The Good and the Bad

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i'd like to start off by asking you what that parable means to you your life and in the work that you do. I think it's a very good parable for what actually happens to us psychologically in the day to day, in ta minute, a minute of our existence. When we tend to kind of chew over distressing and angering things that happen to us... We're getting ourselves more angry and more upset and more resentful and more bitter. But it feels extraordinarily compelling to kind of replay those scenes over and over again. It's much harder to actually tryin and assert acceptance and and gratitude and perspective on them.

Guy Winch, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, keynote and TED Talk speaker, and author whose books have been translated into twenty languages. In this episode, Eric and Guy discuss his book Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts.

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In This Interview, Guy Winch and I Discuss Emotional First Aid and …

His book, Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts
Understanding that we need to tend to our emotional wounds just as we would physical wounds
Building emotional resiliency by addressing these small wounds
How to treat the emotional wound of rejection
Identifying exactly what the hurt feelings are
How the brain registers physical and emotional pain in the same way
Learning to improve low self-esteem
Writing exercises to help deal with rejection and failure
How ruminating can easily become a habit and lead to depression
The dangers of rumination: stewing vs. doing
How rumination is vulnerable to distraction, engage your mind somewhere else
What works and doesn’t work in building self-esteem
Building self-compassion
The detective mindset vs. a harmful and self-critical mindset

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