CPTSD, Somatic Psychology, and Finding Your Happiness with Elizabeth Ferreira

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

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🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Forrest and Elizabeth welcome listeners into their home to talk about their changing relationship with the holidays, letting go of the past, healthy boundaries, glimmers, and different paths to taking in the good. Along the way they talk about different approaches to working with trauma, connecting with the body, and getting on our own side. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 2:00: Elizabeth’s history with the holidays, and claiming your own rituals 5:20: Experiencing the holidays without an agenda 10:15: Glimmers in Polyvagal Theory 14:10: Working with a challenging relationship history 21:35: Somatic psychology, and respecting the mind 28:40: Regulating through movement 31:55: Staying yourself inside of your family 38:45: Enjoying agency, and emphasizing beauty 42:30: Entrapment and defeat, awareness, and saying no 47:15: Attachment, contracting around desire, and taking a moment for yourself 51:20: A practice of finding glimmers 55:35: Self-compassion and camaraderie during the holidays Register for Rick’s Yearly Program! The Foundations of Well-Being 2.0 is a year-long, science-backed journey through developing 12 key inner strengths like compassion, mindfulness, confidence, motivation, and courage. It’s Rick’s flagship program, and if you like Being Well you’ll probably love it. Visit FWBProgram.com to learn more, and get 20% off with coupon code BeingWell20. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors: 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 Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Zocdoc helps you find expert doctors and medical professionals that specialize in the care you need, and deliver the type of experience you want. Head to zocdoc.com/being and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen and joining me for this very special holiday edition of the podcast is one of my
0:15.2	absolutely favorite people Elizabeth Ferreira. Elizabeth thanks for doing this with me
0:19.2	today. I'm so excited you know we were just talking the other day also watching British Bake
0:26.2	Baking show great finish You know we were watching you know the holiday special and in a moment of
0:35.0	Late night chat. We were like why don't we do a Christmas special? We should do a being well holiday special and I was like what's it going to be on Elizabeth?
0:40.0	Well we're going to find out.
0:42.0	And that's about as far as we got, and here we are right now.
0:47.0	So a little bit more about Elizabeth, if you haven't listened to any of the previous episodes with her.
0:52.0	She has a master's in somatic psychology. She's currently
0:54.5	working as an associate therapist. That means that in California you need to earn, I think it's 3,000 hours
1:00.8	before you can get your license of working with people and she's grinding
1:04.8	her way through those hours very diligently so she's working with people and she
1:09.2	specializes in trauma work and I think that both based on your work with people around this time of year and a little bit of your own personal history, you were just interested in doing something that like hopefully people would find kind of supportive and helpful and just kind of bring people into our home here.
1:24.5	I'm just gonna name it sometimes the holidays suck. Yeah. You know they can be a lot of
1:30.1	pressure to be a certain way you know to hang out hang out with your family, especially if you don't like them,
1:35.3	or just feel those pressures. It can be very pressuring. So I thought, hmm, what if we just invited some folks via the podcast or video or whatever
1:49.2	just to like come and hang out with us. So if you're feeling lonely or a little bit sad,
1:56.1	or if you're like me and you isolate and just watch Harry Potter
1:59.6	on Christmas, you can join us and we welcome you into our home.
2:04.0	So it might make sense if you're comfortable doing it.
2:07.0	To just like share a little bit about your history with the holidays,
2:09.0	you've gone on a bit of a journey over just like the period of our relationship and I think a good bit more before then.
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