444: Tips to reduce anxiety & the health benefits of looking in the mirror | NBA psychotherapist Corey Yeager, Ph.D., LMFT

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Corey Yeager, Ph.D., LMFT: “If you can't give yourself what you need, you can't give it to anyone else.” Corey, a psychotherapist who works with the NBA's Detroit Pistons, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to find long-term success and happiness, plus: - Why you should get to know yourself (~00:32) - Why you should dream big as you age (~03:50) - How to achieve your wildest dreams (~07:12) - Common mental health challenges with athletes (~09:42) - Why you should spend time looking in the mirror (~14:21) - How to actually develop self-awareness (~20:07) - How to reflect on your past without regrets (~22:05) - The problem with social media & self-worth (~25:52) - How to stay present & reduce anxiety about the future (~31:48) - How to use visualization for success (~35:59) - How to trust the process during times of uncertainty (~40:19) - How younger generations can save the mental health epidemic (~45:23) - The power of social connection (~50:08) - The key to long-term success (~55:46) - Why you should understand your genius (~58:29) - What makes Michael Jordan the greatest athlete of all time (~01:01:31) Referenced in the episode: - Corey's book, How Am I Doing?: 40 Conversations to Have with Yourself - Watch The Me You Can't See. - Research from the CDC on teenagers and mental health and an mbg article discussing the news. - The Roseto study. Enjoy this episode of the mindbodygreen podcast, created in partnership with Tom’s of Maine. As part of its first Incubator program, Tom’s of Maine will select five BIPOC climate leaders to each receive $20,000 in funding and expert mentorship to help make their solutions a reality. Apply here! And feel free to watch the full video on Youtube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. For complete details including the Official Rules, visit www.tomsofmaineincubator.com. Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and District of Columbia. (including DACA recipients), who are 18 – 30 years of age at time of entry and identify as black, indigenous or a person of color (BIPOC). Void where prohibited. Begins 10:00 am ET on 9/19/22; ends 11:59 pm ET on 10/9/22. Sponsored by Tom’s of Maine, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of My Buddy Green,
0:05.4	and your host. Dr. Corey Yeager is a psychotherapist for the NBA's Detroit Pistons,
0:12.0	and most recently featured on Oprah and Prince Harry's The Me You Can't See on Apple TV.
0:18.8	He's here today to chat about his new book titled How Am I Doing? 40 Conversations to
0:24.8	Have With Yourself, which aims to help you raise awareness of your thoughts and emotions
0:29.5	and reconnect with who you want to be. Amen. Corey, welcome. Thank you so much, Jason. Good
0:35.2	to be with you today. Great to have you, and I'm curious, what's the why behind this book for you?
0:42.2	I think the why is really connected and rooted in the importance and something that we haven't
0:49.0	really been given a lot of understanding around, and that's ourselves, right? We don't really
0:56.2	haven't been taught from the time that we come onto this earth and tell the time that we leave.
1:01.6	No one really focuses on the individual self, like truly focuses on getting better acquainted
1:09.2	with who we are. I think we do a really good job as human beings of connecting with others.
1:16.5	I think that's really, we're taught that, and you know, people support that,
1:21.6	but when it comes to really knowing who we are as individuals as self and being curious with
1:26.7	ourselves, we're not great with that. So when we ask, when you ask about the why of the book,
1:32.8	it is about finding the ability to be curious with self, the one way that you can know something
1:38.8	better is to be curious about it. Never be all knowing about anything, even about yourself.
1:45.2	So that's really the connected to the why of the book is that better being better acquainted
1:51.1	with who we are and being curious about that.
1:53.6	And we don't teach that in school these days. No, we don't. No, and I think that's probably by design,
2:02.9	right, that we want a society that's going to be focused on one another, that everybody's going
2:08.6	to be connected and make sure that you support your wife and your significant other,
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