We talk with meditation teacher, bestselling author, and podcaster Michael Taft about moving from the spiritual to the secular and back again, ego dissolution, and how we can create ever-better versions of ourselves.
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Being Well Podcast: How to Change For Good with Dr. Katy Milkman
Though there’s no lack of advice out there, changing in lasting ways is hard. Today Forrest and Dr. Rick Hanson are joined by Dr. Katy Milkman, an expert in the science of change, to explore how we can build better habits, sustain motivation, and change for good.
Being Well Podcast: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness with Tara Brach
Tara Brach joins Dr. Rick Hanson to help us learn how to “trust the gold:” recognizing and appreciating our essential human goodness, while resting in the key refuges of truth, love, and freedom.
Being Well Podcast: How Language Shapes Your Identity with Dr. Katherine Kinzler
Forrest is joined by pioneering psychologist Dr. Katherine Kinzler to explore how our speech shapes our social identity, and the views we hold about other people.
Being Well Podcast: Internal Family Systems Therapy with Dr. Richard Schwartz
Learn about Internal Family Systems with Richard Schwartz and discover a wonderful path to healing and growth while repairing your relationship with all of your parts.
Being Well Podcast: Fierce Self-Compassion with Dr. Kristin Neff
Dr. Kristin Neff explores the fierce side of self-compassion, including how it can help us draw healthy boundaries, take necessary action, and stand against injustice.
Being Well Podcast: Being with Grief with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore
In this conversation from the Life After COVID Summit, Dr. Joanne Cacciatore joins Forrest to help us put the past in perspective, and relate in healthier and more whole ways to the many things we’ve lost over the past year.
Being Well Podcast: Internal Family Systems Therapy with Susan McConnell
We usually experience ourselves as being one “self,” but we all have different characters, different “parts,” running around inside our heads. And our relationship with some parts is better than others. On today’s episode of Being Well, senior IFS trainer Susan McConnell joins Forrest to explore Somatic Internal Family Systems, a powerful form of therapy that helps us bring those parts together as a unified self.
Being Well Podcast: The Heart of Zen with Henry Shukman
Henry Shukman, the guiding teacher of Mountain Cloud Zen Center, joins Forrest and me to explore self-transcendent experiences, relaxing self-identification, and the warm heart at the core of Zen practice.
Being Well Podcast: The New Normal with Dr. Jennifer Ashton
The Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News, Dr. Jennifer Ashton, joins Forrest and me to discuss everything you need to know about the current state of the pandemic. This includes what vaccinated people should feel comfortable doing, the J&J vaccine pause, how to think about risk, and how we can support our physical and mental health during the New Normal.
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