Ep154: Radical Emotional Acceptance: Conquer Insomnia with Dr. Alex Wills

OVERVIEW

"Can radical emotional acceptance be a pathway to greater peace and happiness in life?"

You will learn if radical emotional acceptance can be a pathway to greater peace and happiness in life.

Alex Wills is a board-certified psychiatrist who has launched an insomnia treatment course to help patients with sleep disorders. He believes that emotions should not be suppressed, but rather accepted and turned into gratitude in order to find peace. He explains that emotions can help us be aware of our status and relationships and that his book, employs fictionalized characters to help people make these principles real in their lives. His book is about the five steps of radical emotional acceptance that can help people find peace and potentially sleep. He believes that it takes coaching and understanding to help people apply these principles to their lives.

"If you have sincere gratitude, if you can find sincere gratitude for your fear, for example, there no longer is a problem. And we oftentimes have insomnia because we're trying to fix emotions, but we need to realize emotions are not meant to be fixed. They're trying to help us be aware of our status and relationships." - Dr. Alex Wills

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WHAT WILL WE LEARN

How to use radical emotional acceptance to treat insomnia
The importance of finding gratitude for our emotions
The power of self-talk in creating peace and improving sleep outcomes

[00:00:51] - The book about the five steps of radical emotional acceptance
[00:08:26] - Radical emotional acceptance is radical acceptance applied to emotions.
[00:14:38] - Real life examples of those epiphany AHA moments.
[00:19:16] - The next step is to listen, try to be curious and learn what it's trying to tell you.
[00:22:14] - Just like color is giving us useful data, emotions could be another type of data.

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