Quality of Life with Kim Walker

This episode will give you your why and motivation to find movement that you love. You will learn about how the your brain’s neuroplasticity is improved through exercise and other surprising benefits. Links to articles referenced in the podcast: •https://accelerate.uofuhealth.utah.edu/resilience/neuroplasticity-how-to-use-your-brain-s-malleability-to-improve-your-well-being •https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6296269/ •https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/three-good-things •https://www.ideafit.com/group-fitness/group-research-news/exercise-boosts-neuroplasticity-helping-depression/

Today’s episode is about unhelpful thinking styles originally called cognitive distortions, created by Aaron Beck in the 1960s and expanded by David Burns to create a list of 10 unhelpful thinking styles. A PDF can be downloaded at psychologytools.com

How can we move more mindfully? What is psychological flexibility? How can we develop more of it? What is ACT and how does it relate to psychological flexibility? This episode will answer these questions and how we can increase our motivation, focus and well-being by getting out of our comfort zones and doing things that challenge us. This episode will give you the encouragement to the hard things in your life that will ultimately improve your quality of life. Four resources I mention in this podcast episode are: 1)PDF by the Psychotherapy Academy: A Core Process in the ACT Hexagon Model 2) Tony Overbay’s Podcast 306 the virtual couch 3)https://workingwithact.com/psychological-flexibility-at-work/the-role-of-psychological-flexibility-in-building-performance-and-wellbeing/ 4)https://cdn2.psychologytoday.com/assets/attachments/3382/kashdan-rottenberg-2010-psychological-flexibility-cpr.pdf