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Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Elizabeth Pressman and today's episode is part two of my

conversation with Dr. Dan Siegel. New York Times bestselling author, psychiatrist, neuroscientist,

and huge contributor to the field. We're talking about interconnectedness. How to help our children

think of a challenge mindset instead of a threat mindset. How to find their inner compass,

how to prevent burnout, and how to distinguish between our inner lives and our relationship in

the outside world and our intricate connectedness to it all. If you have a moment, please don't hesitate

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connecting with you, respond to your questions through my newsletter and videos and when we

are sitting here together on this podcast. So writing this book, Interconnected really helped

me because I kind of stepped through all the stages of development, including adult development,

to really look at how this opening up of what the self means, this we, as the integration

of self-identity belonging, it's a subtitle, but the the intro connected nature of it,

it's almost like this fun, joy-filled, awe-inspiring kind of way of living because then

you realize each moment is this incredible gift. Each day, as John would say, you know, is this kind

of place of thresholds, you know, the sunrise, the sunset, and you treat each day like a lifetime.

And if you get another lifetime tomorrow, that's awesome, you know, literally filled with awe

and gratitude and compassion. And it's just, you know, it doesn't mean we don't work to make the

world a better place. We absolutely do. But what it does, and I said this to my dear mentor and

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