253. Why spirituality is essential for our mental health ft. Dr Lisa Miller
The Psychology of your 20s
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
For our very first guest of the holiday season, I invited on Dr Lisa Miller - a professor at Columbia University, author, clinical psychologist and researcher to discuss her profound work on the intersection between spirituality and mental health.
Our spiritual health is often the dimension of wellbeing we neglect the most, but in this episode we uncover why having a strong belief system, sense of purpose, oneness and path is invaluable, especially in our 20s. This includes:
- The distinction between religion and spirituality
- What brain scans say about the importance of a higher power or meaning
- 3 practices to improve your spiritual core
- Why your spiritual core is so essential in your 20s
- Why we resist spirituality and how this harms us
Dr Lisa was an incredible and inspiring guest, her book is called The Awakened Brain.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast where we talk |
| 0:11.3 | through some of the big life changes and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our |
| 0:17.8 | psychology. |
| 0:28.2 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the show. Welcome back to the podcast. New listeners, |
| 0:33.0 | old listeners, wherever you are in the world. It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we of course break down the psychology of our 20s. When we talk about health, I think our |
| 0:40.4 | first thought is physical health, what food we consume, what exercise we do, how our body feels, |
| 0:46.0 | what our doctor might say, then we might think about mental health, psychologically, |
| 0:50.6 | emotionally, where do we sit, social health, financial health, the list goes on. But |
| 0:54.7 | rarely do we prioritize our spiritual health, when in fact, spiritual health is really linked to all |
| 1:01.5 | these other pillars of our well-being. It might not sound as scientific or real as these other |
| 1:08.0 | dimensions of our health, I think based on what a lot of society has taught us |
| 1:12.5 | over the years, but it's really valuable to have something you believe in, especially in your |
| 1:17.6 | 20s as you're blooming and blossoming into this new person. You have to have something that |
| 1:22.7 | you have faith in, a sense of meaning, a value system in order to have a fulfilled life. And it's definitely something |
| 1:30.2 | that I've begun prioritizing more, even though I'm not a religious person anymore. I think that |
| 1:36.4 | life is just a lot more enjoyable and our sense of purpose is a lot more profound when you can |
| 1:42.5 | identify a connection between yourself and the world |
| 1:45.5 | and what you're here for. So I really want to talk about this today and bring the spirituality |
| 1:50.7 | and the science and the mental health together to kind of understand how an engaged spiritual |
| 1:55.5 | life and a belief system is so special in our 20s. And of course I I had to bring on an incredible guest, Dr. Lisa Miller. |
| 2:03.6 | She is a professor at Columbia University, at clinical psychologist and a scientist, and she focuses |
| 2:09.3 | on the intersection between spiritual health and our well-being. Lisa, thank you so much for joining us. |
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