Flourishing and Developing Healthy Physiologic Responses During Ongoing Stressors: Dr. Eva Selhub, M.D.

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This fascinating interview is with Dr. Eva Selhub who worked at Harvard with Herb Benson developing and understanding about the mind body connection to health. Dr. Selhub is an internationally recognized resiliency expert who has worked as a physician, author, executive coach, keynote speaker, and spiritual advisor. She has written many books, including Burnout for Dummies, Resilience for Dummies, Your Health Destiny, The Stress Management Handbook, The Love Response, and co-authored Your Brain on Nature. Life is filled with opportunities to practice new techniques for resilience, and many in the medical field have had ample chances to refine their skills in this area from personal challenges. This lived experience with investigations into problem-focused solutions is then commonly shared through science-based pursuits and practices. These mixed techniques increase what we know as personal or societal health through medicine. We all benefit from a more mentally and physically flourishing self and society. Dr. Eva Selhub, M.D. has fostered this idea throughout her career, culminating in a resilience strategy for modern times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of The Influence Continuum.
0:09.8	And my regular listeners know that I call my podcast the influence continuum deliberately
0:16.7	because I don't want to just talk about unhealthy cult groups and brainwashing and mind control.
0:23.5	I really want to talk about healthy, positive stuff that helps uplift the spirit, that helps the human condition.
0:33.7	And I have a very special guest, a new friend who lives near me, actually.
0:39.7	And I immediately, when I met her, said, you have to come on my podcast.
0:43.8	You said, I'd be delighted.
0:46.0	So I'd like to introduce you to Eva Selhob, medical doctor, MD.
0:51.6	Very prestigious person.
0:54.0	I want to plug this book.
0:55.8	She has six of them.
0:57.2	This one's called Your Health Destiny,
0:59.6	How to Unlock Your Natural Ability to Overcome Illness,
1:03.3	Feel Better, and Live Longer.
1:06.2	But I'm just going to mention your other books
1:08.2	and then circle back to all of your, your amazing credentials.
1:14.7	Let's see. So you did burnout for dummies, resilience for dummies, your health destiny,
1:21.2	the stress management handbook, the love response, definitely want to talk about love, and co-author of your brain on nature.
1:30.0	And people know that nature is really critically important.
1:36.0	So Eva Selha has been an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School,
1:41.6	clinical associate of the prestigious Benson Henry Institute for Mind, Body
1:46.4	Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she served as medical director for six years.
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