Self-Coaching
Self-Coaching
Dr. Joe Luciani
Is our personality genetically fixed at birth? Well, yes and no.
30 minutes Posted Nov 6, 2023 at 2:46 pm.
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People come to therapy with the expectation that therapy will help them change. Is this a myth? After all, it's not unusual for people to remain in therapy for months, even years. What’s the truth? In this Self-Coaching episode, I discuss the truth about psychological change.



Current research suggests that there’s no question that our genes predispose us to five identifiable core personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. This, however, isn’t the whole story because a predisposition is only a tendency toward certain traits, NOT a life sentence!



In this podcast, you’ll hear the “whole” story.