Dr. Ellen Langer is a legend in the field of psychology.

And a legend at Harvard University.

She’s the longest-serving professor of psychology at Harvard. She was also the first woman to ever be tenured in psychology at the university. Her 40+ year career has earned her the nicknames “the mother of mindfulness” and “the mother of positive psychology.”

Until starting Tiger Therapy, I always thought self-doubt was an enemy to be vanquished. But Dr. Langer is another academic who has shared that self-doubt is important. In fact, she says, if you don’t feel self-doubt, you might be being mindless.

Research shows that most of us are mindless most of the time, but Dr. Langer believes that if we can work towards being more mindful it will help us tremendously in almost every facet of life. Her groundbreaking research has found that we can quite literally think ourselves younger, healthier and better - as well as totally changing our relationship with self-doubt.

(By the way - mindfulness is NOT to be mistaken for mediation.)

This episode is full of the most mind-blowing studies, experiments and stories that have the power to change how you think about how you think.

Thank you Dr. Langer for coming on Tiger Therapy!

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---- Taking a short (baby related!) break ----

This is the last episode in Tiger Therapy Season 4.

There have been 34 episodes so far with absolutely brilliant guests - I can't thank them enough for sharing their wisdom and stories about times where self-doubt and limiting beliefs got in the way. And thank you so much to everyone who's been listening along.

I'm going on maternity leave, but Tiger Therapy will be back in early 2025. I can't wait!

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Dr. Ellen Langer’s latest book The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health.

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