Dismantling Anxiety & Generational Trauma Through Mindfulness | Dan Harris
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
After an on-air panic attack, ABC anchor Dan Harris, author of the 10-year anniversary edition of "10% Happier," embarked on a quest to understand his lifelong anxiety. If you've ever experienced self-doubt, imposter syndrome, or a fear of coming undone, don't miss this uplifting conversation with Dan Harris on living more fully and freely.
Harris traces generational roots back to a suicidal great-grandfather, realizing he could either be crushed by these demons or befriend them. This crisis set Harris on a quest that led to Buddhism, reshaping his mind through ancient tools and "mental rewiring." Now tattooed with his personal mantra, he shares the conversations that helped him tap into compassion. Harris reflects on transforming anxiety into awakening, befriending darkness to reveal inner light, and his journey to bestselling author and founder of the meditation company 10% Happier.
You can find Dan at: Website | Instagram | Ten Percent Happier podcast | Episode Transcript
If you LOVED this episode you’ll also love the conversations we had with Susan Piver about mindfulness and life.
Check out our offerings & partners:
- My New Book Sparked
- My New Podcast SPARKED.
- Visit Our Sponsor Page For Great Resources & Discount Codes
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Love is not a factory setting, it's a skill. |
| 0:02.0 | Skills you can develop and the benefits to you are immense. |
| 0:06.5 | And so that is incredibly good and liberating news. |
| 0:09.4 | If you truly care about being happy, healthy, and successful. |
| 0:13.4 | The data suggests that the one variable to control for is the quality of your relationships, |
| 0:17.6 | i.e. love. |
| 0:18.8 | You should be working on the quality of your relationships because literally your life |
| 0:22.6 | depends on it the quality of your life and the length of your life. |
| 0:27.0 | So Dan Harris's story is kind of the stuff of legend that terrifies most of us. An accomplished news anchor in the biggest |
| 0:35.3 | market in New York City for years. Dan had a panic attack live on air. It was |
| 0:41.2 | devastating. I think so many of us can relate. I remember a time when I was speaking in a theater |
| 0:46.4 | before thousands of people and went completely blank on stage and started to drop into that panic state myself. |
| 0:54.0 | The thing is, what these experiences do to and for us is in part about what happens and how we handle that moment. But I think even more. It's about how we |
| 1:06.6 | allow these experiences to inform us, to change us, to enrich us, even when we thought |
| 1:12.3 | there was nothing good to come from them. |
| 1:15.1 | And that's exactly the path that Dan took. |
| 1:17.9 | Recovering over time, he took this journalistic approach to what he'd been through, |
| 1:22.4 | mounting a now years long quest to understand how we show up in all parts of life |
| 1:26.9 | how we handle uncertainty high stakes expectations often wildly unrealistic |
| 1:32.0 | pressure perfectionismism, and anxiety, and how we can explore |
| 1:36.0 | tools, both ancient and cutting edge, to effectively rewire our minds and lives, to not only be able to meet these moments of unexpected and profound |
| 1:46.1 | disruption with more ease, but also to move through the entirety of our lives, our relationships, struggles and triumphs, with so much |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jonathan Fields / Acast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jonathan Fields / Acast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

