Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the costs of being a ‘gifted child,’ many of whom take on the emotional or practical care of their parents in a process known as parentification.
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Being Well Podcast: Understanding Dissociation and DID: What It’s Really Like, and How People Recover w/ Dr. Milissa Kaufman and Dr. Lauren Lebois
Forrest is joined by Dr. Milissa Kaufman and Dr. Lauren Lebois, experts in dissociative disorders and trauma research, to discuss understanding dissociation.
Being Well Podcast: From Insight to Action: How to Face the Fear You Keep Avoiding
Dr. Rick and Forrest continue last week’s conversation on avoidance coping, this time focusing on how to face the fear you keep avoiding and move from insight into meaningful action.
Being Well Podcast: Breaking the Avoidance Loop: Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how avoidance fuels these patterns, and how we can break the avoidance loop by updating our expectations and predictions about the future.
Being Well Podcast: The Secret to Happiness: How to Feel Loved with Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky
Forrest is joined by one of the world’s leading happiness researchers, Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, to discuss the real secret to happiness: feeling loved.
Being Well Podcast: Right Effort: When to Push and When to Let Go with Yung Pueblo
Forrest is joined by author, meditator, and friend Diego Perez, also known as Yung Pueblo, for a conversation about right effort, the balance between pushing through and letting go, and the death of nuance in the age of social media.
Being Well Podcast: Becoming Securely Attached to Yourself: Reparenting and Healing Insecure Attachment
Learn we can become securely attached to ourselves: building a foundation that lets us connect with others, regulate our emotions, and explore the world from that secure base.
Being Well Podcast: Using Constraints to Improve Creativity, Focus, and Decision-Making with David Epstein
Forrest is joined by best-selling author David Epstein to discuss how constraints can lead to greater creativity, generativity, and, paradoxically, freedom.
Being Well Podcast: Mentalization-Based Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder with Robert Drozek
Forrest is joined by psychotherapist and author Robert Drozek to discuss mentalization-based treatment (MBT) and the tools that can help us develop more flexibility and curiosity around our assumptions.
Being Well Podcast: 6 Lessons from Existential and Transpersonal Psychology
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the lessons we can learn from two of Humanistic psychology’s more challenging branches: existential and transpersonal psychology.
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