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Hi everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 31 of Yoga Land.

On today's episode my guest is Bo Forbes.

Bo Forbes is just a lovely insightful, genuine human being.

She actually started her career off as a practicing psychologist

and has since become a yoga teacher and has been a

yoga teacher for a number of years but she still has a keen interest in

neuropsychology. So when we set up the interview I know that there's always so many things I want to talk about with

Bo and it's been a while since I've talked to her. So I was trying to keep the interview narrowly focused

on empathy and kind of her system for coping with being an empath without going into

empathic distress. We do get to that topic at the end of the interview but I kind

of couldn't help myself but ask her a lot of other questions, you know, about her early practice as a psychologist, how she incorporated yoga and mindfulness into her psychology practice, you know, the difference

that she saw in outcomes with her patients. I also asked her about default mode, which is something

I'm just learning about, which is an area of the brain that is

thought to be responsible for our tendency to judge and evaluate and ruminate on the past present and future.

And what I've heard from her before is that mindfulness practices can help us kind of

tamp down default mode and come back into direct experience

mode so we talk about that and then of course we talk about empathy and she

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