Searching for Motivation in All the Wrong Places
You Need Therapy
iHeartPodcasts
2.4 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This week Kat is going solo to talk about one of those things that comes up in therapy all the timeeee. Motivation, and the possible lack of it. In this episode Kat explains why when people are searching for “motivation” they are often searching for the wrong thing. Plus, she gives 4 tips to help conjure up the energy that we may need to do that thing that we want to do!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:08.7 | I started to realize that not being an expert isn't a liability. |
| 0:13.2 | It's a real gift. |
| 0:15.0 | If we don't know something about ourselves at this point in our life, |
| 0:18.2 | it's probably because it's uncomfortable to know. |
| 0:21.0 | If you can die before you die, then you can really live. There's a wisdom at death's door. |
| 0:28.1 | I thought I was insane. Yeah. And I didn't know what to do because there was no internet. |
| 0:32.9 | I don't know. Man, I'm like, I feel like everything is hard. Hey'all my name is cat i'm a human first and a licensed |
| 0:43.0 | therapist second and right now i'm inviting you into conversations that i hope encourage you to |
| 0:48.8 | become more curious and less judgmental about yourself others and, and the world around you. Welcome to |
| 0:55.8 | You Need Therapy. Hey guys, Kat here, and you're listening to a new episode, a new Monday |
| 1:03.7 | episode of Unite Therapy podcast before we get into it, want to remind everybody that although |
| 1:10.2 | this podcast is hosted by a therapist |
| 1:13.5 | and it's called Uni Therapy, it does not serve as a replacement or substitute for mental |
| 1:18.8 | health services. But it's allowed to help you along your journey. I decided it was time to talk |
| 1:25.6 | about for a whole episode something that comes up a lot during |
| 1:30.7 | my workday as a therapist, meaning a lot of clients are talking about this in one way or the |
| 1:36.0 | other. And it is motivation and really more specifically the lack of motivation. So very often people come into my office to make some |
| 1:47.3 | kind of change in my life like that's not news to anybody there is 99% of the time something that |
| 1:54.8 | somebody wants to be different in their life when they come into therapy when they come into my office |
| 1:59.3 | and I meet them and we talk, |
| 2:01.3 | why are you here? And we know that for things to be different, we have to do something different. |
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