Stop Feeling Drained: Practical Ways You Can Reclaim Your Energy | Diana Hill (EP409)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Simple Living for Overwhelmed Moms
Diane Boden
4.8 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Are you pouring your energy into everything and still feeling like it’s never enough? In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Diana Hill—clinical psychologist, co-author of ACT Daily Journal, and author of the upcoming book Wise Effort: How to Focus Your Genius Energy on What Matters Most.
Grounded in psychology, neuroscience, and contemplative practices, Diana helps us explore how to stop scattering our energy and instead focus it on what aligns with our values, our families, and our well-being. We discuss what it means to identify your “parenting genius,” how that strength can sometimes become a stumbling block, and practical ways to conserve and redirect your energy so you can show up more fully in the areas that matter most.
Links Discussed in This Episode |
- Diane's Resource: Reconnected: How 7 Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers Helped Me Recover the Lost Art of Being Human by Carlos Whittaker
- Previous Episode: 7 Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers...(EP352)
- Book: The Unfolding by Rosemary Trommer
- Connect with Diana:
- Website
- Book: Wise Effort: How to Focus Your Genius Energy on What Matters Most
About Diana|
Diana Hill, Ph.D. is a modern psychologist, international trainer, and a leading expert on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and compassion. Drawing from the most current psychological research and contemplative practices, Diana bridges science with real-life application to help organizations and individuals develop psychological flexibility so they can grow fulfilling and impactful lives. She is the host of the Wise Effort podcast and author of four books including Wise Effort: How to Focus Your Genius Energy on What Matters Most, I Know I Should Exercise, But..., The Self-Compassion Daily Journal, and ACT Daily Journal. She has been featured on NPR, Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, and numerous other media platforms. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.
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| 0:00.0 | Being stuck in a story, avoiding discomfort, holding on too tight are really what contributed to my mess and then became my own message in terms of helping others navigate them. |
| 0:13.0 | Uncertainty and not overstimulating leads to a field of possibility. |
| 0:18.8 | So the three broad breaststroke steps of wise effort are get curious, |
| 0:24.4 | open up, and then focus your energy. They feel an emptiness inside like they're just running on |
| 0:29.6 | empty. And that's not a way to live your life, no matter how good it looks on the outside. The harder |
| 0:34.6 | that you work to prove yourself, the less you are yourself. |
| 0:38.3 | It's so much bigger and it's so much more nourishing when we operate from that wise self. |
| 0:42.9 | And our kids feel it and we feel it. And so that's for me is what wise effort is about. |
| 0:47.1 | It's like getting off the treadmill. |
| 0:59.5 | Hello and welcome to the minimalist moms podcast. Are you pouring your energy into everything and still feeling like it's never enough? In today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Diana Hill, |
| 1:05.4 | clinical psychologist, co-author of Act Daily Journal, an author of the upcoming book, Wise Effort, How to Focus Your Genius |
| 1:12.4 | Energy on What Matters Most. Granted in psychology, neuroscience, and contemplated practices, |
| 1:18.8 | Diana helps us explore how to stop scattering our energy and instead focus it on what aligns |
| 1:24.0 | with our values, our families, and our well-being. We discuss what it means to identify |
| 1:28.3 | your parenting genius, how that strength can sometimes become a stumbling block, and practical |
| 1:33.6 | ways to conserve and redirect your energy so you can show up more fully in the areas that matter the most. |
| 1:39.0 | But before we get there, I quickly want to share a minimalist resource with all of you. |
| 1:42.7 | I want to reshare the book, Reconnected, how seven screen-free weeks with monks and Amish farmers helped me recover the lost |
| 1:49.4 | art of being human by Carlos Whitaker. Carlos actually joined me back on episode 352, which I'll |
| 1:56.0 | also be sure to link in the show notes. But after sharing my minimalist moment last week of trying |
| 2:00.7 | to take a little |
| 2:01.2 | bit more time away from social media, I felt like this was a good book to go back through and |
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