Good afternoon, everyone.

It's Dr. Niagara again, our next episode, Psychology Unplugged.

As always, a heartfelt thank you and appreciation for all the followers that we have across

the globe.

I never thought that this podcast would reach the audience, the magnitude that it has,

and it's been a privilege to talk, interact with people,

and very humbled by those of you who have come from very far distances to see me for

evals or consultations, as well as all the people scheduled to come to see me. So I truly

appreciate that. And it means more to me than

you know this is really kind of the highlight of my week uh i do the podcast generally on

on sunday afternoon uh it's hard to be being as consistent as i can with that so uh thank you

again to everyone if i haven't gotten back to you,

keep trying to get hold of me. I've talked to some amazing people last week. One gentleman in

particular who is a doctor out in Idaho, who I'd love to be part of the podcast from his perspective.

So and other people that I'd want to kind of bring onto the podcast from his perspective um so and other people that want to kind of bring uh onto the podcast now that uh you know things have kind of calmed down in terms of the pandemic and

whatnot so today's topic is i'm going to focus on something that you might find ironic given my for those

you who follow the program I'm going to talk about emotions an emotional schema now why I say

it may sound ironic coming for me is because I completely de-emphasize emotions from a cognitive

behavior perspective uh he behaveions really have no part in the psychotherapeutic

process. And it's not because I lack empathy or don't care, but from a cognitive behavior

perspective, if you change thoughts or or you change behaviors either both either

one or the other the emotions are the byproduct and they will change as result of thinking differently

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