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MindFull of GOOD |
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Dr. Rick Hanson's Occasional Collection of Good, Free Stuff
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NEW ON THE BEING WELL PODCAST:
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Healing Your Inner Child |
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"Often, our neglected childhood needs leave us with unmet longings, which then become pushed down and away because they were associated with a lot of pain when we were young."
— DR. RICK HANSON
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Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore what the inner child really is, how it manifests in our lives, and practical ways to work with this important part of ourselves, including healing your inner child. They discuss how to identify inner child wounds, demonstrate techniques like voice dialogue, and share strategies for bringing more awareness and healing to our younger selves.
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NEW FROM THE WEDNESDAY TALK & MEDITATION:
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4 Ways We Can Respond After the Election |
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51.7% of American voters have reelected Donald Trump. Many are celebrating his victory. And many – including me – are not. We can accept the result of an election, while worrying about its consequences. If that’s how you feel, you may want to check out this free talk I offered on November 6th, along with a guided meditation on Stillness and Inner Peace.
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ALSO NEW ON THE BEING WELL PODCAST:
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Relationship Mailbag: Finding Yourself, Boundaries, and Attachment |
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Dr. Rick and Forrest answer listener questions focused on navigating relationship challenges. They explore finding yourself after a codependent relationship, distinguishing between healthy and unhealthy desires, maintaining friendships after romantic feelings emerge, overcoming self-consciousness in social interactions, and communicating effectively during stress responses. Whether you’re healing from a breakup, working through attachment issues, or seeking to build more authentic connections, this episode offers practical advice.
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ASK RICK:
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If a childhood trauma was the root cause of a current source of behavioral anxiety, then how do I deal with unlocking it? |
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Let’s start by presuming your insight about the root experience/trauma is accurate. There could also be other factors, such as a general inclination toward anxiety, or not much internal sense of protectors or other resources to deal with threats that might “get you.
In addition to obvious other resources (e.g., psychotherapy), in terms of what I might suggest, you should try the first three steps of HEAL (see my free online resources and/or Hardwiring Happiness) for this, including “key resources” such as feeling protected, sense of grit, seeing threats accurately, and so on.
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"Building on cultivating inner resources for this issue with just the HEA (Have, Enrich, Absorb) steps, you could try the Link step, in which you hold in awareness at the same time both a relevant “positive” resource (e.g., feeling protected, sense of grit) along with some of the “negative” material (e.g., fear of being injured)."
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Remember to keep the positive bigger in your mind and drop the negative if you get sucked into it. This Link step could be especially useful.
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RICK'S PICKS:
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Walking Our Way to Better Mental Health |
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MindFull of Good is a free newsletter that highlights new and free content from Dr. Rick Hanson and the Being Well Podcast as well as other free offerings to fill yourself up with good.
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