Forrest talks with Eric Zimmer about what healthy self-regulation actually looks like, the gap between insight and action, how shame can derail us, and why most change comes down to small steps taken consistently.
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Being Well Podcast: The Self-Abandonment Loop: Shame, Self-Criticism, and How to Break Free
Dr. Rick and Forrest discuss how shame and the inner critic fuel self-abandonment and what breaks the cycle.
Being Well Podcast: Embracing Productive Discomfort with Michael Easter
Forrest is joined by journalist and author Michael Easter to discuss how we can make our lives better by making them (the right kind of) harder.
Being Well Podcast: Codependency and Healthy Dependency with Nedra Glover Tawwab
Therapist and bestselling author Nedra Glover Tawwab joins Forrest to discuss the unintended consequences of the boundaries movement.
Being Well Podcast: Reducing Reactivity, Fear, and Anger with Sharon Salzberg
Legendary meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg joins Rick and Forrest to discuss how we can work skillfully with anger, fear, and reactivity without becoming doormats or numbing ourselves out through the lens of her new children’s book Kind Karl.
Being Well Podcast: Why We Misunderstand Each Other: Fixing vs. Feeling with Elizabeth Ferreira
Forrest and somatic therapist Elizabeth Ferreira explore a common source of relationship conflict: the mismatch between “fixing” (moving quickly into problem-solving) and “feeling” (wanting attunement and empathy before solutions).
Being Well Podcast: Building the Habit of Excellence with Brad Stulberg
Top performance coach and author Brad Stulberg joins Forrest to reframe and reclaim excellence.
Being Well Podcast: The Attention Economy: How Self-Help Drifts Away from Science
Forrest and Dr. Rick explore how well-intentioned self-help advice can drift away from science under the incentives of the attention economy, where overclaiming, alarmist framing, and “this one simple trick” outperforms nuance.
Being Well Podcast: How to Create a Year You’ll Love
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how we can put our key values into action in 2026.
Being Well Podcast: Who You’ll Be This Year: Values, Goals, and a Different Kind of Resolution
Dr. Rick and Forrest make the case that most resolutions fail because they focus on the wrong things: outcomes and behaviors rather than key values.
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