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Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson — Breaking the Avoidance Loop: Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns
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Breaking the Avoidance Loop: Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

We all have patterns we can see clearly…and still can't seem to stop. Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how avoidance fuels these patterns, and how we can break the avoidance loop by updating our expectations and predictions about the future. They discuss what avoidance coping is, how the brain works as a prediction…

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