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Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

How to Cope During a Pandemic with Dr. Bruce Perry

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On this timely episode, Dr. Bruce Perry joins the podcast to explore how we can limit the long-term impact of stressful events, and heal from past traumatic experiences.  About Our Guest:  Dr. Bruce Perry is one of the world’s leading experts on childhood trauma, and his clinical research and practice focuses on examining the long-term effects of trauma in children, adolescents, and adults. He is the Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, and the author, with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog. Life After COVID Summit: Join Dr. Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson, and a roster of world-class experts including Dr. Perry during this FREE three-day online event to explore our "new normal." Click here to learn more about the Summit and register now. Key Topics: 1:15: Pandemic fatigue.  4:45: Experiencing acute stressors alongside chronic stress.  7:20: Practices to help yourself de-stress.  11:30: The impact of stress on our ability to regulate ourselves. 13:30: How to limit the long-term impact of stressful events. 18:40: How we can explore traumatic material without re-traumatizing ourselves. 23:30: Avoiding helplessness, and experiencing control and agency.  25:30: Dissociation as a coping response. 31:00: Disruptions of attunement.  36:00: Caregiver fatigue, and caring for ourselves.  41:30: The pandemic’s impact on people who have been previously traumatized. 44:00: A wish for the future.  46:00: Recap Sponsors: 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.  Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/BEINGWELL and get a free trial of their Premium Membership. Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month!  Connect with the show: 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

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to being well I'm Forrest Hansen. If you're new to the

0:11.1

podcast this is where we explore the practical science of lasting well-being.

0:15.0

And if you've listened to before, welcome back.

0:18.0

I'm joined today, as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen, so Dad, how are you doing today?

0:22.0

I'm good, and I'm extremely interested in our guest today.

0:25.4

Yeah, same, absolutely.

0:26.8

It's such a timely conversation, and today we're very, very pleased to welcome back

0:31.0

our first repeat guest, and kind of double repeat guest to the

0:35.5

podcast one of the world's leading experts on trauma and the impact of

0:39.4

traumatic experiences particularly on children and young people.

0:43.7

Dr. Bruce Perry.

0:45.1

Dr. Perry is the senior fellow of the Child Trauma Academy

0:48.2

based in Houston, Texas, and a professor at the Feinberg

0:51.1

School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago

0:54.5

and the School of Allied Health at Latrobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

0:58.8

He's one of the world's leading experts on childhood trauma,

1:01.6

and he's also the author of the boy who was raised as a dog

1:04.4

which is probably the book that's had the largest impact on my personal understanding

1:09.0

of these topics so Bruce how are you doing thanks for doing this this. Well, thanks for having me for us.

1:14.0

Good to see you, Rick. And I'm going to be honest, I'm well, but I'm tired.

1:18.0

Yeah.

1:19.0

We were talking, our working group yesterday had a meeting on a Monday morning and we were all talking about here we are

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