Guy Winch
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2015
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk to Guy Winch about emotional first aid
Guy Winch, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, keynote and TED speaker, and author whose books have been translated into twenty languages. His most recent book is Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts .
The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships and Enhance Self-Esteem was published in January 2011. His TED Talk, Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid, has been viewed over 2.5 million times and is rated among the top 5 most inspiring talks on TED.com.
Dr. Winch received his doctorate in clinical psychology from New York University in 1991 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in family and couples therapy at NYU Medical Center. He has been working with individuals, couples and families in his private practice in Manhattan, since 1992. He is a member of the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Winch also writes the popular Squeaky Wheel Blog on Psychology Today.com, and blogs for Huffington Post.
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In This Interview, Guy Winch and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable
Emotional First Aid: What it is & how to apply it in your life
How to triage small emotional wounds
Building emotional resiliency
That treating emotional wounds when they are small can prevent them from escalating into larger ones later
How to treat the emotional wound of rejection
How to improve low self esteem
The dangers of rumination: stewing vs. doing
What to do when caught in a place of rumination
The difference between rumination and trying to figure something out
Building self compassion
The detective mindset vs. a harmful, self critical mindset
The research Guy Winch is currently working on that's got him really excited
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| 0:00.0 | When you have a physical injury, you have to tend it. |
| 0:02.2 | You have to cover the cut with a bandage. |
| 0:04.2 | It doesn't even register when we sustain psychological wounds |
| 0:08.0 | that there is an action that we need to take. |
| 0:10.4 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:20.2 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance |
| 0:23.2 | of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, |
| 0:27.2 | or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:30.3 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:34.6 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:39.4 | We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, |
| 0:42.2 | we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:45.7 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 0:49.2 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort |
| 0:51.9 | to make a life worth living. |
| 0:54.0 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves |
| 0:56.6 | moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:00.5 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 1:12.6 | In the 70s, the warehouse took over Chicago Nightlife, |
| 1:16.0 | and the club's DJ would go on to make history. |
| 1:19.2 | Frankie, make sure that you felt it in your soul. |
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