When Life Falls Apart: How To Break Old Patterns, Rewrite Your Inner Scripts, and Find Purpose | Dr. Suzan Song

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. In preparing for today's episode, I came across a phrase. uh coined uh by my guest today, and the phrase is Chasing the illusion of stability. I'm gonna say that again, chasing the illusion of stability. When I read that I realized that pretty much explains

all of my anxiety uh about my family, about my work life, about the world. I just kind of w wanna be able to control things. Uh, but that of course is not how the world works. And so my guest today is gonna talk about how we can have a different relationship with uncertainty, with change, uh, which all ladders up, of course, to resiliency. My guest is Suzanne Song. She's a Harvard and Stanford trained psychiatrist And she's got a new book which is called Why We Suffer.

And how we heal. Doctor Song, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure. So your your uh work, at least in this regard, uh on in the book, seems like a classic case, and you'll correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like a classic case of uh research as me search. as I often hear um from researchers in in the psychology space.

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