Holding anxiety as your own enemy, and that it has to go down, diminish it, go away and not happen here is a kind of self-invalidating, interiorly focused process that would get you even more entangled with these processes. Instead,… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“If you were on a bus trying to go east in a maze of dirt roads in a large valley, you might not be… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try to do… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
ACT psychology is a psychology of the normal. A lot of the psychologies that are out there are built on the psychology of the… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Your history's not going to go away; it isn't the same thing as dirt on the floor or paint peeling off the walls; it's… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
I want good science, and I want it to be realistically marketed. I wouldn't like only two countries on the planet that allow pharmaceutical… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
The government ought to help out, because the average citizen can't go out and be doing reviews of the scientific literature. And focus on… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
The mental cognitive processes that we're targeting are ones that narrow human beings' repertoire and make it harder for them to learn to be… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
What keeps me up at night in a negative way is, if we don't solve the problems of the human heart and of the… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
There are times when you felt especially important to another person, or cared about or loved or accepted. Well, loving relationships aren't something you… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
I kind of look at what's on the T-shirts and I see another solution, which also worries me. I see "Just do it." "No… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
The definition of happiness being very emotion-oriented - the problem is that there's too many quick and dirty ways to chase that in ways… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
