#152 The Creator Therapist - Melvin Varghese on Emigrating to Texas, his work as a clinical psychologist, starting a podcast, the birth of his daughter, re-evaluating life and money and detaching identity from work
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
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The Importance of Mindfulness in Therapy
When I was doing therapy you know I worked particularly with a lot of like high achievers very smart people. One common theme that would often come up is the sense of emptiness especially when they have been used to like succeeding so much and then they like quote-unquote fail right. Letting the ups and downs of our self-worth get get wrapped up in achievement is such a dangerous game to play, she says. "I'm grateful for it but at the same time it doesn't make me the whole of who I am"
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