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Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Growing Compassion And Mindfulness

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Shauna Shapiro, clinical psychologist, author and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and self-compassion, joins Rick to discuss how we can grow and include compassion alongside mindfulness. About Our Guest: Dr. Shapiro is a professor at Santa Clara University and has published over 150 papers and three critically acclaimed books, translated into 16 languages. Her TEDx Talk, The Power of Mindfulness, has been viewed over a million times. Her newest book Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy is now available. Follow these links to find Shauna's Website l Instagram l Facebook 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! Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Key Topics: 07:34: Shauna's personal story. 12:26: Strengths and traits that support mindfulness. 14:21: The attitudes we should build. 21:32: “Good morning, I love you.”. 23:31: A practice of mindfulness. 28:19: Working through self-criticism.  32:56: What can people do practically if they're feeling helpless about the state of the world? 36:59: Applying mindfulness in the day-to-day. 41:06: How do you keep growing every day? 43:16: A message to your younger self Connect with the show: Visit us on the web 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, this is Forrest.

0:03.0

Before we get started with today's episode, which is a great conversation between

0:06.9

Rick and Dr. Shauna Shapiro, who is an internationally recognized expert in mindfulness, I wanted to give you a quick update on the

0:14.4

future of the podcast. The short version is that we've done a lot of thinking about

0:18.2

how to pay for the production costs of the podcast and we're going to try out a

0:22.1

crowd funding model.

0:23.4

We've joined just about every other independent creator out there

0:27.1

and started a Patreon. And if you'd like to support us there for about the

0:30.6

cost of a cup of coffee or so a month, you can go to Patreon.com

0:35.0

backslash Being Well Podcast.

0:37.6

I've also included a link to it in the description of today's episode.

0:41.2

And if that's all you'd like to hear about that, I really can't blame you and you're welcome to skip forward a couple of minutes to hear Rick's conversation with Dr. Shauna Shapiro.

0:49.0

But I wanted to take a moment here to be really transparent with you and explain why we're going to start crowd funding.

0:55.0

I've loved creating the podcast.

0:58.0

Working on it has been a real joy for me and it's been incredibly fulfilling for Rick as well.

1:02.8

I'm being honest when I say that one of the greatest pleasures in my life these days

1:06.4

is receiving some of the incredible feedback that we've gotten about the podcast,

1:10.5

and it's been just truly incredible to reach as many people as we have.

1:14.0

It really does feel like we're helping people and that's just an amazing feeling.

1:19.0

Doing this podcast has opened doors for me that I never even knew we're there and I'm grateful to everyone who's

1:24.8

taken the time to listen. At the same time it does take a lot of effort to run the podcast.

1:30.4

I put a lot of time into preparing for our conversations, reaching out to new guests,

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