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Being Well Podcast: People Pleasing and the Fawn Response with Meg Josephson

[ad_1] In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and therapist Meg Josephson explore the fawn response, a survival strategy where safety is sought through people pleasing. They discuss how fawning can start as self-protection in childhood, but later morph into overthinking, hypervigilance, and self-abandonment. Meg shares her own experience, including how fawning creates […]

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Build Your Summer Reading List

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Taking Personal Responsibility (11 ways to improve to control your own life)

[ad_1] Do you take personal responsibility for your actions? Do you sometimes wonder what that actually means β€” and whether or not you’re doing enough? Taking personal responsibility has to do with your actions, words, and choices and how they affect you and others. Accepting responsibility is essential to anyone who acknowledges and seeks to […]

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Being Well Podcast: Psychoanalysis: Therapy’s Controversial Origins

[ad_1] In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the ideas, context, and legacy of psychoanalysis, the often-controversial origin point for modern therapy. They discuss psychoanalysis’ early history and key concepts like the unconscious mind, repression, inner conflict, and transference. Alongside those major contributions, they wrestle with what hasn’t aged […]

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Lived By Love – Rick Hanson, PhD

[ad_1] What’s carrying you? The Practice: Lived by love. Why? Feeling both the world and myself these days, one phrase keeps calling: lived by love. Explicitly, this means coming from love in a broad sense, from compassion, good intentions, self-control, warmth, finding what’s to like, caring, connecting, and kindness. Implicitly, and more fundamentally, this practice […]

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Being Well Podcast: Reclaiming Anger: Trauma, Repression, and Healthy Protest with Elizabeth Ferreira

[ad_1] In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and associate therapist Elizabeth Ferreira talk about healthy (and unhealthy) anger. They challenge the common framing of anger as a β€œsecondary emotion,” and explore why anger matters, how it relates to trauma, and what it can tell us about our wants and needs. They discuss […]

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