Dr. Rick and Forrest continue last week’s conversation on avoidance coping, this time focusing on how to face the fear you keep avoiding and move from insight into meaningful action.
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Being Well Podcast: Breaking the Avoidance Loop: Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how avoidance fuels these patterns, and how we can break the avoidance loop by updating our expectations and predictions about the future.
Being Well Podcast: The Secret to Happiness: How to Feel Loved with Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky
Forrest is joined by one of the world’s leading happiness researchers, Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, to discuss the real secret to happiness: feeling loved.
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.
Being Well Podcast: Self-Regulation: How a Little Becomes a Lot with Eric Zimmer
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.
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).
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