The Inside Story: The Power of Interoceptive Awareness

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Susan Sands, PhD, is a clinical psychologist known for her trailblazing work in female development and body-based disorders. She incorporates Buddhist thought and meditation into her work with patients. A former journalist, she publishes and presents widely on the topic of eating disorders and body image, and she is a core faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco. In this podcast, Sounds True founder Tami Simon speaks with Susan Sands about her new book, The Inside Story, illuminating the surprising benefits that come with growing older and deepening our capacity to perceive our inner world more intimately. Tami and Susan discuss how interoceptive awareness is critical to our happiness as we age; body sense versus body image; the connection between having a high level of interoceptive awareness and having access to personal agency; how spiritual practices like meditation, mindfulness, and yoga help us cultivate interoceptive awareness; countering negative thoughts about our aging bodies by using "ageism disruptors"; developing a stable body image in our day to day lives; experiencing the pleasure of the inner body as we age; the positivity bias, and how it increases over time; the surprising beneficial physiological effects of aging; "mixed emotions" and the wisdom that comes with being older; the happiness curve, and how we can work to rewrite negative ageist narratives; addressing age inequality in today's society; and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by SoundsTrue.
0:05.6	My name's Tammy Simon, I'm the founder of SoundsTrue, and I'd love to take a moment to introduce
0:11.0	you to the SoundsTrue Foundation.
0:13.8	The goal of the SoundsTrue Foundation is to provide access and eliminate financial barriers
0:20.6	to transformational education and resources, such as teachings and trainings on mindfulness,
0:28.3	emotional awareness, and self-compassion.
0:31.5	If you'd like to learn more and join with us in our efforts, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
0:42.8	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Susan Sands.
0:47.9	Susan is a clinical psychologist, known for her trailblazing work in female development
0:54.6	and body-based disorders.
0:57.2	She incorporates Buddhist philosophy and meditation into her work with patients, and she's
1:02.7	also a journalist, publishing and presenting widely on the topic of eating disorders and
1:09.4	body images, and now on the surprising pleasures of living in an aging body.
1:16.9	She's also a core faculty member at the Psychoanolytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco.
1:24.3	It sounds true, Susan Sands is the author of a new book, it's called The Inside Story,
1:31.9	the surprising pleasures of living in an aging body.
1:36.3	At age 75, Susan has become an expert on something that's not often talked about, but
1:44.2	as you'll hear in this conversation, it's so important to our well-being, and that's
1:49.8	the power of interoceptive awareness, or what could be called our body sense, our interior
1:59.9	sense of our body.
2:02.7	Measuring interoceptive awareness is something that's just really started appearing in the
2:08.4	scientific literature over the past two decades, and yet practices, traditional practices,
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