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.
Explore how we can recover from emotionally immature parenting, and develop greater emotional maturity with Dr. Lindsay Gibson.
I explore impermanence, mortality, gratitude, and how we can live more peacefully and fully in the time we have left.
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.
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.
Learn how mindfulness of the body can help release old pain, build resilience, and reconnect you with inner peace.
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.
Forrest is joined by best-selling author David Epstein to discuss how constraints can lead to greater creativity, generativity, and, paradoxically, freedom.
Break stuck patterns using evolution and mindfulness. Practical tools for real change, resilience, and a more compassionate world.
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.
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.
Rick Hanson explores how to recognize unjust power, release needless fear, and reclaim your attention with a peaceful, steady heart.
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.
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.
Feeling helpless? Learn how to reclaim your power by focusing your attention, energy, and actions where you can truly make a difference.
