Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from five-star app Meditation Studio.

I'm Patricia Carpice, co-founder of Meditation Studio, and your host on Untangle, along with my co-host every other week, Ariel Garten, co-founder of Muse, the brain-sensing headband.

Join us each week as we introduce you to authors, experts,

and thought leaders who share their stories on how meditation and mindfulness practices

have the power to change our lives. Today's guest is Dr. Jenny Tates. Dr. Tates is a psychologist

and has written several articles for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others.

She works with her patients to provide them with tools to get unstock in many areas of their lives.

She incorporates mindfulness into different types of therapies, including dialectical behavior therapy and cognitive behavior therapy.

Dr. Tates recently wrote an article for the New York Times about turning regrets into self-improvement. I was taken by this article

because of the many ways that regret can drag us down and keep us stuck. She's also the author of a book

called How to Be Single and Happy, Science-Based

Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity while looking for a soulmate. In this interview, we

discussed both the article and her book, and of course how mindfulness helps. Before we get

started, just a little reminder to check out our app, Meditation Studio, with Meditations

designed to help you with many of

life's challenges and to inspire you just when you need it. Now, here's Dr. Jenny Tates.

Jenny, it is so great to have you on Untangle today. Thank you for being here.

Thank you so much for inviting me on, Patricia. I'm really excited to talk to you.

So I want to start with this article that you wrote last week. Thank you so much for inviting me on, Patricia. I'm really excited to talk to you.

So I want to start with this article that you wrote last week for the New York Times, which was called Turning Regret into Self- Improvement. And you outlined six steps for that. I have always been really

curious about regret. Some of us have it. Some of us don't.

And as you said, it is human nature to linger on regret. And if left unchecked, it can turn

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