stuffed into their mouth to prevent a “merciful” drowning.   Employed mainly by the Dutch and the French from the 1500s until it was abolished in 1853, accounts of its use date back to Greece in 800 B.C.   The Roman Candle:   Many of the worst execution methods ever devised involve fire — from burning witches at stake in medieval Britain to roasting criminals alive in the hot metal insides of the brazen bull in Ancient Greece — but few match the sheer lack of humanity as the Roman Candle.   A rumored favorite of the mad Roman Emperor Nero, this method saw the subject tied to a stake and smeared with flammable pitch (tree or plant resin), then set ablaze, slowly burning to death from the feet up.   What sets this above the many other similar methods is that the victims were sometimes lined up outside to provide the lighting for one of Nero's evening parties.   Being Hanged, Drawn, And Quartered:   First recorded in England during the 13th century, this unusually extreme — even for the time — mode of execution was made the statutory punishment for treason in 1351. Though it was intended to be an act of such barbarous severity that no one would ever risk committing a treasonous act, there were nevertheless plenty of recipients over the next 500 years.   The process of being hanged, drawn, and quartered began with the victim being dragged to the site of execution while strapped to a wooden panel, which was in turn tied to a horse.   They would then experience a slow hanging, in which, rather than being dropped to the traditional quick death of a broken neck, they would instead be left to choke horribly as the rope tore up the skin of their throat, their body weight dragging them downwards.   Some had the good fortune to die at this stage, including the infamous Gunpowder Plot conspirator Guy Fawkes, who ensured a faster death by leaping from the gallows.   Once half-strangled, the drawing would begin. The victim would be strapped down and then slowly disemboweled, their stomachs sliced open, and their intestines and other significant organs hacked apart and pulled — “drawn” — from the body.   The genitals would often be mutilated and ripped from between their legs. Those unlucky enough to still be alive at this point might witness their organs burned in front of them before they were finally decapitated.   Once death had finally claimed them, the recipient's body would be carved into four pieces — or “quartered” — and the parts sent to prominent areas of the country as a warning to others.   The head would often be taken to the infamous Tower of London, where it would be impaled on a spike and placed on the walls “for the mockery of London.”   Rat Torture:   As recently depicted in that horrible show, Game Of Thrones, rat torture is ingenious in its disgusting simplicity. In its most basic form, a bucket containing live rats is placed on the exposed torso of the victim, and heat is applied to the base of the bucket.   The rats, crazy with fear from the heat, tear and gnaw their way into the abdomen of the victim, clawing and ripping through skin, flesh, organs, and intestines in their quest to escape.   Possessing the most powerful biting and chewing motion of any rodent, rats can make short work of a human stomach. Along with the unimaginable pain, the victim would also suffer the sick horror of feeling the large, filthy creatures writhing around inside their guts as they died.   While associated with Elizabethan England — where the Tower of London was said to have housed a “Dungeon of Rats,” a pitch-black room below high watermark that would draw in rats from the River Thames to torment the room's inhabitants — the practice has been used far more recently.   General Pinochet is said to have employed the technique during his dictatorship of Chile (1973-1990), while reports from Argentina during the National Reorganization Process in the late 1970s and early '80s claimed victims were subjected to a version in which live rats — or sometimes spiders — were inserted into the subject's body via a tube in the rectum or vagina….yep.   Bamboo Torture   Forcing thin shards of bamboo under the fingernails has long been cited as an interrogation method, but bamboo has been used to creatively — and slowly — execute a person, too. Allegedly used by the Japanese on American prisoners of war, it saw the victim tied down to a frame over a patch of newly sprouting bamboo plants.   One of the fastest-growing plants in the world, capable of up to three feet of growth in 24 hours, the sharp-tipped plants would slowly pierce the victim's skin — and then continue to grow. The result was death by gradual, continuous, multiple impalements, the equivalent of being dropped on a bed of sharpened stakes in terrible slow motion.   Despite the practice having roots in the former areas of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Siam (now Thailand) in the 19th century, there are no proven instances of it being used during WWII.   It's certainly possible, however, and it has been shown that the technique, among the worst execution methods ever, works: A 2008 episode of MythBusters found that bamboo was capable of penetrating a human-sized lump of ballistic gelatin over three days.   https://m.imdb.com/list/ls059738828/

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“It is, I think in the funhouse of this time, a very, very hard thing to feel like the job that you do and the way that you do it, and the life that you've chose as your north star is not there… and not only a thing you always felt was essential, but you really start to understand the word essential and you understand it differently and you understand it doesn't include you.” - Leigh Silverman. We're trying, right? As we emerge from the rubble of this pandemic, lifting the theatre up has been a Herculean feat. In the middle of all this, we as individuals are experiencing existential dread and asking ourselves – as we essential? Sure, we might not be essential workers, but we do have purpose. That's one of the reasons Tony Nominated Director Leigh Silverman chose to direct Jane Wagner's revival of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe starring Saturday Night Live's Cecily Strong.  “It is a play that deals with people who are searching for meaning at a time that feels meaningless,” continues Silverman. It does it through humor and it does it through pathos and it does it through a celebration of community and live theatre. It's the reason why I wanted to do the play. I couldn't imagine coming back to the theatre and doing any other play because this play articulates and recognizes the power of being together in a room full of strangers in the dark laughing and crying about the same things. And I just quoted the play.” In this episode, Leigh and Michael ask the tough questions. What is essential? What is our worth within the industry? But these are the questions that need to be asked. Plus, Leigh keys us into what it's like to direct a revival, the things that needed to be changed / rewritten, fangirling over Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, and the brilliance of Cecily Strong.  And of course – how does the multi-hyphenate help the director? Straight from the director's mouth – learn how the multi-hyphenate identity helps strengthen a theatrical experience by approaching work from different perspectives.  Leigh Silverman has directed on Broadway Violet (Tony nomination); Chinglish; Well; The Lifespan of a Fact, and Grand Horizons. Off-Broadway: American Hero (2ST); Kung Fu (Signature Theatre); The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Playwrights Horizons); The Call (Playwrights Horizons); The Madrid (MTC); Golden Child (Signature Theatre); No Place to Go (Public Theater; Two River Theatre); In the Wake (Center Theatre Group/Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Public Theater, Obie Award, Lortel nomination); Go Back to Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award); From Up Here (MTC, Drama Desk nomination); Yellow Face (Center Theatre Group/The Public Theater); Coraline (MCC/True Love); Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons); Well (The Public Theater; Huntington Theatre; ACT); Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Second Stage Theatre). Recent regional: The Heidi Chronicles (The Guthrie); American Hero (WTF); Chinglish (Goodman Theater, Jeff nomination; West Coast/Hong Kong tour). Upcoming: SUFFS at The Public Theatre.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The title of this episode is a real question I am posing to all of my listeners.  If you knew that you would not fail once again to achieve your desired outcome, what would you do?  Would you tell yourself that's not possible because you always fail?  Or, would you be curious about what makes that opportunity different from all the other ones – to wonder how is it possible that failing isn't an option? If you're curious to know more, please listen carefully.  And after you do, if you want to know even more, take action and go look at the link in the show notes.  And after that, take one more action which is reach out to me with any questions you have.  Please don't wait for this opportunity of a lifetime to pass you by because you weren't curious enough to take the next couple of steps In this episode Dr B talks about: How you can avoid failing and succeed The right scaffolding support and guidance Timing is essential for change Act now so you don't miss the AIA opportunity that ends January 20, 2022 - link below Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life! My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering. Episode Resources: Click the link:  https://www.drbarbaracohen.com/AIA  so you are informed.  There is no obligation to being informed about an amazing opportunity that changes lives! 13 EF Skills:  https://www.drbarbaracohen.com/Executive-Function Take Control of Your Life with MasterClasses: https://www.drbarbaracohen.com/MasterClasses  Join the amazing Living Beyond ADHD Facebook Group & hang out with your peeps Follow me on Dr B Facebook Page and enjoy live videos and more Follow me on InstaGram and enjoy relevant resources Download the mp3 audio file and listen whenever you like. Download the transcript for this episode To Help The Show: Subscribe at your favorite listening spot and my podcast player has social media links (icons) in the episode player so you can share episodes you love with others!  Please rate the show and leave a thoughtful review on iTunes so I know you're benefiting from the episodes.  The greater the number of reviews, the higher the ranking, and the easier it will be for others to find the show; people who also need this information.   Let's put an end to the worldwide needless suffering together!  We can do this!  

Achieving your goals is connected to how well-developed your EF skills and strategies are, and if they're not well-developed, well, you know the rest of the story. And I get it.  Getting the right help for yourself is a Catch-22.  It's challenging because the very skills you need to help yourself are the skills you're missing.  And, there's plenty of resources in the world that offer you a piece of what you need, but not all of it.  How do I know?  Because I was offered a piece here and there for years, and I just got fed-up with the absence of a solution – not a band-aid or a quick fix – but an actual solution to what I was missing and wanting to achieve.  A real solution after so many failed attempts at improving the quality of my life - and none of those pieces helped me get where I am today.  I am not the exception here.  It's not like “oh, you could do it Dr B because of all your training and education in psychology.”  No - It was my curiosity and my absolute determination that drove me to find the answers for myself and then for others. In this episode Dr B talks about: Transforming your life and maintaining your achievements  Life habits that hold you back and feed underachieving You are more than you think Act now so you don't miss the AIA opportunity that ends January 20, 2022 - link below Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life! My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering. Episode Resources: Click the link:  https://www.drbarbaracohen.com/AIA  so you are informed.  There is no obligation to being informed about an amazing opportunity that changes lives! 13 EF Skills:  https://www.drbarbaracohen.com/Executive-Function Take Control of Your Life with MasterClasses: https://www.drbarbaracohen.com/MasterClasses  Join the amazing Living Beyond ADHD Facebook Group & hang out with your peeps Follow me on Dr B Facebook Page and enjoy live videos and more Follow me on InstaGram and enjoy relevant resources Download the mp3 audio file and listen whenever you like. Download the transcript for this episode To Help The Show: Subscribe at your favorite listening spot and my podcast player has social media links (icons) in the episode player so you can share episodes you love with others!  Please rate the show and leave a thoughtful review on iTunes so I know you're benefiting from the episodes.  The greater the number of reviews, the higher the ranking, and the easier it will be for others to find the show; people who also need this information.   Let's put an end to the worldwide needless suffering together!  We can do this!  

Most people abandon their New Year's Resolutions by mid-January. This often occurs because people make resolutions based on what they feel like they should want, rather than what they actually do want. In other words, their goals and resolutions aren't in alignment with their purpose.On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson discuss how we can identify and pursue our purpose, and why it's so valuable to have one in the first place. They explore questions and strategies that can help us develop clarity on what we find meaningful, what our core values are, and how we'd like to spend our time.Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube.Key Topics:0:00: Introduction3:00: Why spend time discussing how to have a purpose?11:00: Nonverbal ways to establish yourself in your purpose12:50: Ways to be flexible that make purpose accessible17:45: Fresh starts help us retain freedom in the present21:20: How to listen to yourself when it's unclear what you want26:05: Getting feedback from others and abandoning doomed pursuits32:10: Moving past the inner critic and fear of letting others down38:10: Five questions to ask yourself48:15: Soul work and sacredness50:30: Doing what helps you look at things differently54:10: RecapSupport the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.Sponsors:From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Find the new CBD+ performance gummies and the whole dosist health line-up today at dosisthealth.com. Use promo code BEINGWELL20 for 20% off your purchase. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world's largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.Connect with the show:Subscribe on iTunesFollow Forrest on YouTubeFollow us on InstagramFollow Forrest on InstagramFollow Rick on FacebookFollow Forrest on FacebookVisit Forrest's website

I desire very little, and what I do desire I desire very little; I have hardly any desires, but if I were to begin my life all over again I would want to have none at all ... Ask for nothing, refuse nothing; we must simply abandon ourselves into the hands of Providence, without nourishing any other desire but to do whatever God wills. St. Paul practiced this act of absolute abandonment at the very moment of his conversion. When he was deprived of his sight, he immediately said, "Lord, what do you want me to do?" [cf. Act 22:10] From that moment on he put himself completely at God's disposal. All our perfection consists precisely in the practical application of this principle. (Spiritual Treatises XXI, O. VI, pp. 383-384) The post Day 3 St. Francis de Sales Novena – Discerning Hearts Podcast appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts.

Winter Storm striking the South, taking aim at the Northeast; President Biden calling the terrifying Texas synagogue standoff "An Act of Terror"; Battling the Omicron surge; Novak Djokovic kicked out of Australia, losing his bid to defend his tournament title.

Much media attention has been rightfully aimed at the recent failures of Congress, but there was, in fact, lawmaking happening at the end of 2021. In this episode, learn about some laws that didn't get much attention, including a law that solves a real problem and a few laws designed to economically punish China. We also take a look at what is happening in Congress as we start 2022 and look for opportunities for effective activism as we enter this Congressional election year. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Support Congressional Dish via Patreon (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536. Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Please take our show note survey! Background Sources Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes CD236: January 6: The Capitol Riot CD232: American Rescue Plan CD155: FirstNet Empowers AT&T CD096: Fast Tracking Fast Track (Trade Promotion Authority) NDAA 2022 Jamie Dupree. Dec 9, 2021. “Who says bipartisanship is dead? It isn't on defense.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Huawui Sanctions Alessandro Civati. Jan 10, 2022. “Huawei Risks - A Government Security Review.” LinkedIn. Craig S. Smith. Sept 29, 2021. “How the Huawei Fight Is Changing the Face of 5G.” IEEE Spectrum. Federal Communications Commission. Mar 12, 2021. “FCC List of Equipment and Services That Pose National Security Threat.” Hadlee Simons. Sept 15, 2020. “More Huawei sanctions go into effect from today. What does that mean?” Android Authority. Julian E. Barnes and Adam Satariano. Mar 17, 2019. “U.S. Campaign to Ban Huawei Overseas Stumbles as Allies Resist.” The New York Times. Build Back Better is Dead Joe Manchin. Dec 19, 2021. “Joe Manchin: 'I cannot vote' for Build Back Better amid 'real' inflation.” Fox News. Jamie Dupree. Dec 3, 2021. “No shutdown but little headway in Congress.” Regular Order. 2022 Spending Department of Homeland Security. “Operation Allies Welcome.” Paul Kane. Jan 12, 2022. “The E-word is poised for a Capitol Hill comeback.” The Washington Post. Voting Rights and Election Reform Cristina Marcos. “House passes voting rights package, setting up Senate filibuster showdown” Jan 13, 2022. The Hill. Zachary B. Wolf. May 19, 2021. “The 5 key elements of Trump's Big Lie and how it came to be.” CNN. The Filibuster Lindsay Wise. Jan 10, 2022. “McConnell Issues Threat to Democrats on Filibuster Changes.” The Wall Street Journal. Tim Lau. Apr 26, 2021. “The Filibuster, Explained.” Brennan Center for Justice. Sarah A. Binder. Apr 22, 2010. “The History of the Filibuster”. Brookings. The Electoral Count Act Miles Parks. Jan 8, 2022. “Congress may change this arcane law to avoid another Jan. 6.” NPR. Laws and Resolutions S.J.Res. 33: A joint resolution joint resolution relating to increasing the debt limit. Sponsor: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Status: Signed into law by the President on Dec 16, 2021 S. 610: Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act Sponsor: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) Status: Signed into law by the President on Dec 10, 2021 S. 1605: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 Status: Signed into law by the President on Dec 27, 2021 S. 3377: Capitol Police Emergency Assistance Act of 2021 Sponsor: Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Status: Signed into law by the President on Dec 22, 2021 H.R. 6256: To ensure that goods made with forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China do not enter the United States market, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) Status: Signed into law by the President on Dec 23, 2021 H.R. 3919: Secure Equipment Act of 2021. Sponsor: Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) Status: Signed into law by the President on Nov 11, 2021 H.R. 6119: Further Extending Government Funding Act Sponsor: Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) Status: Signed into law by the President on Dec 3, 2021 H.R. 1319: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 Tax credits for COVID Sec. 4006: Funeral Assistance For the COVID emergency declared on March 13, 2020 “and for any subsequent major disaster declarations that supercedes such emergency declaration”, FEMA funds “shall” be paid for 100% of disaster-related funeral expenses. Sec. 9631: Refundability and Enhancement of Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit For 2021, eligible taxpayers can get up to 50% of up to $8,000 in childcare costs (capped at $16,000 for multiple children under the age of 12) reimbursed via a refundable tax credit. The credit phases out for families with income higher than $400,000 per year. Sec. 9642: Credit for Sick Leave For Certain Self-Employed Individuals Allows self employed individuals to receive a tax credit for sick day related to COVID-19 from April 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021, including getting tested, quarantining, illness, and getting the vaccine. The number of days is capped at 10 and its capped at $200 per day. (=$2,000) Sec. 9643: Credit For Family Leave For Certain Self-Employed Individuals Allows self employed individuals to receive a refundable tax credit for family leave for COVID-19 testing, illness, or vaccines. It's capped at 60 days and $200 per day (=$12,000) Bills H.R.4 - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 Sponsor: Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) S.2747 - Freedom to Vote Act Sponsor: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) H.R.5746 - Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act Sponsor: Rep. Donald Beyer (D-VA) Audio sources Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Jan 13, 2022. “Senator Sinema Announces Opposition to Changing Filibuster Rules.” C-SPAN. Sen. Krysten Sinema: I rise at a challenging divisive time for our nation. For years, America's politics have spiraled steadily downward into increasingly bitter tribal partisanship and our democracy has been strained. While that may sound abstract, it is a problem that hurts Americans in real, tangible ways. These deepening divisions hurt our ability to work together to create new job opportunities, protect the health and safety of our communities and country and to ensure everyday families get ahead. Our country's divisions have now fueled efforts in several states that will make it more difficult for Americans to vote and undermine faith that all Americans should have in our elections in our democracy. These state laws have no place in a nation whose government is formed by free, fair and open elections. I share the concerns of civil rights advocates and others I've heard from in recent months about these state laws. I strongly support those efforts to contest these laws and court and to invest significant resources into these states to better organize and stop efforts to restrict access at the ballot box. And I strongly support and will continue to vote for legislative responses to address these state laws, including the freedom to vote Act, and the John Lewis voting rights Advancement Act that the Senate is currently considering. And while I continue to support these bills, I will not support separate actions that were sent the underlying disease of division infecting our country. The debate over the Senate 60 vote threshold shines a light on our broader challenges. There is no need for me to restate my long standing support for the 60 vote threshold to pass legislation. There's no need for me to restate its role protecting our country from wild reversals and federal policy. Eliminating the 60 vote threshold will simply guarantee that we lose a critical tool that we need to safeguard our democracy from threats in the years to come. Our mandate, it seems evident to me work together and get stuff done for America. Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)

My guest today is Billy Ryan. Billy is a performance psychology consultant located in Savannah, GA who works with the military, sports teams, and individuals at the highschool/club, NCAA, NAIA, and the professional level. He specializes in applying ACT and behavior science to increase meaning and performance in a given context.Some of the topics we explore in this episode include:- How Billy first got into using ACT for sport performance- The importance of language and messaging in sports - The use of ACT Matrix in Billy's work with athletes- The role of  attentional flexibility and holding outcomes lightly- The current influence of mental and emotional well-being in sports- And Billy's hopes for the future of ACT in the world of sport—————————————————————————Billy's website: https://www.awareperformancegroup.com/—————————————————————————If you find value in the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It only takes 30 seconds and plays an important role in being able to get new guests. I also love reading them! Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mentallyflexible/Check out my song “Glimpse at Truth” that you hear in the intro/outro of every episode: https://tomparkes.bandcamp.com/track/glimpse-at-truth

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The Electoral Count Act of 1887 dictates the congressional procedure for certifying electoral college results in a presidential election The Act was passed in response to the presidential election of 1876—where Democrat Samuel Tilden won the popular vote, but lost the presidency to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes because of contested results in 3 states—in an effort to avoid future contested elections But a large bipartisan group of  election law scholars and politicians across the political spectrum have argued that the law creates more confusion and needs to be reformed. Today on We the People, we're doing a deep dive into the Electoral Count Act and proposals for fixing it—which have gained traction after the events of January 6, 2020, when members of Congress challenged the electoral slates of several states and some, along with President Trump, asked Vice President Pence not to certify these votes, which would have switched the presidential election results from Joe Biden to Trump.   Joining host Jeffrey Rosen are two election law experts who co-authored an op-ed in the Washington Post titled “How Congress can fix the Electoral Count Act. Ned Foley holds the Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law at The Ohio State University, and he also directs its election law program. Brad Smith is the Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor of Law at Capital University Law School. And from 2000-2005, he served on the Federal Election Commission.   The National Constitution Center relies on support from listeners like you to provide nonpartisan constitutional education to Americans of all ages. In honor of the 234th anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, every dollar you give to support the We the People podcast campaign will be doubled with a generous 1:1 match up to a total of $234,000, made possible by the John Templeton Foundation! Visit www.constitutioncenter.org/we-the-people to donate, and thank you for your crucial support.   Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org. Continue today's conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.

The Electoral Count Act of 1887 dictates the congressional procedure for certifying electoral college results in a presidential election The Act was passed in response to the presidential election of 1876—where Democrat Samuel Tilden won the popular vote, but lost the presidency to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes because of contested results in 3 states—in an effort to avoid future contested elections But a large bipartisan group of  election law scholars and politicians across the political spectrum have argued that the law creates more confusion and needs to be reformed. Today on We the People, we're doing a deep dive into the Electoral Count Act and proposals for fixing it—which have gained traction after the events of January 6, 2020, when members of Congress challenged the electoral slates of several states and some, along with President Trump, asked Vice President Pence not to certify these votes, which would have switched the presidential election results from Joe Biden to Trump.   Joining host Jeffrey Rosen are two election law experts who co-authored an op-ed in the Washington Post titled “How Congress can fix the Electoral Count Act. Ned Foley holds the Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law at The Ohio State University, and he also directs its election law program. Brad Smith is the Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor of Law at Capital University Law School. And from 2000-2005, he served on the Federal Election Commission.   The National Constitution Center relies on support from listeners like you to provide nonpartisan constitutional education to Americans of all ages. In honor of the 234th anniversary of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, every dollar you give to support the We the People podcast campaign will be doubled with a generous 1:1 match up to a total of $234,000, made possible by the John Templeton Foundation! Visit www.constitutioncenter.org/we-the-people to donate, and thank you for your crucial support.   Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org. Continue today's conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.

Today's episode of Electronically Yours features famous Dutch orchestrator and artist Stephen Emmer. Stephen has worked with some of the biggest artists in music, including The Associates, The Cure, ACT, Patti Austin, Chaka Khan, Leon Ware, and was a member of The Lotus Eaters . Additionally, we mustn't forget his beautiful work with Glenn Gregory on several recent projects. In a nutshell, his work is exceptional. Ladies and Gentlemen – the man with the baton – Stephen Emmer... If you can, please support the Electronically Yours podcast via my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/electronicallyours

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day is less than a week away, and I couldn't let this important day pass without another episode.   It's actually my THIRD episode about Martin Luther King Jr., and I feel like this episode shows our journey as a community and my journey as an anti-racist (both personally and as an educator).   With each episode, the content has gotten more and more radical — just like the journey that Dr. Cornel West takes us on in the incredible book “The Radical King.”   The first episode — Season 3, Episode 10: “The Untold Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” — was about nonviolence and loving accountability.   The second episode —  Season 3, Episode 11: “The One Thing I Wish You Knew About Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” — was about the fact that racism and Dr. King's assassination have more to do with money and power than skin color.   And in this third episode — “Stop Using MLK to Justify Racism” — we are going to dispel 3 myths that people have perpetuated about Dr. King to justify their racism.   Those 3 myths are: Dr. King would have been against riots Dr. King would have been anti-Critical Race Theory Dr. King's dream has already been achieved   I hope by the end of this episode you feel like you have a better understanding of what this incredible man really felt about each of these issues, and I hope you feel inspired to learn more about his teachings yourself.  Bite-sized Black History  Bite-sized Black History is a program that empowers you to teach the little ones you love about brilliant Black Americans who have been largely overlooked by our history books. We featured 12 different people in Season 1 of the program and will feature 12 all new Black Americans in Season 2. And, if you missed Season 1, both seasons will be available for purchase. Click here to be the first to get the coupon code when Bite-sized Black History is released on Feb 1st! Articles, Studies, & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode   First Name Basis Podcast Season 3, Episode 10: “The Untold Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”   First Name Basis Podcast Season 3, Episode 11: “The One Thing I Wish You Knew About Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”   First Name Basis Podcast Season 3, Episode 29: “Critical Race Theory in Schools”   “The Radical King,” by Martin Luther King Jr., edited and introduced by Cornel West   “​​93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful, New Report Finds,” by Sanya Mansoor, TIME   “Nonviolence and Social Change,” by Martin Luther King Jr.   “Ron DeSantis Introduced the ‘Stop W.O.K.E. Act'—and Name-Dropped MLK,” by Paul Blest, Vice   Bernice King's response to Ron DeSantis on Twitter   Sylvia Duckworth's CRT definition, which she worked with Dr. Angel Jones and Dr. Kate Slater to create   “After Desegregation — What” by Martin Luther King Jr.   “Where Do We Go From Here?” by Martin Luther King Jr.   Francheska's Instagram account @cheskatanglao   Bernice King's response on Twitter to people claiming her father “didn't offend people”   Song Credit: “Sleeper” by Steve Adams” and “Dive Down” by VYEN  

This week, Jeremy is joined by Dr. Neil Thakur, chief mission officer at The ALS Association, to look ahead to the year in advocacy and to dive deeper into the successful push to enact the ACT for ALS Act. We also reflect back on our conversation with Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) on the impact of ALS advocates.Sign up to become an advocate at https://als.quorum.us/register/Stay on top of The ALS Association's public policy priorities at https://www.als.org/advocacy/our-prioritiesThis episode is brought to you by The ALS Association in partnership with CitizenRacecar.

Jim Edwards (https://www.thejimedwardsmethod.com) and Stew discuss the OODA Loop  - Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act. No matter what situation we are in this process takes a split second (sometimes) to complete, while more difficult problems may take more than a few seconds to go from observation mode to acting on that observation. Check out how Jim and Stew discuss using this for breaking down business decisions. Don't forget the Facebook Group Sales Copy Writing and Content Marketing Hacks with Jim Edwards for a community of over 20,000+  like-minded business owners https://www.facebook.com/ groups/ copywritingandcontenthacks

President Biden pressures the Senate to change filibuster rules to pass the ‘Freedom to Vote Act' and the 'John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement' Act, saying, the “voting rights push is an answer to the January 6 insurrection”, and “the battle for America's soul is not over”. Plus, Dr Fauci blasts Senator Rand Paul suggesting he is putting his life in danger for political gain, top Republicans stand up for Senator Mike Rounds after he is attacked by Trump for telling the truth about the 2020 Election, the January 6 Committee Chair says Rudy Giuliani is of Interest to their investigation, and Australia investigates whether tennis star Novak Djokovic submitted a false travel declaration relating to his Covid-19 status. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Do you find yourself putting things off for later, and then later never comes? But what if there was a way to procrastinate less, and get things done faster? This week's Uncaged Clinicians, David Bayliff will be talking about the tips to break the bad habit of Procrastination and be more productive! He will touch on such topics as: Write down what you need to get done! What are the negative effects?  Does it lead you to success?  Act right now!  P.S. Subscribe, rate, and review Here Now, are you ready to become UNCAGED?  Additional Resources: When you are ready…Here are ways that we can help you to grow your practice: 1. Grab a copy of our books. The Concierge PT Success Formula is your roadmap to a six-figure mobile physical therapy practice. The Winning Mindset for The Mobile Entrepreneur is the perfect complement to dominate your own mind in order to grow and scale your business: https://www.uncagedclinician.com/offers/ba8hem4N 2. Join the UNCAGED Clinician Facebook community. YES, you have a community that you can immediately plug into where you can learn to grow a six-figure practice: https://facebook.com/groups/113576786080229

Do you believe that God is the ancient of days, that He truly is the creator of the universe?  The God of the universe asks us to have mountain moving faith!  How can we have such faith? For more information visit: www.kingdomencounters.us Tune in to day 7 of our 7 day devotional series called: A Life Of Prayer.  Mark 11 encourages us to have faith when God asks us to believe.  When you feel prompted to bless or minister to someone, have faith that God will move in and through you to bless others.  It takes a step of faith to act out what God has spoken to you!  Act with faith and not disobedience as God speaks to you in your prayer time.  Pray and declare His word over your life, and see Him move in every area of your life.  If you are hungry for more of the Lord head over to www.kingdomencounters.us/free for this 7 day devotional on A Life of Prayer for FREE!    Stay connected through Evangelist Caleb's social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CalebWampler/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/evangelistcalebwampler To give to what the Lord is doing with Kingdom Encounters International: www.kingdomencounters.us/give

A thank you note benefits both the recipient and the writer. It reminds the writer of blessings received, and it motivates the recipient to bless others again. A written thank you note is a great way to deepen your relationship with someone. Last year's “Make it a Relational New Years Resolution” I first mentioned this a year ago in episode 087, “Make it a Relational New Years Resolution.” It was about resolving to do something kind, caring, or thoughtful for people during the course of the year to the extent you would receive a thank you note for what you did. I'll have a link to this episode at the bottom of the show notes. I was ready to move on today with another relational resolution for this year to talk to you about. But before doing that, I thought we should look back at the results of last year's relational resolution. Before the future, consider the past and present. I was surprised by what I learned when I did this for myself. I'll share what I discovered because it can help you in considering a way to add depth to your relationships here in the New Year. Why a written thank you note? By way of review, to receive a written “thank you” note, you had to do something pretty meaningful for someone to make the effort to show their appreciation in this way. For our purposes, it had to be in writing. Electronic communication didn't count, nor did verbal expressions of gratitude. In the age we live in, where electronic communication is the norm, for someone to use older technology like writing a note, requires a lot more of that person. After I received a thank you note or card last year, I read and dated them, and then placed them in a folder. Observations about the 2021 “thank you” cards I received From a scrap of paper to a linen parchment card, no two were the same. I've gotten identical birthday cards and Christmas cards, but no duplicate thank you notes. I received 5 thank you notes that mentioned appreciation for this podcast. I doubt if any of you have a podcast, but I'm sure a lot of you are doing things you enjoy that benefit other people. Several couples, and two single people we invited for dinner at our house, sent us written thank you notes. Thank you notes for birthdays and high school graduation gifts were the next most common. Two missionary couples who stayed with us a week to 10 days or so thanked us in writing. A friend of ours was sick with Covid, so Janet picked up groceries for her family and I delivered them. We received thank you notes from three teenage boys, all for high school graduation gifts. And they were most tender expressions of gratitude. Their parents raised them well! One person, a donor to our Caring for Others ministry, wrote at least 3 thank you notes over the course of last year. Here he was sending donations to us, and at the same time thanking us for our ministry in quite specific terms about what he was grateful for in what we do. A sampling of thank you notes received I feel a little uncomfortable reading these because they paint Janet and me in a good light, which you would think would happen in a thank you note. A more well-rounded picture would come from complaints people have about us. But my only purpose in sharing them is to give you ideas of what you can do to impact the lives of people, to make a positive difference, to the point they will go to the trouble of thanking you in writing. A secondary purpose is to give you ideas of HOW to thank people, as you listen to how people thanked Janet and me last year for one thing or another. Here's the first one. Just a quick note to say “Thanks” for your friendship over the years! Knowing you guys and being able to LEAN on you at times gives us confidence in His Grace!… Mostly I just wanted to make sure we get something in your 2021 pile of thank you notes.”  ~ L. & J. O.K., so this is clergy appreciation month! Although I consider you a friend you are also my clergy phone friend, and I appreciate your Biblical teaching and related challenges. ORA at work! ~ October V.A. Do you remember ORA? Observe. Reflect. Act. ORA. You have earned a thank you note! Thank you for teaching your listeners about how to care for others. It is so encouraging to listen to you each week. I especially like the one-take-home point for the week. I look forward to actionable items to care for others. ~ D.P. Gratitude expressed for the unexpected We are so grateful for how you are reaching people around the world with your podcast and are happy to help it grow! We are also so grateful that you have been willing to connect with our son (18-year-old high school senior) during this challenging time of a teenage boy's life. He comes home smiling and seems more content. Thank you.   ~ K.P. On the back of envelope: I forgot to tell you. This note is from my Grandma's collection! She always wrote thank you notes! Here's a note from a businessperson to me, as her customer. The following is from the designer of our new website from last September: John, thank you for trusting me to redo your website. It was such a fun project…I love being able to support others doing important work for Christ. Thank you for your loyalty over the years and I am so glad you stumbled upon my ….training video a few years ago. :)    ~ L.D. Thanks so much for making my birthday special. The cake was delicious and I was touched by your thoughtfulness. I love my tomato knife and can't wait to try it. Thanks again.   ~ D. B. Dear John and Janet, Thank you so much for including us in your family lunch last week. You are so kind and generous. Blessings to you two!   ~ J. & K. Dear John and Janet Thanks for the beautiful card and generous gift of money we really appreciate it. We will use it for gas to ride down there. Thanking God for both of you.     ~B.R.and S.R. Dear Grandma and Grandpa, Thank you so much for coming down to my graduation and for your generous gift. I really appreciate all the ways you've supported me and spent time with me throughout my life, like all the times I've stayed at your house and the trips to the library with Grandpa, and the cookies Grandma and I have baked. Thank you always for being there for me. Maybe sometime you can come visit me at the University of South Carolina and we can get some cheese curds and get into an argument about who I should vote for. I hope your trip back went well - see you on Zoom! Love, Nathan So what does all this mean for YOU? How can you use what you've heard today to add more depth to the relationships in YOUR life? Start by remembering that a written thank you note is simply a marker of the positive impact you had in someone's life. That's the point of this relational resolution, not the thank you note itself. Writing a thank you note gets our eyes off ourselves to focus on a blessing we received. One important thing to remember is not to expect people to thank you for the good you do for them. Often they won't. But you do good things for people anyway, because it's the right thing to do. It's not about you; it's about them. Doing good for others is living out Romans 12, and reflecting the character of God. With Jesus living in us, we are equipped and empowered to be the person God created us to be. We truly were made for this. We are made in His image and Jesus was often doing good things for people, with no expectation that he would be thanked for it. In fact, I'll have to look into this later, but I don't recall any stories in the Bible where people thanked Jesus for blessing them. If any of you can think of an example, please let me know. If writing a handwritten thank you note is a challenge for you, ask God for help. Ask him for help in remembering the blessings you received, and who were the people God used to bless you. Ask him for help in what to say and how to say it. When we ask God for help like this it won't be hard, If you have young children, and where appropriate, post the notes on your refrigerator or where they can see them. Share them with your kids as they come in. When you write one, and before you mail it, tell your kids what you are doing and why you are doing it. Then read it to them. Have them put the note in the envelope, seal it, and place the stamp on the envelope. Teach them by example. For me, our kids are grown and have kids of their own. But when I die I want them to display a board at my funeral with all the thank you notes I received. Skip the pics of summer picnics and faded Christmas gatherings when I was in my 20s and had hair on my head. Display the thank you notes. Maybe that will encourage someone. Here's the main point I hope you remember from today's episode A thank you note benefits both the writer and recipient. It reminds the writer of blessings received and motivates the recipient to continue reflecting the character of God by blessing others. These are two great benefits of a handwritten thank you note. I'd love to hear any thoughts you have about today's episode, and any thank you notes you received. Closing I closing, I hope your thinking was stimulated by today's show, to both reflect and to act by doing good for people to the extent they thank you in writing for it. Ephesians 2:10 tells us we were made for this. It reads “For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” Well, that's all for today. I look forward to connecting with you again next week when I will suggest another relational resolution for this current year. I can't wait to share it with you! Goodbye for now. Related episodes you may want to listen to 087: Make it a Relational New Years Resolution 088: Get Them to say “Thank You for Asking” Our Sponsor You Were Made for This is sponsored by Caring for Others, a missionary care ministry. We depend upon the generosity of people like you to pay our bills.  If you'd like to support what we do with a secure tax-deductible donation, please click here. Thank you.

We are pretty obsessed with the 'daycation' situation that will be happening all 2022 (and beyond) for us! And we think you should make it happen too!   Listen in on this week's episode to dive into: Why you should be regularly scheduling 'daycations' throughout the year The benefits that daycations will give you in comparison to a traditional vacation Why you need a daycation more than you think A few ideas to jumpstart your daycation planning     Useful Links: Show Notes   Other Podcasts Episodes We Think You Will Love:   Episode 51 Traveling to France Could Make You Healthier and Happier Episode 44 The Art of Slow Travel Episode 16 Act of Self Care     Resources to Spark your Joie de Vivre:   Eat the Damn Bread: The Club: Our exclusive membership for podcast listeners! Come join us to start living your absolute best life with a flair of French lifestyle to boot!     The Edit: Be the in-the-know and the first to know about unreleased episodes, freebies and ETDB “insider info”   Exclusive Retreats: Explore Provence, France, with Colet and others in the Eat the Damn Bread community on our signature luxury retreat.     Let's be friends, oui?! Visit our website  Hang with us on Instagram Check out our Facebook

In Episode 10 of Compassion Collective,  we speak with Dr. Steve Bisgaier, a clinical psychologist and expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). In this episode, we learn about the overlap between ACT and self-compassion and explore how these practices can help us live in greater alignment with our values. We also discuss how our brains evolved to think the way they do and how our minds can be activated in this modern landscape. Visit us online at https://compassion-collective.com and follow us on Instagram @collective_compassion

Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson are joined by James Baraz, a meditation teacher for over 40 years and cofounder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, to explore how we can find still find joy during difficult times. We discuss how to balance a sense of equanimity with compassion for the suffering of the world, and how cultivating joy at an individual level can support healing at the collective level.About our Guest: James is the coauthor of Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to True Happiness, and leads the popular online course of the same name. He is also the guiding teacher of One Earth Sangha, a website devoted to expressing a Buddhist response to climate change.Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube.Key Topics:0:00: Introduction1:45: Why joy is important in Buddhism5:05: James' journey to prioritizing joy11:40: How to practice awakening joy without turning away from suffering17:20: Putting yourself back together after cultivating awareness of suffering24:10: The 10 Steps of Awakening Joy28:45: How people can use emotionally positive states in contemplative practice32:00: Positivity in relation to the climate crisis and other collective challenges38:05: Equanimity, compassion, including both sides of the river43:35: The great perfection47:10: James' realistic hope for the next 25 years 49:30: RecapAwakening Joy: Awakening Joy is an internationally recognized course designed to awaken joy through exciting themes and practices that incline the mind toward well-being and deeper insight. It's a 5-month course taught online by James, check it out and learn more here. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.Sponsors:Find the new CBD+ performance gummies and the whole dosist health line-up today at dosisthealth.com. Use promo code BEINGWELL20 for 20% off your purchase. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world's largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.Connect with the show:Subscribe on iTunesFollow Forrest on YouTubeFollow us on InstagramFollow Forrest on InstagramFollow Rick on FacebookFollow Forrest on FacebookVisit Forrest's website

How can you be a high achiever and reach for big goals while still holding on to your values? What do you do when there are just too many good things to choose from in your life? Diana chats with Dr. Patricia Zurita Ona about strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you skillfully strive toward meaningful pursuits. Diana and Dr. Z share their personal experiences with striving and talk about letting go of the outcome in service of the process. About Dr. Patricia Zurita OnaDr. Zurita Ona, Dr. Z, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who has significant experience working with children, adolescents, and adults with OCD, trauma, anxiety, and emotional regulation problems. Dr. Z is the founder of the East Bay Behavior Therapy Center, a boutique therapy practice, where she runs an intensive outpatient program integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) to support clients getting stuck from obsessions, figure out what they care about, and do stuff that matters to them. Dr. Z is a behavioral therapist with a passion for evidence-based practices including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Her clinical work is dedicated to helping all her clients to get “unstuck” and live the life they want to live. She is the author of numerous books including Acceptance and Commitment Skills for Perfectionism and High-Achieving Behaviors: Do Things Your Way, Be Yourself, and Live a Purposeful Life, Living Beyond OCD Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Workbook for Adults, and Escaping the Emotional Roller Coaster: ACT for the Emotionally Sensitive. Episode Segments[00:00] - Introduction [01:52] - About Patricia Zurita Ona [02:53] - Sponsor: Lightfully Behavior Health [03:53] - What Does Dr. Z Care About That Brought Her To This Work? [07:35] - Perfectionism Isn't Binary [13:19] - Diana's Body-based Practice For Healthy Striving [16:53] - Dr. Z's Journey With High Achieving Behaviors [20:19] - The Upside Of Uncertainty [22:46] - How To Relate To Relate To Your Perfectionism Differently [28:12] - Check Out Diana's Foundations of ACT Course [28:42] - Competitive Drive Can Be Painful [26:24] - Seeing Your Mind For What It Is [31:02] - Saying No In The Name Of Your Values [38:24] - Seasonal Striving [44:16] - Your Daily Practice [49:32] - Connect With The Show Key TakeawaysYou can live out your values in many different ways. Values are qualities of action, not outcomes Perfectionism and high achieving behaviors are not good or bad  You can pay attention to your body to tell the difference between when you are caught in stressful striving versus values-based striving Build self-trust by allowing for things to go wrong, living your values and, letting go of outcome We need to be willing to say no, even to good things, to honor your values Humans are mini-ecosystems. We are good at producing and consuming, but it's also important we remember to decompose. Relevant Resources Mentionedhttps://drdianahill.com/extras/ (Download your Daily Process for Episode 5 Here) Read Dr. Z's book https://bookshop.org/books/acceptance-and-commitment-skills-for-perfectionism-and-high-achieving-behaviors-do-things-your-way-be-yourself-and-live-a-purposeful-life/9780367369224 (Acceptance and Commitment Skills for Perfectionism and High-Achieving Behaviors: Do Things Your Way, Be Yourself, and Live a Purposeful Life) Learn more about Dr. Z and work with her at https://eastbaybehaviortherapycenter.com/ ( East Bay Behavior Therapy ) Try ACT in your daily life with the https://drdianahill.com/book/ (ACT Daily Journal) Want to dive deeper into ACT? Take Diana's course: https://courses.drdianahill.com/courses/foundations-of-ACT?_ga=2.10043261.917674935.1641323412-277337094.1634184861 (Foundations of ACT) Listen to Diana's conversation with Radhule Weininger about Longstanding Recurring Painful Patterns (LRPPs). Thank you for...

What is the difference between meditation and therapy and how can they support each other? How do you start a meditation practice and what are its benefits? Trudy Goodman is a psychotherapist, founder of InsightLA, and expert meditation teacher. In this episode, Diana sits down with Trudy to discuss her twisty-turny life, including her early training with Piaget, her friendship with Jon Kabat-Zinn, and her relationship with Jack Kornfield. At the end of the episode, Trudy shares a simple practice to take mediation off the cushion and into your everyday life. About Trudy GoodmanTrudy Goodman, PH.D., is the founding teacher of InsightLA and cofounder of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. She has taught at universities and retreat centers worldwide for over 40 years. Trudy has trained in mindfulness and Zen since 1973, holds a graduate degree in developmental psychology from Harvard, and is one of the senior Buddhist teachers in the U.S. She is widely known for her role as the voice of Trudy the Love Barbarian in the Netflix series "Midnight Gospel”. Trudy is a contributing author: Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness; Compassion and Wisdom in Psychotherapy; Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. Learn more about Trudy at http://trudygoodman.com/ (TrudyGoodman.com) and http://insightla.org/ (InsightLA.org). Episode Segments[00:00] - Introduction [00:25] - About Trudy Goodman [03:34] - Trudy's Early Training With Piaget [08:41] - Trudy's Path To Meditation [13:08] - The Synergy Of Therapy And Meditation [20:09] - A Gentler Form Of Meditation [21:37] - The Difference Between Zen And Insight Meditation [23:39] - Finding Community In Nature [31:11] - Trudy's Meditation Practice [32:45] - The Backward Step [38:15] - How To Let Go [42:12] - Where To Find Trudy [46:01] - Your Daily Practice [49:35] - Connect With The Podcast Key TakeawaysTherapy and meditation can support each other, but also offer different advantages Insight Meditation is a gentle form of meditation where you develop an awareness of your inner experience The backward step is a Zen practice to get out of conditioned response and receive what is happening in the present   To start a meditation practice it helps to have a vetted teacher and to take a class Nature is a place where we can learn about letting go and can feel less alone Relevant Resources Mentionedhttps://drdianahill.com/extras/ (Download your Daily Process for Episode 4 Here) https://insightla.org/?s=trudy+goodman (Learn from Trudy Goodman at InsightLA) Take a meditation class at https://mindfulheartprograms.org/ (Mindful Hearts Programs), https://insightla.org/ (InsightLA), and https://www.yogasoup.com/ (Yoga Soup) Thank you for listening to Your Life in Process! If you have any questions or feedback you can email me, send me a voice message at (805) 457-2776, or message me on http://instagram.com/drdianahill (Instagram). Remember when you become psychologically flexible, you become free. Subscribe for free on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-life-in-process/id1596820706 (Apple Podcasts), https://open.spotify.com/show/1Kpkt3xGpyZm5UQYMKu4Uo (Spotify), https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0veW91ci1saWZlLWluLXByb2Nlc3Mv (Google Podcasts) Follow Diana on https://www.youtube.com/drdianahill (YouTube) Follow Diana on https://www.instagram.com/drdianahill/ (Instagram) Follow Dana on https://www.facebook.com/drdianahill/ (Facebook) Diana's https://drdianahill.com/wp-admin/drdianahill.com (Website) Thank you to my team Craig Schneider, Angela Stubbs, Ashley Hiatt, Abby Diel and to our sponsor https://lightfully.com/ (Lightfully) for making this podcast possible. Thank you to Benjamin Gould of https://BellandBranch.com (Bell & Branch) for your beautiful music. Stay tuned for my next episode on YLIP with Dr. Patricia Zurita Ona on how ACT can help you be a high achiever without losing yourself in the process. This podcast...

How do you set up a psychologically flexible life that's about thriving and taking action towards meaningful goals? How do you know what your values are and how can you use the ACT process of values to flourish? In this first episode of Your Life in Process, Dr. Diana Hill introduces a way of living that's about turning toward what matters most to you and asks you three provocative questions to explore your values. You will learn how to spot your values in your everyday life, and get a deeper understanding of what it means to live your life “in process”. About Dr. Diana Hillhttps://drdianahill.com/ (Diana Hill, Ph.D.) is a modern psychologist, mom, yoga teacher, and co-author of https://drdianahill.com/book/ (ACT Daily Journal: Get unstuck and live fully with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.) She sees herself as your psychological flexibility guide, offering practical, science-backed and integrative strategies to help you skillfully adapt to life's challenges. In her high-performance coaching and therapy practice, Diana brings a compassionate, process-based approach to building a rewarding and meaningful life. In her podcast, https://drdianahill.com/podcast/ (Your LIfe in Process), Diana helps you develop your https://drdianahill.com/6-macronutrients-for-psychological-flexibility/ (psychological flexibility) so that you can thrive in your work, relationships, and health. Diana completed her undergraduate work at UC Santa Barbara, majoring in Biopsychology, followed by a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at CU Boulder where she researchedhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eat.20812 ( mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches for eating disorders). She completed her yoga teacher training with the Eldorado Mountain School of Yoga. You can catch Diana on https://www.instagram.com/drdianahill/ (Instagram) and read her blog on https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/striving-thriving (Psychology Today). If you are interested in taking a deeper dive with her, check out her https://drdianahill.com/events/category/workshop/ (workshops )for professionals and the general public. She's here to walk alongside you as you enjoy the journey of your life, in process. Episode Segments[00:00] Introduction [00:29] Meet Dr. Diana Hill [01:13] What Is Psychological Flexibility? [05:59] What Are Values? [11:52] 3 Questions To Explore Your Values [22:37] Why Psychological Flexibility Is A Good Idea [31:00] Tangible Takeaways [32:04] Your Daily Practice [33:21] Connect With The Podcast Key TakeawaysPsychological flexibility is a modern approach to living that involves knowing what you care about, staying present, acting on that care, even in the face of obstacles. When you act on your values, you act in a way that is consistent with the type of person you want to be in the world Three questions to explore your values: What was a moment this past week when you experienced sweetness? When did you experience pain or discomfort? When did you experience envy? What do these moments tell you about what you care about? Psychological flexibility is a good idea because it is science-backed, it's personalized, it involves core processes that you can apply to many domains of your life, and you can grow stronger at it with practice Relevant Resources Mentionedhttps://drdianahill.com/extras/ (Download your Daily Process for Episode 1 here) Check out the Sweet Spot Exercise in https://bookshop.org/books/mindfulness-for-two-an-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy-approach-to-mindfulness-in-psychotherapy/9781608822669 (Mindfulness for Two: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Approach to Mindfulness in Psychotherapy) by Kelly Wilson https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6350520/ (The Future of Intervention Science: Process-Based Therapy) by Stefan Hoffman and Steven C. Hayes Diana's blog post on thehttps://drdianahill.com/6-macronutrients-for-psychological-flexibility/ ( 6 Core Processes of ACT)...

Synopsis On this day in 1947, Pierre Monteux led the San Francisco Symphony in the premiere performance of the Second Symphony by American composer Roger Sessions. Prior to this work, Sessions had written in a more broadly accessible style, but this new symphony proved more dissonant and challenging. At the time, Sessions cautiously stated: “Tonality is complex and even problematical nowadays.” For their part, the San Francisco audiences found the new work both complex AND problematical. There was hardly any applause. Musical America's critic wrote that Sessions (quote): “seemed to express the epitome of all that is worst in the life and thinking of today.” Ouch!  Today, the Sessions Second doesn't sound ALL that challenging, but performances of this or any of his symphonies remain rare events. While Sessions' symphony was being panned in San Francisco, a new stage work by the expatriate German composer Kurt Weill opened to rave reviews in New York. Kurt Weill's “Street Scene” opened on Broadway on this same date in 1947. “[It's] the best contemporary musical production to grace any American stage,” enthused the “Musical America” critics. “We cannot imagine that an audience from any walk of life would not enjoy it. It has everything.” Music Played in Today's Program Roger Sessions (1896-1985) — Symphony No. 2 (San Francisco Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, cond.) London 443 376 Kurt Weill (1900-1950) — Act 1 Intro, from Street Scene (Scottish Opera Orchestra; John Mauceri, cond.) London 433 371

It's not with whom you sleep, it's where you sleep. The old sitcom bed arrangement may be the best thing for your marriage. Death in the nude. Tuned to disaster. Unlikely accidents and the people who want to tell you what's wrong with them. Act old now.

Join host Stephen Strang as he interviews Jonathan Chan, regarding the prophetic fulfillment of "the great falling away" and the activation of the "Act's" church.         

In this episode, Dr. Ross White joins the conversation. Dr. White is a professor of clinical psychology at Queens University in Belfast and an expert on global mental health. He has active research collaborations with the World Health Organization and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees investigating the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for reducing distress in the aftermath of humanitarian crises. He's the lead editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health, and lead author of the recently published Acceptance and Commitment Approaches for Athletes' Wellbeing and Performance: The Flexible Mind. Dr. White has a keen interest in supporting the mental health and well being of adults working in high-performance environments, including elite athletes.  He has consulted with United Rugby Championship players, international track athletes, and Premier League Football Club academies. He is an Association of Contextual Behavioral Science peer-reviewed trainer of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.Tim begins the episode with a brief body scan practice. Then, Dr. White talks with Keith and Tim about: 13:00 - How the Self-Help Plus intervention was developed and used in the context of international humanitarian crises. 17:00 - How to practice acceptance in the midst of crisis from an ACT perspective. 23:00 - Parallels between people experiencing humanitarian crises and the experiences of elite athletes.25:00 - Using the principle of creative hopelessness and a focus on values to help people cultivate a "courageous willingness" to accept their experiences. 30:00  - Exploring how values help dignify the experience of accepting discomfort, and the importance of choice points in moving towards the things that matter. 34:00 - Navigating the line between acceptance and overwhelm using the metaphor "dropping anchor" and making distinctions between immersion and emerging. 39:00 - The importance of creating clarity of what mindfulness is, and building the capacity for mindfulness over time. 43:00 - Grounding techniques used by elite rugby players. 45:00 - Developing the whole person, not just the athletic performer. Books Mentioned:Perform Under Pressure by Dr. Ceri Evans The Chimp Paradox by Dr. Steve Peters Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement by Drs. Keith Kaufman, Carol Glass, and Tim Pineau Acceptance and Commitment Approaches for Athletes' Wellbeing and Performance: The Flexible Mind by Ross G. White, Andrew Bethell, Lewis Charnock, Stephen Leckey, and Victoria Penpraze. Social Media Mentioned:Twitter: @mind_flexer Twitter: @mindfulsportdocInstagram: @mindful_sport_podcastYoutube: Mindful Sport Performance Podcast Websites Mentioned: www.flexiblemind.co.ukwww.mindfulsportperformance.org Remember to rate our podcast and subscribe to you Youtube Channel! Very much appreciated, Keith & Tim

Episode 4, Part 1 starts Act 5 of Homestuck. This episode is about Homestuck pages 1989 – 2194. Content warnings: racism, misogyny, drug addiction, mind control, ableism, bullying, mobility-limiting injuries, brief mentions of masturbation and pornography.   This show is listener supported, and you can help out by going to patreon.com/rangedtouch The theme for this… Continue reading Episode 4, Part 1

CBN Season 9 | Issue 97.5 | Selling CW? *Use the hashtag #CBNpod​ when listening to this episode In this issue of Carefree Black Nerd, Rhayne discusses the latest news about ViacomCBS and WarnerMedia exploring the sale of The CW As Mentioned: ** Daejah thread: https://twitter.com/daejahtalkstv/status/1479070898003062785?s=21 NYP article: https://nypost.com/2022/01/06/viacomcbs-and-warnermedia-reportedly-exploring-sale-of-the-cw/amp/ Digital Commons Black Stereotypes article: https://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/soe_faculty_wp/24/ Shadow and Act, Tyler James on UPN: https://shadowandact.com/tyler-james-williams-opening-act-podcast-episode-1 The Mary Sue, CW Diversity Issue article: https://www.themarysue.com/the-cw-diversity-issues/ * Nerdy B4 It Was Cool, problem with CW video: https://youtu.be/4u1x6wxar0w Email: carefreeblacknerd@gmail.com Twitter: twitter.com/carefreeblerd Instagram: Instagram.com/carefreeblacknerd Resume: Linktr.ee/CarefreeBlackNerd Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5iLcGlzEffDoHKXBrZBJYA?si=y-pINUVrSUyPp8PAi4zNpQ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZLE-1viZcnMQU8ddPnH_-w?view_as=subscriber ITunes: itun.es/us/aXGRfb.c Stitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/bynk-radio-inc/carefree-black-nerd SoundCloud: SoundCloud.com/carefreeblacknerd Live tweet this issue using the hashtag #CBNpod Subscribe, Like, Rate and Review the show on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher and Google Play and BYNKradio.net Download past Issue and subscribe to future issues of Carefree Black Nerd by visiting linktr.ee/CarefreeBlackNerd

New Year, New Tunes! Feast your ears on 5 delicious tracks representing the work of 30+ incredible family music artists nominated for Best Children's Album in the 64th GRAMMY Awards! Ven Conmigo a Jugar from Actívate by 123 Andrés feat. Juan Miguel and YoelKeys Rainbow from A Colorful World by Falu Another Day from Crayon Kids by Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band Family Reunion from All One Tribe by Fyütch feat. Divinity Roxx Attitude of Gratitude from Black to the Future by Pierce Freelon feat. Kelly Kale Immense gratitude for the music these talented Grammy-nominated artists made and shared with us today: We hope you'll look these artists up – and share their work so other friends can discover some new music for their new year. We are looking for some NEW ideas for Ear Snacks + NEW friends who want to be on the show – to be on the show, have your grownup tell us what you're super into by visiting earnsacks.org Thanks so much to Shopify for making this episode of Ear Snacks possible. Go to Shopify.com/earsnacks for a FREE fourteen-day trial and get full access to Shopify's entire suite of features.

Season Five of the Simply Smarter Podcast kicks off with a look back at all of the changes within the past 10 years, featuring Stephen Heiner.  Stephen was the President of Get Smarter Prep from 2006-2012. He turns the tables on Caleb and Jill and asks them questions about how  Get Smarter Prep has adapted within the decade. 

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There are so many options when it comes to holistic living, from various diets, a plethora of exercises, meditations, supplements, etc. Science is constantly reviewing, researching, and progressing new and improved ways to achieve optimal health. But the truth is that science alone does not provide the complete answer we are all seeking. We all have individual needs that can't be replicated or specified by science alone. There are multiple, intangible variables to consider when seeking the right solution for your health based on your gender, age, lifestyle, genetic predisposition, past trauma, human design, behavior, culture, values, and so much more. In this episode, Dr. Connie discusses why she created the Alkaline Method™ to bridge the gap between science and miracles, and empower each and every human being to cultivate self awareness as the foundation for Self Empowered Healing. Learn more about our unique, truly integrative solutions to bring you back to yourself using our proprietary framework, the Alkaline Method™. alkalinemethodacademy.com drconniecheung.com Sign up for our upcoming FREE live training on How to Think, Act, and BE Healthier Than You Ever Thought Possible By Getting to the Root Cause of Your Autoimmunity. This training will be taking place January 10-15, 2022. Click here to register today: https://be.lupusrebel.com/live-autoimmune-training . Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and Youtube channel so you never miss an episode of the Mind Your Health Show! We release new episodes every week. Click here to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mind-your-health-podcast-with-dr-connie-jeon/id1297924924 Click here to subscribe to our podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/35dvMqbXWTpzhNYTf7C4hs Click here to subscribe to our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcQ8ySs38wLcDpp4-VJrdhQ. And if you liked this message, please leave us a review on iTunes! . Click here to join our NEW Self Empowered Healers group on Facebook (you must answer all three qualifying questions asked upon joining in order to be accepted): https://www.facebook.com/groups/selfempoweredhealers . Interested in working with us to reverse your autoimmune condition once and for all? Click here to check out our programs: https://lupusrebel.com/programs/

You'll never accomplish anything...until you stick with something.Our guest for this episode, Joanne Olson, is an extremely driven mother, entrepreneur, runner, and coach. Follow along as we discuss how to use goals to accomplish hard things and to build your confidence!IDEAS FROM THIS EPISODEThe illusion of balance (2:43)Turning a dream into reality (7:19)The first marathon (11:20)The set-back is part of the come-back (17:30)Set personal long-term goals (21:38)You're stronger than you think (26:25)ACTION STEPSet one goal, and tell someone about it!SUPPORT THE SHOW!CLICK HERE to visit our Patreon - Idea Gym is independently funded - your support helps us bring you the content you love, ad-free!RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODEVisit Joanne's site!Download our Free 30 Day Action Calendar to get started on your future.As a thanks for listening, snag a FREE kindle copy of the best selling book The Gap and The Gain  by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Ben HardyWHAT WE DOWe show dreamers how to turn ideas into simple daily actions. You already have all the info you need. It's time to ACT!We help you build confidence by...Providing ideas you can act on todayKeeping promises to yourselfTaking daily steps forwardCreating habits that improve your life and compound into resultsWHO WE AREWe are the action guides. Two family guys shortcutting success ideas into simple action steps that fit a busy life. We put the guru ideas and challenges to the test and modify them to fit any lifestyle. We believe in changeWe believe in the power of compounding daily habitsWe believe you can become the best version of yourself by acting with intention FOR MORE GREAT IDEAS - CONNECT, FOLLOW, SUBSCRIBEPodcast: Apple | Spotify | Google | WebsiteFacebook: @ideagympodcastInstagram: @idea.gymTwitter: @ideagympodcastThanks for listening! Idea Gym is individually funded and produced to be ad-free. We don't promote anything we don't use and love ourselves. You can support the show at our new Patreon linked on our website at Ideagym.info. You can also check out our favorite books list and snag your next great idea via Amazon affiliate links.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ideagympodcast)

Ever wonder why you didn't get that auto loan, or maybe why your dumb ass didn't get into college? Keep telling yourself it wasn't the 14 you got on the ACT.

We are so thankful for all of the Strong Women listeners who have journeyed with us in 2021! In this episode, Sarah and Erin reflect on the themes that revealed themselves through the stories of our 2021 guests and some of the life-changing mentoring moments that have happed through the Strong Women Podcast. We hope this year has blessed you as much as its blessed us!   Reflection on 2021 Show Notes:  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 79. From Assisting in Abortions to Helping Prevent Them with Kathy Lesnoff: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/79-from-assisting-in-abortions-to-helping-prevent-them-with-kathy-lesnoff  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 57. My Amazing Grace Story with Catherine Wheeler: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/57-my-amazing-grace-story-with-catherine-wheeler  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 72. Loving Women and Children Through Unplanned Pregnancy with Brittany Smith and Natasha Smith: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/72-loving-women-and-children-through-unplanned-pregnancy-with-natasha-smith-and-brittany-smith  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 51. Speaking Truth with Jannique Stewart: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/51-speaking-truth-with-jannique-stewart  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 27. Beauty As an Act of War with Megan Almon: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/27-beauty-as-an-act-of-war-with-megan-almon   Live Action: https://www.liveaction.org/  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 38. Why We Need Good Stories with K.B. Hoyle: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/38-why-we-need-good-stories-with-kb-hoyle  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 80. The Scandal of Flannery O'Connor and the Power of Stories with Jessica Hooten Wilson: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/80-the-scandal-of-flannery-oconnor-and-the-power-of-stories-with-jessica-hooten-wilson  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 37. Curating Beauty with Ash Marsh: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/37-curating-beauty-with-ash-marsh  Marsh Collective: https://marshcollective.com/  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 31. Our Bodies Proclaim the Gospel with Christopher West: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/31-our-bodies-proclaim-the-gospel-with-christopher-west  Our Bodies Tell God's Story by Christopher West: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-bodies-tell-gods-story-christopher-west/1131928622?ean=9781587434273  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 50. Beyond Pink and Blue with Glenn Stanton: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/50-beyond-pink-and-blue-with-glenn-stanton  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 71. The Beauty of Our Design as Women and Men with Shaunti Feldhahn: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/71-the-beauty-of-our-design-as-women-and-men-with-shaunti-feldhahn  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 48. Adversity is Part of Our Grooming with Tammie Jo Shults: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/-48-adversity-is-part-of-our-grooming-with-tammie-jo-shults  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 35. A Missionary's Legacy with Steve Greisen: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/34-a-missionarys-legacy-with-steve-greisen  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 65. His Promises Can Be Trusted with Barronelle Stutzman: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/65-his-promises-can-be-trusted-with-barronelle-stutzman  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 56. Victim or Victor? with Virginia Prodan: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/56-victim-or-victor-with-virginia-prodan  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 55. Weak Woman, Strong God with Dr. Jean Sutherland: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/55-weak-woman-strong-god-with-dr-jean-sutherland  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 62. The Next Right Thing with Missy Wallace: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/62-the-next-right-thing-with-missy-wallace  A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grief-observed-c-s-lewis/1100616072?ean=9780060652388  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 76. The Women of the Reformation with Glenn Sunshine - Part One: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/76-the-women-of-the-reformation-with-glenn-sunshine-part-one  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 77. The Women of the Reformation with Glenn Sunshine - Part Two: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/77-the-women-of-the-reformation-with-glenn-sunshine-part-two  The Strong Women Podcast Episode 34. The Life of Elisabeth Elliot with Ellen Vaughn: https://strongwomen.libsyn.com/34-the-life-of-elisabeth-elliot-with-ellen-vaughn  Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/strongwomencc  Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. 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On today's episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson talk with Dr. Zindel Segal about Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), an eight-week group therapy program designed to help those who suffer from chronic unhappiness and prevent relapse after episodes of severe clinical depression.About our Guest: Dr. Segal is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, and one of the creators of MBCT. He specializes in mood disorders, particularly depression, and has had an enormous influence on the clinical adoption of mindfulness-based practices and their addition to more traditional forms of cognitive therapy.Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube.Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.Key Topics:0:00: Introduction2:00: Origins of MBCT4:30: Why Segal prioritized studying mindfulness as an intervention to depression7:10: Comparing MBCT with traditional CBT10:20: What about depression makes us more reactive to thoughts and feelings?13:15: Mindfulness of sadness vs direct experience18:35: MBCT practices explained23:10: Three minute breathing space exercise31:00: Attentional control training33:45: Managing feelings of inadequacy39:00: Motivation and implicit compassion43:15: Ongoing practices after the MBCT course45:45: Creating access to mindfulness resources48:15: RecapFrom Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Sponsors:Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world's largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.Connect with the show:Subscribe on iTunesFollow Forrest on YouTubeFollow us on InstagramFollow Forrest on InstagramFollow Rick on FacebookFollow Forrest on FacebookVisit Forrest's website

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Hi friends! 'Tis the season for resolutions and goal setting, and I LOVE the excitement of a bright, shiny, new year. I'll be sharing my goals and reflections next week on the blog, but for today's podcast episode, I wanted to share some of my top tips for setting goals this year. I hope you'll give this short episode a listen and THANK YOU so much for all of your support with the podcast and wonderful reviews - I appreciate it so so mucho.   093: Tips for new years goals and resolutions - Aim for SMART goals: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely.  - Ask yourself “why” over and over again until you realize your true motivation between your goals.  - Choose something that makes you feel excited, or something that will benefit you somehow. - Create an action plan with specific benchmarks for your goal throughout the year. - ACT as if you've already achieved this goal. - Remind yourself of your top three goals each day and place these reminders in a visible spot. - Don't be afraid to pivot as priorities and circumstances change throughout the year. If something doesn't work out, think of it as FEEDBACK, not FAILURE.   Resources from this episode: Check out Lumen! This is the metabolism tracker I use and recommend. It customizes your nutrition plan based on whether you're predominantly burning carbs or fat. The goal is to make your metabolism more flexible - you want to be able to switch between using carbs and fats as an energy source - and you can customize the track based on your personal goals. Check it out here and use FITNESSISTA for an extra 10% off.  If you don't have the famous sauna blanket already, it's one of my favorite things ever and feels SO good on chilly days. Check it out here and use the code FITNESSISTA75 for $75 off! I love love love the meals from Sakara Life and am enjoying a shipment this week! Use this link and the code XOGINAH for 20% off their meal delivery and clean boutique items. They have so many great gifts (for others and yourself!) for holiday!!! Get 15% off Organifi with the code FITNESSISTA. The green juice and gold powder are my favorites! I recently fell in love with Harmony and drink it like a hot cocoa in warm almond milk or add it to my smoothie.  Thank you so much for listening and for all of your support with the podcast! Please leave a rating or review if you enjoyed this episode. If you leave a rating, head to this page and you'll get a little “thank you” gift from me to you.  xo