Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Many of us try to think our way out of pain, but healing requires slowing down and (safely) feeling what we’ve avoided. In the December 16th, 2024 episode of Being Well, somatic therapist Elizabeth Ferreira explains how trauma fragments us and why reconnecting with those parts starts with creating space for felt experiences.
Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=4gZLaTCLE6o&feature=youtu.be
Many of us try to think our way out of pain, but healing requires slowing down and (safely) feeling what we’ve avoided. In the December 16th, 2024 episode of Being Well, somatic therapist Elizabeth Ferreira explains how trauma fragments us and why reconnecting with those parts starts with creating space for felt experiences.
Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=4gZLaTCLE6o&feature=youtu.be
![Breaking the Habit of Overthinking: Rumination and the Insight Trap | Being Well
Why does knowing we overthink not help us stop? @RickHanson and I discuss why rumination becomes a self-reinforcing habit, and why insight alone rarely helps. We distinguish between rumination and reflection, and talk about how balancing acceptance and agency can help us go from one to the other. I talk about the relationship between overthinking and feelings of disappointment and failure, and Rick shares practical ways to interrupt the cycle, shift into more concrete forms of problem-solving, and finally stop ruminating.
If rumination is a persistent issue for you, check out Rick’s five-week online course focused on practical tools for letting go of these negative thought loops. Learn more at https://RickHanson.com/ruminating, and use coupon code BeingWell25 to receive a 25% discount.
Previous episodes on rumination and overthinking:
Breaking the Self-Awareness Trap: How to Stop Overthinking: https://youtu.be/ksKIJu7kcYw
Rumination: How to Disrupt Obsessive Thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2tnf8q7GMk
Key Topics:
0:00 Intro: what is rumination
5:35 Why we ruminate
21:06 Why rumination doesnt help us
25:24 Moving from rumination to reflection
29:56 [Sponsor] Shopify
31:35 Rumination as a habit
38:40 Interrupting the rumination habit
46:44 Radical helplessness and radical resourcefulness
53:43 More ways to move from abstract to concrete thinking
1:07:23 The role of mindfulness
1:13:32 Recap
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Im not a clinician, and what I say on this channel should not be taken as medical advice.
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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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![How to Break Old Patterns: Avoidance Coping and the Expectation Gap | Being Well
We all have patterns we can see clearly…and still cant seem to stop. @RickHanson and I explore how avoidance fuels these patterns, and how we can break the avoidance loop by updating our expectations and predictions about the future.
This is the first of two episodes dedicated to this topic, the second will focus on how to brave our feared experiences and go from insight to action.
Key Topics:
0:00 Intro: avoidance coping and mental predictions
7:56 Five types of avoidance behaviors
17:35 The invisible cage
24:52 Predictive processing
30:56 Identity and high confidence predictions
35:45 How avoidance can perpetuate painful experiences
41:16 [Sponsor] Zocdoc
42:46 Exposure and the Inhibitory Learning Model
54:55 Answering common questions
59:08 Recap
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Im not a clinician, and what I say on this channel should not be taken as medical advice.
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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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