Show 1063: How to Apply Emotional First Aid (Archive)
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Life is never completely smooth and easy. Along with bruised shins and skinned knees, we all experience hurt feelings from time to time. Perhaps we got left out of the game, or our best friend decided to hang out with somebody else. What do you do in a situation like this? How can you learn to be emotionally resilient?
Your Emotional First Aid Kit:
Just as children learn how to apply first aid for cuts and scratches, they should learn about emotional first aid for minor psychological injuries. But usually they don’t. In fact, most adults are clueless about how to treat small emotional wounds. The appropriate preventive steps can keep such slights from turning into big psychological problems because they were neglected.
Now you can learn about the emotional first aid that can help short-circuit rumination, overcome loneliness and turn failure into an opportunity for self-discovery.
This Week’s Guest:
Guy Winch, PhD, is a psychologist and author. His books include The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships and Enhance Self-Esteem along with his most recent: Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure and Other Everyday Hurts.Â
His website: http://www.guywinch.com/
He also writes the Squeaky Wheel blog at PsychologyToday.com
You can also find him on Twitter: http://twitter.com/guywinch
His TED Talk, Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid, is among the top 5 most inspirational TED Talks on ted.com. You can find a link to it here.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy. |
| 0:06.1 | You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's Pharmacy.com. |
| 0:14.0 | Have you ever taken Previsit or Pylasek? |
| 0:18.0 | Millions of people take acid suppressing drugs daily. |
| 0:21.0 | Are there unexpected side effects? This is the people's pharmacy |
| 0:25.3 | with Terry and Joe Grayden. Do proton pump inhibitors affect our cardiovascular system as well as our digestive tract? |
| 0:40.0 | How important is your microbiome in maintaining good health? |
| 0:44.3 | We'll find out how to nurture the bugs in your belly. |
| 0:48.6 | We're talking with Dr Robin Chutkin, author of the microbiome solution, she'll tell us how |
| 0:54.3 | inflammation affects our overall health and what we should know about leaky gut |
| 0:58.9 | syndrome. What does Dr. Chukin mean when she says live dirty eat clean? |
| 1:04.0 | Coming up on the people's pharmacy, how to have good digestion without drugs. |
| 1:09.3 | First, this news. |
| 1:14.0 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, older people who fear they're losing their mental |
| 1:19.8 | edge should lace up their sneakers. In a study published in the journal |
| 1:24.4 | Neurology 160 volunteers with an average age of 65 tested the benefits of |
| 1:30.8 | exercise a dashed diet, a combination of the two or health education |
| 1:36.3 | sessions. The participants had cognitive impairments but no dementia when the study |
| 1:41.6 | began. Those who exercised for 45 minutes three times a week |
| 1:46.4 | for six months made significant gains in tests of their executive function. Adding the vegetable-rich-dashed diet to the exercise helped even more. |
| 1:57.0 | The improvement was the mental equivalent of dropping nine years. The volunteers assigned to health education sessions had worse |
| 2:05.0 | scores on their executive function tests at the end of the six months than when |
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