On this episode, we explore how to optimize our motivation by distinguishing motivation from discipline, liking from wanting, We then explore how to best frame our outlook so we can feel relaxed, diligent, and uninhibited from being who we want to be and accomplishing what we want to accomplish.
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Being Well Podcast: Secondary Trauma: Recovering from Compassion Fatigue with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Laura van Dernoot Lipsy talks about how to manage secondary traumatic stress, avoid burnout and overwhelm, and stay hopeful and live fully in the face of challenges.
Being Well Podcast: Rumination: How to Disrupt Obsessive Thoughts
Learn what rumination is, where it comes from, and explore practices and strategies to identify rumination when it comes up, and move through it compassionately and effectively.
Being Well Podcast: How to Not Die Alone: Navigating Modern Dating with Logan Ury
Logan Ury discusses the mechanics of dating, chemistry, romance, apps, and how to reframe our self-limiting tendencies so we can find love that is fulfilling and brings out the best in us.
Being Well Podcast: Understanding and Managing Stress: Causes, Biological Basis, and Increasing Resilience
Learn how to distinguish stress from effort, the influence of the modern world on how stressed we feel, the biological mechanisms and challenges presented by chronic stress.
Being Well Podcast: Using the Enneagram to Rewrite Your Story with Ian Cron
As we’ve talked about often on Being Well, one of the most effective ways to change how we show up in the world is to identify and change our underlying personal narrative. On this episode, Forrest and I talk with Ian Cron about how we can use the Enneagram personality typing system to aid us in this process.
Being Well Podcast: Hedonic Adaptation: How to STAY Happy
Forrest and I consider the human tendency to return to the same basic level of happiness regardless of recent positive or negative experiences – also known as hedonic adaptation – and how to contend with it so we can get off the hedonic treadmill.
Being Well Podcast: The Science of “Self” with Dr. Jud Brewer
Today we focus on understanding what we mean by “self,” with Dr. Judson Brewer, Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor at the School of Medicine at Brown University.
Being Well Podcast: Supporting Yourself During Difficult Times
Today we focus on what you can do, in your mind and in your life, to support yourself during difficult times and relate to the challenging emotions – fear, grief, anxiety, anger, helplessness, and so on – that naturally arise during these times.
Being Well Podcast: How to Cope with Failure and Deal with Disappointment
On this episode of Being Well, Forrest and I discuss what it looks like to experience failure not as falling short, but as an opportunity for growth.
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