Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Learn about dissociation, its causes, symptoms, and coping mechanisms. Explore the risks of over-pathologizing and how to grow self-worth. Discover the challenges of mindfulness for dissociation and the importance of enjoying grounding experiences. Recap the nature of being associated and ways to combat dissociation.

On this timely episode, Dr. Bruce Perry joins the podcast to explore how we can limit the long-term impact of stressful events, and heal from past traumatic experiences. About Our Guest:  Dr. Bruce Perry is one of the world’s leading experts on childhood trauma, and his clinical research and practice focuses on examining the long-term effects of trauma in children, adolescents, and adults. He is the Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, and the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog.Life After COVID Summit: Join Dr. Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson, and a roster of world-class experts including Dr. Perry during this FREE three-day online event to explore our "new normal." Click here to learn more about the Summit and register now.Key Topics:1:15: Pandemic fatigue. 4:45: Experiencing acute stressors alongside chronic stress. 7:20: Practices to help yourself de-stress. 11:30: The impact of stress on our ability to regulate ourselves.13:30: How to limit the long-term impact of stressful events.18:40: How we can explore traumatic material without re-traumatizing ourselves.23:30: Avoiding helplessness, and experiencing control and agency. 25:30: Dissociation as a coping response.31:00: Disruptions of attunement. 36:00: Caregiver fatigue, and caring for ourselves. 41:30: The pandemic’s impact on people who have been previously traumatized.44:00: A wish for the future. 46:00: RecapSponsors:From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/BEINGWELL and get a free trial of their Premium Membership.Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The podcast explores the balance between 'doing' and 'being,' emphasizing the importance of finding contentment in the present moment. Topics include overcoming internal resistance, allowing being to enhance doing, and the impact of societal influences on genuine self-expression.

Dr. Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, discusses optimism bias and its influence on behavior. Topics include the origins of optimism bias, cultivating optimism, memory biases, changing behavior on a national scale, and what influences behavior. The conversation explores the interplay between expectations and emotions in relationships, strategies for behavior change on climate change, and the impact of optimism bias on behavior and surprise responses.

What do you want to achieve in 2021? In this short episode, Dr. Rick Hanson walks you through a guided practice focused on helping you achieve your goals. From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Support the Podcast: We're on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all have something we want to do "someday," but for most of us "someday" just never seems to come around. Here's how to make 2021 the year you finally put all the pieces together, and achieve the goals you've set for yourself.Key Topics:4:00: What leads to change that lasts?5:40: Do you really WANT to change?9:00: How to change your self-concept. 14:00: “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”16:00: Small changes that lead to big ones.20:00: Appreciating the finite nature of life. 22:30: “What do you want to give as a gift to the person you will be tomorrow?”25:30: What makes for a good resolution?29:00: Using Forrest as a guinea pig: setting good goals and maximizing your resolutions.33:00: Picking very clear commitments, and making things simple.34:30: Thinking about how it would feel at the end of 2021 if you accomplished what you set out to do.41:00: Finding consistent effort. 45:00: Summarizing the key questions. 48:00: Recap.Support the Podcast: We're on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.Sponsors:From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/BEINGWELL and get a free trial of their Premium Membership.Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all have things that frighten us. But some fears can become so core to who we are that we start to organize our lives around not having to experience them. In this not-to-be-missed episode, Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore how we can identify and face our "dreaded experiences," which exert a quiet power over our lives. Support the Podcast: We're on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.Key Topics:2:40: What is a “dreaded experience?”6:40: The three step process of a dreaded experience.9:10: The critical distinction between “event” and “experience.”12:20: Forrest’s dreaded experiences. 16:30: Normal avoidance vs. making yourself small.18:15: Where do dreaded experiences come from?24:10: Starting to risk the dreaded experience. 29:00: Ways to start safely facing fears.38:00: Identifying your dreaded experience. 41:20: Being seen as your whole self.46:30: Our journey of growth. 49:30: RecapFrom Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Sponsors:Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/BEINGWELL and get a free trial of their Premium Membership.Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Research shows that therapy is as effective as medication for depression, with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy being particularly impactful. The alliance between therapist and client plays a crucial role in therapeutic outcomes, with empathy being a key factor. Experience of the therapist doesn't seem to affect the outcome, and therapy changes how clients use their brains in meaningful ways.

Does power corrupt? Where does compassion come from? And do positive or negative emotions serve as the basis for our true nature? Today we're exploring these questions with Dr. Dacher Keltner, a world-class expert on emotion, power, and morality.About Our Guest: Dr. Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab. He’s also the founder and co-director of the Greater Good Science Center. Dr. Keltner is also the author of three books: Born to Be Good, The Compassionate Instinct, and most recently, The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence. Here's the referenced research from Dacher on emotion and facial expression.Key Topics:2:15: What is an emotion, and how many emotions are there?7:45: The complex weave of positive emotions. 11:30: Why did we evolve positive emotions?15:00: The influence of compassion. 20:45: Power dynamics, and in-groups vs. out-groups.25:30: How and why power corrupts.33:30: Are we only nice to other people because we have to be?38:45: Finding awe in mystery. 44:00: Committing to daily practice. From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Sponsors:Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/BEINGWELL and get a free trial of their Premium Membership.Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s been a long, strange, challenging year. As we get toward the end of it, and look forward to 2021, it feels appropriate to start by taking a look back and seeing what, if anything, we can learn from the year that’s gone by. Support the Podcast: We're on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.Key Topics:2:30: The importance of internal resources.4:15: "It can happen to us too."6:00: Putting more effort into what’s local.8:30: Interdependence and interconnection. 12:30: Appreciating the pains that aren’t happening.17:30: Seeing clearly and allowing yourself to take appropriate action.22:30: Your compassion is not dependent.25:45: Avoiding playing into grievance theater.30:40: Nonattachment.33:00: Focusing on what really matters, and being fed up.38:45: Lessons from our listeners.43:30: What’s still here?From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Sponsors:Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/BEINGWELL and get a free trial of their Premium Membership.Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices