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Science can change your life. The more we study what makes people develop, grow, learn, and flourishâthe more we see how the practical application of scientific findings can help us transform our life and experienceâinto a life of value, meaning, purpose and true thriving.
Yale psychologist Laurie Santos has spent her career investigating the human brain and how it thrives. From her popular Yale course to her podcast, The Happiness Lab, sheâs communicating actionable and hopeful lessons for how to build lasting habits, cultivate self-compassion, manage complex emotions, and realign our lives toward meaningful happiness.
In this conversation with Dr. Laurie Santos, we discuss:
How the mental health crisis affecting young people changed her, and how she teaches psychologyHow our brains lie to usThe role of positive and negative emotions in a good lifeHow feeling good can lead to doing goodThe psychological and relational benefits of faith and spiritualityAnd she offers practical insights, science-backed guidance, and powerful exercises for managing misalignment and difficult emotions.Laurie Santos on how to activate psychological science for more happiness and meaning (from the episode):
âSome of these factors that we know scientifically do work. From simple behavior changes like being more social, doing nice things for others, just healthy habits âlike sleeping and moving your body, âto mindset shifts, to becoming a little bit more present, to becoming more other oriented, to becoming more grateful, more self-compassionate, and so on.
There are shifts that we can make that can have a huge effect on how we actually interact in the world.
We need to understand that we're not perfect, we're just human. And we will mess up a little bit too. But it's really the journey that ââmatters.â
About Laurie Santos
Dr. Laurie Santos is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcast. Dr. Santos is an expert on the science of happiness. Her Yale course, Psychology and the Good Life, teaches students how the science of psychology can provide important hints about how to make wiser choices and live a life thatâs happier and more fulfilling. Her course recently became Yaleâs most popular course in over 300 years, with almost one of our four students at Yale enrolled. Her course has been featured in numerous news outlets including the New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, GQ Magazine, Slate and O! Magazine. A winner of numerous awards both for her science and teaching, she was recently voted as one of Popular Science Magazineâs âBrilliant 10â young minds, and was named in Time Magazine as a âLeading Campus Celebrity.â Her podcast, The Happiness Lab, has over 100 million downloads.
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Show Notes
How Laurie got up close with the mental health crisis affecting young peopleSelf-careThe history of The Happiness Course at Yale UniversityThe impact of COVID-19âThings have gotten worse.âStatistics: More than 40% of college students report they are too depressed to functionAnxieties provoked by technology (Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge)Stress levels across the developmental lifespanHow our brains lie to usBehavioral changes and healthy habitsMindset shifts and dispositional transformationsThe importance of science for validating spiritual beliefs, values, and practicesSometimes spiritual traditions get some things right, but can also be wrong, and need empirical studyManifestationImagining the positive outcome isnât as good as planning out the if-then strategy.âThe science can help us with the nuance so we can really get things right.âLaurie Santos defines happinessPsychological approach to happiness: âsubjective well-beingâPositive vs Negative Emotions and the role they play in a good lifeWhy is happiness helpful to us? Is happiness really the goal?The âfeel-good, do-good effectâAny cause-based activism requiresLaurie Santos answers: What is thriving?Mindset and behavioral changeNon-judgmental responseSelf-compassion and curiosityâItâs really the journey that matters.âHelping othersBurnout and Self-careStressors that lead to burnoutThe impact of rest on productivityReligion and Happiness: Are religious people happier than non-religious?Social connectionGrowing up CatholicComparing Beliefs vs Behaviors and MindsetsItâs less about religious beliefs and more about religious practicesCommunal PracticesTranscendent EmotionsOversimplifying transcendent emotionsAwe and Wonder often come along with a disturbance, such as feeling very small, feeling out of control, feeling disoriented, feeling overwhelmed, etc.Dacher Keltnerâs tourist studies âDraw yourself in your sceneâFeeling tinier, and yet more connectedâIâm part of everything, but I am nothing. How do I deal with that?âEvolution and the human mindWhat is our brain for? Itâs for survival. Itâs not for feeling great.Negativity BiasKent Barrage: Neuroscience of Hedonic PleasureLiking vs WantingDrugs of AbuseâIf there was one thing I could change about the brain it would be âŠâPsychedelic drugs such as psilocybinDavid Yaden (Johns Hopkins) on psychedelic drugsWe can change (and a lot of people are shocked by that)Canât change vs. Changing circumstancesSonya LibermurskyâYes, you can change, not by changing circumstances, but by changing your habits.âNetflix and a glass of wine? Or something healthier?Introducing new habits over timeMeditation Practice: Cultivating Presence When Things are Feeling BadâNauseously OptimisticâTara Brach and Radical AcceptanceR.A.I.N. (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture)Fundamental needsNatural selection and cravingsCraving doomscrolling on Reddit*Thriving with Stone Age Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, Christian Faith, and the Quest for Human Flourishing* (Justin Barrett and Pam King)Self-flagellation, frustration, and criticizing ourselvesKristin Neff on Self-CompassionSelf-Compassion: Mindfulness, Common Humanity, and Self-KindnessHow to talk to yourselfSelf-compassion is helpful for cultivating new habitsPractice: Self-Compassionate TouchâThe beauty of self-touch is that your brain is stupid. It doesnât know whoâs touching you.âTaking stock and paying attention to our own emotional dashboardsNew Yearâs Advice: A moment of fresh starts and new beginningsAbout the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Christmas is about the love of God given to us in Christ. Love compels us forward through darkness and lightâenabling us to grow and change, connect and relate, forgive and let go, and make a difference and seek justice.
This December, weâre celebrating Advent with you by offering four guided meditations by Dr. Pam Kingâconsidering how to cultivate the Advent virtues of hope, peace, joy, and love into our lives this year.
Weâd be grateful if you considered the Thrive Center in your year-end giving. To make a year-end tax-deductible gift, visit thethrivecenter.org/contribute.
Don't forget that Season 2 of With & For launches with all new episodes on January 6, 2025!
Show Notes
Jesus said, "As I have loved you, you must love one another.ââLove compels us forward through darkness and light, with its power to connect and heal.âLove for God, love for others, and love for yourselfYou are beloved.Breathing practiceAttuning to sensations of love in your bodyWhat are these feelings of love saying about you, your values, your beliefs?What does love say about your deepest beliefs about what matters most in life?Who needs love from you today?How do you live out love in the world?What is one thing you can do to lean into love or to live out love?About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Joy is more than a feeling. Itâs a virtue. And itâs something we can cultivate. We live into joy when we encounter who or what matters most to us. Itâs associated with our life's deepest yearnings and connection.
This December, weâre celebrating Advent with you by offering four guided meditations by Dr. Pam Kingâconsidering how to cultivate the Advent virtues of hope, peace, joy, and love into our lives this year.
Weâd be grateful if you considered the Thrive Center in your year-end giving. To make a year-end tax-deductible gift, visit thethrivecenter.org/contribute.
Don't forget that Season 2 of With & For launches with all new episodes on January 6, 2025!
Show Notes
The Shepherdâs Candleâsymbolizing joyJoy is more than a feeling. Itâs a virtue.Cultivating joy through encountering who and what matters most to usBreathing practiceLoving and joyful presence of GodHow are you experiencing joy in your body?Joyâs insight into our values, opening us up to creativity and connectionDoes pursuing joy require you to step out of your normal routine?What can you do to bring joy to another?About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Peace can be elusive, but if set an intention to be instruments of peaceâboth in offering it and experiencing itâit has the power to transform us. Peace is often an indication that life is in balance and going well, either in the immediate or the eternal sense.
This December, weâre celebrating Advent with you by offering four guided meditations by Dr. Pam Kingâconsidering how to cultivate the Advent virtues of hope, peace, joy, and love into our lives this year.
Weâd be grateful if you considered the Thrive Center in your year-end giving. To make a year-end tax-deductible gift, visit thethrivecenter.org/contribute.
Don't forget that Season 2 of With & For launches with all new episodes on January 6, 2025!
Show Notes
âPeace can be elusive.âPeace is more than a feelingâitâs an indication that âall is well.âConsider the Prince of Peace, who comes to dwell with us this ChristmasBreathing practiceWhat brings you peace?Where do you feel peace in your body?What has been preventing peace for you?âPeace is often an indication that life is in balance, and that life is going well, either in the immediate or the eternal sense.âSetting an intention to pursue peaceâPeace I give you.ââMay the peace of God be with you and pervade your life this week as you anticipate the coming of the Prince of Peace this Christmas.âAbout the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Hope is powerful. Itâs more than a feeling. Itâs a foundation for getting us through even the darkest of times. The season of Advent provides the opportunity to attune to hope, become aware of our deepest hopes and desires, and then align our lives to hope.
This December, weâre celebrating Advent with you by offering four guided meditations by Dr. Pam Kingâconsidering how to cultivate the Advent virtues of hope, peace, joy, and love into our lives this year.
Weâd be grateful if you considered the Thrive Center in your year-end giving. To make a year-end tax-deductible gift, visit thethrivecenter.org/contribute.
Don't forget that Season 2 of With & For launches with all new episodes on January 6, 2025!
Show Notes
âHope has the power to transform and involves our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.âTake hold of hope with simple steps of attunement, awareness, alignment, and activationBreath workAttune, in order to feel sensations of hope in your body.How are you experiencing or feeling hope in your body?Notice, donât judge.What do the feelings of hope say about your deepest desires?Where does your hope come from?How can you align your day with your hope?How can you align with hope to reflect God's desires for you?What is one thing you can do today to lean forward into hope?About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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SEASON 2 is launching January 6, 2025! Subscribe to With & For today!
How can we reconnect, repair, and rebuild our fractured world?
We need grounded scientific insight that we connect us with what is good, true, and beautiful. We need wider perspective that guides us toward purpose, community, wisdom, and spiritual health.
Developmental psychologist, ordained minister, and professor, Dr. Pam King introduces Season 2 of With & For, which launches on January 6, 2025. Inviting guests with expertise in psychology, spirituality, and leadership, this new season will tackle practical questions with courage, openness, and hopeâfocusing on insights, stories, and exercises for how to reconnect, repair, and rebuild our fractured world. How to find psychological, emotional, and spiritual health, and how to find one another in love.
This season, episode topics include:
The power of positive emotions like awe, wonder, curiosity, and transcendence, along with other research backed practices that encourage them.
The dangers of spiritual and religious abuse, the psychological impact of childhood relational trauma, and how to heal from the wounds of the past.
The neuroscience behind our emotional health, its impact on how we develop, learn, grow, and make meaning.
The science behind core human relationships, the emotional vulnerability and power dynamics of intimate romantic relationships, as well as the challenge of parenting and being parented.
Why and how our moral lives and cultivating virtues are fundamental to joy and thriving.
The legacies of racial justice and consider the spiritual and moral underpinnings of nonviolent resistance. The healing properties of art, creativity, and beauty, and how they offer comfort and strength beyond words.
And much more.
Subscribe to With & For wherever you listen to podcasts and visit us online at thethrivecenter.org/podcast.
About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Dr. Pam King joins longtime friend, entrepreneur, and inspiring podcast host Nada Jones on for a conversation on thriving and self-discovery in mid-life. Nada Jones is the founder and CEO of Liberty Road, a podcast and organization for entrepreneurial women focused on growth, wisdom, sharing stories, and finding purpose. She has a regular podcast where women in the middle third of their lives share their journeys of self-discovery.
Together they discuss Pamâs approach to thriving as a developmental psychologist; the adventure of women entering and exploring the middle third of their lives; Pamâs definition of thriving; and what might get in the way of thriving during this challenging period of life.
Pam shares resources from psychology and spirituality that can provide for people to grow and support others, describing three pillars for a thriving life: individual, relational, and aspirational.
Show Notes
About Liberty Road podcast and organizationâPursuing your future doesn't end at 40. In fact, it may mark the beginning of knowing who you are, what you're capable of, and what you really want.âWhat is the Thrive Center?The intersection of psychological science and spiritual wisdomâThe irony of the term of mental health is that it's actually defined by mental illness, or pathology, or depression, or anxiety.âWhat can go right with people?Explicit interest in spirituality: âThereâs gotta be something more.ââA historical rift between religiously or spiritual things and psychological science.âResearch-backed spiritualityâA thriving life is a life on-purpose.ââItâs not just the journey, itâs the direction.âThriving at the intersection of three pillars of life: individual, relational, and aspirational.âIn the deepest part of my being, I really want to enable people to thrive in a very holistic way. And live more fully into who they are. Living more authentically, living with deeper connection and, and with deeper purpose.âNot just another self-help platformâHow do you help us understand purpose or thriving when maybe we haven't put ourselves first?âBalance and moving through extremesLife is fluid and dynamicMiddle age as a period of fluxLooking at opportunities in challengesMotherhood and service for othersFinding joyExamples for each three pillarsStay-at-home mom moving into a new phase of lifeâStart with loving ourselves and giving ourselves grace.ââBring out the best in yourself. Love yourself.âWhat images come to mind as positive memories of competency and strength?Obligations in relationshipsWhat are we actually living out? Is it consistent with our values?Change your environment or change yourself.What is spirituality?âSpirituality is peopleâs perception and experience of transcendence. ⊠But also our response to transcendence.âSpiritual health and psychologyââNot all spirituality is helpful or healthful.ââI think we're living in a spiritually void time.ââHave we deprived ourselves of something in an effort to not deprive ourselves of anything?âPam King on life in the âmiddle thirdâReprioritizing and making professional shiftsWhat keeps you grounded? 10 minutes of silence of meditation.What are you currently reading? Open and Unafraid by W. David Taylor / Strength That Remains, by Tracy KidderWhat is a skincare musthave? SBLA Facial WandWhat has surprised you about the good life? Thereâs more losses than anticipated.What has your work done to liberate you? Reworking and reconsidering purpose; âDiving deep in conversations with people has been liberating and wonderful.âAbout Nada Jones
Nada Jones is the founder and CEO of Liberty Road, a podcast and organization for entrepreneurial women focused on growth, wisdom, sharing stories, and finding purpose. Discover more of her work at www.liberty-road.com.
About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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âHow do I grow as a fully differentiated person in relationship and increasing intimacy, increasing contribution with the world around me?â (Dr. Pam King, from the episode)
Dr. Pam King joins the Yale Center for Faith & Culture podcast, For the Life of the World, for a discussion of human development, purpose, relational intimacy, and spiritual connectionâall through the integration of developmental psychology and theology.
With host Evan Rosa (Yale Center for Faith & Culture), she reflects on human change and plasticity in the midst of a whole complex life; relational attachment for the sake of intimacy and exploration and ultimate purpose or meaning; the proper place of self-love; Godâs enabling and loving presence as the ultimate secure attachment figure; the importance of learning, gaining skills, and the pursuit of expertise; the prospects of regaining emotional regulation through relationships; the game changing impact of deliberate psychological and spiritual practices to move us well beyond surviving to a life of thriving.
Announcement! With & For Season 2 is dropping on January 6, 2025! And until then, every Monday from September to December, weâre sharing some shorter clips, practical features, and other talks or interviews featuring Dr. Pam King, to offer insight into what it means to thrive and pursue spiritual health.
Show Notes
Martin Buberâs I and ThouJohn Bowlby and Attachment TheoryTrolickâs Still Face Experiment (Video)Justin Barrett & Pamela Ebstyne King, Thriving with Stone Age Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, Christian Faith, and the Quest for Human FlourishingDevelopmental psych as the observational study of human change in the midst of a whole life of complexityPlasticity of the human speciesRelational attachment for the sake of intimacy and explorationThe Impact of environment on genetic expressionLaw if reciprocityFullness of creation, redemption and consummationTheology as establishing ends, and psychology as developing towards gods purposesHow psychology aids in the process of becoming our full selves as selfhoodThe proper place of self-loveGodâs enabling and loving presenceThriving as psychological, vs Flourishing as philosophicalMeaningful life in eudaimonic and hedonistic termsImago deiâBack to the futureââunderstanding the end toward the beginningReading psychology through a teleological lensLinear stage theories of developmentLife as a series of cyclesWe can have a telos as a dynamic processThriving as pursuing the fullness of selfReciprocity beyond ourselves when life is hardColossians and Jesus as the perfect image of GodConformity is not uniformityParenting as helping children to become their unique selvesTelos as inhabiting the self, the relational, and the aspirationalâpurpose is found at the intersection of all threeWilliam Damon on purposePurpose as enduring actionable goal, meaningful to the self and contributing beyond the selfLearning, gaining skills, and pursuit of expertiseMeaning making as a dynamic life-long projectOrienting life in the present moment by tethering to a consummate vision of the futureSociality as inherent to human natureGoals: self, expertise acquisition, and what we aspire toRoles: who we are in our social networksSouls: what ideals are most dearly held and most meaningfulThe fundamental rejection of pre autonomy and independence; embrace of our relational selvesHow malleable our brains are through intentional practicesMaking meaning can change your brainsSurviving vs thrivingAttachment and regulationRegaining emotional regulation through relationshipsThe game changing impact of deliberate psychological and spiritual practicesâintention, motivation, and goalsPossible cutoff point â The relation of psychological science and theologyPsychology as a God-given tool to enable thriving and flourishingKnown, loved, and loving othersThe role of suffering and loss as part of the thriving processFor the cynical and jaded: thriving that is real to loss, grief, vulnerability, and daring to thriveProduction Notes
This podcast featured Pamela Ebstyne KingEdited and Produced by Evan RosaHosted by Evan RosaProduction Assistance by Macie Bridge and Kaylen YunA Production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School https://faith.yale.edu/aboutSupport For the Life of the World podcast by giving to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/giveâThis episode was made possible in part by the generous support of Blueprint 1543. For more information, visit Blueprint1543.org.About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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If we want to bear good fruit in our lives, we must have strong roots. Good fruit must lead to love. As the Rev. Dr. Pam King offers in this episode, âRoot into love so that you can live out love.â
Speaking on Jesusâs parable of the Tree and Its Fruits in Luke 6, she draws on theological and psychological resources to reflect on the role of active and intentional love in a thriving life.
Luke 6:43-45: âNo good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes bramble bush. The good person, out of the good treasure of the heart, produces good. And the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil, for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.â
Show Notes
Luke 6:43-45: âNo good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes bramble bush. The good person, out of the good treasure of the heart, produces good. And the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil, for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.ââI believe this scripture ⊠redefines reality and redefines fruit.âTrue love in *The Princess Bride â âWuv. Twoo Wuv.ââTrue love is the greatest thing in the world.ââRoot into love so that you can live out love.âWhat is thriving? What New Testament parables of Jesus express thriving?Redefining âGoodâWhat is good?âGoodâ is a four-letter wordThereâs always a right answer in Sunday School: âJesusâDefining the Relationship? Or Define the Reality?A reordering of valuesâ⊠a radical reordering of values and a re sanctification of sanctioned behaviors. He describes the kind of conduct that is appropriate for this kingdom that he will be leading. It is love your enemies, do good out of love. Give generously out of love. Lend without expectation. Love your neighbor.âFruit is a symbol of loveMiroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, âThe Home of Godââwhat is to come is coming now. âInbreakingâFlux in congregational or community lifeThe Reciprocating SelfConformity is not synonymous with uniformityâWe are each invited to bear fruit out of our own giftedness.ââBear fruit as yourself.ââPam, youâre a good Pam.ââWe bear fruit by living out God's love. in this world as ourselves.âTree imagery in the BibleâA tree firmly planted, or some versions rooted, by streams of water, that does not get blown when the winds come by.âWhat kind of tree are you?How do you root into Godâs love?Eli Finkel and third-person perspective takingâWhen people take a benevolent third person view in the Christian worldview, God's perspective, and they actually write those things about a person, the conflict is still there, but they're able to interact and care for that person more effectively and see that person more wholly.ââ80 percent of Americans young people are lonely. We are in a cultural mode of despair in many ways. We are losing our relational capacity.âAbout the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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âHow did it go?â As we pursue purpose and spiritual health, we need regular opportunities to take stock and understand how our efforts are making an impact in our lives and in the lives of others.
In the process of pursuing purpose, cultivating joy, and connecting more deeply to ourselves, we need to learn how to audit and assess how its going as we live out our spirituality and refine our values.
In this episode, Dr. Pam King explains assessmentâthe final (and absolutely essential) step in the process of cultivating agility and adaptivity for spiritual health. At this stage, we take stock, adapt, and flex, ready to start fresh and begin anew each day.
Show Notes
Audit and assessTake stock, adapt, and flex, ready to start fresh and begin anew each day.Consider cycles and frequencies of assessmentThe Ignatian Prayer of ExamenBecoming aware of where God is most fully active in our livesSlow down, connect with God, and take a different perspectiveWhat are we made and created to do?What is our purpose as full human selves?The importance of patience and pausingAccountabilityUtilize emotions as signpostsDrawing on the first step of attunementHow to facilitate the final step of the cycle and move toward beginning againAbout the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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âActivate your skills, gifts, and passions for the benefit of others.â
Activation is the practical step in the cycle of 5 Aâs for Agility in Spiritual Healthâwhere we implement a practice or exercise, make a move toward our values, or experiment with something to help us grow.
In this episode, Dr. Pam King walks through the fourth step of the 5 Aâs: Activate. This step in the cycle draws from each previous step, going from non-judgmental observation, internally connecting to our values, and then puts our values into action for the sake of living out our purpose.
Show Notes
Implement a practice or exercise, make a move toward our values, or experiment with something to help us grow.âWhat is one thing I can do today to more clearly align my life to those values and those sources of joy and mattering âthat I thought about when I was considering alignment.âAn attitude of discoveryEnacting intentional behavior; bringing our values into real lifeâActivate your skills, gifts, and passions for the benefit of others.âActivating your purposeWhat will get us one step closer to our purpose?Stay mindful of the feelings we attuned to in the first step of the 5 Aâs.Positive, expansive feelingsSmall microsteps forwardMoving toward what matters mostAbout the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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âWhen our life is aligned to what truly matters, that is when we experience the most enduring joy.â
In this episode, Dr. Pam King explains the 3rd step in the 5 Aâs of Agility for Spiritual Health. Alignment is the process of becoming more reflective, drawing connections between our thoughts and emotionsâand our beliefs, values, habits, and the experiences that shape us.
This is the step where we look for our intentions and expectations and hold them up to our raw experiences and the possible meanings associated with them. We begin by identifying what's true or what's false in our feelings and thoughts so we can more clearly move toward our purposes.
ANNOUNCEMENT: With & For Season 2 launches on January 6, 2025!
Show Notes
âAlignment involves aligning the insights that you gained from taking inventory and attuning to your feelings and becoming aware of their meanings of then aligning these feelings to your ideals, your values, and what you assume matters.âWhat matters to you?Taking stock of what we attuned to, and what we became aware ofHow do we align what is with what we want?How to practice alignmentHow do you spend your time?Reflecting regularly on life goalsâWhen our life is aligned to what truly matters, that is when we experience the most enduring joy.âResilience and stabilityAbout the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Itâs not easy to reflect on our emotions without judging them or running away from them. Itâs difficult to stay with challenging or frightening feelings and thoughts. But to cultivate awareness means taking an open, curious, and non-judgmental approach to observing our minds.
More than simple or immediate observation (like Attunement), awareness asks us to get curious and reflect on our feelings, emotions, thoughts, and the landscape of experience we discovered in step one of attunement. What emotions are coming up for us? What thoughts keep coming into our consciousness?
In this second step of the 5 Aâs of Agility for Spiritual Health, Pam King explains how we can become more emotionally aware and open-minded about our psychological reality. The key to observing our thoughts and feelings is to simply look, and not judge yourself. Let the emotions come and go, and learn from they provide information to us.
ANNOUNCEMENT: With & For Season 2 launches on January 6, 2025!
Show Notes
Jill Westbrook introduces the episodeFor the most enriching and helpful listening experience, make sure to start with the beginning of this series!More than immediate observation: we must reflect non-judgmentallyJust observe, donât judge yourself.Examining the meaning of our feelings, thoughts, and sensationsAttach reflective thoughts to our embodied and psychological experienceJournaling is a powerful exercise to connect kinetically with emotional realities.Narration and storytelling helps with processing non-judgmentally.Cultivating curiosity and open-mindednessâSo be curious, welcome the dust, welcome the muck, âhold it, consider what it means and what it's pointing you towards.ââAvenues for growth. Avenues for loving yourself.âUncover the values that fuel our life.Understanding anger, sadness, disappointment, joy, delightâall as emotional signposts to meaning and purposeEmotions that direct us to what matters.Practical Example: AngerPractical Example: Sorrow or SadnessâLinger, but donât loiter.ââYouâre not in this alone.âAbout the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Whatâs happening right now? What do you feel? What physical sensations are present from head to toe?
The first step in practicing the 5 Aâs of Spiritual Health is Attunementâa simple, direct process of connecting to reality, perceiving your experience of the present moment, and paying attention to our physical sensations. Itâs as simple as a clear-eyed consciousness: listening, feeling, acknowledging, being aware of basic sensations.
In this episode, Dr. Pam King explains attunement and the foundation it lays for cultivating greater agility and adaptivity. She oconsiders theological and psychological grounding for the benefits of attunement, and offers practical techniques, including a body scan and breath exercises.
ANNOUNCEMENT: With & For Season 2 launches on January 6, 2025!
Show Notes
Jill Westbrook introduces the episodeANNOUNCEMENT: With & For Season 2 launches on January 6, 2025!What is attunement? And how does it support personal agility and adaptivity?Connecting to reality, the present moment, and our physical experience and sensationsClear-eyed consciousnessListening, feeling, acknowledging, noticing sensationsEmbodiment and rooting in the bodyOur bodies are part of the created order.God has given us bodies to know and serve God.Pain and stress, joy or pleasureHow do we attune?How to perform a body scanBreath exercisesWalking as a spiritual practice of attunementBreathingAndrew Hubermanâs breath exercises: âthe physiological sighâ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZKIupBUucAbout the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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How can we cultivate agility and adaptivity in our chaotic, shifting times? Dr. Pam King offers a research-backed cycle of practices to incorporate into the rhythms of your daily lifeâhelping you navigate change and work through lifeâs obstacles. She calls them the 5 Aâs of Spiritual Health: Attunement, Awareness, Alignment, Activation, and Assessment.
In this episode, she introduces the 5 Aâs, explaining the context, process, and benefits. She comments on the contemplative practices and psychological science that support this cycle of habits and offers reflections on why these simple movements can be so transformative.
ANNOUNCEMENT: With & For Season 2 launches on January 6, 2025!
Show Notes
With & For Producer Jill Westbrook introduces the episodeâWhy do we need to develop agility as a practice?âDeveloping agility and adaptivityWhat the 5 Aâs are: âa cycle of practices synthesizing, research on different contemplative practices from different spiritual traditions âŠ. and psychological research around the efficacy or the impact of different types of spiritual practices on human well being and health.âAttuning to our bodies and physiologyWhat sensations might meanEngaging emotions, thoughts, values, actions, and behaviors that lead to a thriving lifeDealing with complexity and unpredictabilityTuning into our sources of meaning and purposeHow to cultivate more spiritual vitality and sense of purposeâAt the center of thriving is adaptive growth.ââWe want to be able to grow in a purposeful direction.ââThriving is living life on purpose.âAgility allows us to balance goals, relationships, and values.AttunementAwarenessAlignmentActivationAssessmentAbout the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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âSpirituality is deeply rooted in love, enables us to receive and experience love from beyond ourselves, and enables us and invigorates us to live out love as ourselves.â
The precarious times we live in fill us with anxiety. The rifts and shifts of culture, politics, and religion are leaving us feeling unmoored, disconnected, and alienated from ourselves and each other.
And a psychologically informed approach to spirituality is the antidote.
In this episode, Dr. Pam King discusses why spirituality is so essential to the human experience, and how it operates as the antidote to the culture of anxiety and despair around us.
She works through the Thrive Centerâs 6 Facets of Spiritual Health (T.H.R.I.V.E).
1. Transcendence & Spirituality
2. Habits & Rhythms
3. Relationships & Community
4. Identity & Narrative
5. Vocation & Purpose
6. Ethics & Virtues
ANNOUNCEMENT! With & For Season 2 launches on Jan 6, 2025!
Show Notes
Learn more about the 6 Facets of Spiritual Health at thethrivecenter.org.
With & For Season 2 launches on Jan 6, 2025!Living in precarious times, which gives us a sense of unrest and dis-easeFeeling âunmooredâ and paralyzed by shifting religious affiliation and beliefsSpirituality is the antidote to the anxiety of this cultural moment.Spiritual health slows us down, and helps us reflect and connect.How Thrive aims to help you move toward and align with healthful and helpful spiritualityWhat is spirituality? A definitionSpirituality as experience and response to transcendenceSpiritual and religious harm and abuseHarm is done at personal and communal levelsâSpirituality is deeply rooted in love, enables us to receive and experience love from beyond ourselves, and enables us and invigorates us to live out love as ourselves.âThriveâs spiritual health framework is a unique, research-backed psychological approach to faith and spirituality that contributes to whole-person thriving by focusing on 6 key areas of human life and experience.Facet 1: Transcendence & SpiritualityâAwareness of and connection to a source of invigorating love offers meaning and inspires purpose. For many this is God, for others it may be a higher power or nature.âPeople experience transcendence in many different waysExamples of transcendence: Prayer, Worship, Nature, Beauty, Contemplation, Reason, and MusicâTranscendence is important because it is invigorating. It's emotional, as well as mind opening.âPoints to meaning and purpose beyond ourselvesPractical Questions for Transcendence & Spirituality: Do you feel cared for and loved by God or a higher power? Do you have practices that connect you to awe or bring you joy and meaning?Facet 2: Habits & RhythmsâHabits and rhythms have to do with healthy spiritual practices and regular rhythms that allow us to slow down, to gain insight, connect to love and energize us into purposeful endeavors.âForming us and changing usPractices to help us regulate, relate, and reflectHow traditional spiritual practices contribute to thriving and well-beingExamples: Sabbath, Celebration, Play, and morePractical Questions for Habits & Rhythms: Do you have regular rhythms of rest or sabbath? Do you have practices that help you regulate your emotions? Do you engage your gody in spiritual practices like breathing, walking meditations, or singing?Facet 3: Relationships & CommunityâConnections provide a space of belonging where we can be fully known to ourselves and others and learn to give and receive love.âWeâre relational beings created to be known and loved.âWhen we are known, seen, and know that we matter, our brains relax and weâre able to grow.âPractical Questions for Relationships & Community: Do you have a spiritual community in which you feel loved and supported? Do you respect people who practice their faith differently from you?Facet 4: Identity & NarrativeâGrowing in clarity about who we are as a beloved, unique, embodied person and how we are related to others and the greater world.âThe stories we tell ourselves and others about who we areâItâs hard to get a clear sense of our identity.ââOur identities are spread so thin, it's hard for us to have a cohesive story about our lives.âWho you areWhose you areWhere your lifeâs goingIs spirituality a journey of finding a static âtrue selfâ?Considering the evolving narrative of our livesEarliest attachmentsMeaning, hope, and directionâa sense of being beloved, with all the beauty and the brokennessPractical Questions for Identity & Narrative: Do you understand your life as part of a bigger story? Do you seek to understand who you are and who you are becoming?Facet 5: Vocation & PurposeâContributing our strengths to the world by living out our response to love.âSpiritual beliefs point us to purposes beyond ourselvesâbigger than ourselves, noble, and life-givingâOur lives are part of a much bigger story than ourselves.âStrengths, who you serve or love, and who youâre becomingFinding purpose in the most mundane or quotidian (daily) practicesPractical Questions for Vocation & Purpose: Do your beliefs motivate a sense of purpose in your life? Do you seek to contribute your gifts and talents to contribute something good to the world?Facet 6: Ethics & VirtuesâOur beliefs about love and how we live out love through values, views of right and wrong, and cultivating virtuous habits.âMoral compasses that point to the true north of virtue, the good, the just, and the rightPractices that enables us to become the good people that we want to beExamples: forgiveness, patience, and compassionPractical Questions for Ethics & Virtues: Does your spirituality/religion guide how you treat others? Do you seek to stand up for what is right even when it is difficult?âHealthy spirituality invites us into practices that cultivate habits that enable us to be virtuous and to be good people in situations that are complex. How does spiritual health enable us to live out love? It's one thing to talk about loveâit sounds good. It's another thing to live it out.âWe all want to thrive, and in the 6 faceted spiritual health framework, we have the tools and resources and practices to enable ourselves and others to become whole.âAs humans weâre in this together. We need to be with and for others.âAbout the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Pam King joins licensed therapist Dan Koch on his podcast, You Have Permission, for a discussion of the six facets of spiritual health.
Announcement! With & For Season 2 is dropping on January 5, 2025! And until then, every Monday from September to December, weâre sharing some shorter clips, practical features, and other talks or interviews featuring Dr. Pam King, to offer insight into what it means to thrive and pursue spiritual health.
Show Notes
With & For Season 2 is dropping on January 5, 2024!Subscribe to Dan Kochâs podcast, You Have Permission and his Patreon at patreon.com/dankochPamâs research interests: positive developmental psychology and theologyHow do psychologists perceive religion, spirituality, and theology?How does spirituality and religion factor in human development?William Damon (Stanford University) on moral development in the wake of the Columbine shootingâMy work has really focused on how do we offer people insight into the psychological benefits available in spirituality and religion at their best.âYouth groupâWhat's the question I could ask that would get her thinking about the potentially harmful theology?âPurity culture at youth groupThe Thrive Centerâs rubric of Six Facets of Spiritual HealthWhat are the six facets of spiritual health?Transcendence and spirituality. Habits and rhythms. Relationships and community. Identity and narrative. Vocation and purpose. Ethics and virtues.âThis model comes from is comes from existing research that highlights potential resources available through religious participation or being a spiritual person that can promote our well being.âHow religion and spirituality buffer against mental illnessPsychological benefits of spiritualityâMechanisms of changeâBenefits mediated through relationships with other peopleâYoung people need relationships.âWhat is the nature of healthy spiritual community?âBut increasingly, with the fragmentation of our society and our very transient and digital affiliations, we don't have the richness and the thick connections that we once did.âPolarization and culture wars and Robert Putnamâs âBowling AloneâTranscendence: âsomething beyond the selfâSpirituality: âexperiencing and responding to transcendenceâHabits and rhythms.Creativity and musicâThe reality is, as humans, we often find freedom with some structure.âAtomic HabitsContemplative neuroscienceFight, flight, freezeBuilt in rhythms of work and restSabbathAncient rhythms and practical wisdom that give us permission to restListen to Pam and Dan discuss facets of âRelationships and communityâ and âIdentity and narrativeâ in the Patron-only second half of the conversation, available via patreon.com/dankochVocation and purpose.Teleology and Telos (end, goal, purpose)Reciprocating relationshipsPursuing purpose as an âenduring goal that is actionableâMary Helen Immordino Yang (USC) and the default networkMeaning makingâThe moment that I was able to admit that I was a theological liberal was when I felt through contemplative practice directly accepted by God.ââIf God exists, then Iâm Godâs kid.ââAnd if there is God, and if these spiritual experiences actually correlate to something, then the clearest thing I know is I'm good. I'm loved. I'm accepted.âUltimate transcendence and connection to divine loveâUltimately spiritual health involves an identity in which we are the beloved.âContemplative practicesHow to make changing diapers a spiritual practice: âOh, we got a pooper!âDirectionality to narrativeEthics and virtues.Ethics as âreal-world application to moral thinking.âVirtues as âbuilding up certain regular capacities in ourselves such that we will naturally make good ethical choices.âIntercessory prayer and loving-kindness meditationHow youth approach morality in the context of community and familyAbout the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Close your eyes, press your feet into the floor, notice your bottom in your seat, feel your lower back in the chair.Notice other sensations in the body and any tension in various places.Notice the movement of your chest.Starting at the top of the head and moving through each area of your body - paying attention to any sensations, energy, numbness, cold, hot, slowly moving your attention, noting the sensations.Notice and accept what is in your body.Bring attention back to the feeling of the body in your seat.Allow awareness to return to any sounds and the space around you.Open your eyes.
S1:E9 Responding to Trauma: Psychological Tools for Resilience and Recovery with Dr. Cynthia Eriksson. Here Dr. Eriksson guides you through a body scan to identify places of tension and discomfort in order to access and identify complicated emotions you might be experiencing.
About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Invite a time when you really wanted something - a job, a person to say, âyes,â or an acceptance letter.Imagine that you grabbed the handle of the red door and it was stuck. You kicked the door because it was stuck. You were prepared to go through it but couldnât,You shifted 180 degrees because it was stuck - and saw a yellow door, wide open.You crossed over to an opportunity that was open and good.On the other side there was someone who was more right for you, or you got into a better school program, or got a better job - better for you than you had wanted.When you think about the time of the stuck red door and the hairpin turn to the yellow door - was there anyone there who was your guide encouraging your turn?This is a trail angel who guided you to a hairpin turn.How are these moments formed, or are some of the most important parts of our lives guided in some way - who helps us discover our journey?Where in your road of life is God or your higher power? Are they in the open yellow door and in the stuck red door?Are they in the trail angel?What are the guiding moments and deep kind of knowing and perceiving that is our birthright?
Listen to the Full Episode - S1:E1 Loved, Held, Guided, and Never Alone: The Science of Spirituality with Dr. Lisa Miller. Here Dr. Miller guides you through a practice that will help you understand how to recognize doors that are open to you and doors that are closed, so helpful for finding a path forward when facing obstacles.
About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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Find posture, check in with your body, and take several deep, calming breaths.Be intentional about your motivation and find a place in us to understand that practices to cultivate our own wellbeing can also help others.This is a radical act of generosityBring into your mind a situation that has been challenging in some way in the recent past - whether work, family, etc.. not too difficult, but something challenging. Identify what it is.Reflect on your own beliefs and expectations about that situation. What beliefs and expectations are we bringing to that situation?Envision how things might be different if we came to the situation with a different set of beliefs and expectations.Would it be different with the different beliefs and expectations?End practice by dedicating whatever insight we may have gleaned to the benefit of others.
Listen to the Full Episode - S1: E3 Cultivating a Healthy Mind: The Neuroscience of Awareness, Connection, Insight, & Purpose with Dr. Richie Davidson. Here Dr. Davidson guides you in a practice to gain insight into your life.
About the Thrive Center
Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenterAbout Dr. Pam King
Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy. Follow her @drpamking.
About With & For
Host: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.
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