★ How to Build Strong, Healthy Relationships! | Dr Amy Banks | Wired to Connect

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SHOW INTRODUCTION:
If you’ve ever felt anxious, moody, stressed out, your relationships are falling apart or you feel all alone, then do we have the show for you!

Then do we have the show for you!

Today we’ll be talking with Dr. Amy Banks, psychiatrist, and relationship expert about her latest book, Wired to Connect: The Surprising Link Between Brain Science and Strong, Healthy Relationships

Today we’ll talk about how to strengthen our brain for better relationships, more success in life, and greater happiness, in all that we do.

Plus we’ll talk about the smart vegus, Uncle Mitty the frog, rabbit’s playing dead, Italian monkeys, super-mirroring and what Mr. Yuck has to do with anything?

MORE ON AMY BANKS, MD:
Amy Banks, M.D., was an instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is now the director of Advanced Training at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women. She has a private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, which specializes in relational psychopharmacology and therapy for people who suffer from chronic disconnection.

KEY TOPICS:
What do Italian Monkeys Have to Do with Anything???
What are mirror neurons?
Why the theory of separate self is gone
What happened to Uncle Milty the tadpole
Why Western cultures have the greatest difficulty due to the value of separation and independence
Why healthy interactions may be more important than quitting smoking
Dean Ornish – Book called Love and Survival which documents studies on the healing power of connection and health protection of protection
Why Mr. Yuck has to do with the poison of discontentment
Why the idea that physical connection between a child and adult to have the necessary connections to grow into a robust resilient adult
What competition has to do with nurturing and emotional health
Why competition can be very harmful
How Dr. Banks uses the relational cultural theory
Why caring is so radical?
What are the 4 neural pathways for healthy relationships?
What is the devious cyberball experiment
Why the alarm system in our minds may go off when it shouldn’t
What is the mirroring system and what is resonance?
How smiling and greeting someone can stimulate the smart vagus nervous system
How social media can actually HELP you and stimulate your smart vagus nervous system
What’s the benefit of pets
What is relational mindfulness or what Jessica and I call “gazing”.
What are the benefits of gazing?
What can we do to soothe the dorsal anterior singulate cortex?
What can we do to protect ourselves from mirroring if we’re care givers or extra sensitive?
How to do a SPOT check when there’s a cycle in a relationship
How do we get the dopamine reward system back on line?
How do we remove addictions to heal a relationship
Advice for people who are repeating bad relationships
Important words of wisdom for parents and your kids
Brief guided meditation or practice to experience a ‘positive relational moment’

[walkerskii]

This is amazing, revolutionary, exciting - even profound. I needed it & now I want to share this message with several people I love, who could use the understanding they'd gain from this content to become emotionally healthy - thanks!

[jermaineedwards]

Love the interview. Affirmed a lot of what I believe about client relationships. Got some great insights and tools I can apply to my business and personal relationships. Thanks a bunch :)