1764: Moving Toward A Positive Psychiatry: The Zen Psychiatry Manifesto by Dr. Elana Miller of Zen Psychiatry

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🗓️ 9 October 2020

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Elana Miller of Zen Psychiatry talks about how to move towards a positive psychiatry. Episode 1764: Moving Toward A Positive Psychiatry: The Zen Psychiatry Manifesto by Dr. Elana Miller of Zen Psychiatry Elana Miller is a psychiatrist based out of Los Angeles, California. She loves to write, read, and make music. Elana received her B.A. in psychology at Harvard University before studying at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, where she was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. I completed my psychiatry residency training at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was nominated as a UCLA Exceptional Physician. The original post is located here: https://zenpsychiatry.com/moving-toward-a-positive-psychiatry/ Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1764, moving toward a positive psychiatry,
0:05.5	the Zen Psychiatry Manifesto by Dr. Ilana Miller of Zenpsychiatry.com and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:12.1	Welcome to Optimal Living Daily, Old or OLD, the show where I read to you from articles that I
0:17.6	think are amazing with permission from the authors. One article a day, every single day of the year,
0:22.5	I'll tell you live a more meaningful life. And here on this show that covers personal
0:26.5	development or self-help, minimalism, inspiration, motivation, all that fun stuff.
0:32.8	So with that, let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:40.4	Moving toward a positive psychiatry, the Zen Psychiatry Manifesto by Dr. Ilana Miller of Zenpsychiatry.com.
0:49.5	There's something wrong with the way we look at mental health these days, or rather,
0:53.7	the problem is that we don't look at mental health and instead focus on mental illness,
0:58.8	trying to make people less sick. But rarely do we talk about making people more well.
1:04.8	In reality, most of us trying to make our way through the world aren't sick, but we aren't well either.
1:11.0	We're burdened by fear, doubt, or insecurity. We feel off, maybe slightly anxious or depressed,
1:18.4	but not to the point of being clinically diagnosed, and don't know why. Maybe we're so busy
1:23.4	running around doing all the things we're supposed to that we don't even realize something is wrong
1:28.4	until we stop, maybe for a weekend off, a vacation, a trip, etc. And in the silence and calm,
1:35.5	our flooded with an unsettled feeling that something in our life isn't right.
1:40.3	I know this feeling because I've been there myself. I felt that even though everything in my life
1:45.2	looked good on paper, I wasn't happy or satisfied. I felt blocked from doing things I knew I should do
1:51.9	without understanding why. Sometimes I still feel this way. I've discovered that the most meaningful
1:58.0	change comes through not just effort, but insight. It's not about putting your nose to the grindstone
2:04.0	enforcing yourself to feel a certain way, but about learning about yourself and through this process
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