Dr. Diana Hill
Learn evidenced-backed, contemplative ideas and practices to help you develop your psychological flexibility. If you want to put your efforts into what you care most about, this twice-monthly Wise Effort newsletter is for you. Join the Wise Effort newsletter community!
You are carrying too many things, and you know it
Dear Reader, You are carrying too many things. Like when you hold five paper bags–the last one by your pinky–on your way from the car to the house. You know it’s gonna rip, or that your pinky will suffer, but you do it anyway. Some of the things you carry are mental. Are you carrying any of these stories? I have to stay at this pace It's up to me to figure out Once I push through this, things will be better Other things you carry are in your heart. Are you overloaded with any of these? Fear...
Lose yourself in a good way
Dear Reader, There’s something I’ve been noticing—in myself, in my clients, in my friends. And it’s not exactly new. It’s a pull. Back to community. Back to creativity. Back to making things just to make them. Maybe it’s a response to the way so much of our creativity has been swept into content creation—into Substacks, newsletters, and social media posts. When everything becomes a performance or a product, our energy can start to fray. That homemade card you made for a friend, the photo you...
Introducing my private podcast: The Business of Therapy
Dear Reader, I want to chat with you while you're waiting for your coffee. Share a few tips to elevate your practice while you’re chopping veggies for dinner. And hear your questions, stuck points, and big dreams about your therapy business. That’s what The Business of Therapy Private Podcast is for. Episodes are short—just 2-10 minutes—and come in three flavors: Ask Diana Anything — Real answers to your real questions, like: “Will my peers think I’m too self-promotional?” “What if no one...
Announcing my new program! Wise Effort: The Business of Therapy
Dear Reader, Therapists and coaches...Are you tired of the old, outdated way of doing business? Do you yearn to start a newsletter? Offer a group coaching program? Lead an in-person retreat in a magical place? Write a book? Build a course? Offer more talks? My new Wise Effort: The Business of Therapy is for you to overcome your barriers to playing big! I want you to double down on the work of humans helping humans and bring your unique genius to your practice.In order to start your new era as...
Playing Big
Dear Reader, The first workshop I ever led in Santa Barbara was back in 2011. I had a two-year-old at home and rented a little space by the harbor because it was cheap, and I liked the idea of seeing the ocean while I taught. This was before email lists or social media. I literally printed pamphlets by hand and walked them around to therapy offices. I pinned them to bulletin boards and cold-called a few training directors: “Hey! Have you heard of ACT?” Maybe you're in that space right...
Want BIG LOVE in your life?
Dear Reader, I bought a hat with a heart on it from a local seamstress here in Santa Barbara a few months ago and have been wearing it around town. Me with my Big Love hat Let me tell you—when you’re wearing a LOVE hat, it really makes you put your ducks in a row. You can’t yell at your kids or side-eye someone in the Whole Foods line when you’ve got “LOVE” stamped on your forehead. You have to practice what you’re preaching on your head. The thing is, we don’t always show big love,...
Let me show you how it’s done.
Dear Reader, “Mom, let me show you how it’s done,” my son told me as we headed over to our soon-to-be-demolished house. My little wood therapy office, the bedrooms where I raised my kids, the home I’ve grown attached to—needed to come down due to permitting issues (no one escapes karma). Maybe you, too, have your own demo—your job is being restructured, your finances tanking, your relationship is shifting, your health is undergoing an overhaul. And whether it’s chosen pain or not, we all have...
Move with me, there’s no better time than now
Dear Reader, So, I caught my husband doing this over the weekend. He was putting the finishing touches on my new course AVAILABLE TODAY on how to Level Up Your Movement and moving along with me! By the way, this sit/stand test takes some building up to, but is a great level-up move. As my co-author Katy Bowman would say, it’s “nutritious movement” to get up and off the floor like this, and it makes boring audio editing more interesting! Level-Up Your Movement with Wise Effort is a 12-session...
What is your movement genius?
Dear Reader, Last week, I asked you: "What is your movement genius?" And your answers came rolling in: Backpacking in the Redwoods. Shoveling snow! Just completed a 3-week foster of these now 1-month-old pups (rescue)! Currently, at age 56, I am a passionate Pole Dance educator, artist, and mover!!!! I’m currently teaching English in Bilbao, Spain, and have been enjoying lots of long runs along the coast alone and with friends. I’m a dance/movement therapist, so my movement genius is being...
Reclaiming your love for movement 💃🏻♥️
Dear Reader, I’ve had an ambivalent relationship with movement. As a child, I’d spend hours wandering the creek behind my house, searching for nasturtium flowers—driven by wonder and a need for solitude. But in my teens and twenties, those hours were spent climbing a stairmaster to nowhere. I spent the last two decades reclaiming my love for movement. And rediscovering my “movement genius.” (We all have one!) Your movement genius is the unique energy you feel when moving your body that...
Learn evidenced-backed, contemplative ideas and practices to help you develop your psychological flexibility. If you want to put your efforts into what you care most about, this twice-monthly Wise Effort newsletter is for you. Join the Wise Effort newsletter community!