Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag to answer listener questions about trauma and its impact on personality, boundaries, anger, and burnout.
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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.
Being Well Podcast: People Pleasing and the Fawn Response with Meg Josephson
Forrest and therapist Meg Josephson explore the fawn response, a survival strategy where safety is sought through people pleasing.
Being Well Podcast: The Freeze Response, Gifted Kid Syndrome, and BPD: July Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest answer listener questions about perfectionism, the freeze response, trauma, and relationships.
Being Well Podcast: People Pleasing, AI Therapy, and Sexual Transference: May Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest open the mailbag and answer questions from listeners about people pleasing, the potential (and pitfalls) of using AI as a therapist, and what to do when you develop strong feelings for your therapist.
Being Well Podcast: Disorganized Attachment: Heal By Embracing Your Needs
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore disorganized, or “fearful,” attachment, a complex style that occurs when emotional intimacy and distance both feel uncomfortable, and typically arises based on difficult life experiences.
Being Well Podcast: How to Get On the Same Team: Relationship Conflicts Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest answer questions focused on navigating common relationship conflicts, focusing on situations where people need to find a middle path between different needs.
Being Well Podcast: Limerence, Love, and Life Transitions: January Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest begin the mailbag by exploring limerence – an obsessive form of romantic attraction – and offer practical recommendations for working with one-sided infatuation.
Being Well Podcast: Navigating Situationships: How to Get What You Really Want
Forrest and Dr. Rick explore “situationships” – those poorly defined, boundary-free relationships that exist in a gray area between friendship and committed dating.
Being Well Podcast: Attachment Masterclass: Sue Johnson, Rick Hanson, Julie Mennano, and Elizabeth Ferreira
In this special episode of Being Well, Forrest is joined by four leading experts for a masterclass on the science of attachment.
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