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Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning

EFR 680: Why You Should Give a F*ck and the 5 Steps of Radical Emotional Acceptance with Dr. Alex Wills

Ever Forward Radio with Chase Chewning

Chase Chewning

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

5.0 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Tired of struggling with your emotions? Let Dr. Alex Wills show you how to ride the waves! In this conversation, he dives into the concept of Radical Emotional Acceptance and why it's essential for emotional wellness. Gain expert insights on how to confront your emotions, find gratitude in life's challenges, and build unbreakable emotional strength. Learn why suppressing or resisting emotions can harm your health and how to choose health, strength, and wellness in your life.

Dr. Alex Wills, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist and the author of "Give a F*ck, Actually: Reclaim Yourself with the 5 Steps of Radical Emotional Acceptance," shares his clinical experience in helping patients heal through the Radical Emotional Acceptance method. Get ready to embrace your emotions and surf the waves with confidence.

 

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Key Highlights

  • Chase and Alex share their candid thoughts on The Five Acceptances he details in his book, particularly "putting down the f*ck shield" and "listening to the f*ck". 
  • Alex's approach to emotional wellness and wisdom is celebrating the painful emotions and understanding, how are these emotions trying to help me? That's the golden question when exploring and accepting your emotions. 
  • Chase cracks open the emotions of losing his father, highlighting the power of emotional awareness and learning how to surf the waves of your emotions.
  • What are the signs of emotional dysregulation? When is it time to get help processing my emotions? Tune in to hear Alex's answers!
  • Alex explains the vital role of self-accountability in practicing radical emotional acceptance. 
  • Alex shares about his personal challenge with mindfulness and the "invisible tattoo" he gives to every one of his patients to remind them to acknowledge the perfection of the present moment.
  • "One of the key things about therapy is it's not really as much about what you're thinking," Alex says, "but it's about your experience, it's about your behavior, giving yourself, habitually, the experience of a different reality until you kind of rewire the way your brain works until it becomes automatic." 
  • Is there value in finding gratitude for your trauma and life challenges? Absolutely, but why? And how do we truly accept and feel grateful for the pain we experience? Listen in to hear Alex's thoughts on this concept.
  • It's okay to feel like shit and to feel like you're drowning. The bright side is we get to give reason to it.

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0:00.0

The following is an Operation Podcast Production.

0:03.3

Hi, I'm Dr. Alex Wills, author of Give a Fuck Actually,

0:08.0

reclaim yourself with the five steps of radical emotional acceptance.

0:11.6

I'm here on Ever Forward today and we're going to be

0:14.4

looking at if emotions are not actually a problem. This is your number one

0:20.2

source for inspiring content from people who are putting a purpose to their passion and

0:25.4

truly living a life ever forward.

0:27.4

I am your host Chase Chuning.

0:29.8

This is Ever forward radio. Reclaim yourself with the five steps of radical emotional acceptance or give a fuck.

0:50.0

Now total disclosure here I guess trigger warning heads up warning this episode is probably not the best one to be

0:57.7

blasting with the kids or out loud at work because we've got a man on a mission here today and he's getting very real very straightforward and I think explaining things in a way that we all can relate to probably because we've all been there like I don't give an F I want to give an F or I'm giving too many

1:15.1

Fs. So listen up are you tired of battling your emotions? In this episode we're going to

1:20.8

learn to ride the emotional waves and really use

1:23.8

entire advantage. Dr Alex Wills is here to shed light on the concept of

1:28.5

radical emotional acceptance and it's why it's actually important to give a fuck. He's going to give us

1:35.8

expert insights on how to overcome the fear of confronting our emotions, even how to

1:41.0

move into a place of gratitude, which is very difficult for a lot of us and sounds so far-fetched,

1:46.5

but how to get into a place of gratitude for life's most painful challenges,

1:50.2

and to really start building unbreakable emotional wellness.

1:55.0

And I can tell you from personal experience and I definitely get into it here with Alex.

1:59.0

I spent so many years focusing on pretty much every other area of my wellness, meaning externally, physically,

2:07.8

that my emotional self, my emotional health, my mental health, was really put on the back burner, but it was only a matter of time

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