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An Occasional Offering from Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

NEW ON THE BEING WELL PODCAST:

Childhood Trauma, Self-Sabotage, and Therapy: September Mailbag

"Be a person who's loving, who communicates, who works out agreements and solves problems... and takes responsibility for doing your job in the relationship."
Dr. Rick Hanson
Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag and answer questions from listeners focused on getting the most we can out of therapy, processing old painful experiences like childhood trauma, and sabotaging ourselves.

ALSO NEW ON THE BEING WELL PODCAST:

Authenticity:
How to “Be Yourself”

Rick and Forrest explore what authenticity is, where it comes from, and whether it’s actually a good thing to be more authentic.

ASK RICK:

What can I do if I get flooded with thoughts or painful feelings, even traumatic ones, when I try to meditate?

It’s important to build up inner resources for meditating. Buddha’s Brain focuses on inner resources, especially the fourth chapter on taking in the good.
"A quick suggestion would be to find something that is reliably comfortable and peaceful in your experience – such as the breath, or an object of beauty, or a saying – and use that as your meditation anchor."
Maybe while standing or walking, to reduce the dissociation. And keep disengaging from painful thoughts; don’t fight them, ignore them. And from time to time look at them categorically; in other words, see their nature, the nature of all experience, all phenomenology: transient, made of parts, arising and passing away due to causes, insubstantial, an unreliable basis for lasting happiness; seeing them in this way, they have less weight.
RICK'S PICKS:
Conversation: A Future We Can Love
This week I was honored to speak with Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD., RN, about her book A Future We Can Love: How We Can Reverse the Climate Crisis with the Power of Our Hearts and Minds. Check out this discussion with me, Susan, and my good friends Professor Elissa Epel, PhD, and author Mark Coleman — where we explore how each of us can make a difference in the face of our climate crisis.
RICK'S PICKS:
Check Out the Final Supermoon of 2023
The final supermoon of 2023 will rise this weekend, and depending on where you are, you may have a great chance to see it for yourself.
 
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