Being Well Podcast: How to Heal After Loss with Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor
Forrest is joined by clinical psychologist and researcher Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor to explore the physiology of grief and how to heal after loss.
Forrest is joined by clinical psychologist and researcher Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor to explore the physiology of grief and how to heal after loss.
Learn how to stop ruminating and quiet craving, comparison, and overthinking—so you can cultivate more gladness, tranquility, contentment, and peace of mind.
Can you stay mindful and peaceful when your thoughts and life get bumpy? In life there will be gain and loss, praise and blame, and pleasure and pain. If you let them flow, you can ride the waves of life with gratitude and grace, and without drowning.
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the costs of being a ‘gifted child,’ many of whom take on the emotional or practical care of their parents in a process known as parentification.
What we bow toward shapes who we become. Reflect on the vows, values, and practices that can guide a meaningful life.
Are you missing opportunities to grow stronger, happier, and more resilient? Each day is an opportunity to learn, grow, and take in the good. Use this two-step process to heal from the past, grow strengths for the future.
Forrest is joined by Dr. Milissa Kaufman and Dr. Lauren Lebois, experts in dissociative disorders and trauma research, to discuss understanding dissociation.
Feeling overwhelmed by the world? Start with one compassionate connection. Small moments of kindness can change lives—including your own.
Kindness to others is enlightened self-interest. Compassion and kindness expresses an inner freedom.
Dr. Rick and Forrest continue last week’s conversation on avoidance coping, this time focusing on how to face the fear you keep avoiding and move from insight into meaningful action.
The more we rest in kindness, compassion, and joy for others, the less they become something we practice—and the more they become who we are.
To blissful is to see what is tender and beautiful, and wish well. Look for good things in others. Know what the act and attitude of blessing feel like, and take in the experience to call upon it in the future.
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how avoidance fuels these patterns, and how we can break the avoidance loop by updating our expectations and predictions about the future.
The Buddha didn’t just tolerate joy — he prescribed it. Gladness, rapture, tranquility & happiness are essential steps on the path to awakening.
There’s a way to relate to the endless To Do list that’s freer and less burdened. When we “do freely” we refresh in having a sense of choice.