Dr. Rick and Forrest explore why conflict feels so hard, how childhood shapes our conflict patterns, what healthy conflict and repair look like, how emotional flooding affects the brain and body, and the research behind what predicts relationship success.
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Being Well Podcast: Reparenting Yourself with Dr. Lindsay Gibson
Explore how we can recover from emotionally immature parenting, and develop greater emotional maturity with Dr. Lindsay Gibson.
Being Well Podcast: Trauma in Relationships: What Actually Helps with Elizabeth Ferreira
Forrest is joined by associate therapist and his fiancée Elizabeth Ferreira for an honest, personal conversation about what it’s actually like to be in a relationship when one partner is living with trauma, complex PTSD, or another ongoing mental health challenge.
Being Well Podcast: Family Systems Theory: The Invisible Force That Runs Your Relationships
Dr. Rick and Forrest explain why through one of the most influential frameworks in psychology: Family Systems Theory (FST).
Being Well Podcast: The Freeze-Shame Loop, Therapy Speak, and “Everyone Has ADHD”: February Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest answer listener questions about the freeze state, ADHD, and power imbalances in relationships.
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).
Being Well Podcast: Against Nonchalance: Why Caring is Cool in 2026
Forrest and Dr. Rick close 2025 by making the case for healthy caring: choosing objects of care wisely, prioritizing process over outcome, and cultivating equanimity without slipping into nonchalance.
Being Well Podcast: Resentment, Situationships, and Highly Sensitive People: December Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag to answer listener questions about resentment, highly sensitive people, situationships, and expanding the window of tolerance.
Being Well Podcast: Why Good People Get Stuck in Bad Relationships
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how to exit bad relationships, and why it can be so hard to do just that.
Being Well Podcast: Dr. Becky on Becoming the Person (and Parent) You Needed
Dr. Becky Kennedy joins Forrest for a conversation about building better relationships, with ourselves, our partners, and our children.
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