Cliff Heegel Ph.D.

Our unconscious automatic reactions make us miserable. What’s wrong when you’ve tried and you just don’t seem to change? Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) sees psychological flexibility as central to living a mentally and emotionally healthy life. Managing the moment you are actually living in right this second requires you to be psychologically nimble and adaptive. [...]

Subtitled: An uncertain mind sometimes deals with Reality better than a mind that is certain “It ain’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so” ~Will Rogers I love that Will Rogers quote. It captures, in a humorous way, the essence of the human predicament. [...]

I got interested in Crossfit and actually started off and on in late summer. When I returned from visiting my new granddaughter Emaline and her mom and dad in Austin, TX, I made a commitment to strictly follow a Crossfit routine and a Paleo diet for 30 days. It felt so good and worked so [...]

This 7-step framework comes partially from the work of Dr. Steven Ilardi. I have modified it but I use a lot of his ideas. He outlines a 6-step program in his excellent little book The Depression Cure which I highly recommend. Here are a couple of differences in my work and that of Dr. Ilardi. [...]

Here’s a short audio reflective exercise that can help you awaken from what Tara Brach calls “The Trance of Unworthiness.”  Below the audio link is an excerpt from one of her articles that I found on the internet. And if you want to know a lot more, read her book “Radical Acceptance.” Audio Link: http://askdrcliff.com/audio/tranceunworthy.mp3 [...]