This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. At self-work we discuss psychological and emotional issues and what you can do about them.

Whether that's learning self-acceptance, taking action, or seeking therapy or treatment.

Eight years ago I extended the walls of my practice to reach those of you

who might already be knowledgeable about mental health treatment, but also to those of you

who might say you'd never jarken the door of a therapist.

And yet you are here.

I'll answer your questions while I invite

you to take a few minutes for your own self-work.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is an approach where you're looking at your thinking, you're challenging,

your thinking, you're identifying what behaviors you want to increase in your life and you're setting up

reinforcement patterns and self-monitoring like tracking how you're doing it's

tends to be very structured work it's kind of get it done get it done therapy you know

Welcome to this week's edition of Self Work.

Our guest today is Dr. Diana Hill,

and frankly, I came upon her work on Instagram, and I was very intrigued by the way she talked

about what she did. Just really down to earth, I really liked her. She is an ACT therapist, meaning she practices what's called acceptance and

commitment therapy and in this interview she really explains it well.

ACT talks a lot about psychological flexibility and there's six cornerstones which you'll hear her again talk about. I just thought I'd outline them for you.

It's acceptance. Cognitive diffusion which is a way of handling your thoughts and maybe

keeping them in perspective, which is actually the third cornerstone perspective, being present,

mindfulness, and committed action. Maybe that's really what I love

about it because here at self-work we're all about what you can do about it, right? Diana has an

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