The Secret to Solving Most Psychological Problems: Integration

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

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🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We explore a lot of big ideas on this show, and alongside them a lot of specific tactics and frameworks that can support people in growing and changing for the better. This includes everything from how to get the most out of therapy, to how to deal with traumatic experiences, to how to manage a variety of psychological conditions and individual tendencies. There’s a question that underlies all of these domains: how does personal healing actually work? On today’s episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson discuss the fundamental strategies that allow us to become aware of and integrate all parts of ourselves–those we want to celebrate and expand, and those we’d like to heal and change. Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 3:00: Overview of psychological patterns related to healing 7:25: Forrest’s personal journey as a case study 13:15: Rick assessing Forrest’s narrative from a psychologist’s perspective 15:45: Cognizing and other stories we tell to avoid parts of ourselves 20:40: Showing appreciation for our defenses, completing patterns 26:50: Catharsis and ways to reach it 39:15: Practical ways to reclaim and reconnect with parts of yourself 43:45: Playing with the nature of identity/ego 47:00: Self-forgiveness and celebrating what you’re good at 50:05: Recap Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Have a question for us? Email: contact@beingwellpodcast.com to submit questions or potential topics you'd like us to explore in future episodes. Sponsors: Get the probiotic rooted in the latest microbiome science from Pendulum, and use code BEINGWELL for 20% off your purchase. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forrest Hanson.
0:10.4	If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of lasting
0:14.4	well-being, and if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:18.0	We explore a lot of big ideas on this show, and alongside them, a lot of specific tactics
0:24.0	and frameworks that can support people in growing and changing for the better.
0:28.7	This includes everything from how to get the most out of therapy, to dealing with traumatic
0:32.6	experiences, to how to manage a variety of psychological conditions and individual tendencies,
0:40.4	including towards things like OCD, or anxiety, depression, and many more.
0:46.4	There's a lot of different stuff in a lot of different domains on this show, but to me,
0:51.5	there's a question that runs underneath almost everything we talk about.
0:55.9	What is healing work actually?
0:58.2	Particularly in the context of this podcast, the healing of our own individual psychology.
1:03.5	How can we grow and change over time?
1:06.4	How can we overcome some of the innate tendencies that have been baked into us one way or another
1:12.9	that are no longer serving us?
1:15.6	And how can understanding these general principles about how healing works
1:19.4	help us address specific issues as they come up?
1:22.6	This is probably, obviously, a very big question.
1:25.8	And we may or may not be able to get all the way to the bottom of it today,
1:30.2	but to help us along the way, I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen,
1:34.5	Rick is a clinical psychologist, a best-selling author, and I'm also happy to say he's my dad,
1:39.7	so dad, how are you doing today?
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