Hello and welcome to the Being Well Podcast, my name is Forrest Hansen.

Today's episode is closely tied to the theme of meeting our needs that we explored last week.

We all have three fundamental needs for safety, satisfaction, and connection.

Life challenges those needs all the time, and much of being resilient is learning how to deal with those challenges and meet our needs in healthy rather than unhealthy ways.

So that's essentially what we're going to be exploring today.

What can we do when one of those needs is challenged?

How can we respond to those challenges effectively rather than reacting to them instinctively?

So to help us do that, I'm joined today as always by Dr. Rick Hansen.

Dad, how are you doing?

I'm really good.

So you have in your work this distinction between responding and reacting.

What do you mean by those two words and what's the difference between them?

Yeah, the question is when we're faced with a challenge to let's say our safety

Somebody's threatening to us or let's say we're faced with a challenge to satisfaction. Maybe there's been something

frustrating or that's been blocking us from meeting our goals. Or maybe we're faced with a challenge for

a connection.

Let's say another person has been snippy or snarky or dismissive.

Sure.

Then what?

And that's the key question.

Mother Nature has essentially endowed us with two fundamentally different ways of

handling these kind of challenges to our needs. In the first way, which is kind of

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