Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health & Confidence | Dr. Paul Conti
May 4, 2026
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Tools to Bolster Your Mental Health & Confidence | Dr. Paul Conti
Summary
Dr. Paul Conti, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist and an expert in how to improve mental health and increase your sense of agency and wellbeing. He is also an expert in trauma treatment. We discuss practical tools you can use to gain insight into your natural strengths and to make better life choices on your own behalf. We explore how these tools can help overcome low motivation, intrusive thoughts and self-destructive bad habits. We also discuss how to balance internal reflection and external action to ensure you move your life forward in the right directions.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Paul Conti
(00:02:51) Self View; Tool: What's Going Right?; State Dependence
(00:10:03) Sponsors: Helix Sleep & BetterHelp
(00:12:44) Tool: Compassionate Curiosity; Falseness; Social Media
(00:21:00) Doing vs Thinking; Self-Reflection
(00:29:55) External vs Internal Processing, Balance
(00:40:42) Sponsor: AG1
(00:42:26) Quiet vs Verbal; Questions to Learn About Self
(00:53:17) Examined Life & Reflection; Changing Unwanted Behavior
(01:02:54) Making Positive Changes, Problem Solving
(01:07:26) Sponsor: Function
(01:09:03) Behavior Pattern Insight & Reclaiming Agency
(01:17:06) Agency & Control; Getting in Your Own Way
(01:22:49) Trauma, Living Intentionally; Internal Turmoil
(01:29:08) Intrusive Thoughts, Tool: Self Talk Awareness; Dreams
(01:34:10) Sponsor: Rorra
(01:35:23) Trauma & Emotions; Healing Childhood Trauma
(01:43:32) Photographs, Positive Climate for the Mind; Spirituality, Good & Evil
(01:52:53) Happiness & Expectations; Death, Living a Good Life
(02:03:10) Book Writing; Acknowledgements
(02:07:25) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter
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