How to Live in an Anxious World: Uncertainty, Agency, and Resilience

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

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

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this timely episode, Dr. Rick and Forrest tackle the anxiety and uncertainty so many are feeling about the state of today’s world. They discuss why everything feels so overwhelming right now, share practical ways to manage those emotions, and explore how we can stay grounded, take ownership of what we can control, and maintain a sense of connection with others. Topics include managing uncertainty, wise skepticism, developing agency, accepting impermanence, and understanding grief as a deep form of love and connection. Whether you're feeling anxious about global events or just navigating daily life, this episode offers practical advice for building resilience. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:55: Why do things feel so terrifying? 11:45: A typical response to the state of the world 17:40: Recognizing how much uncertainty there is 25:35: Feeling grounded in your personal integrity 32:30: Taking ownership of what you are able to contribute 39:00: Our felt sense of connection with others 44:20: Accepting impermanence 49:00: Grief as a form of love and connection 54:15: 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. Transform your health with the ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen. If you're new to the
0:10.7	podcast, thanks for listening today. And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:15.3	The single most common email that we've been receiving recently
0:18.5	has been some version of, I am really concerned
0:21.6	about everything that's going on out in the world right now.
0:25.6	And then the person proceeds to list all kinds of different things, some of which we might end
0:29.7	up talking about a little bit during this episode.
0:32.2	Everything feels just so scary and so intense and there is definitely
0:37.0	a lot out there to feel unsure and anxious about. I've been thinking a lot recently about the phrase, supposedly the curse, may you live in interesting times.
0:46.4	And today we're going to be talking about how to relate to all of that and hopefully become a little bit more resilient, a little bit more
0:54.0	grounded, a little bit more confident about what we're actually going to do about any of
0:57.6	this stuff and to help us learn how to do that I'm joined as usual by clinical
1:01.3	psychologist Dr Rick Hansen.
1:02.8	So dad, how are you doing today?
1:04.2	I'm good and I could not be more psyched,
1:08.1	pumped about this topic.
1:10.3	Yeah, this one could end up being a little bit different for us. I just want to kind of prepare people for that before we get into it.
1:16.0	And also to state the obvious, we are not a politics podcast.
1:19.0	We are not a what's going on in society podcast. That is just not what we do. We're a mental health
1:25.0	podcast so our lens is mental health. I do think that a major mental health issue
1:30.0	for people these days is what's going on collectively as they say the personal is political
1:35.1	the political is personal these worlds are very much wrapped up in each other but I think
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