Jenny Taitz: Self-Soothing Strategies, How to be Single and Happy & Ending Emotional Eating
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Mayim Bialik
4.8 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Jenny Taitz, Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at UCLA and licensed clinical psychologist board certified in cognitive behavioral therapy, outlines her custom, dialectical therapy approach to helping people meet their long term goals by utilizing evidenced-based tools. She breaks down the core issues of disordered eating and highlights the importance of recognizing hunger cues and triggers, forming intuitive eating habits, and finding nourishment through self-soothing strategies. Mayim expands upon the origin of her eating disorder and current relationship with food, and details the role food plays in culture and intimacy. Dr. Taitz discusses how mindfulness, distress tolerance, finding bite-sized doses of hope, and even dunking your face in ice water can lead to radical acceptance & willingness. After Mayim opens up about her history of serial monogamy, she and Dr. Taitz examine the importance of finding happiness and empowerment while living single rather than waiting to find the right person to be happy. Mayim and Dr. Taitz wrap the episode with indicators one might need help overcoming an eating disorder, and Mayim explains Binge Eating Disorder during an installment of Ask Mayim Anything.
Jenny's Books: https://drjennytaitz.com/books/
Jenny's Articles: https://drjennytaitz.com/media/
Overeaters Anonymous: https://oa.org/
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| 0:00.0 | This specific skill that a lot of my patients find helpful that is from this therapy called |
| 0:06.0 | dialectical behavior therapy is getting a salad bowl sticking ice in it, then filling |
| 0:13.7 | it with water, holding your breath, going into the ice bucket for like 15 to 30 seconds. |
| 0:19.9 | What? |
| 0:20.9 | This might see. |
| 0:21.9 | If it's into 30 seconds, there's literally no way you're going to be perseverating |
| 0:25.6 | on whatever was bothering you. |
| 0:26.6 | Because you're going to be afraid you're going to die, Jenny. |
| 0:30.6 | It's a whole different fear. |
| 0:32.1 | It's my biologist breakdown. |
| 0:35.0 | She's going to break it down for you. |
| 0:37.8 | Because you know she knows a thing or two. |
| 0:40.2 | And now she's going to break down. |
| 0:42.8 | It's a breakdown. |
| 0:44.0 | She's going to break it down. |
| 0:46.7 | Hi, I'm my ambiolic and welcome to my breakdown. |
| 0:49.4 | Today we're going to be breaking down, eating disorders and how to be single and happy. |
| 0:56.4 | We have a really cool, groovy psychologist who's going to join us today. |
| 1:01.2 | Dr. Jenny Tate, she's an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at UCLA. |
| 1:06.0 | And she's written an extremely important and such a timely book, how to be single and |
| 1:11.0 | happy science-based strategies for keeping your sanity while looking for a soulmate. |
| 1:15.7 | And she got some really, really interesting perspectives on being single and on mindfulness |
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