Talk + Meditation: Four Ways to Practice with Time
I explore impermanence, mortality, gratitude, and how we can live more peacefully and fully in the time we have left.
Accept Dependence
We are hungry for love and need others. Let this truth in. Accepting your inherent dependence brings you into harmony with the way life is.
Being Well Podcast: Becoming Securely Attached to Yourself: Reparenting and Healing Insecure Attachment
Learn we can become securely attached to ourselves: building a foundation that lets us connect with others, regulate our emotions, and explore the world from that secure base.
Talk + Meditation: The Freedom Found in Bodily Awareness
Learn how mindfulness of the body can help release old pain, build resilience, and reconnect you with inner peace.
Step into the Cloud
Stressed by all the things you have to do? Seen as brick-like entities, tasks can feel heavy, oppressive, burdensome. If instead we view our tasks as clouds, tasks feel more fluid, like streams or eddies you step into, influencing or contributing as best you can, before they swirl on and become something else.
Being Well Podcast: Using Constraints to Improve Creativity, Focus, and Decision-Making with David Epstein
Forrest is joined by best-selling author David Epstein to discuss how constraints can lead to greater creativity, generativity, and, paradoxically, freedom.
Talk + Meditation: Keys to Personal and Global Evolution with David Sloan Wilson
Break stuck patterns using evolution and mindfulness. Practical tools for real change, resilience, and a more compassionate world.
Accept It
Acceptance is the foundation of wisdom and inner peace. It is easy to accept life’s beautiful things. It is the hard things in life that are hard to accept. The sweet spot is both by accepting the fact that they are what they are.
Being Well Podcast: Mentalization-Based Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder with Robert Drozek
Forrest is joined by psychotherapist and author Robert Drozek to discuss mentalization-based treatment (MBT) and the tools that can help us develop more flexibility and curiosity around our assumptions.
Talk + Meditation: When Unjust Power Comes at You – and What You Can Do about It
Rick Hanson explores how to recognize unjust power, release needless fear, and reclaim your attention with a peaceful, steady heart.
Love the World
Humanity has great power for good and ill. As the earth heats up, as species go extinct and resources decline, it is critically important that a fourth major motivation guide our thoughts, words, and above all, deeds: Love the world.
Being Well Podcast: Why You Can’t Stop Overthinking (and What to Do about It)
In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick and Forrest discuss why overthinking becomes a self-reinforcing habit, and why insight alone rarely helps.
Talk + Meditation: How to Claim the Power You Do Have (and Disengage Where You Don’t)
Feeling helpless? Learn how to reclaim your power by focusing your attention, energy, and actions where you can truly make a difference.
Being Well Podcast: Trauma Therapy: What It’s Really Like with Dr. Jacob Ham and Elizabeth Ferreira
In this very special episode, Dr. Jacob Ham and associate therapist Elizabeth Ferreira join Forrest to discuss their trauma therapy work.
Talk + Meditation: How to Balance Caring for Oneself and Caring for the World
Struggling to care about the world without burning out? Learn how to balance compassion for others with caring for yourself.