Depression and Self-Care, Accepting Love, and Building Stronger Relationships: July Mailbag

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Rick and Forrest open the mailbag and answer questions focused on strengthening our relationships. They explore how we can support friends and loved ones who are experiencing depression while also caring for ourselves, managing different levels of capacity within a relationship, maintaining self-worth and trust in the context of body image insecurities, and navigating the often tricky dynamics of a partner’s relationship with their ex. The episode closes with Rick and Forrest sharing how they’ve handled repair in their parent/child relationship, and what we can do to manage anxieties about the future. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:40: Establishing boundaries with a loved one who is depressed 11:00: Managing different levels of capacity in a relationship 16:45: Body image insecurity, and trusting that others love us 31:45: How do I navigate my partner's relationship with their ex? 42:15: I’m nervous that as my child ages they’ll blame me for my parenting. What can I do? 1:02:15: Recap I am now writing on Substack, check out my work there. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/beingwell. 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. OneSkin focuses on delivering more than superficial results for your skin. Get started today with 15% off using code BEINGWELL at oneskin.co. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! 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

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	welcome to being well, I'm Forrest Tanssen.
0:10.0	If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening today,
0:12.0	and if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:14.4	I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen, so dad, how are you doing today?
0:18.4	I'm good and as usual, psyched about going through our mailbag.
0:23.0	So today we're going to be answering questions from our listeners who are popping open the mailbag once again.
0:28.0	It's always great to do this. We get really tremendous questions from people.
0:32.0	And if you would like to ask a question to be answered on the
0:34.2	podcast, you can do it either in the comments down below if you're watching on YouTube or you can join our
0:39.2	Patreon, Patreon. So let's get right into it here, Dad. I think that most of these questions today
0:54.4	orbited the theme of relationships, which is just a major feature of your work, both as a
0:59.6	author and content creator yourself and as a long time family therapist were a big chunk of your work was with couples and families.
1:08.1	So navigating some of these issues was certainly very relevant for you.
1:12.4	One thing I love about the mailbag is that it's about specific issues, specific problems,
1:19.0	and I just think about how science moves forward through in effect dealing with individual cases.
1:27.0	Medicine, it often starts with a single case, right?
1:30.5	Common law, you start with a single case, like a two neighbors arguing over a fence and you build it from there.
1:36.0	So I just love this.
1:37.0	I love getting at things in a very down-to-earth concrete way.
1:40.0	All right, so let's get started with our first question today.
1:44.0	My partner is currently undergoing treatment for major depression.
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