Welcome to the Wire Differently podcast where we chat all about how to best support exceptional children.

I'm your host, Holly Blanc Moses, the mom psychologist who gets it.

Today we're talking about how to show up as the person you want to be.

Okay, so no matter if you're a parent, a teacher, a therapist, a physician, no matter what,

we have this idea about how we want to show up for our child, our clients, our patients.

And, you know, we have this idea in our heads because

it's important to us. Like, it has something directly to do with our values because we care.

We care a lot. So I am here today talking to the fabulous Holly Yates. She is going to talk to us all about how to show up as the person we want to be.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you for inviting me here.

I am excited that you're here.

Okay.

Tell us, Holly, about you.

Tell us a little bit about me.

I am a psychotherapist in Raleigh, North Carolina, in private practice. I

primarily work with Act, which is acceptance and commitment therapy, which is kind of the model that we're going to be looking at.

It's not just a therapeutic model, but it's kind of a life model. And I'm also a trainer of other therapists

in something called functional analytics psychotherapy. And I've been doing this for quite a while,

about 17 years. How's that? I love it. Okay. Okay. So we're going to dive right in if that's okay.

Let's dive in. I was talking a minute ago about values and why it's important to us, because if it wasn't

important to us, we wouldn't care. We wouldn't care about how we're showing up for our kids or how we're

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