Diana Hill joins Jen Lumenlen on the Your Parenting Majo podcast to talk about psychological flexibility, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and parenting.

Key Points:

  • What is psychological flexibility?
  • What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)?
  • Cognitive defusion
  • The idea that we could believe that our thoughts are not true is mind-boggling to a lot of people
  • Perspective-taking is probably one of the most important skills we can do for ourselves
  • How do we live out committed action?
  • Children naturally have a beginner’s mind
  • One of the things that actually sets humans apart, from robots, is our ability to think outside the box
  • We can start to teach our children, that it’s not about the answer. That there are many ways to solve problems
  • The IKEA effect