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Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Episode 736: Zak Hazlett, The Outdoor Therapist

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8839 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

My friend Zak Hazlett (Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from BYU) joins us from his home in Moab, Utah to talk about his life mission to bring more kindness, love, understanding into our community. Zak (who grew up running rivers in Southern Utah) talks about merging this love of the outdoors and his desire to help others into a career as a therapist and relationship coach—which is captured in his fast-growing Instagram Account called @the_outdoor_therapist. In the podcast, Zak talks about how to better love and accept ourselves, love others, learn to forgive ourselves/others, find hope/healing and be a better people. Zak also talks about working as a student therapist in the BYU Comprehensive Clinic—where he had many visits with queer BYU students. He talks about what he learned, how to better listen, how we don’t always have the answer, how his heart changed, and how he loves this group of people. I was deeply moved listening to Zak—his great heart—his work—and his ability to communicate principles in an effective and practical way to bless others/help ourselves. Zak represents a rising generation focused on love, understanding, inclusion and healing. Zak—and thousands more like him—give me hope for the future. Honored to have you on the podcast. I encourage everyone to listen to the episode and follow your Instagram account. Links: Zak’s Instagram Account: @the_outdoor_therapist

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.

0:10.2

I have a really thoughtful therapist as an Instagram account called The Outdoor Therapist on the podcast today.

0:20.4

And I asked him to come on the podcast because there's so much hurting in the world.

0:25.3

And there's a need for hope and healing.

0:27.6

And a lot of that comes through the principles that therapists teach us.

0:31.5

And I've been to a therapist twice in my life.

0:33.4

And I learned so much about how to better take care of myself and also better to help others.

0:39.2

And sometimes I wish I'd redone my degree at BYU back in the 80s and gotten more expertise in this area.

0:47.2

But welcome to the podcast, Zach.

0:50.4

How do we say your last name?

0:53.2

Hazlet.

0:54.2

Hazlet, H-A-Z-L-E-T-T, and his first name is Zach.

0:59.3

Z-A-K, I want to say Z-D because I served a mission in England, and we said Z-Z's there.

1:06.7

Zach is 29.

1:07.9

He's single.

1:08.6

He's a BYU undergraduate.

1:10.3

He's a BYU has a graduate degree in family therapy.

1:15.6

He is a therapist and relationship coach who will link to his Instagram account that has its 78,000 followers.

1:23.8

And as I've been following his Instagram account, he does part of his platform,

1:29.2

he'll just go outside and record really thoughtful, not long comments.

1:34.3

And they don't need to be long to really be impactful.

1:38.5

I've read a few of them, maybe 10, and each of them are really thoughtful and insightful.

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