The Secret to Solving Most Psychological Problems: Integration

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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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. But there's a question that lies beneath all of those approaches: 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.

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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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