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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: |
The Therapy Wars: Science, Self-Help, and that IFS Article |
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"Our uncertainty about the efficacy of a particular treatment for a particular condition starts reducing as evidence accumulates. But it's not either some evidence or no evidence. It's really about the quantity and the type of evidence."
— DR. RICK HANSON |
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Dr. Rick and Forrest explore one of the major topics in psychology today: how to understand evidence-based care, and the tension between mainstream and alternative approaches. Using the recent IFS controversy as a backdrop, they discuss what it means for an approach to be evidence-based, the real-world dangers of inflated claims, and therapy's complex relationship with the medical model. They get into the weeds on study design, effect sizes, insurance, why different approaches may or may not have a large body of evidence, and how to think about the research on "common factors" in therapy. Dr. Rick and Forrest offer a simple framework for making good decisions amidst all of this complexity. |
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NEW FROM THE WEDNESDAY TALK/MEDITATION: |
Wisdom for Aging, Illness, and Mortality |
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Aging, illness, loss, and mortality can quietly haunt us — especially when they touch the people we love or our own bodies. In this talk, I explore how to meet these realities with compassion and wisdom, and how to rest in something deeper than what inevitably changes. |
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NEW FREE WEBINAR: |
What Your Anxiety is Trying to Tell You |
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Anxiety shows up in many different ways, and for most people it can be a very unpleasant experience - which makes us want to just push it away or distract ourselves from it. But often, our anxious thoughts are signaling deeper needs that aren't being met. Check out this short webinar I recently offered to explore what your own anxiety may be trying to tell you. |
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ALSO NEW ON THE BEING WELL PODCAST: |
Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder with Dr. Blaise Aguirre |
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Forrest is joined by psychiatrist Dr. Blaise Aguirre to discuss Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). They explore how extreme emotional sensitivity can lead to despair, self-hatred, suicidality, and an intense fear of abandonment, and how DBT can teach the skills needed to regulate those feelings. They discuss the nature of self-hatred, how to change the stories you've told about yourself, and how their insight and empathy can make people with BPD some of his favorite clients to work with.
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ASK RICK: |
I often wake up thinking anxious thoughts that seem to come out of a dream state. It can be several minutes before I realize what is happening, and by then I'm already in an anxious mood. What can I do to help this? |
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You are pointing to a pretty widespread experience that I suspect is due to a combination of low physiological state (prompting anxiety) and dysregulated rhythms of cortisol (rising sooner than it should in the morning). I've certainly experienced versions of this myself, typically after an anxiety saturated dream. |
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"As a practice, my suggestion would be to start with awareness of the anxiety as soon as it can be established." |
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Then increasingly bring attention to the embodied sense of the facts of alrightness: breathing ongoing, heart beating, body basically alright, no immediate threat in the bedroom, others nearby (if true), walls still standing, home basically alright, mind proceeding, consciousness happening alright, breathing ongoing, recognizing that the anxious thoughts have little basis in reality, and so forth.
Really open to this benign experience and help it sink in, perhaps doing the "Linking" step in the HEAL process of pairing this reassuring sense of alrightness with the anxious feelings and thoughts so that the reassurance gradually soothes, eases, and replaces the anxiety.
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RICK'S PICK: |
From the Pollinator's Perspective |
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Pollinator Pathmaker is a beautiful, science-informed art project that invites us to step out of our usual human-centered view, tend living spaces for bees and other pollinators, and in doing so, grow more wonder, compassion, and a sense of shared belonging with the wider web of life. |
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