Dr. Lindsay and Zac discuss some tips and tricks for you to follow as you go through your own Life Analysis. Feel free to follow along with the podcast or just go through the resource at your own pace. You can even just listen to the podcast on it’s own. Whatever works for you.

Dr. Lindsay and Zac discuss some tips and tricks for you to follow as you go through your own Life Analysis. Feel free to follow along with the podcast or just go through the resource at your own pace. You can even just listen to the podcast on it’s own. Whatever works for you.

On this episode, we explore the excitement and emotion of playing tabletop role-playing games. On this episode of The Shift Show, Zac welcomes Dr. Megan Connell to discuss how tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons. They discuss the importance of play at any age, and how getting together with friends to roll dice and tell stories can be fun, memorable, and even therapeutic. Join us for one of the nerdiest episodes of the yet!If you would like to contact us, please do so via Twitter or our Contact Page.Find Registered Provisional Psychologist At Our 124th Street, Edmonton, “124 Street Shop” Location! And View His Profile Here To Find Booking Availability:* https://shiftpsych.com/team/zac-erickson

On this episode, Zac and James discuss Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). On this episode of The Shift Show, Zac and James discuss the ins and outs of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). What is an obsession anyway? What is a compulsion? What Limiting Beliefs and Dysfunctional Needs contribute to the mindset that supports OCD? Find out in this episode.If you would like to contact us, please do so via Twitter or our Contact Page.Find Registered Provisional Psychologist At Our 124th Street, Edmonton, “124 Street Shop” Location! And View His Profile Here To Find Booking Availability:* https://shiftpsych.com/team/zac-ericksonFind Registered Psychologist At Our Calgary Location! And View His Profile Here To Find Booking Availability:* https://shiftpsych.com/team/james-murch/

On this episode, Zac and Andrea explore how looking beyond yourself can change your perspective. On this episode of The Shift Show, Zac and Andrea start a conversation after Andrea has a chance encounter in the Tim Horton’s drive-thru. The ensuing conversation explores the value to personal reflection, mindfulness, and taking the perspective of others. We can often get stuck in our own narratives, limiting beliefs, and dysfunctional needs. Being reminded of the life circumstances of others can help us see our own life in a new light. By combining our intelligence and compassion, we are able to take the perspective of others, and remind ourselves about what is really important. This episode is much more spontaneous and candid than our other episodes thus far, so please let us know how you feel about it via Twitter or our Contact Page. Find Registered Provisional Psychologist At Our 124th Street, Edmonton, “124 Street Shop” Location! And View His Profile Here To Find Booking Availability: * https://shiftpsych.com/team/zac-erickson Find Registered Psychologist At Our 124th Street, Edmonton, “124 Street Shop” Location! And View His Profile Here To Find Booking Availability: * https://shiftpsych.com/team/andrea-mctague If you want to contact the show to suggest content ideas, that’s what the Contact page is for! Check it out!

On this episode, Zac is joined by Dr. Lindsay to talk all about how limiting beliefs show up in our relationships. Sometimes people think they need couples counselling, when they actually need some intense individual therapy. Zac Erickson and Dr. Lindsay Sewall help tease these apart so you can recognize when limiting beliefs are at the core of relationship issues.Limiting beliefs can look like perfectionism, sensitivity to rejection, or an unwillingness to consider someone else’s perspective. We go over several different limiting beliefs and how they show up in your relationship.You can understand why people who are perfectionists tend to avoid relationships because you are destined to disappoint people. In this circumstance you are much more likely to be a workaholic because at work there are very clear standards of what you need to do to be exceptional and therefore “good enough”.Find Registered Provisional Psychologist At Our 124th Street, Edmonton, “124street Shop” Location! And View His Profile Here To Find Booking Availability:* https://shiftpsych.com/team/zac-ericksonFind Registered Psychologist Dr Lindsay At Our Mount Royal Calgary, “Mount Royal Shop” Location! And View Her Profile Here To Find Booking Availability:* https://shiftpsych.com/team/lindsay-sewall If you want to contact the show to suggest content ideas, that’s what the Contact page is for! Check it out!

On this episode, The Shift Show enters the world of evolutionary psychology, and how the oldest parts of our brain impact how we think, feel, and behave. Andrea McTague and Zac Erickson take us WAY back, discussing the origins of the human brain. In understanding the difference between the “lizard brain” and the more primate specific areas, we can begin to understand why we think and feel the way that we do.Evolutionarily speaking, the lizard brain is the oldest part of the brain. Most vertebrate creatures on the planet have a similarly functioning area of their brain, and it is responsible for keeping us alive. However, that doesn’t mean it helps us work at our best. Having a healthy relationship with your lizard brain is key to living your best life. If you want to contact the show to suggest content ideas, that’s what the Contact page is for! Check it out!

This week The Shift Show focuses on conflict resolution and communicating with people in difficult situations. Andrea McTague and Zac Erickson discuss avoiding the pitfalls of conflicts and trying to get to the root of the conflict with the people in your life in the healthiest way possible. What do you do in the situations that become conflictual relationships as opposed to conflictual situations?Andrea notes that the best place to start is with self because you can control for that. Why is this such a big deal for you in the first place?  Sometimes you are working on a project with someone and you really need that person to do “their half” to progress. Another need is that you need someone to think you are important or make you feel important. The latter indicates a need that does not actually originate from the relationship itself and thus cannot be solved within the present conflict. Once focused on yourself, try and determine where that need is coming from. Conflict around functional needs often involves those “tit-for-tat” arguments. We have to sort through these arguments to determine which points are functional or which points are dysfunctional.If you’re interested in knowing more about the Shift Couples Protocol then you can learn more. The List Of Limiting Beliefs List of Limiting Beliefs

Zac's history of dealing with ADHD Zac discusses being able to understand some of the symptoms that his ADHD created in childhood. Not being able to sustain mental effort in early assignments in school. When something was not stimulating enough to hold his attention in childhood he often encountered shame-based accusations of being lazy, stupid or destructive.Zac also discusses the often neglected, positive coping strategies and behaviours which ADHD may produce. Zac also refers to the book, “Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder“, by Edward M. Hallowell (Author), John J. Ratey (Author). It covers some of the advantageous characteristics of ADHD. Creativity, “out-of-the-box” thinking, a zany sense of humour, the highly intuitive style just to name a few.Olga explores anxiety as a secondary symptom or co-morbid disorders that present as a result of untreated ADHD. On average children receive as much as 10X negative feedback from adults. Over time, depending on the personality of the child and depending on if the child has supportive adult figures in their life; children can suffer anxiety or depressive disorders. As an example, Oppositional Defiant Disorder has often been linked to the constant negative feedback which, over time can produce an anti-authority reaction in adulthood.Olga asks Zac about his experience with medication in reference to ADHD or ADD symptoms. Zac mentions that there are scary ideas out there about it but he has had a good experience with it and he is able to “adult” now. He also shares that his wife mentioned(probably in jest) that it may have saved their marriage. He goes on to note the saying that. “Pills don’t teach skills”, suggesting that there is really no replacement for learning the coping skills or behaviours associated with a problem. The idea is that the best outcomes will come from a treatment that is both, behaviourally based interventions and medication.

Toxicity is an element that deprives us from developing correctly. Psychological toxicity is the ongoing occurrence of patterns that negatively effect our ability to navigate our natural environment effectively.When we are young we have to figure things out and navigate our realities very quickly. During periods of high stimulation we depend on our emotional systems to determine threats or unbalance in our environments. We are wired to trust our parents and depend on them to protect us. If they aren’t placing adequate protections in place for us then we assume that it must be our fault.