Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening today, and if you've listened before, welcome

back.

I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick is a clinical psychologist, the best

selling author of books like Buddha's Brain and Resilient, which we wrote together, and

he's also my dad, so dad, how are you doing today?

I'm good for us, and as always, I love doing these with you.

I recently had a conversation with my partner, Elizabeth, who's a somatic therapist that

we aired on the podcast feed.

And as part of that conversation, we talked about cognitive bypassing.

We shared that little clip to Instagram and to TikTok, and there was a lot of interest

in it, which included a lot of questions about how people can work with and better understand

this common issue.

So that's what we're going to be doing today.

We're going to be talking about cognitive bypassing, but I'm really kind of secretly

hoping to use it as a way in to exploring how therapy works altogether, the role of insight

and what can help people turn their insights into action.

So does that sound good to you?

A usual forest dive.

I think we need a term.

I mean, we need to turn forest to forestize something.

Uh huh.

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