Uncovering Your Natural Goodness with Tara Brach

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Tara Brach joins Dr. Rick Hanson to help us learn how to "trust the gold:" recognizing and appreciating our essential human goodness, while resting in the key refuges of truth, love, and freedom. About our Guest: Tara is the founder and guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. Tara has taught all over the world, and is the author of four books, including her most recent book Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness. You can also find Tara through her Tara Brach podcast. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Watch the Episode: Prefer watching video? You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 2:05: What does it mean to “trust the gold?” 6:05: Blocks to seeing our true goodness. 9:50: The impact of childhood. 13:05: Objection #1: Fears of falling into narcissism or arrogance. 18:30: The benefits of satisfying our needs. 21:20: Objection #2: Fears of laziness and lack of success. 25:15: Two paths to trusting the gold. 30:10: “Deal with the bad, turn toward the good, take in the good.” 34:00: Letting in love. 39:55: The three kinds of gold. 44:50: Offering kindness. 47:25: Trauma, and trusting our goodness when we feel unclean. 54:25: Recognizing bad behavior while also trusting inner goodness. From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Sponsors: 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. Start a new healthy habit with Seed! Visit seed.com/beingwell and use code BEINGWELL to get 20% off your first month of Seed’s Daily Synbiotic. Connect with the show: Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Being Well, the podcast.
0:12.3	I'm Rick Hansen, and this is normally done by Forest Hansen, my son and partner here,
0:19.8	but for technical reasons, the internet is broken where Forest is, and so I'm doing this
0:25.1	myself solo, and hoping to draw on the resources and the companionship of Dr. Tara Brock here,
0:33.4	who's my guest, to help me deal with my own anxieties about doing this for the first time.
0:38.7	So, Tara is the founder and guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington,
0:44.8	DC, one of the largest meditation centers in the United States. I've had the chance to be a guest
0:51.0	teacher there once or twice, and I can tell you it's a wonderful community that Tara has pulled
0:56.0	together. Prior to that, Tara earned her doctorate in clinical psychology and developed a clinical
1:02.2	practice. Her teaching blends those two backgrounds wonderfully, which I can attest for.
1:08.0	Her most recent book is called Trusting the Gold Uncovering Your Natural Goodness,
1:12.9	which we're going to be talking about. I love this book. It just came out June 15th,
1:18.5	and you can also find Tara through her Tara Brock podcast, which is very popular.
1:23.4	It's one of the most listened to podcasts in the mental health broadly territory.
1:28.1	And if you like what you were doing here, you should definitely listen to her podcast.
1:32.7	Okay, so Tara, now I'm off script. Thank goodness. It's great to see you again. I've spoken with you
1:39.7	many occasions, including I think we interviewed you previously on the podcast. How are you doing today?
1:45.4	Well, I'm doing great, and I got to interview you just a few weeks ago, so it feels really fun
1:51.0	to be back together again. It is really sweet. We're going to be in kind of a love fest here,
1:56.0	so people have issues with sweetness. Maybe they could drink some vinegar. I don't know.
2:02.2	Just kind of balance it out or take a little lemon juice together.
2:05.9	So Tara, we're going to be talking about you're really, for me, magnificent new book. One that I'm
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