Sadness and Disappointment Around the Holidays

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The holidays are coming up, and for many people they’re likely to be very different this year from usual. Experiencing sadness or disappointment around the holidays is normal even among the best circumstances, and we're far from those. On this episode, Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore how to work with this year's natural feelings of sadness and disappointment. Support the Podcast: We're on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Key Topics: 4:50: A therapy session focused on sadness with Rick. 9:30: Associations between current sad experiences and our past material. 11:45: A process for experiencing and working with sadness. 17:45: Imagery to aid experiencing. 19:00: Helping sadness soften and release. 24:30: Non-judgement 28:40: Identifying underlying beliefs. 29:40: Letting in good experiences alongside challenging ones. 33:10: Finding the root experience, and communicating our needs. 37:00: Sadness vs. depression. 41:30: Dealing with disappointment. 45:00: Finding agency in a moment of disappointment. 48:10: “Strong hopes, weak expectations.” 50:20: Recap. 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. Sponsors: 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: Subscribe on iTunes Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Forrest's Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	welcome to being well, I'm Forrest Hansen.
0:07.0	If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of
0:11.0	lasting well-being.
0:12.0	And if you've listened before, welcome back. practical science of lasting well-being.
0:12.5	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:15.0	I'm joined today, as usual by Dr. Rick
0:18.2	is a clinical psychologist and a best-selling author
0:20.9	who's spent over 35 years teaching people the key lessons from
0:24.9	psychology and contemplative practice that lead to a good life. How are you doing
0:29.5	today, Dad? I'm really good Forrest. I just love doing this with you and I feel so appreciative that my son still wants to talk with me.
0:38.0	It is a little bit novel in parent-child relationships sometime.
0:44.3	I mean, I'm hoping a lot of our listeners have lovely relationships with their parents as well,
0:48.6	but I know that that is not always the case.
0:50.4	So I definitely, you know, I'm glad that things turned out this way for us as well.
0:55.0	Oh yeah in a funny kind of way I think the unfortunate is normal in a sense that it's really quite normal to have some kind of family discord.
1:05.0	And you know there's the opening line of course to Anna Karenina.
1:09.0	All families, all happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
1:16.4	I think that's pretty close.
1:17.8	And anyway, when I was a kid, even as an adult, there were definitely times where I preferred not to talk with my parents
1:25.2	so I'm glad you still do well I I do still talk to you dad but when I was growing up too
1:30.3	there were times where I preferred not to talk to my parents either. So neither of us were
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