Joyful Courage for Parenting Teens

Revisiting Eps 154: Dr. Daniel Siegel Discussing the Science of Being Present

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Today’s guest is Doctor Dan Siegel. Dan is a clinical professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA school of Medicine and the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre at UCLA. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute which focuses on the development of Mindsight, teaches insight, empathy and integration in individuals, families and communities. Dr. Siegel has published extensively for the professional and lay audiences. We are discussing his new book: Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence.


Takeaways from the show

  • The wheel of awareness: what it is and how it helps 
  • How awareness impacts your body and health 
  • How being present impacts the speed of the aging process
  • Wellbeing and how it is enhanced by being present
  • Relationships with your kids and how being present improves it
  • Cultivating awareness
  • Role modeling resilience
  • How awareness feeds connection vs control
  • Impacts of a lack of structure on the brain and future of children
  • Authoritative parenting vs Authoritarian parenting
  • Why we need the village and how that creates stress for contemporary parents
  • Finding joy, tranquility and connection through expanding awareness
  • Flipping our lid, learning from our body’s signals and how awareness can help
  • Monitoring and modifying for self-regulation and to improve responses to stress
  • The 3 O’s what they mean


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