Forrest and Rick sit down with Dr. Susan David, the creator of the concept of Emotional Agility. Emotional agility is what allows us to navigate our complex emotions, make choices aligned with our values, and ultimately lead more authentic and fulfilling lives.
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The only constant in life is change. Moments come and go, people enter and leave our lives, and we ourselves grow, change, and eventually pass away. While this is an obvious fact of life, we usually let it blend into the background, and coming face-to-face with it can fill us with understandable feelings of anxiety, uncertainty, and even dread.
In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and Dr. Rick explore impermanence anxiety: the fears we have related to change. They discuss “macro” and “micro” impermanence, terror management theory, the courage to care, fully embracing life, what tends to help people come to peace with impermanence, and how we can become more resilient in the face of change. Rick closes the episode by explaining how we can come more fully into the present moment, and see reality for what it truly is.
I loved recording this episode, and hope you find it helpful.
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Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
1:20: Macro-impermanence and micro-impermanence
9:25: Terror management theory
14:50: Fully embracing your reality
26:25: Purpose, meaning, agency and acceptance
32:40: Why change is scary, and recognizing our own fragility
38:10: Repression, avoidance, and sublimation
47:05: A walkthrough of the stages of insight
54:30: Framing yourself in the broader reality, and letting go of painful things
57:40: Recap
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