Living Longer and Happier Through Kindness With Kelli Harding

Live Happy Now

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Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

You’ve heard the old saying, “Kill them with kindness” – but what if the opposite was true? Kelli Harding, MD, MPH, is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and author of the new book, The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness. Her book provides fascinating evidence of how kindness, compassion and human connection affect the body in profound ways—and how they can improve both our physical and mental health. In this episode, you’ll learn: Our day-to-day social environment is key to our health and extends far beyond the doctor’s visits. Health is about creating positive connections to those around you and learning to navigate challenges and stress. To do what you can to create kindness for others.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 222 of Live Happy Now.
0:05.8	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us again this week.
0:09.7	We've all heard the old saying, kill them with kindness, but what if the opposite was true?
0:14.5	Kelly Harding is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
0:19.9	and author of the new book, The Rabbit
0:22.3	Effect, Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with a groundbreaking science of kindness.
0:27.1	Her book provides fascinating evidence of how kindness, compassion, and human connection
0:31.5	affect the body in profound ways and how we can use them to improve our health.
0:37.1	Kelly, thank you so much for coming on
0:39.0	Live Happy Now and being our guest today. Absolutely. It's my pleasure. It's so cool because I've
0:45.1	seen you've had the all-stars of positive psychology on, so I feel very honored to be also
0:50.9	interviewed on this podcast. Well, you're jumping right in there with them. You know,
0:54.5	your book has gotten such great reviews and, you know, from like Richard Laird and Drew Ramsey and
1:00.8	people that we're friends with through the podcast and have a great deal of respect for. So
1:05.9	one of the things that I love about your book is it really makes us think differently about
1:10.5	how we approach our health.
1:12.0	And I guess the first starting point would be, can you tell our listeners a little bit about what started you on that journey?
1:18.8	Oh, absolutely.
1:19.8	So this has been many decades in the making in terms of sort of writing the rabbit effect and putting it out there.
1:26.8	And, you know, it really,
1:28.1	I'm a physician by training and it really started a long time back when, you know, I first signed
1:34.8	up for medical school and, you know, wanted to learn absolutely everything I could about the human
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