The Power of Pain with Julia Samuel #123

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

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🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 110 minutes

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CAUTION: Contains mild swearing and adult themes. If there is any certainty in life, it is that things will never stay the same, yet so many of us struggle to embrace and accept change. In the conversation today, Julia Samuel, a leading British psychotherapist, with over 3 decades of experience teaches us how we can all adapt and thrive during our most difficult and transformative experiences. Julia is passionate that pain is the agent of change – whether that’s through grieving someone that has died or through what Julia calls, ‘living losses’ (e.g. loss of job, a health crisis, or as many of us are experiencing at the moment, the loss of a life that we used to lead). We talk about how the way we respond to change, in many ways determines how our lives will unfold. Julia explains how love is powerful medicine and that a strong predictor of outcomes in grief is love and connection to others. We delve into transgenerational trauma, my own journey with grief and, importantly, Julia explains how to talk about death - especially with our children. This is a really enlightening conversation and I hope you get as much from it as I did. Show notes available at: https://drchatterjee.com/123 Follow me on instagram.com/drchatterjee/ Follow me on facebook.com/DrChatterjee/ Follow me on twitter.com/drchatterjeeuk DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website.

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0:00.0	I want to talk about how life is change and that we think we have control and then we don't.
0:06.8	And so those that find ways to support themselves to adapt and change thrive.
0:12.1	And those that block it and try and anesthetize their way out of it have less joy and less success in life.
0:20.0	Hi, my name is Rongan Chasty. Welcome to feel better, live more.
0:29.7	Hello and welcome back to episode 123 of the podcast. I hope you are having a good week. For me, it is really good to be back in the flow
0:41.4	of a new podcast season. Feedback to last week's show with Jay Shetty has been wonderful.
0:48.3	In fact, I've got to say that one of the most noticeable things has been how many messages I received
0:53.4	from listeners expressing their gratitude
0:56.7	for the podcast in a really specific way. You may recall that was a key learning from last week's
1:03.9	show and it was amazing to see how many of you actually put it into practice. So thank you to
1:10.1	everyone who sent me a message.
1:11.8	I very much appreciate it. And I hope you took some time to notice how you felt straight after
1:17.6	sending the message. Gratitude is a transformative practice, both for the receiver, but also
1:25.2	for the sender. Now, the topic of today's conversation is change,
1:31.0	and my guest is the leading British psychotherapist, Julia Samuel. But Julia has spent over 30
1:37.9	years in practice and is found a patron of Child Bereavement UK. In her latest book, This Two Shall Pass, she beautifully explains how
1:47.7	change is the only constant in life. Change is something we have all seen and experienced over the last
1:53.9	few months, as the fabric of day-to-day life has been completely transformed. So if change is the natural order of things,
2:02.4	why does so many of us struggle and resist it?
2:06.5	Well, in the conversation today,
2:08.4	Julia teaches us how we can all adopt
2:11.5	and thrive during our most difficult experiences.
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