Talk + Meditation: Equanimity as an Expression of Love
Learn how equanimity helps us stay openhearted through life’s joys and challenges without getting caught in reactivity.
Be Amazed
Look for opportunities to amaze yourself as you will find them all around you.
Being Well Podcast: Right Effort: When to Push and When to Let Go with Yung Pueblo
Forrest is joined by author, meditator, and friend Diego Perez, also known as Yung Pueblo, for a conversation about right effort, the balance between pushing through and letting go, and the death of nuance in the age of social media.
Talk + Meditation: Three Things You Can Really Count On In Turbulent Times
When life feels shaky or uncertain, what can you truly rely on? Explore how good intentions, learning, and wisdom can help us find stability in an uncertain world.
Accept Difficulty
When things are difficult, we often add a lot of unnecessary frustration, anxiety, and self-criticism by resisting the difficulty of them – often with an underlying attitude of “it shouldn’t be this way.” Find more peace by accepting difficulty instead of getting aggravated by it.
Being Well Podcast: Reparenting Yourself with Dr. Lindsay Gibson
Explore how we can recover from emotionally immature parenting, and develop greater emotional maturity with Dr. Lindsay Gibson.
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.