Working with Irrational Fears, Setting Healthy Boundaries, and Understanding Therapy: March Mailbag

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

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🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Forrest and Dr. Rick open up the mailbag and answer questions from listeners focused on how we can work with irrational fears, create separation from our thoughts and feelings, and set healthy boundaries in dysfunctional families. Rick then goes off on the topic of “evidence-based” vs. “not evidence-based” approaches to therapy, leading to an interesting conversation about research, statistical significance, and what makes for good therapy. We think you’ll enjoy this one, thanks for listening! You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:25: How can I respond to fears I know are irrational? 11:05: How can I disidentify from my thoughts? 21:35: How do I set healthy boundaries in a dysfunctional family system? 39:25: Are “not evidence-based” therapeutic approaches such as IFS or somatic therapy inferior to “evidence-based” approaches like CBT? 55:20: My relationship is full of conflict, and I’m considering divorce. How should I think this through? 1:05:10: Recap Forrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Soonsors Get your stand on with UPLIFT Desk! Go to UPLIFT Desk.com/BEINGWELL for 5% off your order of one of their fantastic standing desks or office products. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Trust your gut with Seed’s DS-01 Daily Synbiotic. Go to Seed.com/BEINGWELL and use code 25BEINGWELL to get 25% off your first month. Start each day right with IQBAR’s bars, hydration mixes, and mushroom coffees. Just text BEINGWELL to sixty-four thousand (64-000) and get an exclusive offer of 20% off plus free shipping. 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 if you're new to the podcast,
0:02.0	thanks for joining us today.
0:04.0	Hello and welcome to being well.
0:09.0	I'm Forrest Hanson.
0:11.0	If you're new to the podcast,
0:12.0	thanks for joining us today, and if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:15.3	I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen. Rick is a clinical psychologist, a best-selling author,
0:21.5	and he's also my dad. dad how are you doing? I'm doing well I have a
0:26.1	little frog in my throat so I might sound a little horse but otherwise I'm doing
0:30.4	really great. Today we're going to be answering some questions from our
0:33.7	listeners. It's always great to do this because we get really fantastic questions from
0:38.4	people. If you're interested in asking a question to be answered on the podcast. You can reach us at
0:44.2	contact at being well podcast.com. The best way to do it is actually by signing up for
0:49.2	our Patreon that's Patreon.com slash being well podcast. One of the reasons that I liked the questions that we got today is because they grouped
0:57.2	in these really nice and tidy ways into two different categories.
1:01.6	First we have a couple of questions having to do with working
1:04.7	inside of the mind, including dealing with our thoughts and feelings. And then the
1:09.2	second group of questions was more focused on our relationships of different kind with different people, but particularly with family members and inside of romantic relationships.
1:19.0	And there was just one other kind of wild card question about therapy that I thought was pretty interesting.
1:23.2	So let's get into it. Here's our first question.
1:26.0	I've been practicing mindfulness and the other tools you teach on the podcast and I can
1:30.8	apply them in most situations and in general they've been really helpful.
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