Hero's Journey: Getting Rid of the Faulty Narratives
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast
David J Puder
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
"The Hero's Journey" entails several predictable steps of leaving and returning transformed. Striving towards one's heroic possibilities and unfolding one's potentials is deeply pleasurable. Realizing that our narratives can be seen as part of a journey can encourage these pleasurable aspirational attempts and reframe hardships. This concept of The Hero's Journey is something I use often in my practice and find very useful.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast. |
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| 0:34.5 | All right, welcome back to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast. |
| 0:38.7 | This is your host, Dr. Pewter. |
| 0:39.7 | I am going to be doing an episode today on getting on track on your hero's journey, talking |
| 0:46.2 | about the hero's journey, talking about how we can create narratives that get us off |
| 0:51.0 | track of being on the hero's journey. |
| 0:55.8 | The hero's journey is essentially a call to something, moving into a different space |
| 1:03.5 | and then coming home with a new gift to give, and along the way there are trials, there |
| 1:08.5 | are guides, and I think it's helpful to see the arc of our journey as potentially multiple |
| 1:17.3 | of these journeys which change us, right, and multiple guides along our path. |
| 1:28.0 | And so before we begin, I kind of wanted to give a short update on what is going on in |
| 1:32.5 | my life. |
| 1:33.5 | I moved to Florida with my family, and for the time I'm doing everything over video calls |
| 1:40.2 | in Zoom, we decided to move to be closer to family, it was a big move, stressful, |
| 1:47.3 | but exciting at the same time, I've been enjoying rowing and spending time with my family, |
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