Thriving in Difficult Times with Joseph Bailey

Joe Bailey knows that life can be difficult. In addition to life’s ‘regular’ challenges, he’s had personal experiences with illness, including Lyme disease (more than once), and the effects of mould.

He also knows that all human beings are in possession of an innate and trustworthy ‘compass of wisdom’. Our thoughts can be noisy but our innate wisdom and resilience is the eye at the centre of life’s hurricane that can guide us and smooth out the bumps on the sometimes rough road of life.

Joseph Bailey, M.A., L.P. is a licensed psychologist, an author, seminar leader, consultant to organizations, public speaker, and psychotherapist.

His work has included co-founding The Minneapolis Institute of Mental Health, developing programs for health care provider wellness at the University of Minnesota Inner Life of Healers Program and numerous hospitals including North Memorial Hospital, Minneapolis, East Lansing Health System and Mayo Clinic Arizona (The Resilient Physician Program). He has also worked extensively in treatment centers for addictions—Gulf Breeze Recovery, Meridian Systems and Farnum Center, and numerous social service agencies.

Joseph is the author of six books with over a half million copies in print including the best seller, Slowing Down to the Speed of Life with Dr. Richard Carlson and The Serenity Principle.

Learn more about Joe at JoeBaileyAndAssociates.com.

You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below. 

Show Notes

* Learning from Sydney Banks and his very different approach to human psychology

* On the paradigm shift of the three principles

* Working with everyone from climate scientists to clinicians at the Mayo clinic to those struggling with addiction

* The priceless value of relying on a calm mind

* Finding our own compass of truth

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

* Joe’s book: Thriving in the Eye of the Hurricane

* Interview with Mahima Shrestha about her work in Nepal

* Joe’s book: Fearproof Your Life

Transcript of Interview with Joseph Bailey

Alexandra: Joe Bailey, welcome to Unbroken. 

Joe: Thank you. What a great title. 

Alexandra: Oh, thank you., I was so pleased when I thought of that. So it’s so great to have you here today, Joe.

Why don’t you tell us a little bit about your background and how you got involved with the three principles. 

Joe: Sure. And thanks for having me. So a little bit of background, I guess, to go way back, I discovered when I was 16 that when I was an exchange student in Guatemala, I had an opportunity. My aunt was a Catholic nun working in Central America with the poor and involved in lots of social justice issues. 

I lived there for a summer, and it opened me up to my vocation really, to want to help people, alleviate suffering in the world and being raised Catholic,