Author / Psychologist
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, Buddha’s Brain, Resilient, Neurodharma, Just One Thing, Making Great Relationships, A Happy, Healthy Mom, 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 30 million times. He offers free newsletters, and his online programs have scholarships available for those with financial needs. 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.
Each year I use an issue of the Just One Thing newsletter to offer Twelve Good Things that I think are really wonderful and worth your attention. May you and those you love and the whole wide world be truly well, truly happy, and truly at peace. — O N E —Global...
Learn how to step out of the way you’ve been previously, and into a new way of thinking, doing, and being.
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Stephen Doetsu Snyder offered a meditation and talk about Effortless Effort: The Wise Effort of No-Self.
Therapist Amy Morin joins Forrest to help us learn how to regulate our thoughts, manage our emotions, and become more psychologically flexible.
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick offered a meditation and talk called Releasing and Receiving.
Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag and answer questions from listeners about repairing with family, highly sensitive people, and more.
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick offered a meditation and talk called The Essence of Practice: Loving, Knowing, and Growing.
In one of the most interesting conversations we’ve ever had on the podcast, clinical psychologist Dr. Jacob Ham explores what really helps people work with – and be with – trauma.
In this series on Wise Effort, Rick talks about what to do when we are feeling discombobulated, rattled alarmed, and outraged.
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how to survive the holidays with the dishes (mostly) intact.
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Oren Jay Sofer offered a meditation and talk called Tools For Difficult Conversations.
Dr. Stephen Porges walks us through how lessons from polyvagal theory can be applied to recovering from traumatic experiences.
