Repairing with Family, Dealing with Difficult People, and Recognizing Power: Mailbag

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

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🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag and answer questions from listeners related to how we can build better relationships (particularly with our families) and deal with difficult people. They explore the common traits of happy families, how to deal with people who weaponize psychological jargon, navigating different perceptions of “what happened,” and repairing a damaged relationship with a child. Forrest ends the conversation by talking about the importance of “going to zero” after a breach of trust. Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. New Online Course From Dr. Rick: Learn the tools you need to build strong, healthy, fulfilling relationships of all kinds in Rick's new Strong Heart Relationship Series. The program begins on February 18th, and all the teaching is recorded so you can watch on your own schedule. Visit RickHanson.net/strongheart to learn more and get 20% with coupon code BeingWell20. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:00: Question 1: Common characteristics of happy families 8:25: Differentiation and integration 10:55: Symptoms of a less healthy family system 12:15: The role of love 19:55: Question 2: What to do when people use psychological jargon during a conflict 26:00: Defending yourself effectively, and staying on topic 30:50: Question 3: Navigating different perceptions of a difficult event 35:45: Question 4: Healing a strained relationship with a child (or parent) 39:45: Functional repair before emotional vulnerability 46:45: “Going to zero” with behavior when repair is needed 56:10: Recap Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors: This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp, and you can join over a million people using the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.
0:10.8	If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of personal
0:15.1	growth.
0:16.1	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:18.2	I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick is a clinical psychologist, a best-selling
0:23.0	author, and he's also my dad.
0:24.9	So dad, how are you doing today?
0:26.5	I'm good, and I'm looking forward to the grab back.
0:29.2	It's one of my favorites.
0:30.7	Yeah, it's great to answer some questions from our listeners.
0:34.0	We're going to be opening up our mailbag today, and we got a ton of questions from all
0:39.6	of you.
0:40.6	And I picked out a few of them that I thought were particularly interesting.
0:43.9	Before we get into it today, I wanted to give you a quick reminder about our Patreon page.
0:48.2	You can find us at patreon.com slash being well podcast.
0:52.5	And if you would like to submit a question to be answered on the show, we regularly ask
0:57.0	our patrons what they're interested in.
0:59.0	So it's a great way to get your questions answered by me or by Rick.
1:04.0	So I'll start with this first one.
1:05.6	Rick, I've heard you paraphrase a quote from Tolstoy a few times.
1:10.0	All happy families are alike.
1:12.1	Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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