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The Verywell Mind Podcast

209 - Conversations to Have With Yourself with Detroit Pistons' Team Therapist Dr. Corey Yeager

The Verywell Mind Podcast

Dotdash Media Inc.

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education

5703 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Yeager is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Much of his work focuses on facilitating the advancement of meaningful dialogue surrounding the subject of race and racism. He also serves as the therapist for the Detroit Pistons professional NBA basketball team.  He’s the author of a new book called How Am I Doing: 40 Conversations to Have With Yourself. In it, he describes questions we can all ask ourselves to increase self-awareness.  Some of the things he discusses in today's episode are the specific questions we can ask ourselves to increase our self-awareness, the tools that can help us improve our mental health, and how we can begin to identify specific patterns in our lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast. We've interviewed over 100 authors, experts, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and others to help you learn strategies to care for your mental health.

0:22.9

This episode is hosted by psychotherapist and bestselling author Amy Morin. Now let's get into the episode.

0:46.8

Okay. Do you ever think that you could benefit from learning more about yourself?

0:50.1

Do you sometimes struggle to know who you really are?

0:53.4

Do you think you could benefit from having more self-awareness?

0:58.5

If you answered yes to any of those questions, today's episode is for you.

1:05.0

He's a licensed marriage and family therapist who serves as the psychotherapist for the Detroit Pistons.

1:10.6

One of his passions is to facilitate meaningful dialogue surrounding the subject of race and racism.

1:14.1

Dr. Yeager is also the author of a new book called How Am I Doing, 40 Conversations to Have With Yourself.

1:18.5

In it, he describes specific questions

1:20.6

everyone should be asking themselves to gain confidence,

1:23.9

learn more about how past traumas might impact them today,

1:27.1

and to learn more about tolerating

1:28.5

uncomfortable feelings. In today's episode, Dr. Yeager talks about some of those specific questions

1:34.3

from his book and how answering them today could help you create a better future for yourself.

1:39.7

Make sure to stick around until the end of the episode for the therapist take. It's the part of

1:44.0

the show where I'll give you my take on Dr. Yeager the episode for the therapist take. It's the part of the show where

1:44.5

I'll give you my take on Dr. Yeager's strategies for building mental stray. So here's Dr. Corey

1:50.1

Yeager on the conversations you should have with yourself that can help you grow mentally stronger.

1:55.5

Dr. Corey Yeager, welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.

2:00.5

I'm excited to be with you today.

2:02.5

Well, I'm excited to talk to somebody that's normally talking to the Detroit Pistons about all things related to mental health.

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