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Joining me on  The Born To Talk Radio Show Podcast, is Beth Kurland.

Meet Beth Kurland. 

Beth Kurland, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, mind-body coach, and author of four award winning books and a public speaker.  With a passion for and expertise in mindfulness and mind-body strategies, Beth brings over three decades of experience to help people cultivate the whole person with health and wellness.  Beth offers 1:1 coaching and group classes.  She helps busy professionals, caregivers, high achievers and soul-seeking individuals to learn practical tools. This includes reducing stress, cultivate deep well-being, and uncover the version of themselves that life is waking them up to.  Beth is passionate about helping people understand about the mind-body connection.  In doing so they will learn to access their inner toolkit to discover that they don’t need to fix . At the same time to change themselves to awaken the power of inner transformation.

Beth’s Latest Book.

In You Don’t Have to Change to Change Everything, readers learn that instead of forcing themselves to feel “happy” this results in pushing away what is unpleasant.  Instead of getting hooked by intense emotions, another path can lead to more profound well-being. Rather than trying to change one’s inner experiences, this book offers six ways to shift one’s vantage point when difficult emotions arise. Being aware from each of these six vantage points allows readers to cultivate inner stability, willingness to turn toward rather than away from themselves, greater perspective, internal strengths and inner resources, self-compassion, connection with the “Whole Self” versus identification with “hole self,” and interconnection with the world around them.

Beth’s Takeaways.

“Our autonomic nervous system underlies everything we do. We have survival circuits that get activated when we experience “threat” (e.g., various forms of stress) and put us in states of protection (e.g., fight, flight or freeze).  We also have “thriving circuits” that we can learn to activate more often in our lives, that help us feel safe and connected, balanced and regulated. Mind-body tools and practices help us to regulate our nervous system so we can be more flexible and resilient in our daily lives.  From here we can thrive and flourish.  In my experience, change comes about most powerfully not by finding what is wrong and trying to fix it, but by finding what is right (what is working) and trying to strengthen it.”

In Closing.

“Instead of focusing on what we can subtract, change or get rid of especially when it comes to more difficult emotions, something I have found more helpful is to focus on what we can ADD into the equation. When we invite acceptance, self-compassion, awareness, gratitude and other such qualities to sit side-by-side our more difficult emotions, we experience greater ease.”