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SilverDisobedience An Actionable Discussion About Ourselves I am Dian Griesel, Ph.D., also known as the blogger/podcaster .

I am a perception analyst and a highly trained certified clinical hypnotherapist (since 1992, Union 472; NFH 104) For over 30 years, I have counseled individuals and advised corporate teams to unlock potential and transform perceptions through better understanding of how conscious and unconscious feelings, thoughts and beliefs impact every relationship, both personally and professionally. About two years ago, I also began to also offer my clients the opportunity to literally “see” themselves differently via photo-hypnotherapy: A unique art therapy that merges hypnosis with photography. I am a member of the American Counseling Association, the National Guild of Hypnotists and hold a lifetime membership with the International Association of Counselors & Therapists. My objective is always to bring my knowledge, expertise, and compassion to every session. I have authored 15 personal-development, health, and business communication books and have been featured in over 100 media articles. In 2017, as a support tool for my private and professional clients as well as any others who might find my thoughts and ideas valuable, I began sharing my self-help, take-action philosophy through my social media posts. Today, my daily blogs inspire and support over a million people from around the world. I work out of my office studio which I affectionately call: Creative Content Loft. Located in Midtown, New York City, CCL houses full photography capabilities and an event space where my team and I also host community-building events! I still own a public relations firm that is very well-managed by a team of superb senior executives who are highly-skilled at positioning smart, talented people as thought-leaders within their respective fields. (See more under the Business Tab on my website) In 2012, I sold an investor relations firm that I’d founded to a publicly traded bank. In the spirit of full-disclosure, let me also tell you that when I was 57, I was scouted by Wilhelmina New York and invited to join their model roster in an unanticipated life twist: That was big check off the bucket list I didn’t even know I had! Subsequently, I’ve been featured in campaigns by many of the world’s most notable international consumer brands. So, you just never know where my face might pop up in your life. If you want to know more, I suggest a Google search. You’ll find hundreds of links with my name. I believe our self-image impacts every personal & work relationship we enter. Self-image is built upon perceptions we consciously or unconsciously carry regarding ourselves and how we believe others perceive us. These perceptions form the foundation of our sense of, or lack of, self-esteem & self-respect. If you have lost confidence, are questioning your worth, are feeling unattractive or need a self-confidence boost with a real-time, centering mind-set shift - I can help. I offer sessions that include conversation to consciously address concerns, followed by hypnotherapy to address subconscious beliefs. During some sessions, if desired, I add photo-hypnotherapy, a unique art therapy, where, while you are relaxed into a state of active hypnosis, while I'm taking your pictures. The result is that you receive visual proof that my process works -- plus you'll have a great new set of images for your personal or professional use. During sessions, conversation, suggestions, hypnotherapy, breath-work & sometimes photography are intertwined. My clients consistently report that all of our interactions raise their self-esteem, self-confidence & sense of self-worth. If you are ready to explore all of YOUR possibilities and start living more of the life you dream about, perhaps it’s time to book some time with me. I can be reached at Dian@DianGriesel.com or you can call/text 212.825.3210.

26/02/2026

🎙️ As promised, I'm pulling from the archive of favorite podcast interviews and sharing them here. 🎙️ Please join me as I sit down with ret. LtCol "Spool" Moran of the United States Marine Corps for an inspiring conversation about his incredible 20+ years of service! From his beginnings as a middle school teacher to becoming a distinguished TOPGUN F/A-18 and F-35B pilot, LtCol Moran shares his journey of dedication, resilience, and leadership. PS: He’s now a Captain flying passengers for a major USA Airline!
🚀 Highlights include:
* Transitioning from education to military service
* Experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Inherent Resolve
* Insights on advanced aviation training and tactics
* The importance of mentorship and teamwork in the Marine Corps
With over 3,000 hours of flight time and numerous commendations, including the Meritorious Service Medal and multiple Air Medals, LtCol Moran's story is one of courage and commitment. ✨ Tune in to hear his unique perspective on service, aviation, and what it means to lead in high-pressure environments. 🎧
👉 Listen Now and be inspired by LtCol Moran's remarkable journey! 🇺🇸

It's okay to be mysterious. Not everyone needs to know everything about you. That's not being cold or distant. It's disc...
25/02/2026

It's okay to be mysterious. Not everyone needs to know everything about you. That's not being cold or distant. It's discernment. ✨ When you carry responsibility in any way, something shifts. Conversations around you change. People become careful with their words. Responses get filtered. And you can find yourself surrounded by people while still feeling oddly alone. This is not because anything has gone wrong, but because few others share the same understandings and consequences you do. The person who advises from outside of a problem,and the person who decides what to do not lie awake with the same thoughts. ✨ Clues that a separation shift is happening, show up subtly. Things like: What isn't said, or in the pause before the answer or in feedback, that sounds too much like what you wanted to hear. ✨ The instinct is to fix it by opening up more: Sharing everything & letting everyone in. But volume isn't intimacy. Oversharing doesn't close the gap. It just moves the discomfort around. ✨ Not everyone needs to know your doubts, your fears, or the decisions that kept you up at night. This isn't coldness. It's wisdom. Good friendship was never measured by how much you disclose -- it's measured by how well you choose. ✨
Find the ones with no stake in your outcomes; no reason to flatter you; and every reason to be honest. Hold those people close and be genuinely open with them. Let the rest of your relationships be warm, present and real -- just not unguarded. ✨ You're allowed to have an inner circle. You're allowed to keep some things there. ✨ The quiet you carry isn't a sign of isolation. It's discretion. And placed in the right hands, it becomes something better. Trust. ✨

Introspectionism is often dismissed as an outdated psychological approach -- too subjective, too imprecise, too unreliab...
24/02/2026

Introspectionism is often dismissed as an outdated psychological approach -- too subjective, too imprecise, too unreliable to withstand modern scientific standards. In this article, I explore it.
https://diangriesel.com/introspectionism-reconsidered-perception-presence-and-the-inner-work-of-leadership/

Introspectionism is often dismissed as an outdated psychological approach—too subjective, too imprecise, too unreliable to withstand modern scientific standards. Historically, that criticism is fai…

23/02/2026

shares great communication tips. 10,000+ hours of radio programming plus a book gave him lots of insight to share. Turn up the volume!

The world is impossibly complex. Every person we encounter is a universe of contradictions, histories, moods, and motiva...
23/02/2026

The world is impossibly complex. Every person we encounter is a universe of contradictions, histories, moods, and motivations. Every situation carries more variables than any mind could consciously hold. And yet we navigate all of it —hundreds of interactions, decisions, and judgments every single day — with remarkable speed. ✨ We manage it by cheating. ✨ Beautifully, necessarily, and sometimes dangerously. ✨ The brain converts overwhelming complexity into manageable symbols. A person becomes difficult. A colleague becomes brilliant. A situation becomes unfair. These labels aren't distortions born of laziness: They are essential compression tools that allow us to function without being paralyzed by nuance. We couldn't operate without them. ✨ But the compression comes at a cost.
Once a label is assigned, it begins to do something powerful and largely invisible: It filters everything that follows. Someone tagged as difficult has their neutral comments read as hostility; their silences interpreted as resistance; and their reasonable requests treated as provocations. Someone tagged as brilliant has their mistakes quietly reclassified as anomalies and their blind spots generously overlooked. The compression becomes more real to us than the actual behavior that originally created it.✨ This is why so many conflicts resist resolution even when the facts are laid out clearly. The argument isn't really about what happened. It's about what category it was assigned to and what that category implies about intentions, character and worth.✨Understanding this, with any conflict or misunderstanding we can learn to ask: Not what actually occurred? But what label got attached to this and is it still accurate? Because the label can outlive the behavior that earned it by years, shaping every interaction long after the original evidence has changed.✨ We don't react to reality. We react to our compressed version of it. ✨ And the most powerful perceptual shift available to any of us isn't gathering more information. It's questioning the category we assigned -- and asking whether the person or situation in front of us has quietly become something our label no longer captures. ✨

22/02/2026

This is not an easy show to watch -- but it's a very important one. Bullying isn't just playground teasing -- it's a crisis leading to childhood suicides. 🕊️ Hear Kirk Smalley's powerful story and discover how Stand for the Silent (Official) is making a difference.

22/02/2026

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21/02/2026

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20/02/2026

🤔 Have you ever been tempted to edit your photos before uploading them? I’ll go first: Yes! If you can relate, join my conversation with technology artist Gretchen Andrew as we delve into society's fascination with altered beauty and its psychological impact.

We're told by self-help gurus to stop overthinking as if the solution were simply thinking less. Clear your mind. Distra...
20/02/2026

We're told by self-help gurus to stop overthinking as if the solution were simply thinking less. Clear your mind. Distract yourself. Take a walk. Let it go. All good ideas in theory, so we try. Yet, twenty minutes later, we're back in the same loop; running the same scenarios; and arriving at the same unresolved conclusions. ✨Why? Because overthinking isn't a volume problem: It's a completion problem. ✨ Let me explain. The mind's fundamental job is prediction. It is constantly, quietly modeling what's coming so it can prepare an appropriate response. When it lands on a stable interpretation (or a conclusion it trusts enough to act on) the process stops. Thought reaches its natural end point and moves on to the next problem to solve. ✨ But when no interpretation feels safe enough to adopt and proceed with? The loop continues. ✨ This is not happening because something is wrong with the way we're thinking. It happens because the mind is doing exactly what it's supposed to do: Run scenarios. Test outcomes. Search for a version of events that feels survivable. ✨ So, what feels like rumination is actually a relentless, exhausting attempt by your mind to achieve closure. Stress rises when if feels like it keeps coming up short. ✨This is the essence of why distraction only offers temporary relief. Step away from the loop, and the regurgitation restarts: All because the underlying interpretation isn't resolved. Our minds don’t forget unfinished business. Our brains queue it & replay.✨ What ends the loop is making a decision. Not necessarily a perfect one nor even the resolution of every uncertainty. Just a settled interpretation: A version of events the mind can adopt as complete enough to stop testing it on endless repeat. A declaration like: This is what happened. This is what it means. This is what I'll do. Even a difficult conclusion quiets the cycle more effectively than an unresolved one. ✨ Overthinking isn't too much thought. It's thought that hasn't been allowed to finish. ✨ Give issues a conclusion. Any honest, considered conclusion is better than none. Declare the conclusion, then watch how quickly your mind finally goes quiet. ✨

Diane Pike Heiler shares great insights in this interview. "Once a Divorcee, Once a Widow — Now a Partner Re‑Engaged in ...
19/02/2026

Diane Pike Heiler shares great insights in this interview. "Once a Divorcee, Once a Widow — Now a Partner Re‑Engaged in Life": https://womenover70.com/368-diane-heiler-once-a-divorcee-once-a-widow-now-a-partner-re-engaged-in-life/

https://youtu.be/2bVX8SBTOGc Diane Heiler shares her deeply moving journey of caring for her husband during his 20‑month “death sentence” from an incurable disease — a journey she chronicles with raw honesty and artistry in her memoir, A Widow’s Fire: An Intimate Memoir of Heartbreak, Surv...

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