Why giving up can sometimes be good

More and more people are using ChatGPT and other chatbots for psychotherapy and mental health. But, are they any good? I have a counseling session with AI and find out. Also watch this episode on video at https://youtube.com/@psychologyin10minutes 

If you met me at a party, would I be analyzing you? Here's my answer, along with some surprising facts about therapy. Video version of this episode at https://youtube.com/@psychologyin10minutes. 

How many times have you been in a situation where you had to try something new and thought, “I can’t do that”? The truth is, we don't actually know what we’re capable of until we are sometimes forced to try it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

"Failure" is a part of the weight loss process. Fearing failure is normal. Today we talk about using our past as evidence of what we're capable of in the future, and why choosing optimism is infinitely more useful than playing into the failure game our brains offer up.  Join the ...  Show more

Give Up Dreams to Get Dreams John Lennon was famous for saying, "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."  Over the years, I've found that folks tend to ACT and DO what serves them best. And they do it while dreaming and planning for something else. It's an ex ...  Show more

Sometimes we just fall off the wagon. Sometimes we forget that we're trying to do better for our lives. Sometimes it gets too hard to keep going and before we know it we've stopped doing the thing we said, we were going to do - whatever that was. Whether it was getting back into ...  Show more