On today’s episode of Being Well, Forrest and I talk about coming to terms with mortality, the reality of our limited time, and how we can use that knowledge to refine our focus and live a more fulfilling life.
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Being Well Podcast: Changing Your Relationship to Shame
Shame is one of the most complex and difficult emotions we experience on a regular basis, and one that can have seriously negative impacts on our sense of self-worth and ability to experience healthy connection with others.
Being Well Podcast: The Grieving Brain with Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor
On today’s episode we’re joined by one of the world’s leading researchers on grief, Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor. We explore why grief is such a unique and intense emotion, how grief works in the brain, the problems with generalized models like the “five stages of grief,” and how we can learn to live with loss.
Being Well Podcast: How to Make Learning STICK
We dive into Rick’s recently published study on our capacity for deliberate growth. We talk a bit about the neurological components of learning, how the study worked, and what the practical takeaways are to help us make learning stick.
Being Well Podcast: Understanding Borderline Personality Tendencies
We look at what to do when borderline tendencies show up in our lives even at sub-clinical levels. We discuss how to cultivate a healthy amount of sensitivity and tolerance to distress, how to regulate and nurture ourselves, and how to navigate relationships with others when they exhibit borderline tendencies.
Being Well Podcast: Rediscovering Your True Self: Parentification and the “Gifted Child”
When a child is particularly emotionally intelligent, and a parent is particularly emotionally vulnerable, an inversion of the typical relationship can occur where the child devotes themselves to meeting the parent’s needs rather than the other way around.
Being Well Podcast: Connecting with Your Best Parts
In this episode, we focus on how to accept, appreciate, and connect with our positive aspects, and how to deal with some of the developmental blocks that prevent us from embracing the good in ourselves.
Being Well Podcast: Recovering from Complex PTSD with Elizabeth Ferreira
Elizabeth shares her CPTSD origin story, what CPTSD feels like, and how to create a compassionate environment with or without a therapist so you can safely process grief, experience out repressed emotions, and learn to express your needs.
Being Well Podcast: Attachment, and Cultivating Nonattachment
Forrest and I discuss the problem with attachment, what differentiates healthy and unhealthy forms of attachment, and what we can do to relax our attachments over time.
Being Well Podcast: True Intimacy, Toxic Individuality, and Breaking the Trauma Cycle with Terry Real
Forrest and I are joined by author and therapist Terry Real to talk about how to successfully metabolize our trauma and experience real intimacy in our relationships.
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