S12 EP16: Opposite Action: Resistance Training for Your Brain
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This episode is being re-released due to its high relevance for anyone looking to manage their emotions more effectively—which, let's face it, is most of us! Have you noticed that when your emotions run high, you tend to react in ways that don't serve you? This episode introduces a powerful, action-based technique from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) that puts you in control: doing the opposite of what your emotions tell you to do.
Join Kelsea and Rachael as they explore how to understand and manage emotions, tolerate distress, and make positive changes. Learn to avoid harmful behaviors and improve relationships. The reality is, distress is an unavoidable part of life. Stop waiting for things to get easier; if you spend your life waiting to get past a difficult point, you'll miss it!
Research:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7381101/
(00:00:00) Welcome and personal feelings about life changes.
(00:05:50) Why we are talking about opposite action
(00:10:35) Doing what you’ve always done and when it is time to adjust
(00:16:33) Stepping out of your comfort zone and taking chances on a scale.
(00:19:32) This is NOT an emotion suppressing technique
(00:27:06) How to strengthen this area of your brain: the aMCC
(00:39:00) How Kelsea and Rachael each put opposite action into practice
(00:49:15) The importance of explaining what you are doing to your people
(00:53:43) Fear of failure and small steps to making a plan of action
(00:58:50) Sadness and its opposite action
(01:05:10) The theme of the episode
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| 0:00.0 | The reality is the only way that you're going to actually change any of those, not only of those behaviors, the relationships and how you feel about them is by looking into yourself. |
| 0:10.9 | It's not by looking out to other people. |
| 0:13.4 | There are ways that you can adjust, but it can only happen with yourself and how you are going to react to something differently. |
| 0:25.8 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Thick Dye Save Lives podcast. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 0:30.6 | Hey, you guys. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Rachel. |
| 0:33.1 | You're back. |
| 0:33.9 | You're back. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome back. |
| 0:37.2 | Oh, man're back. Welcome back. Oh, man. That was quite the welcome back. Oh, man. That was all that I had. |
| 0:47.6 | That was all, I put it all into the first sentence. You peaked right there. Right there. |
| 0:51.2 | We're 30 seconds in and you peaked. I'm going on the decline from now on being 39. |
| 0:59.2 | It's fun. |
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| 1:04.9 | Look at your setup. |
| 1:07.3 | Oh, it's a work in progress over here, you know. |
| 1:11.5 | I'm so proud of you. |
| 1:13.1 | Moving's fun. |
| 1:14.4 | Setting up is fun. |
| 1:17.2 | We got a new dishwasher this week. |
| 1:20.1 | This is your 30s right here. |
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