Diana Hill

Diana Hill I'm a clinical psychologist, leadership coach, and speaker helping people direct their energy toward what matters most.

Through my Wise Effort Method, I help people play big in their careers, health, and relationships.

04/23/2026

Have you heard of a Johari window?

There’s four quadrants:
1. What you know and what others know
2. What you see but others don’t
3. What others know about you but you don’t see
4. What neither of you see yet

Have some friends who serve as third windows for you (or a great therapist!) and honor your second window (what you see, your genius).

Then go explore the unknown. That is where wisdom and magic happens.

04/20/2026

Things I made sure to include in my therapy office:

– A tea station where clients can choose their own tea (I love 🍵)
– Fresh flowers every week—when you’re anxious or low, it helps to have something alive in the room 🌿
– Books to lend, or to point clients toward podcast episodes we can explore together 📚🎧
– Space to sit or lie on the floor for grounding
– A desk that hides my podcast equipment (and the inevitable mess 🙃)
– Paintings of our local landscape by a Santa Barbara artist 🖼️
– A couch positioned at an angle—so clients can choose connection or a bit more space

I believe in the healing power of setting and place. It’s wise effort to create one that both you and your clients can get curious and open up in.

Glad to be back!
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I love being a speaker—there’s something so meaningful about being in a room (or on a screen) where real change is happe...
04/20/2026

I love being a speaker—there’s something so meaningful about being in a room (or on a screen) where real change is happening. 💛

I recently had the opportunity to speak at the 2026 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, and it reminded me why I love this work so much. I bring together the science and heart of change—using practical tools, experiential exercises, and real plays—to help leaders and teams strengthen psychological flexibility, focus their energy, and navigate change more effectively.

Teams leave more aligned, more connected, and with skills they can immediately apply to how they lead, communicate, and show up.

If you’re looking for a speaker who brings both evidence-based insight and real human connection, I’d love to work with you.

Learn more: https://drdianahill.com/speaking

04/19/2026

It’s also the force that, if unmanaged, can leave you overwhelmed, depleted, and going nowhere.

Today, ask yourself:
1. Does this use my strengths?
2. Is it a whole body yes?
3. Is it aligned with my values?
4. Does it serve more than just me?

If three out of four are a YES, then it is WISE EFFORT!

04/17/2026

Have you heard of the concept of metered intelligence? I’m more interested in wisdom these days.

04/10/2026

Day 6: A 360° Energy Audit

Try this at home:

Look at your life—health, relationships, community work relationship with yourself

Ask:
What’s giving me energy?
What’s draining me?
What could be shifted, even slightly?

Then choose a few small changes that actually matter.
Come meet me here in June. I’ll be leaving an ACT Experiential retreat with

04/05/2026

Each year, the World Happiness Report surveys about 1,000 people in more than 140 countries. They ask one central question:

Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from 0 to 10.
The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you.
The bottom represents the worst possible life for you.
On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?

Note that this is not a measure of momentary happiness.

So when you hear that Finland scores a 7.7, that is an average life evaluation score. It is not a measure of momentary happiness. It is a measure of how people feel about their lives as a whole.

So where are you on the ladder right now?
My guess is not a ten, because – not even the people of Finland get that high (average 7.7).

So the question is: And what helps you move up a few rungs? (Here’s what the research says)

trust in others
trust in society
eating with people
helping others
feeling useful
community
health

That is what this retreat is about. How we restore and reclaim our energy so we can offer back out into the world.

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04/04/2026

Made it to Blue Spirit! Follow along here as we go through the Wise Effort Method.

I’ll be back here in the end of June to lead a CE ACT experiential retreat for clinicians! With

Restore your energy so you can put it in places that matter to you.

04/02/2026

Operation mom’s learning how to ride a bike!

Lessons from my 13-year-old son. We made it off road!

So far I’ve learned how to balance, take turns, brake, and this week — my first tiny drop.

Lessons from the trail:
• Trust your bike
• Trust yourself
• Pedal over the bumps (especially when you want to freeze)

This is some of the same advice I give my clients.



03/27/2026

This week on the podcast, I talk about growth — and how sometimes growth comes from what cracks us open.
The things we don’t want to have happen. The things we resist. The things that undo our plans.

But when we radically accept what is happening, and allow ourselves to grow with it — when we get more comfortable in our own skin, work with what’s here, and use Wise Effort — we grow.

This is my new office.
We had to rebuild it after we tore down my precious redwood building last year. It’s been challenging, emotional, and not what I would have chosen.

But it has also been an unexpected opportunity for growth.

Sometimes what we lose, what changes, what breaks — becomes the very place we grow from.

03/23/2026

Presented ACT for Movement in DC this weekend after a redeye and delays made it a 36 hour trip for a one-day conference.

A recent meta-analysis showed exercise can be as effective as medication and therapy for depression. And honestly, what better way to stave off a delayed-flight mood spiral than to move?

Plus I needed to practice what I was speaking on! Psychological flexibility is key to moving your body.

Here’s how I do it in airports:

Walk the terminal loops.
-Radically accept the option you have
Squat while waiting to board.
-Be willing to look like a deviant.
Wall sits near the gate.
-Stay open to discomfort.
Stretch hips and back after sitting.
-Savor the good feeling!
1 Sunsalutation in the kids area
-Be cognitively flexible and break some rules!

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