3 things to help guide you to find peace: Stop Things from Building Up, Understand What’s Making You Angry, Find Key Ways to Turn Anger into a Peaceful Heart
Rick Hanson
Author / Psychologist
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Biography
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author. His eight books have been published in 33 languages, and include Hardwiring Happiness,  A Happy, Healthy Mom, Making Great Relationships, Neurodharma, Resilient, Just One Thing, and Buddha’s Brain – with over a million copies in English alone. He's the founder of the Global Compassion Coalition and the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, as well as the co-host of the Being Well Podcast – which has been downloaded over 25 million times. His free newsletters have over 260,000 subscribers and his online programs have scholarships available for those in need. He’s lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard. An expert on positive neuroplasticity, his work has been featured on CBS, NPR, the BBC, and other major media. He began meditating in 1974 and has taught in meditation centers worldwide. He and his wife live in Northern California and have two adult children. He loves the wilderness and taking a break from emails.
Articles
Being Well Podcast: How to Feel Your Feelings with Simone Saunders
Forrest talks with trauma therapist Simone Saunders about how to go from knowing your patterns to being able to do something about them when things get intense.
Talk + Meditation: Insight – The Power of Seeing Reality Clearly
Melvin McLeod and Rick explore five keys that can transform mindfulness from a meditation practice into a complete path for life.
Parent From the Same Page
Find compromises and work with your partner for the benefit of your child. Minor differences in parenting style are okay. But children get confused when there are major differences. Here are five ways to work effectively and get the best possible results.
Being Well Podcast: The Manipulator’s Playbook: How to Become Manipulation Resistant
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how to become more resistant to manipulation, discussing terms like gaslighting, DARVO, and love bombing.
Talk + Meditation: How to Find Peace in the Present Moment
Learn how to stop worrying about the future, let go of expectations, and find more peace, freedom, and contentment in the present.
Find Your North Star
What’s the light that will guide you out of your own tangled woods – both the woods “out there” in the world and the ones “in here,” in your own mind?
Being Well Podcast: What’s The Problem With Therapy Speak? August Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest answer a listener question about the consequences of “therapy speak,” focusing on the good and bad of clinical language escaping the therapy room.
Talk + Meditation: Patience – Why We Need It, and How to Grow It
Learn how patience reduces stress and conflict, builds inner strength, and helps you stay calm when life and other people test you.
Drop the Load
Are the rewards of new commitments really worth the costs? Sometimes you have to give up the lesser rewards of a new thing for the greater rewards of allowing some new space to clear in your life.
Being Well Podcast: Burnout Advice for Real People
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore burnout advice: what burnout is, why it’s so common, and what people can do about it.
Talk + Meditation: How to Feel That You’ve Done Enough – and Are Enough
Many of us believe we need to do more to feel at peace. What if peace doesn’t come from becoming more—but from recognizing you’re already enough?