Oct 17, 2018
I am on this mission to really bring back empathy.”
Coming from a family where your only worth is what you do, Doctor Mark Goulston was feeling a whole new low when he requested to take his second leave of absence from medical school. Just as life seemed as though it couldn’t get worse, he was called into the dean’s office to be notified that he was getting kicked out of college. In that moment of worthlessness the dean was kind to him and told him that he had value, a goodness in him that they can’t teach in medical school, and a future. Doctor Goulston has made it his mission to pay it forward and to teach the world how to reach people in just the way that the dean reached him in a moment of true despair. Tune in as Doctor Goulston discusses with Jeff the plummet of being suicidal, masculine and feminine energy and its effects on cortisol, and his seven word technique of assertive empathy to break through the log jam of an addicted brain.
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Highlights:
01:34 A man of many stories and accomplishments
08:18 What happens when you are suicidal
17:01 Masculine energy and feminine energy
22:57 Interventional empathy and the seven word technique
31:00 Dealing with the irrational and the impossible
36:38 People are hungry for oxytocin