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It’s easy to slide into a life we never consciously chose. Either path can be okay, but it helps to pause and ask whether this is truly how you want to live.
From the August 10th episode of @beingwellpodcast, What’s The Problem With Therapy Speak? August Mailbag.
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It’s easy to slide into a life we never consciously chose. Either path can be okay, but it helps to pause and ask whether this is truly how you want to live.
From the August 10th episode of @beingwellpodcast, What’s The Problem With Therapy Speak? August Mailbag.
I'm not a clinician, and what I say on this channel should not be taken as medical advice.
Subscribe to Being Well on:
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/being-well-with-dr-rick-hanson/id1120885936
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5d87ZU1XY0fpdYNSEwXLVQ
Who Am I: I'm Forrest, the co-author of Resilient (amzn.to/3iXLerD) and host of the Being Well Podcast (apple.co/38ufGG0). I'm making videos focused on simplifying psychology, mental health, and personal growth.
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![How to Feel Your Feelings: Why Self-Awareness Isnt Enough | Simone Saunders, Being Well
We’ve all been told to “feel our feelings,” but what does that actually mean, and how do you do it? I talk with trauma therapist @Simonecsaunders about how to go from knowing your patterns to being able to do something about them, particularly when things get intense.
Key Topics:
0:00 Intro: overthinking, cognitive bypassing, and intellectualizing
5:08 What it means to “be in the body”
10:13 Bottom-up approaches and trauma
19:00 How to recognize disconnection and functional freeze
27:47 [Sponsor] Rocket Money
29:01 Moving out of a dictatorship and into a partnership with your body
35:15 How to actually feel your feelings
46:53 The difference between emotions and feelings
52:36 Meeting your needs
56:44 [Sponsor] MasterClass
58:02 The limits of self-understanding, frameworks, and tools
1:00:30 Moving into experiments, titration, and when you feel too much or not enough
1:17:50 Recap
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Who Am I: Im Forrest, the co-author of Resilient (https://amzn.to/3iXLerD) and host of the Being Well Podcast (https://apple.co/38ufGG0). Im making videos focused on simplifying psychology, mental health, and personal growth.
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