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Dr. Julie Smith

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“Really like old school New York hip hop and stuff, and that puts him in a great mood, it puts me in a terrible mood. So it kind of, you know, that everyone has a different experience of things like music or exercise, but if you can understand your own experience, what works for you, then definitely then utilize those to create even small shifts in the moment because a small shift can just change direction and then other things can help to kind of move it forward.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think thinking your way out of a bad mood is difficult and often takes quite a bit of practice around using specific skills and stuff like that. Sometimes the quickest way to impact on your mind is through your body. So things like exercise, music, using your voice, like singing and stuff like that, things like that can create quite big shifts in the moment, but also human connection. So, for example, you know, if you've been, you know, kind of pent up and tense and then or you felt unsafe and then someone hugs you and you burst into tears and it's that kind of shift of emotion. And so, you know, things like human connection, movement, music, you can utilize those to good effect. And so, you know, one thing will work for one person and something different will work for someone else. I don't know. My husband likes to listen to kind of.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's okay. That's kind of how we work. It takes time to heal and things like that. So I think I learned to sort of acknowledge that not everything has to be done yesterday.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think something I've learned is that. Big, meaningful change is not made. Drastically and quickly. Sustainable change has made carefully. And there's this process of it's not just action. There is a lot of kind of reflection and then there's a bit of action. Then there's a bit more reflection of like we tried that. How was it? Do we need to change direction? You know, we keep moving. So it's a kind of bit by bit by bit, but we greatly underestimate how powerful and sustainable that can be when we do it bit by bit and develop habits, for example, and constantly reevaluate and check in on which direction we want to go in. So I think something that I've learned and certainly actually in my NHS work, for example, the type of work that I was doing, it took time, you know, if someone's really poorly and there's a lot to work through, that takes a long time.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's always a horrible answer, isn't it? But you, you know, maybe you had that aspiration when you were younger and you went with it because it's all you knew at the time. And then you learned some. Became more wise, and your values shifted slightly. And that's the thing. That's why I talk about doing sort of quite regular values check-ins, because depending on your life, you know, stage and what you're doing, your circumstances, your values will change. You know, my values transformed when I had children. And, you know, probably sort of flipped them upside down really. And that's okay. I could never have known that that would be, I couldn't have prioritized my children before they were there anyway, you know? And for example, you might not have been able to know that you would feel differently now back then at that age. You didn't have the capacity to do that. You hadn't had the life experience. So it's okay, you know, there isn't this sense of, there is this right path. And if you get on it at 17, you'll be all right. You know, the whole process is a learning process. So it's okay to change direction. It's okay to discover.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Today, two out of ten. I'm pretty tired. Can't even bother today. This job's really boring today or whatever. And so what you've done there is you looked, you've opened up a discrepancy between, okay, this is really important to you, but you're not living in line with it. Why? What's going on? Not in a way that you can then be really self-critical, but as a tool to say, yeah, my girlfriend's really important to me, but I haven't seen her for four weeks. Why? What's stopping me from jumping on a plane right now? Okay, let's do that. And then, you know, when you start to do those things and you're coming back towards your value, the sort of rating for how much you're living in line with it would go up. So doing that kind of exercise is really just a long, long-winded way of saying you can look at what's important to you. You can just do a really quick measure up of how much my living in line with it and what errors of my life do I need to pay attention to because I'm not living in line with it. So it can be kind of quite simple and”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your romantic relationships. What kind of boyfriend do I actually want to be? What kind of partner do I want to be? What do I want to represent to that person? And how do I want to come at difficulties? How do I want to sort of respond to problems that we face? And, you know, that kind of thing. So it's all looking at the attitude that you bring to that situation in your life or that area of your life. And you might come up with words that then kind of resonate or, you know, maybe, I don't know, maybe in your work life, maybe enthusiasm is a word that you just hold close to you. And that becomes one of your values. And so you can then sort of exercise that's in the book is you can almost rate, okay, how important is it to me to be enthusiastic in my work? Maybe it's 10 out of 10. That's really, really important to me. And on that same scale, then how much do I feel like I'm living in line with that this week?”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I need to head back in this direction because this is important to me. And so it's a kind of, you know, winding path where sometimes you're pulling away from it and sometimes you're going back towards it. And something that I included in the book was these sort of little values check-ins that I would do. And do in therapy where we look at, okay, just look at the different areas of your life. It doesn't have to be rocket science. It doesn't have to be really kind of airy fairy. It's looking at, okay, what's important to you in your life? You might have family, intimate relationships, health, creativity, lifelong learning, career contribution, those kind of things. And then you could literally kind of split it up into boxes and put in each box words not about what's really crucial is it's not what happens to you. It's not what you want to happen to you. It's how you want to respond to things, how you want to be in that area of your life, what kind of person you want to be. So let's say you were looking at.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure. So the way I would talk about sort of values and goals and therapy is really around a goal is something that you, once you achieve it, once you get there, it's done. So your goal might be to get through your exams. Exams are over, you passed, done. A value doesn't finish or end. It's a pathway. If you imagine your life as a journey, for example, it's a path that extends the whole of your life and it's something that you choose to always stay close to when you can. And I think, you know, life will always take you in different directions. So sometimes life will pull you away from a particular value. But it's really about always evaluating and knowing where that path is so that you can pull back in that direction. So for example, when your, you know, your career starts to take over because it's so busy and then you think, oh, I haven't spoken to my girlfriend all week. That's you going, that passed too far away now. I'm pulling back.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we didn't listen And if you try and convince some 10 year old kid, you probably don't want to be famous. You're right. Okay, whatever. So you have to learn these things, yeah.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think I'm getting there to a sense that. Need to stick to the reason that I started in the first place. I think I have to keep that sense of integrity about, you know, I started to be helpful. And the thing I love doing, you know, the thing I loved about writing the book was researching and learning about psychology and keeping up to date with the research. And that kind of stuff is the stuff I love to do. I love to learn about people and then to share that knowledge. And so I guess as long as I'm doing that and trying to sort of protect my children at the same time and live a normal life, then that'll be okay. But all of these things are a balance. I don't think there is a clear set answer to any of these things, are there? You know, like you've had that experience with the paper and that's made you kind of maybe step back a minute and think.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that you could almost work out what it is that I like and want about each one and how can I create a balance for me. But yeah, we just taught that we need to just strive for extraordinary and out of the crowd. And I think we have to question that.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sort of public things, I question myself, you know, what am I doing? Is this right? And it's often, you know, about your own values, isn't it, and how you want to live? And I guess all the time that you're questioning that and reflecting on it and making choices, none of them have to be permanent. There's this idea that, well, if I don't take the opportunity, it's all over. Probably not. So, you know, you can kind of play around with it, can't you? You could probably have, you know, six months off to go and hide away somewhere on an island and you could come back and experience public life again.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and I think that's where it almost goes against the grain again, doesn't it? Because we're kind of taught to believe somehow there's this undercurrent in our culture that you should strive for riches and fame and those things because they'll somehow make everything good and actually they make things harder as well. So, you know, while some people can really enjoy that and they'll really feel that that's where they want to be There isn't this narrative where people say it's okay not to because most people are being quiet and going off, you know, so and doing their own thing. So we don't hear that narrative of it's okay not to be extraordinary or it's okay not to stand out from the crowd or it's okay to want a quiet life or private life. And I'm as much a victim of that as anyone else because when I'm not wanting certain”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Point everyone's just going to think, yeah, this is boring now, and we'll stop. And we would have helped a few people, and that would be great. I mean, maybe you could advise me on that.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you know what? I've had quite a few moments. I've not even really told you on this, but I've had quite a few moments along the way where I've really, really questioned, do I even want this? And I kind of told myself that as soon as all that feedback, nice feedback from genuine people who were saying, thank you so much, you know, what's next. I was just kind of waiting for that to stop so that I could stop because it's really not been easy. I've got three small children and it's really, really important to me to be present for them. So I wanted to keep it as balanced as I could, which has been nearly impossible. So I was getting up at like five in the morning to make videos for TikTok in the dark before my kids got up and stuff like that. And it's not been, you know, it's not been an easy ride. And so it's kind of, you know, it's been hard work. And I think I kept going because I felt like it was temporary. I felt like at some point.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'd say Lucky's pretty hard work, isn't it? You probably know that. Yeah, and, you know, there's an element of that. I think, you know, there was probably a timing thing for me in that, you know, this huge pandemic started and lots of people were at home tapping into new social media platforms they hadn't before. I think it's been uncomfortable all the way along. Think Because it's been new and I've been, it's very public, and that's way out of my comfort zone. You know, I hadn't. Been in such a kind of small, I live in a small town, I had a small, you know, one man band private practice. It was just me. And the whole reason for that was so that I could balance it around my children and be the mom I want to be. It was all very kind of organic. And suddenly this thing started to happen and become a bit of a roller coaster.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Recreate any aspects of that with a really trusted friend or loved one, then that could be helpful. I don't think it's a replacement for therapy and the model and the training, but it's certainly something.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“pyotherapy for people is working out well where can you break that cycle where where can you exit and do something different and what is that You know, maybe that's another book to write, isn't it? It's talking about that relationship stuff because it's so important to people. And sometimes having good friendships and people that you trust to talk through these things with can help to give you that other perspective, you know, kind of fact checking some of your own, because when you're in it, it's so hard to see the wood for the trees, isn't it? You're kind of, it's so much easier once you've got stuff down on paper and you're kind of looking at it, you've got that bird's eye view, and that's really the process of therapy. So if you can”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think I don't think it's a replacement for it, but I think definitely things like journaling and reflecting on experiences and trying to look at patterns of behavior. So, you know, I always find that, I don't know, when I'm with my boyfriend, we argue about this after I do this. And then you can literally sort of work it out on paper, just writing things down. What happened, then what happened next? Then what happened next? How did I feel? How do I think they felt? How did then I feel when they said that? And you're really kind of just going through it. But keep doing that, you know, just doing it once won't necessarily open up everything. But when you keep doing it, you can work out patterns and the themes. And then when you start to get sort of knowledge of that cycle, you can then, you know, begin to look at what's different. But sometimes it's really difficult to just know how to break the cycle. Sometimes that's a really difficult.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sometimes you'll do this other thing that you've already worked out you need to do, and you break the cycle, and then you get the benefits of that. And so it's this really kind of long process of sometimes going around the cycle again and then sometimes breaking it and finding this new life that you can create in your relationships and stuff like that. So, and it's incredible how life-changing that can be for people.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I just love that therapy. It's great for looking at the patterns and the cycles that people tend to feel stuck in in their relationships and how that reflects those early life experiences that are essentially outdated coping strategies. But it's really difficult. You know, if something's been a lifetime of habit, you can't just break that by telling yourself to do that. So it takes time and it takes practice. And you literally kind of map out the cycle so that you learn to sort of acknowledge it in hindsight, first of all. So you say, okay, last week that happened and that happened. And yeah, I went around the cycle. And then eventually you've done that enough that you start to recognize it when you're in it. So as you're about to do something, you think, hang on a minute, I know what this, this is predictable. I know what I'm doing. And in that moment, you then get this chance. This is a beauty of kind of awareness is you then get this chance to choose whether you go with it. And sometimes you will, and you'll go around the cycle again.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, absolutely. And there's a really fascinating therapy called Cat Therapy, actually. So it's cognitive, analytic therapy, just CAT for short. But that really is just a fascinating therapy where it looks at the relationships that you have when you're younger, so when you're growing up with parents or siblings or family. And in those relationships, you learn how to behave in the world, right? You learn about, you know, who I am, what to expect from other people, and what to expect from the world at large. You develop kind of survival strategies or coping strategies in, for example, in a difficult relationship like that, you learn how to cope with that. And you have these kind of safety behaviors. And as you grow up, you're in a different situation, right? You're not dependent on parents and stuff like that. But those survival strategies or those safety behaviors continue and they get played out in your adult relationships.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“At some point, inevitably you break, or there's signs that you're not going to be able to keep up with them. And what that does is when there's signs that you're not going to keep up with those rules for living, you then it kind of triggers that core belief to come to the forefront. And that's when you get that rush of kind of psychological distress because it's a distressing thing to believe about yourself. And so that's when it can cause people real problems when that sort of damaging core belief is being triggered on a regular basis, for example, maybe because it's a turbulent relationship or whatever the situation is. And that's when you can work not only on the present stuff, but on the core beliefs and looking at how those are playing out in relationships.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so I mean, rejection is difficult for everybody, isn't it? But certainly if rejection taps into what we call a kind of core belief. So if someone grew up with a core belief around being unlovable, for example, could maybe their parents were inconsistent in their care, for example. So, and you don't think about these beliefs consciously all the time. You know, they're not at the forefront of your thought processes, but they will influence how you feel and they'll influence how you behave and the choices that you make. Because what happens is when we have a core belief that is sort of damaging one or detrimental one, we develop sort of rules for living around that that help us to keep it at bay. So it might be, you know, if I can just be the perfect business owner and the perfect boyfriend and the perfect dad, then no one will reject me and everything will be okay. And so you set yourself these rules for living that if”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's about how you then manage it. So when those thoughts come along about negative comment, it's what do you do next with what comes up? So yeah, it's really about how you kind of respond to the thoughts that come up after.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, because the feeling comes before the rational thought about it. So, you know, your body has that reaction before you're able to consider that, you know, this isn't your only community or this isn't your family or people that are sort of you're dependent on and that kind of thing. So I think the feeling will always be there. And it's always difficult, isn't it? But then you can override that with what comes next. So it's all, it's not about never having that feeling. And I hate it when people kind of say online, you know, just stop caring what everybody thinks. And that is impossible because you're built to care what people think of you. And you probably wouldn't function in a society that well if you didn't care what anybody thought of you.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Comments and feedback and stuff like that that you can have a hundred positive comments and you will scroll through them to find the one that's not positive even if it's neutral you know or god forbid negative because you're built to do that you're built to look for any signs that this is not okay or that it's all going to collapse and everyone's going to hate you and and so actually doing the whole thing has Has made me practice what I preach because I have to because it's not an easy situation to be in. Is it you're vulnerable when you're putting yourself online or as much as I do when you're putting yourself out there? It's a vulnerable place to be. And a lot of people look on and think it's easy. And it's really not. No, I have a newfound respect for everyone who kind of is brave enough to do that”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, do you know, it's been really tough for me actually because I'm naturally a very, people following probably wouldn't believe this. I bounce around in my videos like anything. But I'm actually very introverted, shy person. You know, my ideal day is kind of at home, alone with a book probably. And so, you know, the idea of being public and being seen by people was not a comfortable one. It's something that I kind of endured for the cause, if you see what I mean, for the idea of, oh, this could help someone who's in need. So that's something I've had to work through and do a lot of kind of practicing what I preach, you know, being uncomfortable for the sake of something that I value or that I believe in. And yeah, I mean, I did a video on the mental filter, this kind of thought bias that we all have and use the example of, you know, with the kind of”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I can't stop now. I can't stop doing this. So people are checking in every day to see what the next video is or asking for specific topics because they're genuinely struggling with something. If I can help in some small way, then I really should.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, in some ways, I do miss some of the one-to-one stuff that I do or did do. And so that's why I've kind of held on to some of it because you just cannot be being one on one with someone in a room and developing that depth of relationship with someone where that therapy room becomes their sanctuary and that's an incredible privilege, that kind of work. And I love it. But there is that. There is that sense of, okay, I could sit in this room and work with one person at a time or I could make a video and share this idea with potentially a couple of million people, which, you know, has become a real passion. And that I recognize that it just didn't interest me. The numbers and the, you know, kind of business side of it just didn't really figure for me. It was genuinely just the feedback, the messages and the emails, you know, I was going through them and thought was.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so I still have a few. I had to stop taking on anyone else new because I was sort of bombarded with requests and, you know, writing the book and everything has taken up a huge amount of my time. So I've kept that really limited. But yeah, I kind of still want to keep that going. I'm in the process of trying to work out how to manage that around doing such public things. So, yeah, that's going to be a real transformation for me.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, yeah, I mean, there was no kind of set game plan for it, but it just felt like the right thing to do it, to kind of put that information out there and see if people were interested in it. And it turns out people were quite hungry for that kind of information. You know, people wanted not only to talk about mental health, but they wanted some evidence-based sort of quality tips and knowledge that they knew were coming from, I guess, a good place.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Reluctantly, you know, got persuaded and had a go, and almost instantly the response was just overwhelming. People were messaging saying they were checking in every day to see what the next video was. There's this real misconception as well that all my followers on there must be this young group of people. And, you know, a lot of the messages I get are from parents and even grandparents who are saying, oh, this concept you explained was really, really useful. I'm working through it with my daughter or my grandson and it's really helping. Thanks so much. You know, where's the next one coming from? So I kind of felt like when we started, it was going to be this one-off thing, like, okay, you know, I should, you know, practice what I preach and have a go. And I assumed that we would kind of delete the account, which never happened. Two years later, here we are, kind of three and a half million of us later.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That same time he discovered TikToks that he found the app. Someone recommended to him. He found it. It was full of kind of fun dancing, loads of really cool comedy. And we were sort of scrolling through it, laughing instantly, just, you know, falling down that rabbit hole of scrolling. And he said, well, you know, go on.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Aspect of it so helpful. I would go home and say to my husband, why do people have to pay to come and see people like me to find out that bit of information about how their mind works so they can deal with their anxiety better or so that they can, you know, function in their relationship better? There's a set of kind of knowledge there and skills that are taught to people in therapy, but they're not therapy skills. They're life skills. And people can use them every day. I use them every day to help me get through everything life throws at me. And I just felt that it was unfair that that knowledge should be kept and hidden away in the therapy room. My husband, being the person he is, said, well, go on then, do it, you know, make it available and put something on YouTube or something like that. And so we did. We kind of half-heartedly made a really rubbish YouTube video.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, absolutely. And that's where, you know, you talk about anomalies and stuff. I guess I have felt like I've been sort of swimming against the tide in my chosen career and the area that I work in, in that it's usually a very private, quiet kind of career choice. You're working with individuals. It's confidential. You work with one person at a time. And in that sort of area of work, actually very few people are even on social media because you have to protect your own privacy and confidentiality agreements and that kind of thing. To even put stuff on social media, I felt quite scary for me because your thought is what my peers are going to think. Is this, you know, what's this going to cause for me? But every time that I had someone else come in for therapy who found the education”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think there is a sense of predictability, isn't there? And certainly you would go with that in terms of the sort of work that I do and working in therapy. There are certain patterns that can be predicted. And that's where your models of therapy develop because you can predict that if certain things are happening, then it might develop into this pattern. But actually, while there is predictability, people will always surprise you as well. So, you know, even as I work with people one-to-one in therapy, no two people are ever the same. And you can never assume anything because everybody has that unique story. And then unique set of experiences that they've been through and their unique set of coping strategies and how they'll then get through that. I think predictability to a degree.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So psychology felt like an interesting thing to do. I had no idea really what jobs could be at the end of it. I just kept following my interests all the way along. And actually when people ask me advice about careers and finding your passion and all those things, that's the only advice I give people really is, you know, follow your interest, do the thing that excites you or that inspires you and you don't have to have this epiphany moment that transforms your life and makes you passionate about doing what it is you're doing. If you follow your interests, you're much more likely to end up somewhere in a job that you love.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so no, there's no sort of major trauma that triggered my kind of mission to do any of this or even I had a few questions recently about why I was even interested in psychology and actually I've always been fascinated by people, by humans and I read a lot as a child but actually everything I read was about normal people in normal life situations and sort of development of how people become who they are. And that's always fascinated me. And actually I started studying psychology because I found it really interesting. You know, just there was a new A-level available at my school, my college. And so I thought, wow, that sounds okay. That sounds great. Let's try it. And I was just fascinated by it. And so I kind of went with that and went to university because everybody else was going. And it seemed like that was what you do now.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're subjected to these kind of ideals. We're trying to do everything perfectly and it's impossible those things that we end up doing habitually are the things that work instantly. Go into the fridge or grab in the wine or whatever it is and actually the things that tend to work in the long term are hardest in the moment like sitting with it and feeling it and using skills to get yourself through it. I just love that therapy. It's great for looking at the patterns and the cycles that people tend to feel stuck in in their relationship. And it's incredible how life-changing that can be for people.”
2022-03-03 · The Diary of a CEO · World Leading Psychologist: How To Detach From Overthinking & Anxiety: Dr Julie Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT