My interview with David Ekram, Episode 26, Hope, Strength & Courage Podcast
“I love to work with parents and to help them get in touch with that tender softness for themselves, and it’s so important.” ~ David Ekram
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Summary:
This episode features my interview with David Ekram as we discuss how to bring self-love and self-compassion into your life.
I really appreciate all the content David shares with us from the summary of positive psychology to David Hamilton’s three stages of self to the description of Martin Seligman’s Perma of Authentic Happiness. He covers so many important topics and ideas from the importance of gratitude, spirituality to breathwork and meditation. This is our longest episode in the Hope Strength Courage podcast series.
David does a phenomenal job of covering the huge topic of positive psychology and distilling it down to the a few key topics.
This 26th episode in the Hope Strength Courage Podcast is our final episode for the series but I invite you to check out all the other episodes if you haven’t already. I highly recommend starting at episode #1 for my interview with world renown pediatric surgeon, Dr Bernie Seigel as we discuss how to talk to our children when they are ill.
I hope you will enjoy all the interviews in the Hope Strength Courage series as much as I did.
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Best Advice from David Ekram:
- You know, you don’t have to identify as being a spiritual person or a religious person to do these kinds of acts of kindness.
- it is very common, that when we’re feeling badly, either emotionally or mentally or even physically, for a lot of people to isolate themselves. And so, what I recommend for parents is to help your child connect with someone. It doesn’t have to be a parent. Today we have so many ways we can connect, parents should encourage their children to find connection.
- Breathing into your belly, you know, slowly and then breathing out. Even doing that three or four times whenever you think about it. It really helps tremendously.
- Also I really stress, especially for parents who have a child who is dealing with an illness, is really working with the positive mindset of the seven habits.
Links and Resources Mentioned in this Interview:
- https://happierteachers.com/ to discover what David is doing now
- email David: David@ DavidEkram. Com
- David Hamilton “I Heart Me: The Science of Self-Love”
- Kristin Neff “Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself”
- Brene Brown “The Gifts of Imperfection” and “Daring Greatly”
- Mark Seton: The Seven Habits of Happy People: https://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/
- Martin Seligman – “Authentic Happiness”: https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “Flow” and “Finding Flow”
- Neil Pasricha “The Book of Awesome”, and “The Happiness Equation”
- Mayo Clinic: https://www.mayoclinic.org/
- Harvard Medical School: https://hms.harvard.edu/