Connecting With Your Inner Child

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

One of the common topics on the podcast is developmental psychology: how what happened to us as a child can influence our lives today. Alongside that, there can also be a lot of value in reconnecting with the person we were when we were young, before the world got in the way. This can give us a sense of our true nature, and new ideas for how to become an ever-more-complete version of ourselves out in the world. Follow this link to watch the conversation on YouTube! Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Key Topics: 1:10: Uncovering our true nature. 4:20: Our cultural view of children. 7:20: “Feeling down” into younger layers. 13:30: What were you like when you were young? 18:20: A process of contacting your true nature. 25:00: What were your innate desires? 34:00: Compassion for our source. 39:00: Guiding questions, and the layers of self we can access. 43:00: The core needs of most young people. 51:40: Writing a letter to your younger self. 53:00: Recap Sponsors: From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Start a new healthy habit with Seed! Visit seed.com/beingwell and use code BEINGWELL to get 20% off your first month of Seed’s Daily Synbiotic. Connect with the show: Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:10.8	If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of last
0:14.9	day in well-being.
0:16.1	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:18.9	One of the most common topics that we've explored on the podcast is developmental psychology,
0:24.0	how what happened to us as a child can influence our lives today.
0:28.3	Those childhood events often have a huge impact on our nature and behavior, even in adulthood.
0:35.1	And sometimes becoming increasingly happy and healthy as an adult is about unwinding the
0:39.7	influence of negative events that happened during childhood.
0:43.8	But alongside that, there can be a lot of value in connecting more with the person who
0:48.3	we authentically were when we were young.
0:51.3	There might be a sense for you of some kind of core nature, something that was present
0:55.9	for you before the world started getting in the way.
0:59.4	So today we're going to be exploring that child self and how it might help us become
1:03.7	more fully realized as adults.
1:06.0	So to help us do that, I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, so dad, how are
1:10.3	you doing today?
1:11.3	I'm good and I've been very much looking forward to this topic, which has a lot of personal
1:15.3	meaning for me in terms of my own childhood, my own inner child or layers of inner children
1:23.0	inside me.
1:24.0	And also of course, because I knew you when you were a child and I've also worked with
1:29.1	a lot of children.
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