Clinical psychologist and mental wellness expert Dr. Akira Olsen, PsyD, joins Coach Dini on Vigilantes Radio Live for a deeply reflective conversation surrounding her newest book, The Journey to Self: Practical Exercises for Building a Positive Relationship with Yourself and Transforming Your Mental Health.
In a culture saturated with therapy language, self-care content and pressure to appear okay, Dr. Olsen explores the difference between understanding mental health and actually practicing the behaviors that support it.
The conversation examines why small, sustainable changes often outperform dramatic attempts at reinvention, how perfectionism can disguise itself as ambition, why self-compassion doesn’t mean lowering your standards, and what happens when wellness itself becomes another performance.
Dr. Olsen also discusses trauma, boundaries, self-forgiveness, financial stress, emotional overwhelm, burnout and the relationship between mind and body—while explaining how her upbringing in Tokyo, practice of Kendo and extensive Western clinical training shaped her integrated approach to psychological care.
For anyone feeling stressed, overstimulated, exhausted or disconnected from themselves, this conversation asks a deceptively simple question:
What would change if you stopped treating yourself like a problem that needed to be fixed and started building a relationship with the person who’s actually living your life?
Book:
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