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Values, Regrets & Psychological Flexibility with Dr. Diana Hill

·1 hr 5 min·4 clips

Diana Hill describes “choice points” as the moment between stress, habit, and acting on values.

1. Health Coach Radio focuses on values, regrets, and psychological flexibility with Dr. Diana Hill. 2. Erin Power hosts as a health coach, educator, and mentor, and Diana Hill appears as a clinical psychologist and ACT trainer because her framework is central to coaching and therapy. 3. The episode asks how coaches can help clients change behavior without burnout by using psychological flexibility and values. 4. Hill says ACT, or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, is built around “energy use” and helping people pursue what matters with meaning and purpose. 5. She says psychological flexibility has been studied in “over 2,000 randomized controlled trials” and is linked to health behaviors, anxiety, depression, relationships, and workplace effectiveness. 6. Hill defines the skill as staying present, opening up to discomfort, and taking committed action toward values even when thoughts say “I can’t do it.” 7. She says a recent review of 55,000 studies on why people change found psychological flexibility to be the key mechanism. 8. Hill breaks the skill into trainable parts, starting with attentional flexibility and the ability to shift focus. 9. She uses the bicep curl example to show how paying attention to movement can affect strengthening and how attention can also be directed toward gratitude. 10. She then describes “flexibility with your thoughts,” including the ability to step back from thoughts instead of treating them as true. 11. Hill and Erin Power apply the framework to a weight-loss client who apologizes for a weekend of “too much wine” and snacks. 12. Hill reframes that moment as a “choice point,” where a person notices stress, habit energy, and body sensations before deciding what to do next. 13. She connects urge surfing to the fridge example, saying urges rise and fall and can be observed without acting on them. 14. Hill says weight loss itself is “not a value” and pushes the conversation toward what weight loss would open up in life. 15. She lists examples such as more energy with kids, better focus at work, feeling good at an event, or strengthening connection with a partner. 16. Hill says values work is about the “how” as much as the “why,” including whether someone climbs a ladder with compassion, honesty, or in a way that steps on others. 17. The tone is practical and coaching-oriented, with Hill using live examples, direct questions, and frequent back-and-forth with Erin Power. 18. The format is an interview with teaching interludes, and the energy stays conversational while moving between research, self-reflection, and client examples. 19. Coaches working on behavior change, weight loss, or ACT-informed practice would get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a celebrity-style conversation or light entertainment may want to skip it.

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A practical ACT conversation that turns regret into a coaching tool.

Health Coach Radio makes a clear case for treating regret as a signal instead of a place to linger. The episode keeps returning to a simple move: when a client names regret, that pain point can point toward what matters most, and Dr.

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If regret keeps showing up in your coaching work, this one gives you a cleaner next move.

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