The Happy Hour Dr. Jonah Paquette and Dr. Supria Gill

Struggling to make change, or identifying why making a change is important to you? Join us in this enlightening conversation with Dr. Michelle Drapkin, a board certified clinical psychologist, who has worked in the area of behavior change for over 20 years and is dedicated to using behavioral science research to help people. Michelle is the Director of the CBT Center, and previously held behavioral scientist roles at Johnson & Johnson, a national role at the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as a faculty role at the University of Pennsylvania. She sees patients in her private practice, consults with healthcare tech startups, and delivers trainings and workshops on communication/motivation, health and well-being at work and in life. Michelle is the author of “The Motivational Interviewing Path to Personal Change: The Essential Workbook for Creating the Life You Want.” Our conversation today covers a lot of interesting ground, including working through obstacles to change, connecting to your own motivation and what matters most using evidence-based practices. Michelle is well-versed in the area of behavior change, and offers practical strategies to use, and we think you’ll find this conversation insightful! Links & Resources: Check out Michelle’s website: https://cbtcenterofcentralnj.com/drmichelle-drapkin/ Thanks for listening! Please leave us a review and subscribe to our show to receive all new episodes hot off the press. Reviews are very helpful for visibility and gaining new listeners, so we’re very grateful if you’d help us in this way! To learn more about Jonah, visit his website at www.jonahpaquette.com To learn more about Supria, visit her website at www.supriagillphd.com

Looking to find ways to ground yourself in the context of professional and personal demands? Consider how the story we tell ourselves, and how we treat ourselves weighs into our emotional functioning and can contribute to burnout, and how this can look differently for each of us. In our show today, we discuss the differences between daily burnout versus the “big kahuna” burnout, and how this can manifest. We also discuss how emotional fitness, the ability to handle life’s challenges with less struggles by creating a more supportive relationship with yourself, can mitigate burnout. Our guest today, Nataly Kogan, a leading expert on emotional fitness and leadership, talks to us about how to go from burnout to thriving. Listen in as we discuss the use of daily anchors to ground ourselves, and hone in on emotional fitness. Nataly is a best-selling author, and keynote speaker and has appeared in hundreds of media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, TEDx Boston and SXSW. Links & Resources: Learn more about Nataly’s work here: www.natalykogan.com Order your copy of her new book here: Awesome Human Journal Thanks for listening! Please leave us a review and subscribe to our show to receive all new episodes hot off the press. Reviews are very helpful for visibility and gaining new listeners, so we’re very grateful if you’d help us in this way! To learn more about Jonah, visit his website at www.jonahpaquette.com. To learn more about Supria, visit her website at www.supriagillphd.com

Struggling with burnout? You’re not alone! Whether it's a difficult boss, demanding hours, lack of autonomy, or not feeling appreciated at work -- there are all sorts of factors that can lead us to feel burnt out. In fact, surveys from around the world show that burnout is on the rise, and comes at a great cost to our mental and physical well-being. Many of these studies even suggest that the majority of people working in the United States have experienced significant burnout at some point within the past year. But how to cope with burnout, and its associated symptoms of exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced efficiency? 

Our guest today is Dr. Debbie Sorensen, and she’s here to teach us all a few important lessons when it comes to burnout. Debbie is a Harvard-trained clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of chronic stress and burnout. She is also a co-host for the popular “Psychologists Off The Clock” podcast, a favorite cousin of “The Happy Hour.” Our conversation spans themes including understanding and defining burnout, recognizing early warning signs, and strategies we can employ to lessen the impact of burnout in our lives. Debbie’s new book “ACT for Burnout” is a fantastic resource and offers readers sustainable strategies for managing burnout. She’s kind enough to share some of these important concepts and findings in our conversation with her today, which we hope you enjoy!

Links & Resources:

Learn more about Debbie’s work here: https://www.drdebbiesorensen.com/ 

Order your copy of “ACT for Burnout”  here: https://a.co/d/00F7MZj 

Thanks for listening! Please leave us a review and subscribe to our show to receive all new episodes hot off the press. Reviews are very helpful for visibility and gaining new listeners, so we’re very grateful if you’d help us in this way!

To learn more about Jonah, visit his website at www.jonahpaquette.com 

To learn more about Supria, visit her website at www.supriagillphd.com

Most parents want their kids to become self-sufficient, independent, and confident. But how to do that in a world where you’re competing with time and technology? Many of us can fall into controlling parenting tendencies as a function of limited time, which can inadvertently stunt our childrens’ self-sufficiency as well as contribute heavily to parental burnout. 

In our show today, we explore many aspects of autonomy supportive parenting including how it is supported by long-term outcome data, and can help to foster autonomy and shared decision-making, how it differs from other parenting styles, as well as the consequences of “overparenting,” and much more in our conversation with clinical psychologist and parenting expert Dr. Emily Edlynn. 

Dr. Edlynn’s new book, Autonomy-Supportive Parenting: Reduce Parental Burnout and Raise Competent, Confident Children,” delves deep into the science of parenting and provides practical tools to try. She writes the regular parenting advice column, Ask Your Mom, for Parents.com, has written for national outlets such as Washington Post, Scary Mommy, and Motherly, and has been featured as an expert across parenting articles in outlets such as the New York Times, CNN, and BBC. We learned so much from Emily and loved our chat–and hope you do too! 

Links & Resources:

Learn more about Emily’s work here: https://www.emilyedlynnphd.com/ 

Order your copy of “Autonomy-Supportive Parenting”  here: https://a.co/d/fgDewDs 

Thanks for listening! Please leave us a review and subscribe to our show to receive all new episodes hot off the press. Reviews are very helpful for visibility and gaining new listeners, so we’re very grateful if you’d help us in this way!

To learn more about Jonah, visit his website at www.jonahpaquette.com 

To learn more about Supria, visit her website at www.supriagillphd.com 

We often mention on The Happy Hour that relationships are one of the key factors determining happiness and health across our lifespan. But what if some of those relationships are with people who are emotionally immature? Whether it’s a boss, a sibling, a parent, or anyone else in our lives, these relationships can leave us feeling frustrated, misunderstood, drained, and worse. So how can we disentangle from these challenging dynamics, set healthy limits, and avoid experiencing the dreaded “brain scramble” (a term you’ll soon learn) when interacting with these challenging sorts of people?

We explore those questions and more with our guest in today’s show, Dr. Lindsay Gibson. Lindsay is a clinical psychologist and author specializing in helping people cope with emotionally immature people. Her newest book is titled “Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People” and helps readers identify the red flags of emotional immaturity in others and how to address these challenging relationships in everyday life. Her previous books include the bestseller “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents,” a runaway hit that’s sold over 800,000 copies to date.

In our conversation with Lindsay, we explore the characteristics of emotionally immature people, how to identify the key warning signs, and how you can disentangle from them in ways that are in line with your values and goals. Conversely, we also discuss some of the hallmarks of emotionally mature relationships, and what to look for in a healthy relationship. We learned so much in our conversation with Lindsay, and hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Links & Resources:

Learn more about Lindsay’s work here: www.lindsaygibsonpsyd.com 

Order your copy of “Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People”  here: https://a.co/d/g2MWsPF 

Order your copy of “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents”  here: https://a.co/d/h8JWDXf 

Thanks for listening! Please leave us a review and subscribe to our show to receive all new episodes hot off the press. Reviews are very helpful for visibility and gaining new listeners, so we’re very grateful if you’d help us in this way!

To learn more about Jonah, visit his website at www.jonahpaquette.com 

To learn more about Supria, visit her website at www.supriagillphd.com

Have you ever had that nagging feeling that you don’t belong? That as soon as you open your mouth, everyone’s going to realize that you don’t know what you’re talking about? Or maybe that you’ve somehow managed to fool everyone along the way, only for that house of cards to come tumbling down if they only knew how over your head you really are?

If these sorts of feelings sound familiar, you might be suffering from “imposter syndrome.” But is it really a syndrome? Or is this experience (that research shows MOST people struggle with) better thought of in a different way? Our guest today is Jill Stoddard, a psychologist, writer, and renowned speaker. Jill’s new book “Imposter No More” tackles the fascinating topic of imposterism – what it is, how we can manage it, and more. Jill is a passionate about sharing science-backed ideas from psychologist to help people live better lives. Her work has been featured in Psychology Today, Scary Mommy, Thrive Global, and many other outlets. She is also the co-host of the Psychologists off the Clock Podcast, which is one of our favorite podcasts on mental health that’s out there! We loved our conversation with Jill, and think you will too!

 

Links & Resources:

Learn more about Jill’s work here: https://jillstoddard.com/ 

Order your copy of Imposter No More here: https://a.co/d/iS9C4dY 

 

Thanks for listening! Please leave us a review and subscribe to our show to receive all new episodes hot off the press. Reviews are very helpful for visibility and gaining new listeners, so we’re very grateful if you’d help us in this way!

 

To learn more about Jonah, visit his website at www.jonahpaquette.com 

To learn more about Supria, visit her website at www.supriagillphd.com