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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 seven books have been published in 33 languages, and include Making Great Relationships, Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Just One Thing, Buddha’s Brain, and Mother Nurture – 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
Talk + Meditation: Releasing Anxiety with Three Kinds of Insights
Find out why anxiety shows up and three small insights that can help you relax, feel safer inside, and handle life with more ease.
Find What’s Sacred
Sacred, has two meanings. One means spirituality, the other something precious. Try to identify what is sacred to you. Maybe you already know.
Being Well Podcast: Guilt Trips, Boundaries, and Non-Monogamy: November Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag to answer listener questions about effective communication, guilt trips, and contentment.
Talk + Meditation: Empathy and Engaged Compassion
Learn how to stay empathic without getting overwhelmed, grow real compassion, and take wise, collective action to reduce suffering at its roots.
Empty the Cup
What’s the “wallpaper” in your own mind? Enjoy emptiness in the forms, the space between thoughts as your mind calms and becomes still, when you have no plans at all.
Being Well Podcast: How to Be Yourself: Authenticity in Relationships with Elizabeth Ferreira
Forrest and Elizabeth discuss how to be yourself and get on the same team in a relationship.
Talk + Meditation: Letting Go of Old Baggage for a Better Future
Holding onto old regrets? Learn how to take responsibility without shame — and how forgiveness and compassion can set you free from old burdens.
Embrace Fragility
Be mindful of both actual and potential fragility in yourself and others. Do what’s in your heart about what’s fragile in our world. Be at peace with the inevitable: things fall apart. Yet there is something beautiful about this part of the truth.
Being Well Podcast: Trauma Masterclass: Understanding and Repairing Our Hidden Wounds
Today we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes to explore one of the most salient topics in psychology today: trauma.
Talk + Meditation: Appreciating Your Own Generosity and Good Intentions
Even our messy, reactive parts come from good intentions. Learn how to rest in your own goodness and act from it more often.
Drop Tart Tone
People are more sensitive to tone. To paraphrase the poet Maya Angelou, people will forget what you said, but they’ll remember how you made them feel.