Being Well with Forrest Hanson
Host of the Being Well Podcast (20M+ downloads), co-author of the bestseller Resilient. Irregular posts about psychology, mental health, and personal growth.
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Shame blocks the thing that would help with shame. Now what? (opens the original)
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I remember Peter Levine telling me on an old episode of Being Well that shame is the “800-lb gorilla in the therapy office.” Shame is one of the most difficult emotions both to experience and to work with. Everyone experiences shame, it feels awful, it hides behind other emotions like anger or anxiety, and it’s sticky.Shame probabl
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: What the Critics Get Right (and Wrong) (opens the original)
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We've been making Being Well for eight years, and somehow we’ve never done a focused episode on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT is the most researched and recommended form of therapy in the world. And if you’ve spent much time in online mental health spaces, you’re probably already aware that CBT is also the most criticized and (seemingly) hated form of therapy in the world.Success often attracts criticism; sometimes it seems like we put things on pedestals just so we’ll have the pleasur
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