704. Anna Yusim

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Anna Yusim is an internationally recognized, award-winning, Board-Certified, Stanford, and Yale-educated Mind Body Spirit Concierge Psychiatrist & Executive Coach with a Private Practice in New York, California, Connecticut, and Florida. She is the best-selling author of Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life. As a Clinical Assistant Professor at Yale Medical School, Dr. Yusim is presently creating a Mental Health & Spirituality Center at Yale. With clients including Forbes 500 CEOs, Olympic athletes, A-list actors and actresses, and the Chairs of academic departments at top universities, Dr. Anna Yusim helps influential people achieve greater impact, purpose, and joy in their life and work. After working as a neurobiology researcher with Dr. Robert Sapolsky Ph.D. and completing her studies at Stanford, Yale Medical School, and the NYU Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Dr. Yusim felt that something was missing from her life. In her quest to find it, she traveled, lived and worked in over 70 countries, while studying Kabbalah, learning Buddhist meditation, and working with South American shamans and Indian gurus. Dr. Yusim has published over 150 academic articles, book chapters, scientific abstracts, book reviews, and articles for the lay public on various topics in psychiatry. A frequent contributor to CNN, Fox News, ABC, and NBC, she has been a guest on hundreds of national and international TV shows, radio programs, and podcasts. As a highly sought-after speaker, Dr. Yusim gives keynotes for physicians and professionals all over the country and the world on topics related to mental health and spirituality, preventing burnout, physicians as meaning-makers, and resilience. For healthcare professionals, corporate leaders, and community members, she also conducts workshops to empower individuals to sharpen their intuition, cultivate authenticity, awaken self-compassion, enhance their capacity for empathy, and improve their ability to connect with others. Website: annayusim.com YouTube channel Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and transcript of this interview Interview recorded April 14, 2024 YouTube Video Chapters:  00:00:00 - Introduction and Background of Dr. Anna Yusim  00:03:35 - Defining Fulfillment  00:05:18 - Addictions and Improving Relationships  00:07:16 - Being in Flow with Life  00:09:53 - Overcoming the Impediments to Bliss  00:13:01 - The Complexity of Spiritual Ascension Processes  00:15:56 - The Importance of Professional Support in Spiritual Awakening  00:19:13 - The Challenges of Spiritual Practices in Psychiatry  00:21:36 - The Impact of COVID on Mental Health and Access to Treatment  00:24:05 - The Impact of Spirituality on Health, Addiction, and Suicide  00:26:33 - Roland Griffith's Work and Psychedelics  00:29:06 - The Birth of the Yale Mental Health and Spirituality Center  00:30:54 - Psychedelics as a Spiritual Practice  00:33:15 - Regular Use of Psychedelics and its Effects  00:35:46 - The potential dangers of nationwide legalization  00:37:58 - Integrating Body and Spirit in Psychiatry  00:40:29 - Psychics, Schizophrenics, and the Study of Voice Hearing  00:42:31 - Defining Spirituality and its Connection to Mental Health  00:44:53 - Purpose and Happiness  00:47:09 - Mass Psychology and Spirituality  00:50:06 - The Importance of Open Dialogue and Freedom of Speech  00:52:48 - The Power of Collective Healing  00:55:35 - Collective Healing for Trauma  00:57:42 - Mindfulness programs for children  01:00:03 - The Disconnect of Smartphone Addiction  01:02:35 - Safeguards for AI and the Future of Humanity  01:05:19 - Awakening or Death: Choosing Hope in Dark Times  01:07:20 - Factors for Spontaneous Remission and Overcoming Death Anxiety  01:09:36 - The Science of Miracles

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the Gas Pump. My name is Rick Archer.
0:29.2	Buddha at the Gas Pump is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually awakening people.
0:34.6	And we've done over 700 of them now. And if this is new to you and you'd like to
0:38.4	check out previous ones, go to batgap.com and look under the past interviews menu. This program
0:44.5	is made possible through the supportive appreciative listeners and viewers. So if you appreciate it,
0:49.5	we'd like to help support it. There are PayPal buttons on every page of the site. And we have a volunteers page,
0:56.5	which will show you some of the volunteer functions that one can serve, if one which is to contribute
1:01.2	in that way. My guest today is Dr. Anna Yusim, and I have a bio here that would take me about
1:08.6	five minutes to read, but we're a little pressed on time
1:11.4	today because she's a very busy lady. So I'm going to have her give us a synopsis of her qualifications
1:17.6	and so on. And then we'll flesh those out as we go along during this interview. So welcome,
1:22.7	Anna, and thanks for doing this. Thank you so much, Rick. It is such a pleasure to be here with you
1:27.3	today. And I would be happy to be here with you today,
1:27.7	and I would be happy to introduce myself and very excited to dig into a lot of different topics
1:34.9	with you today. So I am a psychiatrist on the clinical faculty at Yale Medical School. I also have
1:41.7	a private practice in both psychiatry and executive coaching that's
1:45.2	based in fourth states, New York, Connecticut, Florida, and California. The emphasis of my work is
1:52.1	bridging mental health and spirituality. In 2017, I wrote the book fulfilled, which I know that you've read,
1:58.3	and it was really about the science of spirituality,
2:01.7	which is a very interesting paradox because these two worlds are strange bedfellows.
2:06.2	It was trying to reconcile and bring them together. And that's been my work in creating
2:11.4	at Yale a mental health and spirituality center, which we're working to create at present.
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