If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try… — 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… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
But this cheap-thrill version, this sort of ease definition, the feel-good definition of happiness is an empty promise. Unless we get wiser… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Most people are hurt deeply by betrayals in relationships. It might be better to really get up against and sort of contact… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
It's pretty clear in how things are moving in empirically supported treatments that we're going to be speaking to the culture in… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Go inside the sweetness of life, catch the places where you genuinely were moved by or connected with life, and you'll find… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
One dangerous definition of happiness is to think of happiness as kind of a warm, joyful feeling in your heart that you… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Could we take anxiety to be something that may be of importance, may even be meaningful? And it says something about your… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Holding anxiety as your own enemy, and that it has to go down, diminish it, go away and not happen here is… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
In Scandinavia probably the most worker-supportive part of the planet, they have the highest rate of chronic pain and worker-related disability. So… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Processes of avoiding the world within in order to try to regulate your behavior, or becoming entangled in your thoughts interfering with… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
There is a middle path between indulgence and suppression, but the culture has overwhelmed that in the cacophony that has been created… — 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