Ep #2: Why Control Is An Illusion

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What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• Recognizing the potential traps that we can fall into that act as barriers to change and performance, including the trap of having an agenda of emotional control.

• Why I double check with my husband on how to hike out of gorges and why compasses don’t lie

• How you can spot your own emotional control agenda

• Why in today’s world we need to learn to rewire our brains so that we can learn to regulate our sometimes challenging stress response and optimize it along with our mindset to perform at the highest level. 

• A practice that you can use at home to help you identify your own internal experience and some strategies to help you move through it.

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Resources Mentioned

ACT Resources

• Association of Contextual Behavioral Sciences (ACBS)

  • About ACT

  • About RFT

  • Research support for ACT

• ACT Mindfully - Dr. Russ Harris

Other Resources

• Introduction to Land Navigation - University of Akron

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • The Who Was? Show - Episode 6: Sacagawea & Blackbeard (It’s a kid’s show on Netflix, but it’s a funny retelling. Not very flattering to Lewis & Clark though)

• Huberman Lab Podcast

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