Talk + Meditation: Appreciating Your Own Generosity and Good Intentions
Even our messy, reactive parts come from good intentions. Learn how to rest in your own goodness and act from it more often.
Drop Tart Tone
People are more sensitive to tone. To paraphrase the poet Maya Angelou, people will forget what you said, but they’ll remember how you made them feel.
Being Well Podcast: End Self-Punishment: Curiosity, Joy, and Real Growth with Joe Hudson
Forrest is joined by one of the world’s top executive coaches, Joe Hudson, for a conversation focused on how we can reduce self-punishment and live more fulfilling lives by welcoming our emotions and loosening identification with the critical mind.
Talk + Meditation: How to Be Compassionate and Wise: Lessons from the Mahayana
Discover how compassion, wisdom, and skillful action unite to create the awakened heart of the Mahayana path.
Change the Channel
Sometimes when inner practices fail you, it helps to change the channel. A respite or some sort of pleasure will help to refuel you for challenges.
Being Well Podcast: Emotional Regulation: How to Feel Your Feelings Flexibly
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how emotional regulation helps us feel, manage, and process our emotions with greater skill and ease.
Talk + Meditation: Finding Brightness and Goodness in a Troubled World
Ajahn Nisabho explores how to cleanse the heart like gold—refining virtue, forgiveness, and love amid life’s impurities.
Stay Right When You’re Wronged
Blasting another person with anger is like throwing hot coals with bare hands: both people get burned. Speak calmly and from your heart, even when wronged.
Being Well Podcast: Trauma or Personality, When to Walk Away, and Burnout: October Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag to answer listener questions about trauma and its impact on personality, boundaries, anger, and burnout.
Talk + Meditation: How to Shift Your Thoughts and Feelings about Others
Discover how to stay kind and grounded — even when others are difficult — with insights from Rick Hanson and the Buddha’s timeless wisdom.
Rest
Encourage your mind to come to rest at least occasionally. Tell the truth to yourself about how much time you actually – other than sleep.
Being Well Podcast: The Psychology of Resentment: Over-Functioning, Repression, and Repair
Dr. Rick and Forrest unpack how resentment – rooted in feeling wronged and powerless – damages relationships, and share ways to move from rumination toward agency, communication, and repair.
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Talk + Meditation: Finding What’s [Reassuringly] Reliable in an Unreliable World
Find lasting steadiness in turbulent times by resting in presence, good intentions, love, awareness, nature, and the unconditioned.
Be the Body
The fabric of your mind is woven by your body. Focus on what others communicate, and try to receive that as a valuable offering. Open your mind to the good that is implicit or down deep in the other person.
Being Well Podcast: What if You Aren’t Broken? Carl Rogers and Humanistic Psychology
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore humanistic psychology, the mid-20th century movement that redefined how therapists relate to clients.