COVID and Releasing Obsessive Fear

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

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🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Can we work with, and release, obsessive fear during this particularly anxiety-provoking time? Dr. Dan Kalb, an expert on anxiety disorders and OCD, joins the show to help us learn how. About our Guest: Anxiety and worry are a part of life. But when they disrupt the normal flow of life, work and school are harder, family and social relationships suffer, and life is not as enjoyable. Dr. Kalb has been a practicing psychologist for over 25 years, and focuses much of his practice on working with people who suffer from this form of extreme anxiety, hoarding, or OCD. New Sponsor: Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Key Topics: 1:45: What is an anxiety disorder? 6:00: Mindfulness and being in the present moment. 11:30: Releasing obsessions, and not becoming ensnared by negative thoughts. 16:45: Acceptance, and useful vs. harmful self-reassurance. 24:30: Fears of death, and how to manage them. 29:30: Key techniques for releasing fear. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. 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. Hardwire lasting change into your mind and heart in just a few minutes a day with Dr. Rick Hanson's new program: Just One Minute. Use the code BEINGWELL at checkout for 10% off the purchase price! Connect with the show: 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 the Being Well Podcast, I'm Forrest Hanson. I'm joined today as
0:08.4	usual by Dr Rick Hansen and today we have a very special guest who's going to be joining us.
0:14.6	A clinical psychologist and expert on issues relating to anxiety and fear, Dr. Dan Kalb.
0:20.3	Dr. Kalb has been a practicing psychologist for over 25 years and focuses much of his practice on working
0:25.8	with people who suffer from extreme anxiety, hoarding, or OCD.
0:30.3	Before we get into our conversation, I'd like to remind you about our new Patreon
0:34.0	account. We're now on Patreon and you can go to Patreon.com slash being well
0:39.2	podcast if you would like to support the show. For just the cost of a couple cups of coffee a month,
0:44.6	you'll get access to expanded show notes
0:46.6	that I put together for every episode,
0:48.8	early interviews with our guest experts,
0:51.3	the special just one thing episodes, the videos that we create
0:54.9	from my conversations with Rick, and a wide variety of additional bonuses.
0:59.1	Also, most importantly, you'll know that you're supporting us and continuing to produce this content which we deeply appreciate.
1:07.0	So, Dan, it's great to have you with us today. How are you doing?
1:10.0	I'm really happy here to discuss anxiety and I wish it were under different circumstances but thanks for inviting me.
1:19.5	Yeah for sure and we actually planned this conversation to kind of bring the
1:23.6	listeners behind the curtain for a second months and months and months ago and a
1:27.6	variety of things came up we all had to kind of move the scheduling around but I
1:31.7	think that it's really prescient that this is the moment
1:34.3	that we're having a conversation with a real expert related to topics of anxiety and fear.
1:40.2	So you've been working with people around their anxiety related issues for a long time,
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