Amy Banks

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Amy Banks, M.D., has devoted her career to understanding the neurobiology of relationships. In addition to her work at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI), she was an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the first person to bring relational-cultural theory together with neuroscience and is the foremost expert in the combined field.
Amy is the creator of the C.A.R.E. Program, an easy to use, practical guide that helps clinicians and laypeople assess the quality of their relationships and strengthen their neural pathways for connection. Amy also has a private practice in Lexington, MA, that specializes in relational psychopharmacology and therapy for people who suffer from chronic disconnection. Most recently, Amy has joined the core group of Harville Hendrix’s Relationships First, a small group of prestigious scientists and cultural leaders who promote the idea that “healthy relationships are non-negotiable in a healthy society.”
Her latest book is: Four Ways to Click: Rewire Your Brain for Stronger, More Rewarding Relationships
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In This Interview Amy and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable
How feeding neurons means stimulating them
How culture can feed our bad wolf
The power of isolation & how it can lead to more sickness
How humans work best in healthy connection & interdependence with one another
The importance of identifying and building healthy relationships
The "5 good things" that exist in a healthy relationship
How boundaries in relationships are overrated
The 1 sign that you are at a 340% higher risk of premature death
The 4 neural pathways that function in the relationship realm

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0:00.0	our culture that really focuses on standing on your own two feet and getting
0:03.6	everything for yourself really feeds hungry the greedy and the fearful.
0:16.3	Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance
0:21.3	of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think,
0:27.2	ring true and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward
0:33.5	negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:40.3	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking,
0:45.8	our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:52.0	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:56.4	how they feed their good wolf.
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1:41.5	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Amy Banks, MD. She was an instructor of
1:47.3	psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is now the director of advanced training at the Gene
1:52.0	Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women. Her new book is Four Ways to
1:57.6	Click, Rewire Your Brain for Stronger, More Rewarding Relationships. And here's the interview
2:03.5	with Amy Banks. Hi, Amy. Welcome to the show. Thank you, Eric. I'm very happy to be here.
2:08.3	I'm happy to talk with you and excited to talk with you about your book, The Four Ways to Click,
2:13.5	because it really talks about the importance of relationships in our lives and not trying to go
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