Fight Depression and Anxiety With Your Core Values 26/30 How to Process Emotions

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Clarifying your core values is essential to fighting depression and anxiety.
You can learn to identify and act on your core values as an antidote to constantly struggling against your emotions.
In this episode we’re going to talk about how to create a life where you feel a sense of peace and integrity. You’re going to get a chance to clarify your values and see how striving towards them is the key to a fulfilling life, which is what I call happiness.

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In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction.

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[justthisonestep]

When I made a list of my top ten values, I realized one of them includes all the others and is my core value. My top ten looks like this:
Kindness
LISTENING
Relationships
Learning
Wellness
Love
Contentment
Present
Peace
Health
I put "Listening" in caps because I realized that one is at the core of all the others. Here's why:
Listening means being kind with the other, valuing your relationship with them, giving expression to your love for them. It means being content with what is, it means being at peace with the present. For me to be able to really listen, I need to be well, I need to look after my health as much as I can. Truly listening always helps me learn about the other and about the world. Listening encompasses all my other values. It is my core value :)

[Jacqueline_R]

This video makes so much sense! I'm 55 and have achieved a lot of my major goals, yet have experienced a major depression recently, and have suffered from anxiety for years. I may have lost track of what I really value, at least in part. I have recently told my therapist I don't even know what I value anymore, or hardly remember. I'm going to write that list of 10 values to help . Thx so much!!

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I'm facing depression for 14 years, and most videos are kinda useful, but in the long run not really because they kept value what you did in the past etc... for a person like me who literally lost and never lived his youth, and i feel really bad and guilty about it because every friend i have just lived everything while i'm here at 25 years without having accomplished or lived anything (not for my fault, it wasn't my choice), this video is pretty inspiring and it's starting to point me towards a precise point for go out from this depression, after a long time. Thank you :')

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This video was kind of a milestone for my thinking. Values, integrity. So simple but I honestly never really thought about it. Now it makes sense to me why I feel like a little duckling in the wide ocean- absolutely terrified and helpless. I don't stick to my own promises! This was eye-opening. Thank you so much!

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Thank you

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“Focus on the process, not the outcome.” 🙏🏽

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Wow! Just wow. Never thought like this before, values over goals. Superb!

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Thank you so much🙏
This is the reason I am in such a tough depression right now, I totally dropped my core values a couple of years ago and everything has just been like a confusing life in fight flight. Thank you so much för this and everything else that you are sharing to help people heal🌼

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