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# Rick Hanson, PhD

Inner Strengths for Challenging Times

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## Posts

- [Transform Ill Will](https://rickhanson.com/transform-ill-will/) - Goodwill and ill will are about intention: the will is for good or ill. Ill will creates negative, vicious cycles. But that means that good will can create positive cycles. Plus good will cultivates wholesome qualities in you.
- [Being Well Podcast: Codependency and Healthy Dependency with Nedra Glover Tawwab](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-codependency-and-healthy-dependency-with-nedra-glover-tawwab/) - Therapist and bestselling author Nedra Glover Tawwab joins Forrest to discuss the unintended consequences of the boundaries movement.
- [Talk + Meditation: Accepting Your Vulnerabilities - Including from Early Childhood](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-accepting-your-vulnerabilities-including-from-early-childhood/) - Learn how accepting vulnerability can help you lower defenses, heal old wounds, and discover a deeper sense of peace and inner strength.
- [Love Freely](https://rickhanson.com/love-freely/) - Love is in our nature, woven into our DNA. Love is a natural wellspring inside us all. It doesn't need to be pushed or pumped. It needs to be released.
- [Being Well Podcast: Reducing Reactivity, Fear, and Anger with Sharon Salzberg](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-reducing-reactivity-fear-and-anger-with-sharon-salzberg/) - Legendary meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg joins Rick and Forrest to discuss how we can work skillfully with anger, fear, and reactivity without becoming doormats or numbing ourselves out through the lens of her new children’s book Kind Karl.
- [Talk + Meditation: Welcoming the "Messengers" of Aging, Illness, Death - and Awakening](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-welcoming-the-messengers-of-aging-illness-death-and-awakening/) - Aging, illness, and death are unavoidable. Learn how equanimity and love help you meet them—and live well, meanwhile. A talk ane meditation with Rick Hanson.
- [Talk + Meditation: Using Mindfulness When You're Triggered](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-using-mindfulness-when-youre-triggered/) - In this talk, I discuss how mindfulness, focused attention, open awareness, and non-clinging help us manage reactivity, reduce rumination, and relate more wisely to ourselves and others.
- [Grow Inner Strengths](https://rickhanson.com/grow-inner-strengths/) - Inner strengths are the supplies you've got in your pack as you make your way down the twisting and often hard road of life.
- [Being Well Podcast: Why We Misunderstand Each Other: Fixing vs. Feeling with Elizabeth Ferreira](https://rickhanson.com/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).
- [See Good Intentions](https://rickhanson.com/see-good-intentions/) - By recognizing positive intentions we feel safer, supported, and happier. You have to actively look for good intentions. The practice of looking for good intentions may make you happier, and give you a stronger sense of our common humanity.
- [Being Well Podcast: Building the Habit of Excellence with Brad Stulberg](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-building-the-habit-of-excellence-with-brad-stulberg/) - Top performance coach and author Brad Stulberg joins Forrest to reframe and reclaim excellence.
- [Talk + Meditation: Five Ways to Feel Less Anxious](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-five-ways-to-feel-less-anxious/) - Five powerful practices for meeting fear with mindfulness, compassion, action, and wisdom — and learning to live well, meanwhile.
- [Speak Wisely](https://rickhanson.com/speak-wisely/) - Often it's words and the accompanying tone that actually do the most damage. Your ability to speak wisely can prevent lasting emotional pain.
- [Talk + Meditation: How to Trust Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-how-to-trust-yourself/) - Learn how to rebuild self-trust, stop shrinking your life, and stay grounded when triggered. Also do a meditation on mindful breathing.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Attention Economy: How Self-Help Drifts Away from Science](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-attention-economy-how-self-help-drifts-away-from-science/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick explore how well-intentioned self-help advice can drift away from science under the incentives of the attention economy, where overclaiming, alarmist framing, and “this one simple trick” outperforms nuance.
- [Notice You're Alright Right Now](https://rickhanson.com/notice-youre-alright-right-now/) - To keep our ancestors alive, the brain evolved strong tendencies toward fear. It's important to regularly remind yourself that you're alright right now.
- [Accept It](https://rickhanson.com/accept/) - Acceptance is the foundation of wisdom and inner peace. It is easy to accept life’s beautiful things. It is the hard things in life that are hard to accept. The sweet spot is both by accepting the fact that they are what they are.
- [Talk + Meditation: Good Intentions ](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-good-intentions/) - A reflective talk on values, moral choice, and how taking refuge in your good intentions can guide your life with clarity and heart.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Create a Year You’ll Love](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-create-a-year-youll-love/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how we can put our key values into action in 2026.
- [Find Your Own Way](https://rickhanson.com/find-your-own-way/) - In the body or the mind, there is no life without goals. Trying to “transcend” goals is itself a goal. The only question is: Are your goals good ones?
- [Make Good Bargains](https://rickhanson.com/make-good-bargains/) - Life is full of tradeoffs between benefits and costs. Sometimes the rewards of going for a run, getting fresh air, and improving health may be worth the cost of losing half an hour of work time while gaining a pair of achy legs.
- [Being Well Podcast: Who You’ll Be This Year: Values, Goals, and a Different Kind of Resolution](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-who-youll-be-this-year-values-goals-and-a-different-kind-of-resolution/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest make the case that most resolutions fail because they focus on the wrong things: outcomes and behaviors rather than key values.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Prevent and Release Needless Anxiety](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-prevent-and-release-needless-anxiety/) - Anxiety is a normal human experience, but excessive or chronic anxiety can wear us down and be detrimental to our long-term happiness and health.
- [See Deep Wants](https://rickhanson.com/see-deep-wants/) - When deeper wants are recognized one feels seen and less likely to be reactive. See deep wants is understanding what someone may want and giving them an alternative offering which may reduce negative emotion and increased cooperation.
- [Being Well Podcast: Against Nonchalance: Why Caring is Cool in 2026](https://rickhanson.com/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](https://rickhanson.com/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.
- [Talk + Meditation: Finding a Way Forward through Grief](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-finding-a-way-forward-through-grief/) - Grief is normal — but we can get stuck in it. Learn how to release rumination, hold loss in love, and give yourself permission to move forward.
- [Let It Go](https://rickhanson.com/let_it_go/) - Are you holding onto at least one thing that’s way past its expiration date? Self-critical thoughts, obsessions, defensive about your issues, or drinking too much. These things are relatively straightforward to deal with, even though it could be difficult.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Therapy Wars: Science, Self-Help, and that IFS Article](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-therapy-wars-science-self-help-and-that-ifs-article/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore one of the major topics in psychology today: how to understand evidence-based care, "that IFS article," and the tension between mainstream and alternative approaches.
- [Talk + Meditation: Wisdom for Aging, Illness, and Mortality](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-wisdom-for-aging-illness-and-mortality/) - Aging, illness, and loss are inevitable. Learn how compassion and wisdom help you rest in what doesn’t change, with Dr. Rick Hanson
- [Being Well Podcast: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder with Dr. Blaise Aguirre](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-understanding-borderline-personality-disorder-with-dr-blaise-aguirre/) - Forrest is joined by psychiatrist Dr. Blaise Aguirre to discuss Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).
- [Talk + Meditation: Science Says You Need Social Support](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-science-says-you-need-social-support/) - Science shows feeling supported makes you healthier and happier. Learn how to recognize, receive, and grow the support already around you, with Rick Hanson.
- [Lean Into Good On First Waking](https://rickhanson.com/lean-into-good-on-first-waking/) - Try to influence your mind with positive and loving thoughts, when you wake.
- [Talk + Meditation: Thankfulness for What Protects and Nurtures You](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-thankfulness-for-what-protects-and-nurtures-you/) - Explore how to feel grounded and supported by the refuges in your life—people, places, practices, and inner strengths that steady you.
- [Being Well Podcast: Why Good People Get Stuck in Bad Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/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.
- [Say Thanks](https://rickhanson.com/say-thanks/) - Say Thanks - it's a small moment with big ripples. What do you feel when someone thanks you for something? For a comment in a meeting, a task done at home, an extra step taken, an encouraging word.
- [Being Well Podcast: Dr. Becky on Becoming the Person (and Parent) You Needed](https://rickhanson.com/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.
- [Talk + Meditation: Releasing Anxiety with Three Kinds of Insights](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-releasing-anxiety-with-three-kinds-of-insights/) - Find out why anxiety shows up and three small insights that can help you relax, feel safer inside, and handle life with more ease. Also try a guided meditation.
- [Find What's Sacred](https://rickhanson.com/find-whats-sacred/) - Sacred, has two meanings. One means spirituality, the other something precious. Try to identify what is sacred to you. Maybe you already know.
- [Being Well Podcast: Guilt Trips, Boundaries, and Non-Monogamy: November Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-guilt-trips-boundaries-and-non-monogamy-november-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag to answer listener questions about effective communication, guilt trips, and contentment.
- [Talk + Meditation: Empathy and Engaged Compassion](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-empathy-and-engaged-compassion/) - Learn how to stay empathic without getting overwhelmed, grow real compassion, and take wise, collective action to reduce suffering at its roots.
- [Empty the Cup](https://rickhanson.com/empty-the-cup/) - What's the "wallpaper" in your own mind? Enjoy emptiness in the forms, the space between thoughts as your mind calms and becomes still, when you have no plans at all.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Be Yourself: Authenticity in Relationships with Elizabeth Ferreira](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-be-yourself-authenticity-in-relationships-with-elizabeth-ferreira/) - Forrest and Elizabeth discuss how to be yourself and get on the same team in a relationship.
- [Talk + Meditation: Letting Go of Old Baggage for a Better Future](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-letting-go-of-old-baggage-for-a-better-future/) - Holding onto old regrets? Learn how to take responsibility without shame — and how forgiveness and compassion can set you free from old burdens.
- [Embrace Fragility](https://rickhanson.com/embrace-fragility/) - Be mindful of both actual and potential fragility in yourself and others. Do what's in your heart about what's fragile in our world. Be at peace with the inevitable: things fall apart. Yet there is something beautiful about this part of the truth.
- [Try a Softer Tone](https://rickhanson.com/try-a-softer-tone/) - There are three elements of tone: 1) Explicit content 2) Emotional subtext 3) Implicit statement about the nature of the relationship.
- [Being Well Podcast: Trauma Masterclass: Understanding and Repairing Our Hidden Wounds](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-trauma-masterclass-understanding-and-repairing-our-hidden-wounds/) - Today we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes to explore one of the most salient topics in psychology today: trauma.
- [Talk + Meditation: Appreciating Your Own Generosity and Good Intentions](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-appreciating-your-own-generosity-and-good-intentions/) - Even our messy, reactive parts come from good intentions. Learn how to rest in your own goodness and act from it more often.
- [Drop Tart Tone](https://rickhanson.com/when-you-speak-drop-tart-tone/) - People are more sensitive to tone. To paraphrase the poet Maya Angelou, people will forget what you said, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
- [Being Well Podcast: End Self-Punishment: Curiosity, Joy, and Real Growth with Joe Hudson](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-end-self-punishment-curiosity-joy-and-real-growth-with-joe-hudson/) - Forrest is joined by one of the world’s top executive coaches, Joe Hudson, for a conversation focused on how we can reduce self-punishment and live more fulfilling lives by welcoming our emotions and loosening identification with the critical mind.
- [Love Someone](https://rickhanson.com/love-someone/) - What can you do when there’s nothing you can do? Love Someone. Sometimes something happens. Perhaps your cat takes a turn for the worse, there’s a money problem, or it’s on a larger scale: maybe there’s been an election and you’re grappling with its
- [Talk + Meditation: How to Be Compassionate and Wise: Lessons from the Mahayana](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-how-to-be-compassionate-and-wise-lessons-from-the-mahayana/) - Discover how compassion, wisdom, and skillful action unite to create the awakened heart of the Mahayana path.
- [Change the Channel](https://rickhanson.com/change-the-channel/) - Sometimes when inner practices fail you, it helps to change the channel. A respite or some sort of pleasure will help to refuel you for challenges.
- [Being Well Podcast: Emotional Regulation: How to Feel Your Feelings Flexibly](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-emotional-regulation-how-to-feel-your-feelings-flexibly/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how emotional regulation helps us feel, manage, and process our emotions with greater skill and ease.
- [Talk + Meditation: Finding Brightness and Goodness in a Troubled World](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-finding-brightness-and-goodness-in-a-troubled-world/) - Ajahn Nisabho explores how to cleanse the heart like gold—refining virtue, forgiveness, and love amid life’s impurities.
- [Stay Right When You're Wronged](https://rickhanson.com/stay-right-when-youre-wronged/) - Blasting another person with anger is like throwing hot coals with bare hands: both people get burned. Speak calmly and from your heart, even when wronged.
- [Being Well Podcast: Trauma or Personality, When to Walk Away, and Burnout: October Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-trauma-or-personality-when-to-walk-away-and-burnout-october-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag to answer listener questions about trauma and its impact on personality, boundaries, anger, and burnout.
- [Talk + Meditation: How to Shift Your Thoughts and Feelings about Others](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-how-to-shift-your-thoughts-and-feelings-about-others/) - Discover how to stay kind and grounded — even when others are difficult — with insights from Rick Hanson and the Buddha’s timeless wisdom.
- [Rest](https://rickhanson.com/rest/) - Encourage your mind to come to rest at least occasionally. Tell the truth to yourself about how much time you actually - other than sleep.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Psychology of Resentment: Over-Functioning, Repression, and Repair](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-psychology-of-resentment-over-functioning-repression-and-repair/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest unpack how resentment - rooted in feeling wronged and powerless - damages relationships, and share ways to move from rumination toward agency, communication, and repair.
- [Talk + Meditation: Finding What’s [Reassuringly] Reliable in an Unreliable World](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-finding-whats-reassuringly-reliable-in-an-unreliable-world/) - Find lasting steadiness in turbulent times by resting in presence, good intentions, love, awareness, nature, and the unconditioned.
- [Be the Body](https://rickhanson.com/be-the-body/) - The fabric of your mind is woven by your body. Focus on what others communicate, and try to receive that as a valuable offering. Open your mind to the good that is implicit or down deep in the other person.
- [Being Well Podcast: What if You Aren’t Broken? Carl Rogers and Humanistic Psychology](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-what-if-you-arent-broken-carl-rogers-and-humanistic-psychology/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore humanistic psychology, the mid-20th century movement that redefined how therapists relate to clients.
- [Talk + Meditation: Wise Effort in Relationships: Building Bridges, Letting Go, and Opening Up](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-wise-effort-in-relationships-building-bridges-letting-go-and-opening-up/) - Discover how “wise effort” can transform relationships—finding balance, letting go, and building bridges of connection with openness and compassion.
- [Know Where You Stand](https://rickhanson.com/know-where-you-stand/) - We need to know the facts: is the stove turned off, do I have health insurance, does my partner love me, are the people who work for me getting the job done? We also need to know our values: what is fair, decent, good, and proper.
- [See Your Part](https://rickhanson.com/see-your-part/) - Acknowledging one's own part in a difficult situation is one of the hardest - and I think most honorable - things a person can do.
- [Being Well Podcast: AI Therapy: Should You Be Concerned? with Dr. Nick Jacobson](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-ai-therapy-should-you-be-concerned-with-dr-nick-jacobson/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest are joined by Dr. Nick Jacobson, to explore the risks and opportunities of AI therapy: Can a chatbot be good at therapy?
- [Talk + Meditation: Wise Effort in Relationships: 3 Blocks to Being a Positive Energizer](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-wise-effort-in-relationships-3-blocks-to-being-a-positive-energizer/) - Join Diana Hill to learn how to bring your strengths into relationships with wise effort—avoiding old stories, avoidance, and clinging—while nurturing true connection.
- [Stand up to Bullies](https://rickhanson.com/stand-up-to-bullies/) - Bullying at all scales causes much suffering. What can we do? Recognize bullying and its enablers. Protect yourself, strengthen alliances with others, and stand up and speak up as best you can.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Have a (Good) Life Crisis: Authenticity, Healthy Discontent, and the Anxiety of Choice](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-have-a-good-life-crisis-authenticity-healthy-discontent-and-the-anxiety-of-choice/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how to use a life crisis productively, drawing on developmental stage theories, existential philosophy, literature, personal experience, and Rick’s clinical work.
- [Talk + Meditation: How to Stay Present Longer](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-how-to-stay-present-longer/) - Learn how concentration deepens mindfulness, steadies the mind, and brings peace, clarity, and joy—even amid distractions and emotional turbulence.
- [Relax, You've Arrived](https://rickhanson.com/relax-youve-arrived/) - Part of this comes from our biological nature. To survive, animals - including us - have to be goal-directed, leaning into the future. This focus - can get confused and stressful.
- [Key Points of Awareness - Part I](https://rickhanson.com/key-points-awareness-part/) - What is awareness, and why is it good for us?
- [Eddies in the Stream](https://rickhanson.com/eddies-in-the-stream/) - Like eddies in a stream, all things—stars, thoughts, moments—arise and pass. Resting in this flow, we find freedom, peace, and deep belonging.
- [Being Well Podcast: People Pleasing and the Fawn Response with Meg Josephson](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-people-pleasing-and-the-fawn-response-with-meg-josephson/) - Forrest and therapist Meg Josephson explore the fawn response, a survival strategy where safety is sought through people pleasing.
- [Talk + Meditation: Just Do the Right Thing](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-just-do-the-right-thing/) - Caught between worry, effort, and letting go? Learn how to release what you can’t control, do the next right thing, and find peace in the middle.
- [Remember the Big Things](https://rickhanson.com/remember-big-things-2/) - In every life, reminders arrive about what's really important. While it's good advice not to sweat the small stuff, we also need to nurture the large stuff.
- [Talk + Meditation: How to Face Challenges without Suffering](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-how-to-face-challenges-without-suffering/) - Learn how to meet life’s challenges with strength and clarity—reducing stress, letting go of struggle, and finding peace even in hard times.
- [Talk + Meditation: How to Feel Lived by Love](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-how-to-feel-lived-by-love/) - Discover how to feel supported by life and “lived by love.” Shift from striving to receptivity, deepen trust, and bring compassion into every moment.
- [Talk + Meditation: Getting Better At Pleasure! A Taxonomy of the Many Buddhist Joys](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-getting-better-at-pleasure-a-taxonomy-of-the-many-buddhist-joys/) - Discover the Buddha’s 5 kinds of happiness—from fleeting pleasures to lasting peace—and learn why some joys burn out while others bring freedom.
- [Being Well Podcast: Anxious-Avoidant Relationships, Narcissism, and Insight to Action: Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-anxious-avoidant-relationships-narcissism-and-insight-to-action-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag to answer questions about complex situations where good process really matters, including anxious-avoidant relationships.
- [Make The Offering](https://rickhanson.com/make-the-offering/) - Try considering your contributions as offerings, particularly the little things. Listen to your heart for offerings calling to be expressed. Maybe it's the offering of never speaking out of anger, or really starting that novel, or determining to give love each day.
- [Being Well Podcast: Limerence: The Psychology of Romantic Obsession with Brandy Wyant](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-limerence-the-psychology-of-romantic-obsession-with-brandy-wyant/) - Forrest and therapist Brandy Wyant discuss limerence, an intense and often one-sided state of romantic obsession.
- [Meditate](https://rickhanson.com/meditate/) - Meditation is to the mind what aerobic exercise is to the body.
- [Being Well Podcast: Mingyur Rinpoche: A Meditation Master on Anxiety, Awareness, and Awakening](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-mingyur-rinpoche-a-meditation-master-on-anxiety-awareness-and-awakening/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest are joined by Mingyur Rinpoche, a renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher, to explore calming anxiety with awareness, relaxing unhealthy wanting, and finding a deeper sense of our innate goodness.
- [Talk + Meditation: The Power of One Connection](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-the-power-of-one-connection/) - Sometimes one compassionate glance or word can change everything. Discover the power of connection with Lakiba Pittman.
- [Put No One Out of Your Heart](https://rickhanson.com/put-no-one-out-of-your-heart/) - It may feel necessary to distance yourself from another person for a while or forever but you never have to put anyone out of your heart.
- [Talk + Meditation: The Joy in Not-Knowing](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-the-joy-in-not-knowing/) - Feeling overwhelmed or stuck in certainty? Explore the surprising peace of not-knowing and how beginner’s mind can free you from stress and suffering.
- [Being Well Podcast: 9 Lessons from the Great Minds of Psychoanalysis](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-9-lessons-from-the-great-minds-of-psychoanalysis/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the evolution of psychoanalysis after Freud, highlighting key ideas from figures like Adler, Klein, Winnicott, and Hillman.
- [Talk + Meditation: Why We Suffer—and How to Stop Adding to the Pain](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-why-we-suffer-and-how-to-stop-adding-to-the-pain/) - Learn how to face life’s changes and challenges without adding extra suffering, using Buddhist wisdom and practical tools for inner peace.
- [Lower the Pressure](https://rickhanson.com/lower-the-pressure/) - The pressure activates motivational circuits but has inherent collateral damage. Pressure activates ancient motivational circuits that were very effective in keeping our ancestors alive but even at best, there is an inherent collateral damage.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Good That Is Still True](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-good-news-thats-still-true/) - Feeling overwhelmed or downhearted by life? Explore simple, practical ways to face challenges, find the good, and build resilience with wisdom and compassion.
- [Being Well Podcast: Reclaiming Anger: Trauma, Repression, and Healthy Protest with Elizabeth Ferreira](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-reclaiming-anger-trauma-repression-and-healthy-protest-with-elizabeth-ferreira/) - Forrest and associate therapist Elizabeth Ferreira talk about healthy (and unhealthy) anger.
- [Lived By Love](https://rickhanson.com/lived-by-love/) - Encourage love in all its forms to flow through you. Implicitly, and more fundamentally, this practice means a relaxed opening into the love – in a very very broad sense – that is the actual nature of everything.
- [Being Well Podcast: Psychoanalysis: Therapy’s Controversial Origins](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-psychoanalysis-therapys-controversial-origins/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the ideas, context, and legacy of psychoanalysis, the often-controversial origin point for modern therapy.
- [Talk + Meditation: Compassion, Kindness, Joy, and Equanimity](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-compassion-kindness-joy-and-equanimity/) - How to balance effort and letting go in meditation and life. Explore compassion, joy, equanimity, and inner peace with Dr. Rick Hanson.
- [Pet the Lizard](https://rickhanson.com/pet-the-lizard/) - The brain is highly integrated, so these three key functions - avoiding, approaching, and attaching - are accomplished by all parts of the brain working together.
- [Hug the Monkey](https://rickhanson.com/hug-the-monkey/) - Hug the monkey inside yourself helps satisfy an innate human need for connection can remedy old pain and provides that fundamental human sustenance: love.
- [Being Well Podcast: Is Self-Help Making You Miserable?](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-is-self-help-making-you-miserable/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore what's really wrong with the self-help industry, going beyond the obvious pseudoscience and snake oil to examine deeper structural issues.
- [Talk + Meditation: The Surprising Power of Active Nonviolence](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-the-surprising-power-of-active-nonviolence/) - Discover how active nonviolence offers a powerful, practical path to transform conflict, foster connection, and create real change—without fueling more harm.
- [Give Over to Good](https://rickhanson.com/give-over-to-good/) - Give over to good and let this good be your guiding principle. Just One Thing Newsletter.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Freeze Response, Gifted Kid Syndrome, and BPD: July Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-freeze-response-gifted-kid-syndrome-and-bpd-july-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest answer listener questions about perfectionism, the freeze response, trauma, and relationships.
- [Talk + Meditation: How to Find Peace in Impermanence](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-how-to-find-peace-in-impermanence/) - Struggling with constant change? In this talk, explore how embracing impermanence can ease anxiety, loosen clinging, and open the door to deeper peace.
- [Feel the Support](https://rickhanson.com/jot-feel-the-support/) - The more you feel supported by the people that care about you, by the natural world, and by your own capabilities, the better you'll feel. Plus your load won't seem so heavy, and you'll be more able to carry it. By focusing on the support that truly does exist for you, you can have a sense of ease, relief, calming, or happiness.
- [Being Well Podcast: How Real Change Happens with Elizabeth Ferreira](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-real-change-happens-with-elizabeth-ferreira/) - Forrest is joined by associate therapist Elizabeth Ferreira to discuss parts work, psychological defenses, and how real change happens.
- [Be Home](https://rickhanson.com/be-home/) - When the body is not disturbed by hunger, thirst, pain, or illness, and when the mind is not disturbed by threat, frustration, or rejection, then most people settle into their resting state, which is our "home base" - our fundamental nature as human beings. Your body and mind want to come home: that’s where energy is conserved for the marathon of life. Try this practice to help yourself come home more naturally.
- [Being Well Podcast: Why Modern Life Doesn’t Make Us Happy with Dr. Bill von Hippel](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-why-modern-life-doesnt-make-us-happy-with-dr-bill-von-hippel/) - Life today is safer and more comfortable than ever, yet we still feel unhappy, lonely, and anxious. Find out why from psychologist Dr. Bill von Hippel.
- [Talk + Meditation: Respecting and Relieving Suffering](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-respecting-and-relieving-suffering/) - Minimizing pain—yours or others’—only deepens suffering. By respecting and relieving suffering with strength and compassion we can grow the strengths you need to heal.
- [Gift Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/gift-yourself/) - When you give more to yourself, you have more to offer others.
- [Being Well Podcast: Terry Real: Great Relationships, True Intimacy, and Inner Child Work](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-terry-real-great-relationships-true-intimacy-and-inner-child-work/) - Forrest is joined by renowned couples therapist Terry Real to explore how we can get past our conditioning and build deeper, more meaningful connections.
- [Being Well Podcast: Rethinking Masculinity: Strength and Connection w/ Terry and Justin Real](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-rethinking-masculinity-strength-and-connection-w-terry-and-justin-real/) - Forrest is joined by renowned therapist Terry Real and his son Justin for a frank exploration of modern masculinity.
- [Being Well Podcast: Self-Sabotage: Why You Do What You Shouldn’t, and How to Stop](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-self-sabotage-why-you-do-what-you-shouldnt-and-how-to-stop/) - We all self-sabotage - procrastinate, pick fights, or pull back - and Dr. Rick & Forrest explore why and how to stop it in this episode.
- [Talk + Meditation: The Power of Appreciation - and How to Get More of It from Others](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-the-power-of-appreciation-and-how-to-get-more-of-it-from-others/) - Feeling unseen or unappreciated? Learn how generosity and appreciation support lasting inner strength, and what to do when others don't value your efforts.
- [Talk + Meditation: The Seductions of Healthy Desires](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-the-seductions-of-healthy-desires/) - Feeling overwhelmed, always striving, or burnt out—even from good intentions? Learn how to stay centered and content through your core practice.
- [See the Big Picture](https://rickhanson.com/see-big-picture/) - The tree or the forest? See the big picture. The vast majority of human acts each day are constructive: making meals, tending to children, saying hello, restraining anger, completing tasks, planting seeds, teaching, healing, nurturing, cooperating
- [Speak Truly](https://rickhanson.com/speak-truly/) - Perhaps the most powerful tool for your mental health - and certainly for the health of your relationships - is to speak truly.
- [What to Do When the Bottom Falls Out?](https://rickhanson.com/what-to-do-when-the-bottom-falls-out/) - It's normal to feel shocked, frozen, frightened, or outraged. But here are four fundamental strengths to help us feel and function better in difficult times.
- [Leave the Red Zone](https://rickhanson.com/leave-the-red-zone/) - In a busy life, each day gives you dozens of opportunities to leave the Red zone and move toward Green. Each time you do this, you gradually strengthen the neural substrates of Green, one synapse at a time.
- [Meditation + Talk: Lead with Peace and Purpose](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-lead-with-peace-and-purpose/) - Guest teacher Mandar Apte explored one of the central dilemmas of our time: how do we stay hopeful and take meaningful action in a world overwhelmed by violence, division, and despair?
- [Feel Already Full](https://rickhanson.com/feel-already-full/) - Craving is pointless; the truth is there's always an underlying fullness already. While the truth of futility is that it is hopeless to crave, the truth of fullness is that craving is unnecessary.
- [Being Well Podcast: OCD and Anxiety Disorders with Kimberley Quinlan](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-ocd-and-anxiety-disorders-with-kimberley-quinlan/) - Forrest is joined by Kimberley Quinlan to explore one of the most misunderstood anxiety disorders: obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Calm the Biological Machinery of Stress and Suffering](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-calm-the-biological-machinery-of-stress-and-suffering/) - Feeling overwhelmed or stressed? Learn how your nervous system works—and simple, science-backed ways to calm down, open up, and feel more present and content.
- [Don't Quarrel](https://rickhanson.com/do-not-quarrel/) - It's one thing to stick up for yourself & others. It's a different matter to get caught up in wrangles, contentiousness - in a word: quarrels.
- [Being Well Podcast: People Pleasing, AI Therapy, and Sexual Transference: May Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-people-pleasing-ai-therapy-and-sexual-transference-may-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest open the mailbag and answer questions from listeners about people pleasing, the potential (and pitfalls) of using AI as a therapist, and what to do when you develop strong feelings for your therapist.
- [Love Your Neighbor](https://rickhanson.com/love-your-neighbor/) - Kindness to others is enlightened self-interest. Compassion and kindness expresses an inner freedom.
- [Meditation + Talk: Key Steps in Your Personal Growth Journey](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-key-steps-in-your-personal-growth-journey/) - Discover six key turning points on the path of practice—from calming the mind to letting go—and come home to the peaceful strength already inside you.
- [Feed the Mouse](https://rickhanson.com/feed-the-mouse/) - When you feel fed - physically, emotionally, conceptually - you naturally let go of longing, disappointment, frustration, and craving. The hungry heart gets a full meal; goals are attained and the striving for them relaxes; one feels lifted by life as it is. What a relief! Feeling fed also helps you enjoy positive emotions such as pleasure, contentment, accomplishment, ease, and worth. As researchers have shown, these good feelings reduce stress, help people bounce back from illness and loss, strengthen resilience, draw attention to the big picture, and build inner resources. And when your own cup runneth over, studies have found that you're more inclined to give to others; feeling good helps you do good.
- [Being Well Podcast: Disorganized Attachment: Heal By Embracing Your Needs](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-disorganized-attachment-heal-by-embracing-your-needs/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore disorganized, or “fearful,” attachment, a complex style that occurs when emotional intimacy and distance both feel uncomfortable, and typically arises based on difficult life experiences.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Quiet Strength You Already Have Inside](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-quiet-strength-you-already-have-inside/) - Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or like you’re not enough? Learn how to stop striving, trust your inner wisdom, and tap into the quiet strength already in you.
- [Being Well Podcast: Living with Depression | Dr. Scott Eilers](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-living-with-depression-dr-scott-eilers/) - Forrest is joined by clinical psychologist Dr. Scott Eilers to explore how he both treats and lives with chronic depression.
- [Meditation + Talk: Four Ways to Deal with Life’s Challenges Without Suffering Them](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-four-ways-to-deal-with-lifes-challenges-without-suffering-them/) - Struggling with stress, regret, or overwhelm? Learn four powerful ways to calm your mind, stop overthinking, and find real peace—backed by brain science.
- [Refill Your Cupboard](https://rickhanson.com/refill-your-cupboard/) - Most parents are busy one way or another most of the time and hitting the red line on stress. They look around and wonder, where's the support?
- [See What's Likable](https://rickhanson.com/see-whats-likable/) - Liking feels good, and it encourages us to approach and engage the world. We're wired to like some things, but our liking or disliking depends greatly on what we pay attention to and our own perspective.
- [Being Well Podcast: Live Show: Yung Pueblo on Relationships, Change, and Mindfulness](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-live-show-yung-pueblo-on-relationships-change-and-mindfulness/) - Forrest is joined by poet and author Diego Perez - better known as Yung Pueblo - for a live conversation recorded at City Arts & Lectures in San Francisco.
- [Meditation + Talk: Engaged Buddhism - Including Today](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-engaged-buddhism-including-today/) - Explore how engaged Buddhism connects inner healing with outer change—practical ways to face systemic suffering with wisdom, compassion, and courage.
- [Enjoy Now](https://rickhanson.com/enjoy-now/) - Since it’s always now, now is eternal. The present moment is continually passing away, so relax and be open to this moment. Not planning, not worrying, not lost in thought.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Change Your Personality with Olga Khazan](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-change-your-personality-with-olga-khazan/) - Forrest is joined by someone who’s actually tried most of the things we talk about on the podcast - journalist and author Olga Khazan - to discuss how to change your personality.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Turn a Corner . . . for the Better](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-turn-a-corner-for-the-better/) - How can we let go of old hurts and turn a corner in our lives? Learn simple, heartfelt ways to heal, move forward, and find more peace inside.
- [Being Well Podcast: Emotionally Immature Parents: How They Shape Us, and How to Heal - with Dr. Lindsay Gibson](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-emotionally-immature-parents-how-they-shape-us-and-how-to-heal-with-dr-lindsay-gibson/) - Dr. Lindsay Gibson joins Forrest to explore emotional immaturity, the consequences of growing up with emotionally immature parents, and what we can do to change those patterns in adulthood.
- [Meditation + Talk: Three Ways to Live with Loss](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-three-ways-to-live-with-loss/) - Grief is inevitable—but with compassion, support, and steady presence, we can live well through loss. Explore five practices for healing and resilience.
- [Don't Beat Yourself Up](https://rickhanson.com/dont-beat-yourself-up/) - Try to understand what causes you to feel fault, resolve it and move on. Inner criticism tears you down. Commit to skillful corrections. Take a big breath and very deliberately name to yourself three strengths or virtues you have and let them sink in.
- [Being Well Podcast: Self-Concept: The Secret to Changing WHO You Are](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-self-concept-the-secret-to-changing-who-you-are/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick Hanson explore how self-concept, the invisible architecture of who we are, shapes our lives.
- [Meditation + Talk: Finding and Nurturing Your Compassionate Voice](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-finding-and-nurturing-your-compassionate-voice/) - Learn how self-compassion can soothe your inner critic, ease emotional pain, and reconnect you with your own worth, strength, and capacity to heal.
- [Be Benevolent](https://rickhanson.com/be-benevolent/) - Liking feels good, it encourages us to approach and engage the world. Know what benevolence feels like in your body, heart, and mind, and realize that it is natural and normal. Appreciate some of the benevolence that buoys you along. Most people are fair-minded, empathic, cooperative, compassionate, and kind: in a word, benevolent.
- [Being Well Podcast: Linking: The Secret to Rewiring Painful Memories](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-linking-the-secret-to-rewiring-painful-memories/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick explore one of his most powerful psychological tools: linking. Over time, linking can help us rewire the brain, softening the impact of painful memories.
- [Meditation + Talk: Stress Relief through Mindful Breathing](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-stress-relief-through-mindful-breathing/) - Learn how mindful breathing can ease stress and steady your mind. Dr. Rick Hanson shares practical tools to find calm and clarity in daily life.
- [See the Good in Others](https://rickhanson.com/see-the-good-in-others/) - See the good in others—it's a simple but very powerful way to feel happier and more confident and become more loving.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Get On the Same Team: Relationship Conflicts Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-get-on-the-same-team-relationship-conflicts-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest answer questions focused on navigating common relationship conflicts, focusing on situations where people need to find a middle path between different needs.
- [Meditation + Talk: Using the Enneagram as a Tool on the Spiritual Path](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-using-the-enneagram-as-a-tool-on-the-spiritual-path/) - Why do the same patterns keep pulling you off track? Explore how the Enneagram + Buddhist psychology reveal—and help transform—your core habits.
- [Buddha’s Brain: Preface to the Fifteenth Anniversary Edition](https://rickhanson.com/buddhas-brain-preface-to-the-fifteenth-anniversary-edition/) - Discover the newly written preface to the 15th anniversary edition of Buddha’s Brain—a heartfelt look at the book’s origins and its enduring impact.
- [Tune Into Others](https://rickhanson.com/tune-into-others/) - Imagine being aware of the surface behavior of the people around you but oblivious to their inner life while they remain unmoved by your own.
- [Being Well Podcast: Releasing Obsessive Thoughts: Rumination, OCD, and Dealing with Fear](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-releasing-obsessive-thoughts-rumination-ocd-and-dealing-with-fear/) - On the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson explore why we get trapped in certain thoughts, the negative effects of rumination, and OCD.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Find Your Path in Life with David Epstein](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-find-your-path-in-life-with-david-epstein/) - Bestselling author David Epstein joins the Being Well Podcast to explore how to find your path in life, the problem with 10,000 hours, and why generalists triumph in a specialized world.
- [Talk: Working Productively With Our Hindrances and Personality Patterns](https://rickhanson.com/talk-working-productively-with-our-hindrances-and-personality-patterns/) - Learn how your unconscious personality patterns shape your thoughts, reactions and relationships — and how to work productively with them.
- [Water Your Fruit Tree](https://rickhanson.com/nourish-yourself/) - Nourish the things that nourish you. Try to do one thing each day to. "Pass forward" a gift to the person you will be tomorrow . . . and a year from now.
- [Being Well Podcast: Rumination: How to Disrupt Obsessive Thoughts](https://rickhanson.com/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: Letting Go: Rumination, Breakups, and How to Stop Feeling Attached](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-letting-go-rumination-breakups-and-how-to-stop-feeling-attached/) - In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and Dr. Rick focus on one of life's most challenging but essential skills - letting go.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Stop Overthinking: Rumination, OCD, and Breaking the Self-Awareness Trap](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-stop-overthinking-rumination-ocd-and-breaking-the-self-awareness-trap/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick Hanson explore how we can stop overthinking and break the self-awareness trap: when knowing ourselves becomes an obstacle to change.
- [Meditation + Talk: Understanding and Cultivating Self-Worth](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-understanding-and-cultivating-self-worth/) - Feel like you're never enough? Learn how to shift from chasing approval to cultivating steady, unconditional self-worth—just as you are, with Kristine Claghorn
- [See the Person Behind the Eyes](https://rickhanson.com/see-the-person-behind-the-eyes/) - Everyone longs to be seen, known, to have our hopes and fears acknowledged. Can you see behind the mask a person wears?
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Get Your Life Together: The 90/10 Rule](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-get-your-life-together-the-90-10-rule/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick apply the 90/10 rule to psychology and self-help: what are the small handful of things that tend to make the biggest difference for people?
- [Meditation + Talk: Equanimity - What It Is, Why It’s Good, and How to Develop It](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-equanimity-what-it-is-why-its-good-and-how-to-develop-it/) - Feeling overwhelmed? Learn how to cultivate equanimity—stay calm, clear, and resilient in tough times with practical tools from Dr. Rick Hanson.
- [Speak From The Heart](https://rickhanson.com/speak-from-the-heart/) - Speaking from an open heart can seem so vulnerable yet be the strongest move of all. Naming the truth has great moral force.
- [The Power of Intention](https://rickhanson.com/power-intention/) - Set clear, wise intentions to shape your life. See the big picture, act with purpose, and stay committed to what truly matters. Small steps create lasting change.
- [Gratitude](https://rickhanson.com/gratitude-2/) - Practicing gratitude is an especially beneficial way to counter painful emotions and stress. Here are some thoughts and exercises about being grateful.
- [Relaxed and Content, Part 1](https://rickhanson.com/relaxed-content-part-one-activating-parasympathetic-wing-nervous-system/) - In this article, you’ll get a crash course in your own nervous system and how the PNS fits into it, mixed with lots of ways you can use to activate your own PNS.
- [Relaxed and Content, Part 2](https://rickhanson.com/relaxed-content-part-two-activating-parasympathetic-wing-nervous-system/) - Learn about the long-term results effects of chronic sympathetic nervous system activation, a simple but comprehensive strategy for dampening the sympathetic nervous system and fueling the “rest and digest” parasympathetic nervous system and more.
- [Neuroscience Perspectives on Spiritual Practices](https://rickhanson.com/neuroscience-perspectives-spiritual-practices/) - Here is a list of several insights on spiritual practice from a neuroscience perspective.
- [New Neuroscience and the Path of Awakening](https://rickhanson.com/buddhas-brain-the-new-neuroscience-and-the-path-of-awakening-inquiring-mind/) - We all want to be truly happy. The question is, how? In Buddhist practice, the “how” includes gradually transforming the mind – the seat of clinging in all its forms – to increase the causes of happiness and reduce the causes of suffering – ultimately, to complete Awakening.
- [Glossary: The Neurology of Awakening](https://rickhanson.com/the-neurology-of-awakening-using-the-new-brain-research-to-deepen-your-practice-glossary/) - Here is a glossary of terms from the Wise Brain Bulletin written by Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius.
- [The Two Wings of Psychological Growth and Contemplative Practice](https://rickhanson.com/two-wings-psychological-growth-contemplative-practice/) - Any form of psychological development requires two fundamental activities/skills/functions: being with what is and working with what is.
- [7 Facts About the Brain That Incline the Mind to Joy](https://rickhanson.com/seven-facts-brain-incline-mind-joy/) - Your mind and brain are deeply connected—your experiences shape your brain, and your brain shapes your life. Learn how to rewire your mind for lasting well-being.
- [Meditation + Talk: Living Your Values: Finding Peace and Resilience in a Chaotic World](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-living-your-values-finding-peace-and-resilience-in-a-chaotic-world/) - Dr. Daniel Ellenberg shares how to navigate chaos with clarity and compassion, and take action without burnout or hardening your heart.
- [Being Well Podcast: Improving Focus and Fixing Your Attention Span](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-improving-focus-and-fixing-your-attention-span/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore improving focus and fixing our attention spans in a world that is constantly trying to distract us.
- [Relax, You're Going to be Criticized](https://rickhanson.com/relax-youre-going-to-be-criticized/) - Criticism is unavoidable. Sometimes we take being criticized with good grace, other times it stings, and sometimes both are true. Here are some tips for accepting criticism, learning what you can from it, and moving on.
- [Being Well Podcast: Protecting Yourself from Narcissistic People with Dr. Ramani Durvasula](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-protecting-yourself-from-narcissistic-people-with-dr-ramani-durvasula/) - Dr. Ramani Durvasula, one of the world’s leading experts on narcissism and narcissistic abuse, joins Forrest to help us learn how to understand, identify, and recover from relationships with narcissistic people.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Prevent Life’s Wear and Tear - and Release the Past](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-prevent-lifes-wear-and-tear-and-release-the-past/) - Here is a fundamental truth: while pain is an inevitable part of life, much of our suffering is not. Here are 3 strategies for reducing life's wear and tear.
- [See Beings, Not Bodies](https://rickhanson.com/see-beings-not-bodies/) - When we encounter someone, the mind summarizes and simplifies tons of details. Though fast and efficient this process has lots of problems. As our ancestors evolved, rapid sorting of friend or foe was very useful but is it still.
- [Being Well Podcast: What to Do When Your Worst Fears Come True: Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-what-to-do-when-your-worst-fears-come-true-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag and answer questions from listeners, many of which focused on anxiety experiences and when our worst fears come true.
- [Meditation + Talk: Finding an Authentic Core of Calm Strength](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-finding-an-authentic-core-of-calm-strength/) - Feeling stressed and uncertain? Explore how to navigate difficult emotions without being overwhelmed, and create an authentic feeling of calm.
- [Meditation + Talk: Interbeing and the Beloved Community](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-interbeing-and-the-beloved-community/) - Explore the connection between Black History, mindfulness, and Buddhism with Dr. Anne Roise, and discover how spirituality and activism intertwine for change.
- [Being Well Podcast: Learning to Trust Yourself: How to Stop Self-Abandonment](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-learning-to-trust-yourself-how-to-stop-self-abandonment/) - In this special episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick and Forrest explore becoming more self-reliant and learning to trust yourself.
- [Pay Attention](https://rickhanson.com/pay-attention/) - Controlling your attention - being able to place it where you want it and keep it there, being able to pull it away from what's bothersome or pointless.
- [Being Well Podcast: Everything I Wish I’d Known: A Guide to Personal Growth](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-everything-i-wish-id-known-a-guide-to-personal-growth/) - In this episode, Forrest focuses on the key lessons from 400 episodes of Being Well, giving you a tailored guide to personal growth.
- [Meditation + Talk: What Should You Do About Your . . . Shoulds?](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-what-should-you-do-about-your-shoulds/) - The weight of constant "shoulds" can be exhausting with self-criticism, regret, and frustration. Learn a more sustainable and freeing way to motivate yourself.
- [Keep Your Eyes on the Prize](https://rickhanson.com/keep-eyes-prize/) - The most important things often get pushed to the sidelines. But if you don't make a sanctuary for what is important, it will get overrun B and C priorities.
- [Feed the Wolf of Love](https://rickhanson.com/feed-the-wolf-of-love/) - There are two wolves in ones heart, a wolf of hate and a wolf of love. The wolf of hate breeds alienation and conflict with others. The wolf of love is fed with our hearts, hope and by our sense of what's good.
- [Grow A Key Inner Strength](https://rickhanson.com/grow-key-inner-strength/) - What's your "Vitamin C?" "Vitamin C" is. Daily life is full of opportunities to notice or create experiences of inner strength, a psychological resource. Take it into yourself, making it a part of you.
- [Meditation + Talk: Remembering Our True Nature](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-remembering-our-true-nature/) - Feeling disconnected? Maria Paula Jimenez helps you reclaim your true nature with mindfulness and compassion with an inspiring talk and guided meditation.
- [Lighten Up](https://rickhanson.com/lighten-up/) - You can open to a sense of freedom and autonomy where you get to decide what you could stop doing and lighten up.
- [Being Well Podcast: Healing Attachment Wounds with Elizabeth Ferreira](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-healing-attachment-wounds-with-elizabeth-ferreira/) - Somatic therapist Elizabeth Ferreira joins the show to help us understand ways of healing attachment wounds and developing more secure forms of relating.
- [Meditation + Talk: Responding Effectively to the Crises and Craziness of Our Time](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-responding-effectively-to-the-crises-and-craziness-of-our-time/) - Join guest teacher Dr. Roger Walsh for practical tips to transform overwhelm into clarity, compassion, and purposeful action.
- [Kindness to You is Kindness to Me; Kindness to Me is Kindness to You](https://rickhanson.com/kindness/) - True kindness is a two-way street: caring for others eases your mind; caring for yourself strengthens your heart. From this balance, joy and connection grow.
- [How Gratitude Can Change Your Life](https://rickhanson.com/how-gratitude-can-change-your-life/) - ”Without gratitude, life can be lonely, depressing and impoverished. Gratitude enriches human life. It elevates, energizes, inspires and transforms, and those who practice it will experience significant improvements in several areas of life including relationships, academics, energy level and even dealing with tragedy and crisis.”
- [Self-Worth Exercises](https://rickhanson.com/self-worth-exercises/) - Exercises to encourage you to keep moving from shame to worth.
- [Train Your Brain: From Anger to Peace](https://rickhanson.com/train-brain-anger-peace/) - Why is skillful interaction with our angry emotions so necessary? It’s because anger is both one of the most effective social tools for achieving short range results, and one of the most toxic emotions to ourselves and our family/social networks.
- [Being Well Podcast: Navigating Situationships: How to Get What You Really Want](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-navigating-situationships-how-to-get-what-you-really-want/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick explore "situationships" – those poorly defined, boundary-free relationships that exist in a gray area between friendship and committed dating.
- [Being Well Podcast: Limerence, Love, and Life Transitions: January Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-limerence-love-and-life-transitions-january-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest begin the mailbag by exploring limerence – an obsessive form of romantic attraction – and offer practical recommendations for working with one-sided infatuation.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Power of Patience](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-power-of-patience/) - Discover how patience can help you navigate life’s frustrations and paradoxes, and cultivate calm, resilience, and wisdom in the face of everyday challenges.
- [Be at Peace with the Pain of Others](https://rickhanson.com/be-peace-pain-others/) - Being at peace with others’ pain helps us be supportive of their pain.
- [Admit Fault And Move On](https://rickhanson.com/admit-fault-move/) - Get beyond the hassle and bad feelings by admitting fault. Remind yourself how it's in your own best interest to admit fault and move on. It takes a strong person to admit fault, and it puts us in a stronger position with others.
- [Being Well Podcast: Beyond Resolutions: Discover What You Want in 2025](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-beyond-resolutions-discover-what-you-want-in-2025/) - Why do New Year's resolutions usually fail by February? Forrest and Dr. Rick explore why traditional goal-setting falls short and offer a new approach to creating lasting change.
- [Receive Generosity](https://rickhanson.com/receive-generosity/) - Life shows us generosity in a magnitude of ways including our senses and the natural world. The best thing we can do is to receive generosity.
- [Being Well Podcast: Attachment Masterclass: Sue Johnson, Rick Hanson, Julie Mennano, and Elizabeth Ferreira](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-attachment-masterclass-sue-johnson-rick-hanson-julie-mennano-and-elizabeth-ferreira/) - In this special episode of Being Well, Forrest is joined by four leading experts for a masterclass on the science of attachment.
- [Meditation + Talk: Speaking Wisely - Even If Others Aren’t](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-speaking-wisely-even-if-others-arent/) - Feeling unheard or stuck in relationships? Get mindfulness-based tools to navigate conflict, stay grounded, and foster deeper understanding and connection.
- [Take in the Good](https://rickhanson.com/take-in-the-good/) - Taking in the good is a brain-science savvy and psychologically skillful way to improve how you feel, get things done, and treat others.
- [Recognize Suffering in Others](https://rickhanson.com/recognize-suffering-in-others/) - Where does it hurt? The practice: Recognize suffering in others. We're usually aware of our own suffering, but seeing the suffering in others: that's not so common. All the news and pictures of disaster, murder, and grief that bombard us each day
- [Working with Challenging Child Temperaments](https://rickhanson.com/working-challenging-child-temperaments/) - Some children are naturally adaptable and cheerful. But many are not, so we’ve put together a package of approaches (on a foundation of loving nurturance and appropriate parental authority) that we’ve seen work in numerous families – many of which are useful for more easygoing kids as well.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Be a Good Listener - and Help Others Listen Better to You](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-be-a-good-listener-and-help-others-listen-better-to-you/) - Discover the power of deep listening to heal disconnection, reduce conflict, and nurture meaningful relationships—with clarity, empathy, and lasting well-being.
- [Being Well Podcast: Working with Your Parts: Complex PTSD, Dissociation, and Hypervigilance with Elizabeth Ferreira](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-working-with-your-parts-complex-ptsd-dissociation-and-hypervigilance-with-elizabeth-ferreira/) - Somatic therapist Elizabeth Ferreira joins Forrest to discuss complex PTSD, dissociation, and working with challenging emotions.
- [Being Well Podcast: Anxious and Avoidant in Relationship: The Pursuer-Distancer Dynamic](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-anxious-and-avoidant-in-relationship-the-pursuer-distancer-dynamic/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore why we're drawn to people who activate our insecurities, how anxiety manifests differently in those with anxious and avoidant attachment styles, and what we can all do to work with our natural tendencies more skillfully.
- [Twelve Good Things 2024](https://rickhanson.com/twelve-good-things-2024/) - Each year I use an issue of the Just One Thing newsletter to offer Twelve Good Things that I think are really wonderful and worth your attention. May you and those you love and the whole wide world be truly well, truly happy, and truly at peace. — O N E —Global Compassion Coalition The Global Compassion Coalition is
- [12 Good Things](https://rickhanson.com/12-good-things/) - Keeping with tradition, each year I offer a list of Twelve Good Things. I've paired each good thing with a fundamental inner strength: Learning, Mindfulness, Love, Resilience, Contentment, Integrity, Self-Worth, Courage, Social Intelligence, Motivation, Wisdom, and Peace. 1: Learning - Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence tells you how to
- [Twelve Good Things](https://rickhanson.com/twelve-good-things/) - Each year I dedicate one issue of the Just One Thing newsletter to Twelve Good Things that I feel are really worth your attention.
- [Twelve Good Things 2019](https://rickhanson.com/twelve-good-things-2019/) - Each year I use an issue of the Just One Thing newsletter to offer Twelve Good Things that I think are really wonderful and worth your attention. May you and those you love and in fact the whole wide world be truly well, truly happy, and truly at peace UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center
- [Twelve Good Things 2020](https://rickhanson.com/twelve-good-things-2020/) - Twelve Good Things that I think are really wonderful and worth your attention.
- [Twelve Good Things 2021](https://rickhanson.com/twelve-good-things-2021/) - Twelve Good Things that I think are really wonderful and worth your attention.
- [Rick's Recommended Books of 2024](https://rickhanson.com/ricks-recommended-books-of-2024/) - Books have brought me comfort, humor, knowledge, inspiration, and a lot of joy. Here are my favorites from 2024 — from Fiction to Spiritual Growth to Science.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Power of No](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-power-of-no/) - Struggling with boundaries or overcommitment? Learn the power of "no" to reclaim space for what matters, assert your needs, and find peace and clarity.
- [See Progress](https://rickhanson.com/see-progress/) - If you don't see progress in your own life, then you will feel stagnant, or declining. Learn to notice the things that are improving all around you.
- [Meditation + Talk: 4 Ways We Can Respond After the Election](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-4-ways-we-can-respond-after-the-election/) - Feeling unsettled? Remember: be kind to yourself, protect your peace, stay informed, and focus on what you can control. Find comfort in connection & small joys.
- [Meditation + Talk: Radical Equanimity and Wise Speech](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-radical-equanimity-and-wise-speech/) - Discover radical equanimity: practical tools to stay calm, centered, and connected—even when life’s chaos and challenges push your buttons.
- [Being Well Podcast: Why We Don’t Change (and what you can do about it) with Dr. Ross Ellenhorn](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-why-we-dont-change-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-with-dr-ross-ellenhorn/) - Dr. Ross Ellenhorn joins the Being Well Podcast to explore our resistance to change, and the many good reasons we might have to stay just as we are.
- [Choose To Love](https://rickhanson.com/choose-love/) - Choose to love. Love is more about us being loving than about other people being lovable. In fact, choosing to love is twice loving: it's a loving act to call up the intention to love, plus there is the love that follows.
- [It’s Possible to Heal Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/its-possible-to-heal-yourself/) - Exercises to encourage you to keep moving from shame to worth.
- [Let Things Change](https://rickhanson.com/let-things-change/) - We have a choice: we can let things change and do what we can, or we can fight it and likely end up feeling even worse.
- [Being Well Podcast: Now What? What to Do When Things Fall Apart](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-now-what-what-to-do-when-things-fall-apart/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick explore a practical framework for navigating life's most challenging transitions, including what to do when things fall apart.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Make Good Choices: A System for Decision Making](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-make-good-choices-a-system-for-decision-making/) - Forrest and Rick Hanson explore how to make good choices by developing a reliable system for making choices that aligns with your values and goals.
- [Meditation + Talk: BLACK EARTH WISDOM: Afro-Indigenous Ecological Thought and Practice](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-black-earth-wisdom-afro-indigenous-ecological-thought-and-practice/) - Leah Penniman weaves ancestral wisdom, mindfulness, and stories to explore humanity's bond with the Earth, inspiring healing, gratitude, and ecological care.
- [Minimize Painful Experiences](https://rickhanson.com/minimize-painful-experiences/) - Painful experiences range from subtle discomfort to extreme anguish - and there is a place for them. Sorrow can open the heart.
- [Being Well Podcast: Rethinking Productivity with Cal Newport](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-rethinking-productivity-with-cal-newport/) - Cal Newport joins the podcast to explore slow productivity, deep work, and how we can achieve more by doing less.
- [Do Freely](https://rickhanson.com/do-freely/) - There's a way to relate to the endless To Do list that's freer and less burdened. When we "do freely" we refresh in having a sense of choice.
- [Take Heart](https://rickhanson.com/take-heart/) - What do you do when the bottom falls out? Take heart. By "taking heart," I mean several related things: Sensing your heart and chest, finding encouragement in what is good both around you and inside you, resting in your own warmth, compassion, and
- [Being Well Podcast: Relationship Mailbag: Finding Yourself, Boundaries, and Attachment](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-relationship-mailbag-finding-yourself-boundaries-and-attachment/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest answer listener questions focused on navigating relationship challenges, including distinguishing between healthy/unhealthy desires and finding yourself after a breakup.
- [Meditation + Talk: What to Do If You’re Feeling Disgusted](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-what-to-do-if-youre-feeling-disgusted/) - Explore how to handle feelings of disgust mindfully, keeping a moral view without disconnecting or losing compassion and clarity amidst challenges.
- [Don't Be Intimidated](https://rickhanson.com/dont-be-intimidated/) - Humans are vulnerable to being alarmed, manipulated, and even intimidated by threats, both real ones and “paper tigers.” Understanding how your brain became so vigilant and wary, and so easily hijacked by alarm, is the first step toward gaining more control over that ancient circuitry and is less rattled or distracted by exaggerated, manageable, or false alarms.
- [Being Well Podcast: Healing Your Inner Child](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-healing-your-inner-child/) - Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore what the inner child really is, how it manifests in our lives, and practical ways to work with this important part of ourselves, including healing your inner child.
- [Meditation + Talk: 5 Ways to Stop Spinning Your Wheels and Get What You Really Want](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-5-ways-to-stop-spinning-your-wheels-and-get-what-you-really-want/) - Dr. Diana Hills teaches you how to break free from exhausting cycles, realign with what matters, and unlock your strengths to find renewed purpose and vitality
- [Introduction - Using Your Brain to Change Your Mind](https://rickhanson.com/introduction-using-your-brain-to-change-your-mind/) - This is an excerpt of pages 1-10 from the book Just One Thing.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Anxiety Toolkit: How to Tolerate Uncertainty with Joshua Fletcher](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-anxiety-toolkit-how-to-tolerate-uncertainty-with-joshua-fletcher/) - Psychotherapist Joshua Fletcher joins Forrest for an in-depth exploration of anxiety and how to tolerate uncertainty.
- [Meditation + Talk: 5 Reasons Why You Are Working Hard and Going Nowhere](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-5-reasons-why-you-are-working-hard-and-going-nowhere/) - Feeling stuck? Learn 5 key psychological barriers that keep us from moving forward and how breaking free from "normal" unlocks new possibilities with Diana Hill
- [Receive Faces](https://rickhanson.com/receive-faces/) - Understanding facial expression gives us a chance to feel connected to others. Try to open to and receive the faces of others.
- [Being Well Podcast: Self-Compassion: How to Make it Work For You with Dr. Chris Germer](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-self-compassion-how-to-make-it-work-for-you-with-dr-chris-germer/) - Dr. Chris Germer, co-creator of the Mindful Self-Compassion program, joins Forrest to explore how we can work with the deeply ingrained shame that gets in the way.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Sacred Power of Friendships](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-sacred-power-of-friendships/) - In a time of widespread loneliness and isolation, it's crucial we recognize that our "friendship net worth" matters deeply.
- [The Arc of Desire](https://rickhanson.com/the-arc-of-desire/) - A child’s — or grownup’s — wants usually follow a particular path through time that I call an ‘arc of desire.’ Figuring out what a child wants requires understanding that whole arc.
- [One Breath at a Time](https://rickhanson.com/one-breath-at-a-time/) - To know yourself more deeply, track the breath inside yourself. Inhale, oxygen surges into your brain and activates and accelerates the heartbeat. Exhale, you activate the soothing peaceful nervous system. In the breath you are home in this moment, this Now.
- [Being Well Podcast: Understanding and Overcoming Social Anxiety: Attachment, Exposure, and Confidence](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-understanding-and-overcoming-social-anxiety-attachment-exposure-and-confidence/) - Whether you experience feelings of social anxiety or are trying to understand a friend who does, this episode will help you feel more confident and connected.
- [Meditation + Talk: Feeling Already Enough in Your Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-feeling-already-enough-in-your-relationships/) - When we realize that we already have enough connection, love, and worth, we can stop craving and chasing more and start feeling at peace in our relationships.
- [Have Compassion](https://rickhanson.com/have-compassion/) - To have compassion is to have the wish that beings not suffer combined with feelings of sympathetic concern.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Dark Triad: Dealing with Toxic People](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-dark-triad-dealing-with-toxic-people/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest unpack the Dark Triad of personality traits - narcissism, Machiavellianism, and sociopathy - and explore how these traits can manifest in everyday relationships.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Feel Already Content](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-feel-already-content/) - Learn how to break free from the loop of craving and chasing — living more in the present, without getting weighed down by stress and disappointment.
- [Give No One Cause to Fear You](https://rickhanson.com/give-no-one-cause-to-fear-you/) - Much of the time the fear we trigger in others is mild but people can feel threatened by stimuli they're not actually aware of.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Build a Securely Attached Relationship with Julie Menanno](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-build-a-securely-attached-relationship-with-julie-menanno/) - Forrest sits down with marriage and family therapist Julie Menanno to explore one of the most crucial aspects of healthy relationships: secure attachment.
- [Accept Difficulty](https://rickhanson.com/accept-difficulty/) - When things are difficult, we often add a lot of unnecessary frustration, anxiety, and self-criticism by resisting the difficulty of them – often with an underlying attitude of “it shouldn’t be this way." Find more peace by accepting difficulty instead of getting aggravated by it.
- [Meditation + Talk: Ways of Cultivating Insight](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-ways-of-cultivating-insight/) - Cultivating Insight can offer real relief from suffering and frustration, and get us out of patterns that no longer serve us. Learn how with Oren Jay Sofer.
- [Being Well Podcast: Social Anxiety, Self-Advocacy, and Too Much Self-Help: September Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-social-anxiety-self-advocacy-and-too-much-self-help-september-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest dive into the mailbag, and answer questions from listeners focused on working with anxiety in ourselves, including social anxiety.
- [Meditation + Talk: Already Free of Fear, Already at Peace](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-already-free-of-fear-already-at-peace/) - Balance out stress, anxiety, and dissatisfaction by embracing a sense of already being enough, already being safe, and already being at peace.
- [Vote](https://rickhanson.com/vote-revised/) - Sometimes it’s natural to feel stunned, shocked, powerless. And natural to be flooded with rage or fear or an overwhelming sorrow. Still, even in the midst of all this, you can be mindful: aware and present, and not entirely swept away. Then at some point, you take a breath and look around and try to figure out what to do. One thing to do is to vote.
- [Being Well Podcast: Cognitive Bypassing, Traumatic Experiences, and Feeling Your Feelings with Simone Saunders](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-cognitive-bypassing-traumatic-experiences-and-feeling-your-feelings-with-simone-saunders/) - Forrest dives into cognitive bypassing - a common strategy many of us use to avoid feeling difficult emotions - with trauma therapist Simone Saunders.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Feel Already OK](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-feel-already-ok/) - It's easy to get caught up in chasing goals and fixating on what's wrong. By noticing what we already have, we can feel a sense of peace, contentment, and love.
- [Cling Less, Love More](https://rickhanson.com/cling-less-love-more/) - Clinging is never relaxed and has a sense of strain. As you cling less, it becomes natural for one to lighten up, have more compassion and forgive.
- [Being Well Podcast: Navigating Parenthood — What Every Parent Needs to Know](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-navigating-parenthood-what-every-parent-needs-to-know/) - Forrest explores parenthood and becoming a good dad with his father, clinical psychologist Dr. Rick Hanson.
- [Meditation + Talk: Steadying Your Mind through Finding Wholeness and Stillness](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-steadying-your-mind-through-finding-wholeness-and-stillness/) - Feeling Anxious? Learn two powerful practices that anchor you more firmly in the present moment and help with steadying your mind, with Dr. Rick Hanson.
- [Meditation + Talk: Three Ways to Steady Your Mind](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-three-ways-to-steady-your-mind/) - It's normal to feel overwhelmed by the chaos of modern life. Learn 3 practical ways to bring calm, clarity, and presence into your daily routine.
- [Being Well Podcast: Embracing Perfectionism with Katherine Morgan Schafler](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-embracing-perfectionism-with-katherine-morgan-schafler/) - Forrest explores how we can harness perfectionism’s strengths without getting captured by its vulnerabilities with therapist and author Katherine Morgan Schafler.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Live in an Anxious World: Uncertainty, Agency, and Resilience](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-live-in-an-anxious-world-uncertainty-agency-and-resilience/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest tackle the anxiety and uncertainty so many are feeling about the state of the world.
- [Ask Questions](https://rickhanson.com/ask-questions/) - Ask questions - it's one of the best ways to listen well. It shows you're paying attention, it gets things out in the open and it slows emotional conversations.
- [Meditation + Talk: Bottom-Up Healing and Growing](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-bottom-up-healing-and-growing/) - A "bottom-up" approach to challenges allows us to observe and engage with our emotions for deeper understanding and personal growth.
- [Hold Wants Lightly](https://rickhanson.com/hold-wants-lightly/) - Be aware of wanting inside your own mind. List wholesome wants that you would like to pursue more. Your wholesome wants will help crowd out the unwholesome ones.
- [Be Friendly](https://rickhanson.com/be-friendly/) - Friendliness is a down-to-earth approach that is welcoming and positive. Being friendly feels confident and happy, with a positive take on other people, moving toward the world instead of backing away from it.
- [Key Points of Letting Go](https://rickhanson.com/key-points-letting-go/) - "Let go a little, you'll have a little happiness. Let go completely, you'll be completely happy." Letting Go of Body Sensations Ordinary breathing, focusing on exhalation, intending to let go. Diaphragm breathing. Breath of fire. Heartmath: Breathing evenly through the heart with a positive emotion. Scanning the body and releasing tension. Progressive relaxation. Using imagery
- [Being Well Podcast: The Shadow: Individuation, Wholeness, and Becoming Your True Self](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-shadow-individuation-wholeness-and-becoming-your-true-self/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore one of the most interesting concepts in psychology: Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow and becoming our true self.
- [Meditation + Talk: Cultivating Patience with Loving Strength](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-cultivating-patience-with-loving-strength/) - Patience brings peace and allows us to pause and respond mindfully rather than react unskillfully—learn to apply it to your own inner and outer experiences.
- [Find Stillness](https://rickhanson.com/find-stillness/) - Wherever you find stillness enjoy it and let it feed you. Stillness is a source of clarity and peace. In stillness, you can find a refuge and some quiet amidst the noise. Give yourself the space, the permission, to be still in your mind.
- [Parenting from the Same Page](https://rickhanson.com/parenting-from-the-same-page/) - In this column, we will apply effective ways a mother and father can communicate to the sometimes thorny issues of of childrearing practices, who does what, sharing the load fairly, and money.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Deal with Other People’s Defenses](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-deal-with-other-peoples-defenses/) - Rick and Forrest explore the psychological and communication skills that will guide you in dealing with other people's defenses.
- [Meditation + Talk: Practicing with Unprecedented Sources of Anxiety](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-practicing-with-unprecedented-sources-of-anxiety/) - These days we feel anxious about events and issues that seem beyond our control. Get practices for recognizing exaggerated worries and managing emotions.
- [Enjoy The Good That Lasts](https://rickhanson.com/enjoy-the-good-that-lasts/) - Good lifts the heart and can turn passing experiences into lasting resources. Recognize the relative stability of good things. Enjoy it all. The more we recognize impermanence, the more we can take refuge in the good that lasts.
- [Being Well Podcast: Understanding the Flight Response: Anxiety, Avoidance, and Feeling Safe](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-understanding-the-flight-response-anxiety-avoidance-and-feeling-safe/) - Dr. Rick & Forrest discuss understanding the flight response to stress, which includes feelings of anxiety and fear, avoidant behavior, & an underlying sense of insecurity.
- [Being Well Podcast: PTSD and Politics with Jason Kander](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-ptsd-and-politics-with-jason-kander/) - Jason Kander joins Forrest to talk about his personal journey recovering from PTSD, the impact of his time serving in Afghanistan, and what we can do to better support veterans.
- [Being Well Podcast: Managing The Fight Response: Anger, Repression, and Self-Regulation](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-managing-the-fight-response-anger-repression-and-self-regulation/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest continue their series on the stress responses with the fight response to stress, exploring anger, repression, and self-regulation.
- [Being Well Podcast: Managing the Freeze Response: Dissociation, Emotional Shutdown, and Creating Safety](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-managing-the-freeze-response-dissociation-emotional-shutdown-and-creating-safety/) - In one of our favorite episodes to date, Dr. Rick and Forrest explore managing the freeze response in detail.
- [Meditation + Talk: Making Your Own Life](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-making-your-own-life/) - Feeling stuck? Or, know someone who is struggling, and resisting help or change? We can move forward and grow with wisdom and patience.
- [Getting More Help From Your Partner](https://rickhanson.com/getting-help-partner/) - Some couples are equal partners in the work of making a family, but not all. If you are one the many who would like more help from your partner, here are some suggestions for you.
- [Being Well Podcast: Breaking Out of a Depressed Mood](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-breaking-out-of-a-depressed-mood/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how we can break out of an episode of depressed mood.
- [Being Well Podcast: If You’re “Too Self-Aware,” Listen to This](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-if-youre-too-self-aware-listen-to-this/) - In this episode, Dr. Rick and Forrest explore what we can do if we feel like we’re “too self-aware.”
- [Being Well Podcast: The Fawn Response: People Pleasing, Self-Abandonment, and Standing Up for Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-fawn-response-people-pleasing-self-abandonment-and-standing-up-for-yourself/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest finish their series on the stress responses with the fawn response, which is an appeasement strategy where we try to manage stressful situations by giving others what they want.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Regulate Yourself with Elizabeth Ferreira](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-regulate-yourself-with-elizabeth-ferreira/) - Associate therapist Elizabeth Ferreira joins Forrest to explore how to regulate yourself better.
- [Being Well Podcast: Impermanence Anxiety – How to Live While Letting Go](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-impermanence-anxiety-how-to-live-while-letting-go/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick explore impermanence anxiety: the fears we have related to change, including how we can become more resilient in the face of change.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Navigate Common Arguments](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-navigate-common-arguments/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the four common structures of relationship disagreements, the subtle ways power shows up in our relationships, separating content from process, and how to stand your ground.
- [Find Your Ground](https://rickhanson.com/find-your-ground/) - What can you do when you're shaken? Find your ground. It's clear that we all need a place to stand. A physical place to be sure - hearth and home, land and sea, a bed to curl up in - but also psychological or spiritual places, such as feeling loved, a calm clear center inside
- [Being Resilient During Coronavirus](https://rickhanson.com/being-resilient-during-coronavirus/) - During times like this - with a pandemic such as the Coronavirus - it's natural to feel afraid, anxious, or threatened. But being consumed by fear causes wear and tear on the body, which actually undermines your safety. Here you'll find suggestions and resources for how to stay calm and be effective during this challenging time.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Change Your Perspective](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-change-your-perspective/) - Forrest and Rick explore what a healthy perspective looks like in practice and how we can change our perspectives over time.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Become Self-Confident](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-become-self-confident/) - We explore how we can improve our self-confidence, which helps us become psychologically flexible and create healthy boundaries with other people.
- [Being Well Podcast: Should You Become A Parent?](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-should-you-become-a-parent/) - On today’s episode, Dr. Rick and Forrest focus on one of the most important decisions we’ll make in life: the choice to become a parent.
- [Being Well Podcast: Mastering Change with Brad Stulberg](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-mastering-change-with-brad-stulberg/) - Brad Stulberg joins Forrest to explore how we can reshape who we are, navigate and embrace change, and become more resilient.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Polyvagal Theory and Recovering from Trauma with Dr. Stephen Porges](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-polyvagal-theory-and-recovering-from-trauma-with-dr-stephen-porges/) - Dr. Stephen Porges walks us through how lessons from polyvagal theory can be applied to recovering from traumatic experiences.
- [Being Well Podcast: What Really Helps Trauma? with Dr. Jacob Ham](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-what-really-helps-trauma-with-dr-jacob-ham/) - In one of the most interesting conversations we've ever had on the podcast, clinical psychologist Dr. Jacob Ham explores what really helps people work with - and be with - trauma.
- [Being Well Podcast: Highly Sensitive People, Repairing with Family, and “Talking About Talking”: November Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-highly-sensitive-people-repairing-with-family-and-talking-about-talking-november-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag and answer questions from listeners about repairing with family, highly sensitive people, and more.
- [Being Well Podcast: What Healthy Couples DON’T Do with Dr. Amy Morin](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-what-healthy-couples-dont-do-with-dr-amy-morin/) - Therapist Amy Morin joins Forrest to help us learn how to regulate our thoughts, manage our emotions, and become more psychologically flexible.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Become a NEW Person](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-become-a-new-person/) - Learn how to step out of the way you've been previously, and into a new way of thinking, doing, and being.
- [Being Well Podcast: The (real) Secret to Happiness: Attachment, Craving, and Enjoying Life](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-real-secret-to-happiness-attachment-craving-and-enjoying-life/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick focus on the secret to everyday happiness: learning how to like without wanting.
- [Being Well Podcast: Deeper Mindfulness with Dr. Danny Penman](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-deeper-mindfulness-with-dr-danny-penman/) - Author and meditation teacher Dr. Danny Penman joins the show to explore how we can help our brain interpret the world more accurately.
- [Being Well Podcast: Dealing with a Mental Health Crisis, Trauma and Meditation, and Getting Back on the Wagon: January Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dealing-with-a-mental-health-crisis-trauma-and-meditation-and-getting-back-on-the-wagon-january-mailbag/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick open up the mailbag to answer questions from listeners. How can we understand and support someone going through a mental health crisis? Is meditation enough to heal trauma? And what can we do about family members that just won’t change?
- [Being Well Podcast: Internal Family Systems: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with Dr. Richard Schwartz](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-internal-family-systems-healing-trauma-and-restoring-wholeness-with-dr-richard-schwartz/) - We're joined by Dr. Richard Schwartz, creator of the Internal Family Systems model of therapy, to explore how we can integrate all the aspects of who we are.
- [Being Well Podcast: Healing Cycles of Trauma with Dr. Mariel Buqué](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-healing-cycles-of-trauma-with-dr-mariel-buque/) - Dr. Mariel Buqué joins the podcast to help us learn how we can heal from the past, create healthier patterns, and break cycles of trauma.
- [Being Well Podcast: Getting More From 2024](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-getting-more-from-2024/) - In getting more from 2024, learn tactics to maximize your chances of achieving goals, and a simple system for reflecting on and learning from the year that was.
- [Being Well Podcast: Harnessing Your Generativity: The Secret to Productivity, Creativity, and Consistency](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-harnessing-your-generativity-the-secret-to-productivity-creativity-and-consistency/) - Dr. Rick joins Forrest for a deep dive into harnessing our natural generativity. How can we become more productive and creative, experience greater satisfaction, and lean into our biological drives to get more of what we want out of life?
- [Being Well Podcast: Finding Your Joy: The Holiday Special with Elizabeth Ferreira](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-finding-your-joy-the-holiday-special-with-elizabeth-ferreira/) - Forrest and Elizabeth welcome listeners into their home to talk about their changing relationship with the holidays and finding your joy.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to ADHD with Jessica McCabe](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-adhd-with-jessica-mccabe/) - ADHD is one of the most common and misunderstood conditions out there, and today we’re setting the record straight with author and YouTuber Jessica McCabe.
- [Being Well Podcast: Build Strong Relationships and Heal in Community with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-build-strong-relationships-and-heal-in-community-with-dr-joy-harden-bradford/) - Psychologist Dr. Joy Harden Bradford joins us to explore how we can apply lessons from group therapy to build stronger friendships.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Science of Hunger, Habits, and Changing Your Relationship with Food with Dr. Jud Brewer](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-science-of-hunger-habits-and-changing-your-relationship-with-food-with-dr-jud-brewer/) - On this episode, we’re taking the plunge and exploring the habit of eating when we’re not hungry with psychiatrist Dr. Jud Brewer.
- [Being Well Podcast: Healing Self-Abandonment: Anxious Attachment, Healthy Boundaries, and Creating Strong Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-healing-self-abandonment-anxious-attachment-healthy-boundaries-and-creating-strong-relationships/) - On today’s episode, Dr. Rick and Forrest explore self-abandonment, including anxious attachment, healthy boundaries, and creating strong relationships.
- [Being Well Podcast: Things We Wish We Knew in Our 20s](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-things-we-wish-we-knew-in-our-20s/) - On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick and Forrest share (roughly) 10 things they wish they’d known in their 20s.
- [Being Well Podcast: Working with Irrational Fears, Setting Healthy Boundaries, and Understanding Therapy: March Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-working-with-irrational-fears-setting-healthy-boundaries-and-understanding-therapy-march-mailbag/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick open up the mailbag and answer questions about working with irrational fears, creating separation from our thoughts and feelings, and setting healthy boundaries in dysfunctional families.
- [Being Well Podcast: Recovering from a Challenging Childhood](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-recovering-from-a-challenging-childhood/) - Recovering from a challenging childhood as an adult can be a difficult process, which is what we explore on this episode.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Make the Most of Your 20s with Dr. Meg Jay](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-make-the-most-of-your-20s-with-dr-meg-jay/) - Dr. Meg Jay, a specialist on what she calls the “defining decade,” joins Forrest to explore how we can make the most of our 20s.
- [Being Well Podcast: Dealing with Emotionally Immature People (and Parents) with Dr. Lindsay Gibson](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dealing-with-emotionally-immature-people-and-parents-with-dr-lindsay-gibson/) - Dr. Lindsay Gibson discusses practical tools for recognizing emotionally immature people, managing your relationships with them effectively, and establishing healthy boundaries.
- [Being Well Podcast: Dr. Peter Levine: Healing After Trauma](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dr-peter-levine-healing-after-trauma/) - Somatic psychology legend Dr. Peter Levine joins Dr. Rick and Forrest to explore how we can use body-based approaches to recover from traumatic experiences.
- [Being Well Podcast: Everything You Need to Know About Therapy](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-everything-you-need-to-know-about-therapy/) - In this mega-episode, clinical psychologist Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson explore everything you need to know about therapy.
- [Being Well Podcast: Becoming Self-Confident, Learning Healthy Relationship Skills, and Trusting Yourself: June Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-becoming-self-confident-learning-healthy-relationship-skills-and-trusting-yourself-june-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how to deal with chronically negative people, managing avoidant tendencies that get in the way of us finding a great relationship, and becoming self-confident.
- [Being Well Podcast: Elizabeth Ferreira: How to Create a Secure Relationship](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-elizabeth-ferreira-how-to-create-a-secure-relationship/) - Somatic trauma therapist Elizabeth Ferreira joins Forrest to explore how we can create a secure relationship.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Psychology of Manifesting: How to Create the Life You Want](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-psychology-of-manifesting-how-to-create-the-life-you-want/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick explore “manifesting:” the idea that our thoughts impact the world around us, and by changing those thoughts we can change our lives.
- [Being Well Podcast: Psychological Defenses: How to Understand (and Change) Your Mind and Behavior](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-psychological-defenses-how-to-understand-and-change-your-mind-and-behavior/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how our psychological defenses shape our actions, influence our relationships, and affect our overall well-being.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Become a Disciplined Person](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-become-a-disciplined-person/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick explore how to become a disciplined person, including how to make even frustrating tasks rewarding and learning to feel good when we do good.
- [Being Well Podcast: Why You’re Feeling Stuck - and How to Fix It](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-why-youre-feeling-stuckand-how-to-fix-it/) - On today’s episode, Dr. Rick and Forrest explore why we go through periods of feeling stuck, and what we can do about it.
- [Being Well Podcast: Depression and Self-Care, Accepting Love, and Building Stronger Relationships: July Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-depression-and-self-care-accepting-love-and-building-stronger-relationships-july-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest open the mailbag and answer questions focused on strengthening our relationships, including supporting friends and loved ones who are experiencing depression while also caring for ourselves.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Future of Wise Leadership Is Up to Us with Dr. Diana Hill](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-future-of-wise-leadership-is-up-to-us-with-dr-diana-hill/) - We all have the capacity to make a profound and lasting impact on others and the world around us. Here's a meditation and 7 Practices to Grow Stronger Together.
- [Meditation + Talk: Reflections on the Path of Practice](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-reflections-on-the-path-of-practice/) - Guest teacher Henry Shukman shares how the practice of being quiet and still can bring us to something deeper in our nature.
- [Lower Your Stress](https://rickhanson.com/lower-your-stress/) - It is important to feel good as often as possible, at least several times a day. Stop the urgency of the day and let quiet fill the air, let thoughts slow down. There is presence in this moment, and no worries about the future.
- [Meditation + Talk: Gathering and Dispersing: The Two Great Movements of the Heart](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-gathering-and-dispersing-the-two-great-movements-of-the-heart/) - If we focus too much on gathering, it can cause anxiety and stress. But dispersing fosters openness and reduces mental strain, leading to less suffering.
- [Forgive](https://rickhanson.com/forgive/) - Forgiveness frees you from the tangles of anger and retribution. Appreciate the value of forgiveness. Ask yourself: what does my grievance, my resentment, cost me? Cost others I care about? What would it be like to lay those burdens down?
- [Being Well Podcast: Childhood Trauma, Self-Sabotage, and Therapy: September Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-childhood-trauma-self-sabotage-and-therapy-september-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag and answer questions from listeners focused on getting the most we can out of therapy, processing old painful experiences, and sabotaging ourselves.
- [Being Well Podcast: Workaholism: Anxiety, Addiction, and Finding Balance in a Busy World](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-workaholism-anxiety-addiction-and-finding-balance-in-a-busy-world/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick explore what workaholism is really, the psychological functions it serves, and how it relates to other addictive behaviors.
- [Being Well Podcast: Becoming Emotionally Agile with Dr. Susan David](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-becoming-emotionally-agile-with-dr-susan-david/) - Forrest and Rick sit down with Dr. Susan David, the creator of the concept of Emotional Agility, or what allows us to navigate our complex emotions, make choices aligned with our values, and ultimately lead more authentic and fulfilling lives.
- [Being Well Podcast: Metabolism, Brain Energy, and Mental Health with Dr. Chris Palmer](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-emotional-intelligence-improving-self-awareness-self-regulation-and-empathy/) - Dr. Chris Palmer, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, joins Forrest to discuss the relationship between metabolic function and mental illness.
- [Being Well Podcast: Emotional Intelligence: Improving Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, and Empathy](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-emotional-intelligence-improving-self-awareness-self-regulation-and-empathy-2/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore emotional intelligence, including what’s “in” it, balancing emotional closeness and distance, and how we can become more self-aware, self-regulated, and empathic.
- [Being Well Podcast: Neuroplasticity Tools to Change Your (and your kid’s) Brain with Dr. Caroline Leaf](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-neuroplasticity-tools-to-change-your-and-your-kids-brain-with-dr-caroline-leaf/) - Dr. Caroline Leaf joins Rick and Forrest to explore how we can harness the power of neuroplasticity to clean up our mental mess…and teach our children to do the same.
- [Being Well Podcast: So You Want to Be a Therapist?](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-so-you-want-to-be-a-therapist/) - On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest speaks to five therapists and therapists-in-training to learn the lessons they wish they’d known when they started.
- [Being Well Podcast: Dan Harris: Mindfulness, Fear, and Love Without the Cringe](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dan-harris-mindfulness-fear-and-love-without-the-cringe/) - Dan Harris, author of 10% Happier, joins Dr. Rick and Forrest on the Being Well Podcast for a wide-ranging, open, and personal conversation. They explore dealing with anxiety and fear, sustaining a mindfulness practice, and accepting our nature while leaning into a new version of ourselves.
- [Being Well Podcast: Dealing with Criticism, Anxiety, and Dysfunctional Family Systems: July Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dealing-with-criticism-anxiety-and-dysfunctional-family-systems-july-mailbag/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick open up the mailbag and answer questions from listeners. They explore how we can thoughtfully take the input of other people, identify and meet our needs, deal with anxiety and the fear of failure, and approach a conversation about drug use with teenagers.
- [Being Well Podcast: Simplifying Self-Help: 7 Lessons for a Lifetime of Well-Being](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-simplifying-self-help-7-lessons-for-a-lifetime-of-well-being/) - There is a lot of complicated advice out there (including on this podcast) for how to improve our well-being. In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and Dr. Rick simplify the lessons they’ve learned from over 100 experts and 300 episodes.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Become Securely Attached](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-become-securely-attached/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick focus on one of the most common, and most important, questions they get about attachment theory: can we heal our attachment wounds, and become more securely attached?
- [Being Well Podcast: Time Management for Mortals with Oliver Burkeman](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-time-management-for-mortals-with-oliver-burkeman/) - Forrest is joined by bestselling author Oliver Burkeman for an exploration of what’s really at stake in what we call “time management”.
- [Being Well Podcast: Overcoming Procrastination: Unleashing Motivation and Creating a Pursuit Mindset](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-overcoming-procrastination-unleashing-motivation-and-creating-a-pursuit-mindset/) - Join Forrest and Dr. Rick as they explore how we can overcome avoidance and procrastination, unlock our motivation, and cultivate a "pursuit mindset."
- [Being Well Podcast: Staying Curious, Embracing Change, and Relating to Media with Michael Krasny](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-staying-curious-embracing-change-and-relating-to-media-with-michael-krasny/) - Rick and Forrest are joined by award-winning journalist Michael Krasny for a Being Well episode focused on how to stay curious, navigate times of transition, and relate to the modern media landscape in healthy ways.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Change Your Life: Self-Efficacy, Learned Helplessness, and Creating a Growth Mindset](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-change-your-life-self-efficacy-learned-helplessness-and-creating-a-growth-mindset/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how we can overcome learned helplessness and change our lives by developing self-efficacy: the ability to influence our environments and control our motivation and behavior.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-overcome-imposter-syndrome/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick explore how to overcome imposter syndrome, the common psychological experience of self-doubt and feeling like a fraud.
- [Being Well Podcast: Self-Help Fads and Finding What Really Works with mindbodygreen CEO Jason Wachob](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-self-help-fads-and-finding-what-really-works-with-mindbodygreen-ceo-jason-wachob/) - Jason Wachob, the Founder and Co-CEO of mindbodygreen, joins Forrest and Dr. Rick to separate fact from fiction in the self-help world and clarify what really matters.
- [Being Well Podcast: Attachment Theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy with Dr. Sue Johnson](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-attachment-theory-and-emotionally-focused-therapy-with-dr-sue-johnson/) - Dr. Sue Johnson, the founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), joins Dr. Rick and Forrest on the Being Well podcast to explore how insights from attachment theory can transform our relationships.
- [Being Well Podcast: Mailbag: Power in Relationships, Self-Worth, Motivation, and Personal Responsibility](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-mailbag-power-in-relationships-self-worth-motivation-and-personal-responsibility/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick explore age gaps and power in relationships, relating to people as ongoing processes, and avoiding having your personal growth practice turn you into a doormat.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Create Massive Change with Dr. Benjamin Hardy](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-create-massive-change-with-dr-benjamin-hardy/) - Dr. Benjamin Hardy helps us explore how we can create massive change by applying “10x thinking,” a mindset that embraces a radically different version of ourselves and our lives.
- [Being Well Podcast: Learning from Nature with Mark Coleman](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-learning-from-nature-with-mark-coleman/) - Mark shares his insights and experiences from years of leading wilderness retreats, and explains how reconnecting with the natural world can deepen mindfulness and enhance our well-being.
- [Being Well Podcast: Cognitive Bypassing: How to Get Out of Your Head](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-cognitive-bypassing-how-to-get-out-of-your-head/) - Cognitive bypassing occurs when we overthink to avoid feeling uncomfortable emotions like sadness, fear, or anger. In this episode, Forrest and Dr. Rick share their personal experiences with cognitive bypassing, and explore how we can step out of our heads, get in touch with our emotions, and live a more fulfilling life.
- [Being Well Podcast: ADHD 2.0 with Dr. John Ratey](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-adhd-2-0-with-dr-john-ratey/) - Forrest Hansont, Rick Hanson, and Dr. John Ratey debunk common misconceptions about ADHD, explore how ADHD works in the brain, and discuss the surprising strengths and vulnerabilities of ADHD.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Become Psychologically Flexible (from formerly rigid people)](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-become-psychologically-flexible-from-formerly-rigid-people/) - Just like how physical flexibility is the amount of stretch in our muscles, the ability they have to bend without breaking, psychological flexibility is the same quality in our minds. It helps us look at situations in new lights, be open to our emotions, let go of old versions of ourselves, and step into new ways of being.
- [Being Well Podcast: Stephanie Foo: Complex PTSD and Learning to Live With the Past](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-stephanie-foo-complex-ptsd-and-learning-to-live-with-the-past/) - One of the most fascinating aspects of the mind is how most of what’s going on in it lies outside of our awareness. In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and Dr. Rick explore the unconscious mind and the material we might find there. They talk about what the unconscious mind is, the purpose of the unconscious, repression, and what we can do to access, use, and release that unconscious material.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Unconscious Mind: What It Is and How to Use It](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-unconscious-mind-what-it-is-and-how-to-use-it/) - One of the most fascinating aspects of the mind is how most of what’s going on in it lies outside of our awareness. In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and Dr. Rick explore the unconscious mind and the material we might find there. They talk about what the unconscious mind is, the purpose of the unconscious, repression, and what we can do to access, use, and release that unconscious material.
- [Being Well Podcast: What We’ve Learned From 100 Experts](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-what-weve-learned-from-100-experts/) - On the (roughly) 300th episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and Dr. Rick share what they’ve learned from the many experts in psychology, personal growth, and mental health they’ve talked to on the show.
- [Being Well Podcast: Somatic Psychology: Using the Body to Heal the Mind with Elizabeth Ferreira](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-somatic-psychology-using-the-body-to-heal-the-mind-with-elizabeth-ferreira/) - Somatic therapist Elizabeth Ferreira returns to the Being Well Podcast and joins Forrest for a deep dive into somatic psychology. They explore what a somatic therapy session looks like in practice, how it differs from traditional talk therapy, the connection between the body and the mind, and why people with complex trauma are sometimes better served by body-based approaches.
- [Being Well Podcast: Daddy Issues: Attachment Wounding, Dealing with Common Symptoms, and Becoming More Securely Attached](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-daddy-issues-attachment-wounding-dealing-with-common-symptoms-and-becoming-more-securely-attached/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick explore what daddy issues are, how they relate to attachment theory, sexism and the broader social and historical context, different forms of attachment wounding, and a simple way to understand your attachment style.
- [Tell the Truth and Play Fair](https://rickhanson.com/tell-the-truth-play-fair/) - People compete with each other and have conflicts of all kinds, but we expect a level playing field. Do what you can to tell the truth and play fair.
- [Meditation + Talk: Confidence, Hope, and Fear with Ethan Nichtern](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-confidence-hope-and-fear-with-ethan-nichtern/) - Confidence can be difficult to maintain in the face of challenges. Buddhism offers insight into the forces that shape our self-perception and well-being.
- [Enjoy The Freedom Not To](https://rickhanson.com/enjoy-freedom-not-to/) - If you can't say "no" - to others, and yourself - then your "yesses" will lose their meaning and power. The “freedom not to” gives you a feeling of ease.
- [Meditation + Talk: 7 Practices for Dealing with Regrets](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-7-practices-for-dealing-with-regrets/) - We all have regrets. Meditate on Resting in Contentment and Releasing Craving. Then learn 7 Practices for Dealing with Regrets.
- [Feel Whole](https://rickhanson.com/feel-whole/) - When you open to the whole of your experience you feel more at home in yourself. With moments of practice that add up over time, you feel more like a whole person, less fragmented. As this happens, you feel more fed and fulfilled – and more connected, more entwined with the world as whole.
- [Come to Center](https://rickhanson.com/come-to-center/) - When feeling scattered, collect and concentrate your thoughts and feelings. Return to the reliable rewards of feeling already full. Savor pleasure, move, lift your eyes to the horizon, enjoy art, feel the core of your body, and come into the present moment.
- [Meditation + Talk: Healing Regrets](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-healing-regrets/) - Regret can be a heavy burden. As we reflect on our mistakes and regrets, it's essential to explore our underlying good intentions and embrace openheartedness.
- [Enjoy Sobriety](https://rickhanson.com/enjoy-sobriety/) - Enjoy healthy self-control, a centered enjoyment of life, and inner freedom. Think of sobriety in terms of the big picture, and in the context of a life well-lived. Sobriety is a gain - of health, self-respect, unclouded mind, peace with others and bliss.
- [Foundations of the Noble Eightfold Path](https://rickhanson.com/foundations-of-the-noble-eightfold-path/) - The Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Noble Truths: the truths of suffering, its cause, its ending, and the path to its ending.
- [Meditation + Talk: Love Refuses to Despair](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-love-refuses-to-despair/) - Learn how to apply the wisdom of the Dharma to personal and global challenges. Meditate on Letting Go of Preoccupations and Resting in what's good.
- [Being Well Podcast: What Addiction (and Recovery) Can Teach Us About Change with Eric Zimmer](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-what-addiction-and-recovery-can-teach-us-about-change-with-eric-zimmer/) - Eric Zimmer, host of The One You Feed podcast, joins Forrest and Rick on the Being Well Podcast to explore what really helps us change our ingrained patterns of behavior through the lens of Eric’s journey with addiction and recovery. They share the key lessons from speaking with hundreds of experts, the role of insight, why some people go
- [Being Well Podcast: Repairing with Family, Dealing with Difficult People, and Recognizing Power: Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-repairing-with-family-dealing-with-difficult-people-and-recognizing-power-mailbag/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag and answer questions from listeners related to how we can build better relationships (particularly with our families) and deal with difficult people.
- [Being Well Podcast: Letting Go of Our Conditioning with Caverly Morgan](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-letting-go-of-our-conditioning-with-caverly-morgan/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest are joined by meditation teacher and former Zen monastic Caverly Morgan to discuss how we can release our conditioning, identify the inner voice that leads to change, and get to the heart of who we are.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Keys to a Great Relationship](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-keys-to-a-great-relationship/) - Today we’re leaning on Dr. Rick 30 years working in private practice as a couples counselor and family therapist, and learning what we can do to build stronger, more fulfilling relationships.
- [Being Well Podcast: Choosing Our Best Selves with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman and Dr. Jordyn Feingold](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-choosing-our-best-selves-with-dr-scott-barry-kaufman-and-dr-jordyn-feingold/) - Drs. Scott Barry Kaufman and Jordyn Feingold help us explore how we can learn to consistently choose our best selves, overcome barriers to growth, and fully actualize ourselves.
- [Enjoy Four Kinds of Peace](https://rickhanson.com/enjoy-four-kinds-of-peace/) - “Peace” can sound sentimental or clichéd but it’s what most of us long for. When you experience peace, enjoy it, let it sink into you, weaving its way into your brain so it increasingly becomes the habit of your mind.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Cradle of Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-cradle-of-relationships/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Cradle of Relationships.
- [Meditation + Talk: Recognizing the Conditioned Mind](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-recognizing-the-conditioned-mind/) - Have you ever noticed how the mind is continually asserting that you and life should be different if X, Y, or Z would change, then you would finally be happy?
- [Being Well Podcast: Why Don’t We Get Better?](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-why-dont-we-get-better/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick explore why we struggle to change that which matters most to us, how much change is realistically possible, what makes real change hard, the hidden barriers to lasting change, and what we can do about them.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Reinvent Yourself (in 2023)](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-reinvent-yourself-in-2023/) - Forrest and Dr. Rick focus on what supports us and what holds us back from reinventing ourselves and becoming all we wish to be, how they’d like to change over the next year, different approaches to new year’s resolutions, and highlight a few practical things we can do to support our change.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Science of Stress with Dr. Elissa Epel](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-science-of-stress-with-dr-elissa-epel/) - Dr. Elissa Epel joins us to explore the science behind the stress response, different forms of stress, what separates “good” stress from “bad” stress, how we can take advantage of good stress, and dealing with existential forms of stress like the climate crisis.
- [Being Well Podcast: Responding to Criticism, and Accepting the Way Things Are](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-responding-to-criticism-and-accepting-the-way-things-are/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest focus on how we can get better at receiving and giving criticism, learn to accept what lies outside of our control, and avoid the “mood of complaint.”
- [Being Well Podcast: Untangling Ourselves with Koshin Paley Ellison](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-untangling-ourselves-with-koshin-paley-ellison/) - Koshin Paley Ellison joins Forrest and Rick to explore living, dying, and personal practice in the midst of our beautiful, challenging, messy lives.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Understand Anxiety and See Threats Clearly](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-understand-anxiety-and-see-threats-clearly/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest focus on how we can see threats clearly and be the “right amount” of concerned.
- [Being Well Podcast: Moving Beyond “Fair” to Build a Great Relationship with Nate and Kaley Klemp](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-moving-beyond-fair-to-build-a-great-relationship-with-nate-and-kaley-klemp/) - Nate and Kaley Klemp explore how we can build fun, fulfilling, and truly equitable relationships, different models of relationship, breaking out of old patterns, and how we can manage situations where one partner really is contributing significantly more than the other.
- [Being Well Podcast: Choosing The Roles We Play in Life](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-choosing-the-roles-we-play-in-life/) - We explore the various roles we play in life, how we select our roles, how familiar roles can keep us trapped in old patterns, enactments and triangulation, and how we can exit unhealthy systems.
- [Being Well Podcast: Authentically Developing Self-Worth](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-authentically-developing-self-worth/) - We talk about self-worth vs. self-esteem, what causes people to lack self-worth, Rick’s personal story of developing a true sense of self-worth, and why more self-worth probably won’t turn you into a narcissistic a**hole.
- [Being Well Podcast: Deepening Practice, Embracing Growth, and Becoming Lighter with Yung Pueblo](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-deepening-practice-embracing-growth-and-becoming-lighter-with-yung-pueblo/) - Yung Pueblo joins Forrest to explore how we can enrich our personal practice, refine the mind, break old patterns, relax the self, and feel lighter than we were before.
- [Being Well Podcast: Healing Trauma in a Toxic Culture with Dr. Gabor Maté](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-healing-trauma-in-a-toxic-culture-with-dr-gabor-mate/) - Renowned physician Dr. Gabor Maté joins Rick and Forrest on this episode of Being Well to explore the many problems for our body and mind that arise out of our modern culture, and what we can do to meet our needs, heal ourselves, and become more whole.
- [Being Well Podcast: Discovering Your Wants and Needs](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-discovering-your-wants-and-needs/) - In this week's episode of the Being Well Podcast, we talk about the wants and needs we all have — and especially those that we find difficult to identify. Listen and reflect to discover your own wants and needs, and take practical steps to achieve meeting those needs.
- [Being Well Podcast: Changing Old Patterns, Using Psychedelics Thoughtfully, and Exploring Human Nature: October Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-changing-old-patterns-using-psychedelics-thoughtfully-and-exploring-human-nature-october-mailbag/) - Rick and Forrest answer questions from listeners, including what they’re still working on in their relationship, how we can disengage from obsessive thoughts and old patterns, Rick’s thoughts on psychedelics and how they can be used with discernment, and their views on whether human nature is innately cooperative or competitive.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Effectively Communicate What You Want](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-effectively-communicate-what-you-want/) - We explore best practices to effectively communicate so we can claim and express our needs. This includes navigating shame and inhibition, making effective agreements, being considerate of the person on the receiving end of our wants, and becoming more skillful at negotiation and repair.
- [Being Well Podcast: Evolving Our Approach to Treating Trauma with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-evolving-our-approach-to-treating-trauma-with-dr-bessel-van-der-kolk/) - We explore with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk how trauma keeps us stuck, and how we can use imagination, self-expression, and creativity to break away from those old patterns.
- [Being Well Podcast: Relating to Death, and Living a Better Life](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-relating-to-death-and-living-a-better-life/) - 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.
- [Being Well Podcast: Changing Your Relationship to Shame](https://rickhanson.com/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: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-psychedelic-assisted-therapy-with-dr-albert-garcia-romeu-2/) - On today’s episode, Forrest is joined by Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu from the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. They explore the history and current state of psychedelic research, their subjective effects, the necessity of the “trip,” how psychedelics work in the brain, why researchers are so interested in these substances, and what a psychedelic-assisted therapy session looks like.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Use Your Diagnosis (Without It Using You)](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-psychedelic-assisted-therapy-with-dr-albert-garcia-romeu/) - On this episode Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson explore what a diagnosis is, how the diagnostic process works, the limitations of diagnosing someone, dealing with the emotions that come up, and how we can better think about and relate to receiving a diagnosis.
- [Being Well Podcast: Dealing with Challenging Emotions with Mollie West Duffy](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dealing-with-challenging-emotions-with-mollie-west-duffy/) - On today’s episode, we're joined by the wonderful author, coach, and content creator Mollie West Duffy to explore how we can accept those big feelings, learn to live alongside them, and develop tools that help us deal with them more effectively.
- [Being Well Podcast: Understanding Narcissism and Narcissistic Traits with Dr. Craig Malkin](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-understanding-narcissism-and-narcissistic-traits-with-dr-craig-malkin/) - On today’s episode, we're joined by Dr. Craig Malkin to explore narcissism and narcissistic traits. We talk about the different forms narcissism takes, the difference between narcissistic traits and narcissistic personality disorder, red flags, dealing with narcissists, treatment options, and finding the “right amount” of feeling special.
- [Being Well Podcast: Recovering from Complex PTSD with Elizabeth Ferreira](https://rickhanson.com/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: Connecting with Your Best Parts](https://rickhanson.com/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: Rediscovering Your True Self: Parentification and the “Gifted Child”](https://rickhanson.com/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: Understanding Borderline Personality Tendencies](https://rickhanson.com/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: How to Make Learning STICK](https://rickhanson.com/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: The Grieving Brain with Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-grieving-brain-with-dr-mary-frances-oconnor/) - 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: Attachment, and Cultivating Nonattachment](https://rickhanson.com/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: Changing Old Patterns, Self-Awareness, and Repairing with Family: Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-changing-old-patterns-self-awareness-and-repairing-with-family/) - Forrest and I open up the mailbag to explore a variety of questions from our listeners. We talk about what causes our brains to become attached to unwanted habits, how to know which of your thoughts are worth listening to, and the pros and cons of Forrest’s tendency to say “kind of” so often.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Become More Self-Aware](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-become-more-self-aware/) - Forrest and I explore what it takes to develop self-awareness over time, where different forms of awareness come into play, and why maintaining awareness can be such a struggle. We then spend some time considering the heartening notion that the majority of what we have to look forward to when we become more self-aware is the recognition of our own positive aspects, and the natural movement towards health and integration.
- [Being Well Podcast: Relating to Your Anger](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-relating-to-your-anger/) - Forrest and I explore the varied ways anger surfaces, how we can relate to it, and how in recognizing what it has to tell us we can channel its energy towards positive changes in our lives.
- [Being Well Podcast: Ordinary Over Extraordinary with Dr. Ron Siegel](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-ordinary-over-extraordinary-with-dr-ron-siegel/) - We discuss with psychologist and author Ronald Siegel how to drop the myth of the extraordinary, how to heal from feelings of inadequacy, and what healthy self-esteem looks like.
- [Being Well Podcast: True Intimacy, Toxic Individuality, and Breaking the Trauma Cycle with Terry Real](https://rickhanson.com/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.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Not Die Alone: Navigating Modern Dating with Logan Ury](https://rickhanson.com/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: Using the Enneagram to Rewrite Your Story with Ian Cron](https://rickhanson.com/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: Understanding and Managing Stress: Causes, Biological Basis, and Increasing Resilience](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-understanding-and-managing-stress/) - 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: Secondary Trauma: Recovering from Compassion Fatigue with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky](https://rickhanson.com/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: Maximize Your Motivation](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-maximize-your-motivation/) - 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.
- [Being Well Podcast: Supporting Yourself During Difficult Times](https://rickhanson.com/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: The Science of “Self” with Dr. Jud Brewer](https://rickhanson.com/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: Integration: How to Solve Most of Your Problems](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-integration-how-to-solve-most-of-your-problems/) - On today’s episode of Being Well, Forrest and I discuss the fundamental strategies that allow us to become aware of and integrate all parts of ourselves – those we want to celebrate and expand, and those we’d like to heal and change.
- [Being Well Podcast: Defy Authority! (With an Open Heart)](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dr-todd-kashdan-defy-authority-with-an-open-heart/) - On today’s episode of Being Well, Forrest and I are joined by Dr. Todd Kashdan to discuss how to combine skillful positivity with principled insubordination, so we can speak up for what’s right even when it’s not popular.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Cope with Failure and Deal with Disappointment](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-learning-to-cope-with-failure/) - 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.
- [Being Well Podcast: Hedonic Adaptation: How to STAY Happy](https://rickhanson.com/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: Mindfulness for Depression with Dr. Zindel Segal](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-mindfulness-for-depression-with-dr-zindel-segal/) - On this episode, Dr. Zindel Segal joins us to talk about Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), an eight-week group therapy program designed to help those who suffer with chronic unhappiness and prevent relapse after episodes of severe clinical depression.
- [Being Well Podcast: Joy in Difficult Times with James Baraz](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-james-baraz-joy-in-difficult-times/) - Today we focus on step four of James Baraz’ 10 steps to awakening joy: how to find joy in difficult times. We discuss how to balance a sense of equanimity with compassion for the suffering of the world, and how cultivating joy at an individual level can support healing at the collective level.
- [Being Well Podcast: Finding Your Passion and Purpose](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-finding-your-passion-and-purpose/) - On this episode, Forrest and I discuss how we can identify and pursue our purpose, and why it’s so valuable to have one in the first place. We explore what questions and strategies can help us develop clarity on what we find meaningful, what our core values are, and how we’d like to spend a big chunk of our time.
- [Being Well Podcast: Creating an Abundance Mindset](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-creating-an-abundance-mindset/) - On this episode of Being Well, Forrest and I talk about what a scarcity and an abundance mindset is, what some sources of scarcity are, and how we can move toward the authentic experience of abundance.
- [Being Well Podcast: Family Challenges, Financial Risks, and Connecting with a Wounded Inner Child: Mailbag](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-family-challenges-financial-risks-and-connecting-with-a-wounded-inner-child/) - We discuss topics such as: how to manage family relationships, principles for approaching life’s changes, and what kind of therapy I actually practice.
- [Being Well Podcast: Embracing Uncertainty with Kaira Jewel Lingo](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-embracing-uncertainty-with-kaira-jewel-lingo/) - Kaira Jewel Lingo talks about cultivating trust and equanimity in the face of uncertainty. We discuss opening to the unknown, taking action as an antidote to anxiety, and having equanimity when things work out and when they don’t.
- [Being Well Podcast: Existential Dread, and Overcoming an Existential Crisis](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-existential-dread-and-overcoming-an-existential-crisis/) - It’s natural to have moments – even in the course of a generally happy, mostly fulfilling life – where we question our meaning, value, and purpose. This "existential dread" sometimes culminates in an "existential crisis." We consider how we can confront these basic questions with acceptance and curiosity, and find the meaning and purpose that can help us live good lives
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Find a Long-Term Relationship: Intention, Skills, "Marketing"](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-find-a-long-term-relationship-intention-skills-marketing/) - Maximize your chances of finding a fulfilling long-term relationship by developing clear intentions, building key psychological skills for a healthy relationship, and marketing yourself authentically while dating.
- [Being Well Podcast: Dating 101: Green and Red Flags, Your First Fight, Dealing With Rejection](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dating-101-green-and-red-flags-your-first-fight-dealing-with-rejection/) - Today, Forrest and Dr. Rick Hanson expand their conversation on relationships to explore what traits to look for in a potential partner and in your dynamic with them. They discuss life growth curves, how to manage early conflict, healthy approaches for dealing with rejection, and how to support those still navigating a difficult search.
- [Being Well Podcast: Navigating Familial Estrangement](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-navigating-familial-estrangement/) - Today we discuss family estrangement, particularly between parents and children, and how the questions we engage in this territory apply more broadly to how we balance our own boundaries with the responsibilities we have toward others.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Get the Most Out of 2022](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-2022/) - Today on Forrest and Dr. Rick discuss family estrangement, particularly between parents and children, and how the questions we engage in this territory apply more broadly to how we balance our own boundaries with the responsibilities we have toward other people.
- [Being Well Podcast: Building a Better Relationship with Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-building-a-better-relationship-with-yourself/) - The most important relationship we have is with ourselves. You’re the only person you’ll be around every minute of every day for the rest of your life. And, unfortunately, that relationship is often our most difficult one. On today’s episode of Being Well, Forrest and I explore how we can become better friends to ourselves, and learn to like ourselves more.
- [Being Well Podcast: Healing Your Attachment Wounds with Dr. Diane Poole Heller](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-healing-your-attachment-wounds-with-dr-diane-poole-heller/) - In this episode, we focus on two of our most important subjects, attachment wounds and traumatic experiences, with a longtime therapist, trainer of therapists, and world-class expert on attachment theory: Dr. Diane Poole Heller.
- [Being Well Podcast: 10 Things We Can’t Live Without, Part 1](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-ten-things-we-cant-live-without-part-1/) - On today’s episode of Being Well, Forrest and I reveal the key inner strengths and psychological skills we truly feel like we couldn’t live without. In the first of two episodes dedicated to this topic, we talk about benevolence, patience, curiosity, self-regulation, and grit.
- [Being Well Podcast: 10 Things We Can’t Live Without, Part 2](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-10-things-we-cant-live-without-part-2/) - We continue our exploration of the key inner strengths and psychological skills we truly feel like we couldn’t live without. This week we talk about joy, seeing the mind's deceits, keeping your good humor, the wild spirit, and finding meaning.
- [Being Well Podcast: Creating a Secure Relationship with Elizabeth Earnshaw](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-creating-a-secure-relationship-with-elizabeth-earnshaw/) - Therapist and author Elizabeth Earnshaw explores how the pandemic impacted our relationships, the Gottman approach, balancing differing needs for intimacy, and how to request and give repair.
- [Being Well Podcast: Perfectionism and Unhealthy Striving with Dr. Diana Hill](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dr-diana-hill-on-perfectionism-and-unhealthy-striving/) - How can we aim high, achieve our goals, and get what we want out of life without falling prey to unhealthy striving and excessive perfectionism? Dr. Diana Hill joins Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson to explore the costs of perfectionism, productivity anxiety, psychological flexibility, calming the threat system, and how we can go from striving to thriving.
- [Being Well Podcast: Avoidance: How to Stop Procrastination and Worry](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-avoidance-how-to-stop-procrastination-and-worry/) - On today’s episode of Being Well, Forrest Hanson and I explore what "avoidant behavior" is, common forms it takes, and what we can do to limit its unhealthy aspects.
- [Being Well Podcast: Dealing with PMDD with Elizabeth Ferreira](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dealing-with-pmdd-with-elizabeth-ferreira/) - Learn what Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder is and how to self-diagnose, as well as effective practices for managing PMDD and how to create a happy, healthy, fulfilling relationship alongside it.
- [Being Well Podcast: Self-Help's Biggest Misconceptions, Part 1: Therapy, Trauma, and Resilience](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-self-helps-biggest-misconceptions-dealing-therapy-trauma-and-resilience/) - As mental health and the psychological sciences have gone increasingly mainstream, so too have some common misconceptions and misunderstandings. In the first of two episodes, we explore some of the biggest misconceptions related to therapy, trauma, and what it means to be "resilient."
- [Being Well Podcast: Self-Help's Biggest Misconceptions, Part 2: No Pain No Gain, Hedonic Adaptation, and Meditation](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-debunking-self-help-myths/) - In the second of two episodes, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson explore common self-help myths and misconceptions, including ones related to hedonic adaptation, "no pain no gain," and meditation.
- [Being Well Podcast: Unwinding Anxiety and Addiction with Dr. Jud Brewer](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-unwinding-anxiety-and-addiction-with-dr-jud-brewer/) - Dr. Jud Brewer joins us to explore the habit of anxiety, mindfulness practices to heal addiction, and what we can learn from the brains of the world’s most advanced meditators.
- [Being Well Podcast: How You Can Create a Relationship That Lasts](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-create-a-relationship-that-lasts/) - Explore how we can build relationships that are loving, healthy, enjoyable, and reliable. This includes learning the structure of most relationship problems, how to make vulnerable communications, and how to stay open to change.
- [Being Well Podcast: Overcome Your Limiting Beliefs](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-overcome-your-limiting-beliefs/) - We all have limiting beliefs: patterns of thought about ourselves and the world that tend to hold us back. In this episode Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson explore how we can push back on these problematic beliefs and build more supportive ones.
- [Being Well Podcast: Deconstructing Yourself with Michael Taft](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-deconstructing-yourself-with-michael-taft/) - 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.
- [Being Well Podcast: Break Your Old Patterns](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-break-your-old-patterns/) - We all have times in life where it feels like we’re stagnating. We’re unfulfilled, bored, or trapped in cycles of behavior that don’t serve us. We’re stuck in a rut. On today’s episode of @beingwellpodcast, Forrest Hanson and I explore how we can break old cycles, and get un-stuck.
- [Being Well Podcast: Finding and Maintaining Fulfillment](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-finding-and-maintaining-fulfillment/) - We're all searching for fulfillment in one way or another. Today Forrest Hanson and I discuss how we can find and maintain it, and if it's truly possible to be fulfilled all the time. We're exploring how we can relate to our low moments amidst a "good vibes only" culture, what gets in the way of fulfillment, and the importance of respecting individual differences in nature.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Change For Good with Dr. Katy Milkman](https://rickhanson.com/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: How to Become Less Resentful](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-become-less-resentful/) - Resentment is a combination of lots of difficult feelings and can cause as much harm to our relationships – and to our own well-being – as any other emotion. Explore resentment: where it comes from, what it does, and what we can do about it.
- [Being Well Podcast: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness with Tara Brach](https://rickhanson.com/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: Learning When to Let Go](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-learning-when-to-let-go/) - Most personal growth content out there suggests having a "never give up" mindset. But the truth is that a big part of life is deciding when it's time to stop investing our limited effort into that job, skill, or relationship that's no longer serving you. In this episode, we explore how to determine when it's time for things to end, dealing with disappointment, giving ourselves credit for our good efforts, and getting excited about what's to come.
- [Being Well Podcast: How Language Shapes Your Identity with Dr. Katherine Kinzler](https://rickhanson.com/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: What to Do When Things End](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-what-to-do-when-things-end/) - Life includes many major culminating moments: we finish the big work project, receive the award, watch the kids leave home, go on the vacation, win the title, or enter retirement. These experiences can come with enormous fulfillment…for a while. And then, we might ask ourselves: Now what? In this episode, we explore that question, including how we can relate to the past, integrate learning, turn toward the future, and age well through life.
- [Being Well Podcast: Connecting With Your True Nature](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-connecting-with-your-true-nature/) - We explore how we can get back in touch with the person we were when we were young. And, alongside that, how we can rediscover our “true nature:” who we were before the world got in the way.
- [Being Well Podcast: Fierce Self-Compassion with Dr. Kristin Neff](https://rickhanson.com/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.
- [Get Out of the War](https://rickhanson.com/get-out-of-the-war/) - Conflicts with others are a normal part of life. But if we do this while swept away by anger, that's not good for us or others.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Power of Directing the Attention](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-power-of-directing-the-attention/) - It's easy for our attention to get pulled from one thing to the next. We forget that we have the power and choice to place our attention where we want it to be.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Disentangle Yourself in Challenging Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-disentangle-yourself-in-challenging-relationships/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on How to Disentangle Yourself in Challenging Relationships.
- [Beware of Anger](https://rickhanson.com/beware-of-anger/) - Anger can alert you to threats, but also harm your health and relationships. In small and passing quantities, anger can be like medicine, but in large and lasting quantities it poisons the mind and relationships.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Forgive Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-forgive-yourself/) - We explore forgiveness, including common myths and misunderstandings about forgiveness, the difference between healthy and unhealthy remorse, coming to terms with what we’ve done, and achieving (self-)forgiveness.
- [Being Well Podcast: Fear in the Time of Coronavirus](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-fear-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/) - On today’s episode we explore how we can cope with the natural fears that arise during challenging times, the difference between useful and harmful anxiety, and how to grow the inner strengths we need to thrive when things get tough.
- [Being Well Podcast: On Death and Dying with Roshi Joan Halifax](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-on-death-and-dying-with-roshi-joan-halifax/) - There is no more human experience than death. Learn from a true pioneer in the field of end-of-life care: Roshi Joan Halifax.
- [Meditation + Talk: Opening to the Unconditioned Love of the Absolute](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-opening-to-the-unconditioned-love-of-the-absolute/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a meditation, talk, and a discussion about Opening to the Unconditioned Love of the Absolute with Guest Teacher Stephen Snyder.
- [Bless](https://rickhanson.com/bless/) - To blissful is to see what is tender and beautiful, and wish well. Look for good things in others. Know what the act and attitude of blessing feel like, and take in the experience to call upon it in the future.
- [Drop The "Shoulds"](https://rickhanson.com/drop-the-shoulds/) - When healthy inclinations become "shoulds" "musts" then there is a big problem. Consider a situation that bothers you, and find a deeper "should" that's related to an experience you "must" have or avoid. Face the should, ask this question: "Is it really true?"
- [Be Helpful](https://rickhanson.com/be-helpful/) - Do not underestimate the impact of a small deed. We all know that the needs in this world are great. And so are the opportunities to make a big difference to the ones we touch.
- [Learn As You Go](https://rickhanson.com/learn-as-you-go/) - Are you missing opportunities to grow stronger, happier, and more resilient? Each day is an opportunity to learn, grow, and take in the good. Use this two-step process to heal from the past, grow strengths for the future.
- [Let It Flow](https://rickhanson.com/let-it-flow/) - Can you stay mindful and peaceful when your thoughts and life get bumpy? In life there will be gain and loss, praise and blame, and pleasure and pain. If you let them flow, you can ride the waves of life with gratitude and grace, and without drowning.
- [Be Mind Full of Good](https://rickhanson.com/be-mind-full-good/) - With a mind full of good, you’ll have more to offer others, which will grow the good in them, too, perhaps—reaching eventually around the whole world.
- [Drop the Load](https://rickhanson.com/drop-the-load/) - Are the rewards of new commitments really worth the costs? Sometimes you have to give up the lesser rewards of a new thing for the greater rewards of allowing some new space to clear in your life.
- [Feel Cared About](https://rickhanson.com/feel-cared-about/) - Feeling cared about buffers against stress, increases positive emotions, promotes resilience, and increases caring for others. Learn how to feel cared about to gradually fill any holes in your heart.
- [Turn Anger into a Peaceful Heart](https://rickhanson.com/turn-anger-into-a-peaceful-heart/) - 3 things to help guide you to find peace: Stop Things from Building Up, Understand What's Making You Angry, Find Key Ways to Turn Anger into a Peaceful Heart
- [Know You're a Good Person](https://rickhanson.com/know-youre-a-good-person/) - Is it hard to believe you are a good person? Try to take in the good of feeling cared about; recognize goodness in your acts of thought, word, and deed. Enjoy this beautiful goodness, so real and so true.
- [Parent From the Same Page](https://rickhanson.com/parent-page/) - Find compromises and work with your partner for the benefit of your child. Minor differences in parenting style are okay. But children get confused when there are major differences. Here are five ways to work effectively and get the best possible results.
- [Find Your North Star](https://rickhanson.com/find-your-north-star/) - What's the light that will guide you out of your own tangled woods - both the woods "out there" in the world and the ones "in here," in your own mind?
- [Accept Them as They Are](https://rickhanson.com/accept-them-as-they-are/) - In what ways do you wish that people were different? See what it feels like to stop resisting what another person is like while also taking care of your own needs in the relationship. Acceptance is a gift that gives back.
- [Drop The Case](https://rickhanson.com/drop-case/) - Enjoy the good feelings and other rewards of dropping your case. Set down the case, like plopping down a heavy suitcase. Enjoy the feelings, the spaciousness of mind, openness of heart, inner freedom, and other rewards of dropping your case.
- [Back to Basics](https://rickhanson.com/back-to-basics/) - By taking care of the basics, everything else usually takes care of itself.
- [Don't Rain On The Parade](https://rickhanson.com/dont-rain-on-the-parade/) - Are you too quick with doubt, limitations, cost analyses, reasons why not? If you pour cold water over your hopes and dreams, you’ll never know the warmth and light that might spread if you’d let them catch fire.
- [Give Them What They Want](https://rickhanson.com/give-them-what-they-want/) - It's easy to give someone what they want. It is a matter of what you want to give. It can be stressful when others want things from you. There’s a sweet spot from which you can respond with both compassion and ease.
- [Trust Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/trust-yourself/) - See what happens when you trust yourself, bet on yourself, and back your own play—letting yourself fall back into your own arms, trusting they will catch you.
- [Love What's Real](https://rickhanson.com/love-what-is-real/) - What do a healthy relationship, family, organization, or country have in common? They are grounded in what is real. They seek the truth, tell the truth, and learn from the truth.
- [Love the World](https://rickhanson.com/love-the-world/) - Humanity has great power for good and ill. As the earth heats up, as species go extinct and resources decline, it is critically important that a fourth major motivation guide our thoughts, words, and above all, deeds: Love the world.
- [Trust In Love](https://rickhanson.com/trust-in-love/) - Love is like air. It may be hard to see - but it's in you and all around you.
- ["Us" All "Thems"](https://rickhanson.com/us-all-thems-finding-common-ground/) - Finding common ground with every person – especially those you fear or are angry with or who are simply very different from you – builds bridges among us, widens circles, and allows us to live together in peace.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Being Well Holiday Survival Guide](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-being-well-holiday-survival-guide/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how to survive the holidays with the dishes (mostly) intact.
- [Being Well Podcast: Authenticity: How to “Be Yourself”](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-authenticity-how-to-be-yourself/) - Dr. Rick and Forrest explore what authenticity is, where it comes from, and whether it’s actually a good thing to be more authentic.
- [Being Well Podcast: Creating a Healthy Relationship (With Yourself) with Najwa Zebian](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-creating-a-healthy-relationship-with-yourself-with-najwa-zebian/) - Poet, activist, and author Najwa Zebian joins Forrest for a conversation focused on discovering what truly matters to us.
- [Meditation + Talk: Handling Conflicts by Getting under the Surface in Yourself and Others](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-handling-conflicts-by-getting-under-the-surface-in-yourself-and-others/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Handling Conflicts by Getting under the Surface in Yourself and Others..
- [Being Well Podcast: Internal Family Systems Therapy with Dr. Richard Schwartz](https://rickhanson.com/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: How to Make a Big Decision](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-make-a-big-decision/) - Some of the most important moments of our lives are crossroads of different kinds. There’s a big decision, and we have to pick one thing over another. Today Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore how to make the important decisions in life.
- [Being Well Podcast: Being with Grief with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore](https://rickhanson.com/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: Dealing with Life’s Disruptions](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dealing-with-lifes-disruptions/) - We explore a topic that’s been particularly important over the last year: how we can deal more effectively with life's major disruptions. This includes recovering from setbacks, finding the opportunities, and even getting the most out of disruptions that are positive.
- [Being Well Podcast: Internal Family Systems Therapy with Susan McConnell](https://rickhanson.com/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](https://rickhanson.com/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](https://rickhanson.com/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.
- [Being Well Podcast: Meditation - Purposes, Methods, and Common Misconceptions](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-meditation-benefits-purposes-methods-and-common-misconceptions/) - What's the "point" of meditation, and how can we build a practice that works for us? In this episode of Being Well, Forrest and I clear up some common misconceptions about meditation, explore major forms of meditation, and share how you can get more out of your practice.
- [Being Well Podcast: Working With Your Anxiety](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-working-with-your-anxiety/) - Over the last year we’ve all been through a lot — big and small — including a pervasive feeling of anxiety. In this episode, Forrest and I walk through a normal experience of anxiety and offer some suggestions for how to overcome it.
- [Being Well Podcast: Mindful Practice in the Real World with Stephen Snyder](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-mindful-practice-in-the-real-world-with-stephen-snyder/) - How can we bring useful qualities of contemplative practice into our normal, everyday lives as people living in the real world? In this episode, meditation teacher and author Stephen Snyder joins Forrest and me to explore that overarching question, alongside a variety of topics related to “not-self,” the true nature of the self, and self-transcendence.
- [Being Well Podcast: Building Healthy Boundaries with Nedra Tawwab](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-building-healthy-boundaries-with-nedra-tawwab/) - One of the hardest, and most important, parts of creating great relationships is setting healthy boundaries with other people. Boundaries expert Nedra Glover Tawwab joins the show to explore how we can trust our instincts, work through codependency, and build better boundaries.
- [Being Well Podcast: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Dr. Steven C. Hayes](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy-with-dr-steven-c-hayes/) - On today’s episode of Being Well, the creator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dr. Steven Hayes, joins the show to help us explore how to use techniques from this powerful approach to therapy to address major challenges and improve our wellbeing.
- [Being Well Podcast: Becoming Wise with Dr. Roger Walsh](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-becoming-wise-with-dr-roger-walsh/) - How can we bring together psychological science and contemplative practice, and what can we all learn from the world’s great wisdom traditions? Dr. Roger Walsh, a professor of psychiatry, philosophy, and anthropology, and expert on the world's great wisdom traditions, joins Being Well to help us explore this central question.
- [Being Well Podcast: Connecting with Others: How to Attune](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-connecting-with-others-how-to-attune/) - During this time of increased isolation our needs for connection are harder to meet than ever. On today’s episode of Being Well, Forrest and I are exploring how we can use the psychological technique of "attunement" to connect better with others, and meet our own need for connection.
- [Being Well Podcast: Accepting Our Needs](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-accepting-our-needs/) - Everyone has needs, there’s no avoiding them. In order to "be well" we need to meet those needs. But in our Western culture being "needy" is viewed as a weakness, and it can be painful to accept that we have needs.
- [Being Well Podcast: Building the Perfect Relationship with Dr. Stan Tatkin](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-building-the-perfect-relationship-with-dr-stan-tatkin/) - Relationships are hard, and making them last is even harder. Today Forrest and I explore how we can be happier and healthier in all of our relationships alongside a wonderful clinician, teacher, and researcher: Dr. Stan Tatkin.
- [Being Well Podcast: Personalize Your Nutrition with Dr. Tim Spector](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-personalize-your-nutrition-with-dr-tim-spector/) - We generally focus on topics related to mental health on the Being Well Podcast, but there's nothing like a pandemic to throw the importance of our physical health into sharp relief. Today Forrest is joined by Dr. Tim Spector to explore the importance of personalizing your nutrition, how our diet can help fight COVID, and why most everything we've been told about food is wrong.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Change for Good](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-change-for-good/) - There are times in our lives when we recognize that something’s got to change. Today Forrest and I explore a big question: What goes into making who we are, and how can we give ourselves the freedom to grow and change over time?
- [Being Well Podcast: Radical Compassion with Tara Brach](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-radical-compassion-with-tara-brach/) - I was so happy to be joined by Tara Brach on this episode of Being Well. We explored how we can find more compassion and acceptance while maintaining our motivation to change ourselves, and our world, in positive ways.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Deal with Dissociation](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-deal-with-dissociation/) - It's natural to cope with challenges with a variety of behaviors and coping mechanisms. Explore dissociation in detail, including what it is, the function it serves, the experiences that can lead to dissociation, and what we can do about it.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Cope During a Pandemic with Dr. Bruce Perry](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-how-to-cope-during-a-pandemic-with-dr-bruce-perry/) - On this incredibly timely episode, Dr. Bruce Perry joins Forrest and me to explore how we can limit the long-term impact of stressful events, and heal from past traumatic experiences.
- [Being Well Podcast: Being More, Doing Less](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-being-more-doing-less/) - We’re somehow both more efficient than ever before, and, at the same time, busier than ever before. All of the many ways that we’ve found to optimize our performance has led to much more "doing," and not nearly as much "being." Today Forrest and I explore how we can get more in touch with being, and how by focusing more on "being" we might even be able to "do" more than ever before.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Optimism Bias and Influencing Other People with Dr. Tali Sharot](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-optimism-bias-and-influencing-other-people-with-dr-tali-sharot/) - Are people optimistic by nature? And how can we use that answer to influence our behavior, or the behavior of other people? Today Forrest and I are joined by Dr. Tali Sharot to explore the optimism bias, how optimism can exist alongside negativity, and how we can influence others more effectively.
- [Being Well Podcast Guided Practice: Achieving Your New Year's Resolutions](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-guided-practice-achieving-your-new-years-resolutions/) - What do you want to achieve in 2021? In this short episode, Dr. Rick Hanson walks you through a guided practice focused on helping you reach your goals.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Make 2021 Your Best Year](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-make-2021-your-best-year/) - We all have something we want to do "some day," but for most of us "some day" just never seems to come around. On today’s episode of the podcast, Forrest and I explore how to make 2021 the year you finally put all the pieces together, and achieve the goals you've set for yourself.
- [Being Well Podcast: Facing Your Dreaded Experience](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-facing-your-dreaded-experience/) - In this episode of the Being Well Podcast we talk about facing your dreaded experience. Forrest and Rick talk about what scares us, where that fear comes from, and what we can do to work with our dreaded experiences and free ourselves from them.
- [Being Well Podcast: Compassion, Power, and Human Nature with Dr. Dacher Keltner](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-compassion-power-and-human-nature-with-dr-dacher-keltner/) - Does power corrupt? Where does compassion come from? And do positive or negative emotions serve as the basis for our true nature? Today Forrest and I are exploring these questions with the help of a world-class expert on emotion, power, and morality: Dr. Dacher Keltner from UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center.
- [Being Well Podcast: What Did We Learn From 2020?](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-what-did-we-learn-from-2020-12-07-20/) - It’s been a long, strange, challenging year. As we get toward the end of it, and look forward to 2021, it feels appropriate to start by taking a look back and seeing what, if anything, we can learn from the year that’s gone by.
- [Being Well Podcast: Bias and Prejudice with Dr. Jack Glaser](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-bias-and-prejudice-with-dr-jack-glaser/) - We're all subject to forms of bias and prejudice. On this episode, Forrest and I are joined by Dr. Jack Glaser, Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, to explore intergroup bias and racial prejudice. This includes what we can do to overcome our innate tendencies, and treat people more equitably.
- [Being Well Podcast: Sadness and Disappointment Around the Holidays](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-sadness-and-disappointment-around-the-holidays/) - The holidays are coming up, and for many people they’re likely to be very different this year from usual. Experiencing sadness or disappointment around the holidays is normal even among the best circumstances, and we're far from those. On this episode, Forrest and I explore how to work with this year's natural feelings of sadness and disappointment.
- [Being Well Podcast: Learn Faster, Learn Smarter with Josh Kaufman](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-learn-faster-learn-smarter-with-josh-kaufman/) - Learning is the single most important skill: if you know how to learn, you can get good at anything else. On this week’s episode, Forrest is joined by Josh Kaufman, author of The Personal MBA, to explore the 20 hour rule, the problems with 10,000 hours, cognitive biases, and how you can learn anything more quickly.
- [Being Well Podcast: Relaxing Anxiety During Stressful Times](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-relaxing-anxiety-during-stressful-times/) - If you live in the United States – and probably for many people who don’t – it’s been a bit of a stressful week. Today Forrest and I talk about relaxing anxiety, weathering the storm, and taking in the year as a whole.
- [Being Well Podcast: 10 Most Essential Lessons, Part 2](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-10-most-essential-lessons-part-2-accepting-differences-and-embracing-life/) - In the second part of our conversation on our 10 most essential lessons for a great life, Forrest and I explore accepting difference, open heartedness, impermanence, and more.
- [Being Well Podcast: 10 Most Essential Lessons, Part 1](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-10-most-essential-lessons-part-1-slowing-down-and-taking-in-the-good/) - What are the most essential lessons we've ever learned? Today Forrest and I explore the first half of our 10 most important practices, skills, techniques, and reflections for the long road of life.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Have Hard Conversations with Celeste Headlee](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-have-hard-conversations-with-celeste-headlee/) - Learn how to navigate hard conversations to feel more connected, with special guest and award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee.
- [Being Well Podcast: Staying Sane During Hard Times](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-staying-sane-during-hard-times/) - Learn how to have more 'equanimity,' which is what allows us to maintain our composure, presence of mind, and perhaps even wellbeing under challenging circumstances.
- [Being Well Podcast: Chris Bailey on Maximizing Productivity with Mindfulness](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-maximize-productivity-with-mindfulness-with-chris-bailey/) - Chris Bailey talks about how to be more productive and improve your ability to focus on the things you really care about, without it becoming a source of stress.
- [Being Well Podcast: Children, Trauma, and Racism with Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-children-trauma-and-racism-with-dr-allison-briscoe-smith/) - How have children experienced this year's challenges, and how can we get better at talking with them about race and racism? Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith joins Forrest to explore trauma, resilience, and effective coping, and particularly the unique challenges experienced by young people and their parents.
- [Being Well Podcast: Angry and Content](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-anger-and-contentment/) - On today’s episode of @beingwellpodcast, Forrest and I explore how we maintain contentment, calm, or inner peace, while still aiming high, pursuing good goals, and experiencing natural frustration and anger. We also take a look at some provocative questions, like is contentment even a good goal when there's so much injustice out in the world?
- [Being Well Podcast: Authentic Happiness with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-authentic-happiness-with-dr-tal-ben-shahar/) - How can we find happiness even when times are challenging? Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar joins Forrest and me to explore authentic happiness, accepting difficult emotions, and giving yourself permission to be human.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Change Your Brain](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-change-your-brain/) - What can we do to achieve the ‘holy grail’ of personal growth – lasting change in our hearts, minds, and behaviors? How can we change the brain for good? That’s the focus of this episode: a full primer on the science of ‘positive neuroplasticity,’ including a lot of practical advice on how we can take control of our brain’s growth over time.
- [Being Well Podcast: Complex PTSD and Developmental Trauma](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-complex-ptsd-and-developmental-trauma/) - What are the consequences of growing up inside an abusive family, and what can we do as adults to heal old wounds? Today Forrest and I are joined by Pete Walker, a practicing therapist and expert in Complex PTSD.
- [Being Well Podcast: Psychological Safety with Amy Edmondson](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-psychological-safety-with-amy-edmondson/) - What makes for a great team – whether personal or professional – and how can organizations and individuals create a more psychologically healthy environment? To help us answer that question, today Forrest and I are joined by one of the world’s leading scholars on what helps organizations learn and thrive: Dr. Amy Edmondson.
- [Being Well Podcast: Real Change with Sharon Salzberg](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-real-change-with-sharon-salzberg/) - Sharon Salzberg, one of the most prominent teachers of mindfulness in the West, joins Forrest and me to discuss how we can create real change in our hearts, minds, and lives.
- [Being Well Podcast: Key Skills for Great Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-key-skills-for-great-relationships/) - Learn some of the key psychological skills that lead to a truly great relationship - informed by 35 years of couples counseling experience, on this episode of the Being Well Podcast with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. and Forrest Hanson.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Have Great Relationships - Attachment and the Self](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-have-great-relationships/) - We all want great relationships - ones that are fulfilling, loving, stable, and fun. This is the first of two episodes focused on becoming a 'great relater.' Today Forrest and I focus on understanding our individual attachment style, and how we can work through our personal material.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Pitfalls of Self-Help: Comparison and The Secret](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-pitfalls-of-self-help-comparison-and-the-secret/) - In the second episode related to the pitfalls of self-help, we explore how individuals and environments can manipulate others by making them feel like something is wrong with them.
- [Being Well Podcast: Polyvagal Theory with Stephen Porges](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-polyvagal-theory-with-stephen-porges/) - Dr. Stephen Porges joins Forrest and me to explore his Polyvagal Theory, which explains how we can use the systems of the body to completely change our relationship with stress.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Dark Side of Self-Help: Forced Positivity](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-dark-side-of-self-help-forced-positivity/) - Do self-help environments force us into inauthentic happiness? And how can we move away from the false front, and into more authentic expression? Today is the first of a series of conversations with Forrest dedicated to some of the self-help community's pitfalls.
- [Being Well Podcast: Start Now: Mid-Year Resolutions](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-start-now-mid-year-resolutions/) - We're halfway through a very strange year, and it's a good time to take stock, check in with ourselves, and establish some new commitments – even if they’re as simple as being kind to ourselves. When things happen *to* us, as they have in many ways this year, it’s easy to feel helpless. One way we can reclaim our experience of agency is by finding where we *do* still have influence over our outcomes. And that’s what Forrest and I explore in this episode: how to start anew under the circumstances we find ourselves in.
- [Being Well Podcast: Can We Do No Harm?](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-can-we-do-no-harm/) - Is it possible to "do no harm," and should we even try? In today’s episode, Forrest and I explore what it means to do no harm, and the resources that can allow us to do as little as possible.
- [Being Well Podcast: Unlearning Racist Conditioning with Erin Trent Johnson](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-erin-trent-johnson-unlearning-racist-conditioning/) - What can we do to combat, unlearn, and ultimately unburden ourselves from the influence of systemic structures of racism? This week, Erin Trent Johnson joins us to explore this powerful question.
- [Being Well Podcast: Healing Our History with Dr. Sherri Taylor](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-healing-our-history-with-dr-sherri-taylor/) - Today we’re exploring how the traumatic past, including that handed down through the generations, can influence our lives today
- [Being Well Podcast: Institutional Racism and Traumatic Stress with Dr. Alfiee](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-institutional-racism-and-traumatic-stress-with-dr-alfiee/) - Racism and racist structures place an enormous mental health burden on the people they persecute. Dr. Alfiee, a wonderful psychologist, researcher, and expert in the mental health needs of racially diverse adolescents, young adults and families, joins Forrest for this week’s episode of Being Well.
- [Being Well Podcast: Living and Dying Well with Frank Ostaseski](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-living-and-dying-well-with-frank-ostaseski/) - What can death teach us about living well? A pioneer in the field of end-of-life care, Frank Ostaseski, joins Forrest and me to explore the fear of death, anger, true courage, and acceptance in the face of it all.
- [Being Well Podcast: Self-Transcendent Experiences](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-self-transcendent-experiences-dr-david-yaden/) - What does it mean to "transcend the self?" With Dr. David Yaden we explore self-transcendent or “peak” experiences, which psychologist Abraham Maslow defined as “moments of highest happiness and fulfillment.” We went out into the deep water on this one!
- [Being Well Podcast: The Science of Well-Being with Laurie Santos](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-science-of-well-being-laurie-santos/) - On this week’s episode, Dr. Laurie Santos joins Forrest and me to share what science says about how we can maintain our well-being during this difficult time.
- [Being Well Podcast: COVID and Releasing Obsessive Fears](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-covid-and-releasing-obsessive-fears-dr-dan-kalb/) - On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Dan Kalb, an expert on anxiety disorders and OCD, joins Forrest and me to help us explore how we can release obsessive fear during this particularly anxiety-provoking time.
- [Being Well Podcast: Sleeping at Last on the Enneagram and Creativity](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-sleeping-at-last-on-the-enneagram-and-creativity-ryan-oneal/) - What can we learn about ourselves from and through art? On this special episode of Being Well, Forrest spoke with recording artist Sleeping at Last (also known as Ryan O’Neal) about the Enneagram, the creative process, art and emotion, the power of creating a persona, and how we can become ever more true to ourselves.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Highest Happiness](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-highest-happiness/) - What are the “heights of human potential,” and why should we aim for them when simply surviving the here-and-now already feels so challenging? That’s one of the many topics we explore on this episode.
- [Being Well Podcast: Neurodharma](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-neurodharma/) - Throughout history people have sought the heights of human potential – to become as wise, strong, happy, and loving as any person can ever be. Science is now revealing how these remarkable ways of being seem to be based on equally remarkable changes in our own nervous system.
- [Being Well Podcast: Compassion Fatigue and Finding Purpose](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-compassion-fatigue-and-finding-purpose/) - We explore both the direct stress and trauma that people in helping roles might naturally be feeling these days, as well as compassion fatigue.
- [Being Well Podcast: Coping with Quarantine](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-coping-with-quarantine/) - In this episode Forrest and I explore how individuals and families can deal with the interpersonal stress that comes from being stuck together, and the sadness and loss that comes from being separated from things we love.
- [Being Well Podcast: Being a Better Friend to Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-being-a-better-friend-to-yourself/) - Explore how to balance constructive and harmful self-criticism, move away from our "act," embrace change, manage feelings of worthlessness, and ultimately be a good friend to ourselves.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Gift of Presence](https://rickhanson.com/caroline-welch-on-the-gift-of-presence-the-being-well-podcast/) - Caroline Welch joins the podcast to help us explore the role of mindfulness in our everyday lives, and how presence can be a particularly valuable tool for women.
- [Being Well Podcast: Healing Trauma with Peter Levine](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-healing-trauma-with-peter-levine/) - Dr. Peter Levine, a legendary expert on the subject of healing trauma, joins Forrest and I to discuss the power trauma holds over the body, how we can truly connect with others, and simple practices for calming fear and unwinding from trauma.
- [Being Well Podcast: Childhood Trauma with Dr. Bruce Perry](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-childhood-trauma-with-dr-bruce-perry/) - Dr. Bruce Perry joins Forrest and me to discuss the incredible impact of childhood experiences, the fuzzy distinction between trauma and stress, and what we can do to heal from those experiences.
- [Being Well Podcast: Facing Challenging Experiences](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-facing-challenging-experiences/) - Today Forrest and I explore how we can better resource ourselves to face the challenging, and even traumatic, experiences that lie in our past.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Build Habits with Charles Duhigg](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-build-habits-with-charles-duhigg/) - We all want to build good habits, and hopefully avoid problematic ones, but doing so is often easier said than done. Today Forrest and I had the pleasure of being joined by the bestselling author of The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg, who helped us explore how we can do just that.
- [Being Well Podcast: Working with Grief with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-working-with-grief-with-dr-joanne-cacciatore/) - There are some emotions that are so deeply tied to the human experience that it’s impossible to avoid them. One of these is grief, which we have yet to discuss in detail on the podcast. On this episode we’re changing that, and have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Joanne Cacciatore to the podcast.
- [Being Well Podcast: Growing Compassion Alongside Mindfulness](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-growing-dr-shauna-shapiro-compassion-alongside-mindfulness/) - Clinical psychologist, author, and internationally recognized expert in self-compassion, Dr. Shauna Shapiro discusses how we can grow and include compassion – including for ourselves – alongside mindfulness.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Joy of Movement](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-joy-of-movement/) - We all know that exercise is good for us, but that doesn't always make it easy to do. Dr. Kelly McGonigal joins Forrest and me to share some of the surprising benefits of activity, and how to find ease and joy in movement.
- [Being Well Podcast: Jack Kornfield on The Nature of Things](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-jack-kornfield-on-the-nature-of-things/) - On this very special episode, Jack Kornfield, one of the key teachers who introduced Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West, joins Forrest and I to discuss practice, mindful awareness, and how to view reality altogether.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Power of Showing Up](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-the-power-of-showing-up/) - Everyone wants to be a good friend, and a great parent. Parenting isn't easy, but there might be some easy ways to simplify the big ideas and boil it down to a few core concepts. Today, Dr. Tina Payne Bryson joins the show to share how we can become better friends, parents, and people.
- [Being Well Podcast: A Year of Well-Being](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-a-year-of-well-being-resolutions/) - It’s our final episode of Being Well in 2019! On it, Forrest and I discuss our favorite episodes from the last year, what we’ve learned, and our resolutions for 2020.
- [Being Well Podcast: Recovering from a Relationship with a Narcissist](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dr-rhonda-freeman-recovering-from-a-relationship-with-a-narcissist/) - Emotionally abusive relationships are sadly very common. Today Forrest and I explore a subset of those relationships with Dr. Rhonda Freeman, who shares her own journey to recovery from a toxic relationship with a malignant narcissist.
- [Being Well Podcast: Depression and the Brain](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-depression-and-the-brain/) - Dr. Alex Korb joins us to explore the relationship between depression and the brain, including practical tools for intervening during a depressive episode.
- [Being Well Podcast: Emotions in the Workplace](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-liz-fosslien-emotions-in-the-workplace/) - On this episode Forrest is joined by the Wall Street Journal best-selling co-author and illustrator of No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work, Liz Fosslien. Liz is also the Head of Content and Editorial at Humu, a company that uses behavioral science to make work better.
- [Being Well Podcast: Bringing Mindfulness into the Workplace](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-marc-lesser-bringing-mindfulness-into-the-workplace/) - What can we do, both as individuals and a collective, to bring mindful traits into the workplace? That’s the question we explore today with our guest, founding CEO of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, Marc Lesser.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Start Therapy](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-start-therapy/) - In this episode, Forrest and I explore a topic that’s near and dear to my heart: therapy. Specifically, how to start the process of seeking out a therapist to work with for a given issue.
- [Being Well Podcast: Embracing Therapy with Lori Gottlieb](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-embracing-therapy-with-lori-gottlieb/) - Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Lori Gottlieb joins the show to explore the therapeutic process, the gifts and challenges of being a therapist in therapy, and why you should consider talking to someone.
- [Being Well Podcast: Gabrielle Bernstein on Anxiety, Outrage, and Claiming Your Purpose](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-gabrielle-bernstein-on-attracting-the-life-you-desire/) - Gabrielle Bernstein joins the show to discuss how to discuss the fear that stops us from being who we truly are, anxiety and anger, and how to become a Super Attractor.
- [Being Well Podcast: Relating to Trauma with Dr. James Gordon](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-relating-to-trauma-with-dr-james-gordon/) - In the second part of our conversation with Dr. James Gordon, Forrest and I focus on caregiver fatigue, helplessness, and unwinding from trauma at the collective level.
- [Being Well Podcast: Recovering from Trauma with Dr. James Gordon](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-recovering-from-trauma-with-dr-james-gordon/) - Most people will experience some form of trauma during their lives. Today Forrest and I explore what we can do to recover from those experiences with a world-class expert on the subject: Dr. James Gordon.
- [Being Well Podcast: Nurturing a Lonely Heart](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-nurturing-a-lonely-heart/) - Today it’s part two of our conversation on Loneliness! We’re moving on to the practical question of what we can do in our lives to overcome experiences of loneliness, and deepen our connection to other people.
- [Being Well Podcast: A Way to Manage Chronic Pain](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-vidyamala-burch-a-way-to-manage-chronic-pain/) - Forrest and I explore how to manage chronic pain with Vidyamala Burch, co-founder of Breathworks, which offers mindfulness-based approaches to living well with chronic pain, illness or stress.
- [Being Well Podcast: Creating Your Developmental Story](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-creating-your-developmental-story/) - Part of the process of becoming a mentally healthy person is creating a coherent narrative about how we became the way we are. On this short episode, Forrest shares his personal journey with loneliness as a young person - and the importance of developing a coherent developmental narrative. I hope you enjoy it!
- [Being Well Podcast: Never Alone, Still Lonely](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-never-alone-still-lonely/) - On today’s episode of the podcast, Forrest and I explore how we can be surrounded by other people, and still feel alone. They cover the genetic and developmental roots of loneliness, and how loneliness can creep into even our most connected, important relationships.
- [Being Well Podcast: Discovering Your Attachment Style](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dr-jennie-rosier-attachment-style/) - In this episode, Forrest and Dr. Jennie Rosier explore what attachment theory is, how we can identify our attachment style, and what we can do to build a healthier relationship with our own style and that of others.
- [Being Well Podcast: Stop Sabotaging Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dr-judy-ho-stop-sabotaging-yourself/) - We all have something we KNOW we should do...but that doesn't mean we actually do it. On this episode of Being Well, Forrest, Dr. Judy Ho, and I explore the roots of self-sabotage, the four key elements that fuel self-sabotaging behavior, and how we can use tools from cognitive therapy to overcome those behaviors.
- [Being Well Podcast: Managing Bipolar Disorder](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-managing-bipolar-disorder/) - This episode explores some tools and strategies that people with bipoloar disorder can use to help themselves or their loved ones manage symptoms.
- [Being Well Podcast: Everything is Figureoutable with Marie Forleo](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-everything-is-figureoutable-with-marie-forleo/) - On today’s episode of the podcast, Marie Forleo, named by Oprah as a thought leader for the next generation, explains how we can build a "figureoutable" mindset that allows us to meet our challenges from a place of determination, ingenuity, and open heartedness.
- [Being Well Podcast: Understanding Bipolar Disorder](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-understanding-bipolar-disorder/) - On this episode we focus on a subset of the depressed mood states including bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depressive.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Deal with a Narcissist with Ramani Durvasula](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-deal-with-a-narcissist-with-ramani-durvasula/) - On this episode, we speak with a true expert on many of the topics we’ve explored during our series on “Who Am I?”, including borderline personality disorder, sociopathy, and narcissism: Dr. Ramani Durvasula.
- [Being Well Podcast: Overcoming a Depressed Mood](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-overcoming-a-depressed-mood/) - In this second part on depression and depressed mood, we turn our focus onto some of the tactics and strategies people can use, both in their own mind and out in the world, to help manage a depressed mood.
- [Being Well Podcast: Understanding Depression and Depressed Mood](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-understanding-depression-and-depressed-mood/) - Today's episode explores what depression is, where it comes from, and how it differs from sadness.
- [Being Well Podcast: Mailbag: Building a Strong Relationship with Ourselves](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-build-a-strong-relationship-with-yourself-overcoming-self-criticism/) - We explore a few questions that have to do with managing our relationship with ourselves, and particularly our tendency toward self-criticism.
- [Being Well Podcast: Fear and Fearlessness with Dr. Gaylon Ferguson](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-fear-and-fearlessness-with-gaylon-ferguson/) - With our guest Professor Gaylon Ferguson, we explore why bravery is our natural stance, how we can overcome different kinds of fear, and the importance of “welcoming.”
- [Being Well Podcast: Mailbag: Helping Challenging Family Members](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-mailbag-helping-challenging-family-members/) - On today's mailbag episode we answer two questions related to our series on "Who Am I," with a general focus on helping people learn how to better manage their relationships with challenging family members.
- [Being Well Podcast: Finding your Pivot with Adam Markel](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-finding-your-pivot-with-adam-markel/) - It’s easy to "go with the flow" during our often busy lives. When things are going well this is great, but when our lives are less satisfying inertia can be a powerful enemy. To get out of a rut, we need to learn how to "pivot" in order to make the big changes that can point us in the right direction.
- [Being Well Podcast: Borderline Personality Disorder](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-borderline-personality-disorder/) - On today’s episode, we’re continuing our series on “Who Am I” by looking at a particularly intense, but actually quite common, version of this: Borderline Personality Disorder.
- [Being Well Podcast: The How of Happiness with Sonja Lyubomirsky](https://rickhanson.com/happiness-sonja-lyubomirsky/) - There’s endless advice out there about how to become happier, but most of it is anecdotal in nature. That’s why we're so happy to be being joined today by one of the leading researchers on the scientific study of human happiness: Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Deal with a Sociopath](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-deal-with-a-sociopath/) - In this episode we look at one of the most well-known personality disorders: sociopathy. We’ll explore what it is, where it comes from, and what we can do to interact more skillfully with people who possess it.
- [Being Well Podcast: 101st Episode Special](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-101st-episode-special/) - We made it to episode 101! On today's special episode, Forrest talks with Dr. Rick Hanson about his personal journey.
- [Being Well Podcast: Discovering Your Emotional Intelligence with Daniel Goleman](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-discovering-your-emotional-intelligence-with-daniel-goleman/) - Today we’re exploring one of the most important topics when it comes to our personal happiness, achievement, and general social functioning: Emotional Intelligence, with Dr. Daniel Goleman.
- [Being Well Podcast: Bringing Strength to Compassion with Kristin Neff](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-bringing-strength-to-compassion-with-kristin-neff/) - Learn how to be compassionate under challenging circumstances, without tipping into anger.
- [Being Well Podcast: How Not to Become Your Parents](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-not-to-become-your-parents/) - Today we explore the innate tendencies we have in our important relationships, and what we can do about it.
- [Being Well Podcast: Self-Compassion with Kristin Neff](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-self-compassion-with-kristin-neff/) - On this episode, we’re joined by one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion, Dr. Kristin Neff, the first to operationally define and measure the construct over a decade ago.
- [Being Well Podcast: Mailbag – Building Resilient Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-mailbag-building-resilient-relationships/) - On today’s episode of the podcast Forrest and I answer questions from listeners related to our important relationships. The first explores how we can raise resilient children, while the second focuses on managing challenging relationships in the workplace.
- [Being Well Podcast: The Science of a Meaningful Life](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-jason-marsh-the-science-of-a-meaningful-life/) - We are joined by Jason Marsh, founding editor of Greater Good Magazine, to help us explore key, research-based insights into living a meaningful life.
- [Being Well Podcast: Confidence or Narcissism?](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-confidence-or-narcissism/) - How can we take in positive experiences and develop a strong sense of self without developing narcissistic traits or falling prey to narcissistic tendencies?
- [Meditation + Talk: Coming Home to Equanimity](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-coming-home-to-equanimity/) - Equanimity embodies a balanced and centered state of mind, allowing us to be impartial and have a wise, informed understanding of life's conditions.
- [Being Well Podcast: Mailbag: Learning to Let Go](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-mailbag-learning-to-let-go/) - Today, we’re going to be answering two questions that explore how we can release our attachment to different experiences, and learn to let go.
- [Being Well Podcast: Communicating Without Violence with Oren Jay Sofer](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-communicating-without-violence-with-oren-jay-sofer/) - Oren Jay Sofer brings a unique and pragmatic perspective to living and speaking mindfully.
- [Being Well Podcast: Mailbag: Dealing with Hysteria and Violent Media](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-mailbag-dealing-with-hysteria-and-violent-media/) - During this episode, we’re focusing on questions from listeners related to things that can hijack our attention, specifically hysterical and violent forms of media.
- [Being Well Podcast: Finding the Sweet Spot with Christine Carter](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-finding-the-sweet-spot-with-christine-carter/) - In part two of our conversation with Dr. Christine Carter, we explore the "Sweet Spot," that place of effortless effectiveness where we can be both productive and relaxed.
- [Being Well Podcast: Parenting and Intimate Relationships with Christine Carter](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-parenting-and-intimate-relationships-with-christine-carter/) - In this episode we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Christine Carter, author of Raising Happiness and The Sweet Spot, about how we can form strong intimate relationships with our children, parents, and partners.
- [Being Well Podcast: Becoming Bulletproof with Dave Asprey](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-becoming-bulletproof-with-dave-asprey/) - Through his work Dave provides information, techniques, and keys to taking control of and improving your biochemistry, your body and your mind so they work in unison.
- [Being Well Podcast: Healing Shame with Compassion](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dr-chris-germer-healing-shame-with-compassion/) - Forrest and I are joined by Dr. Chris Germer, a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, to explore how compassion can serve as an antidote to shame.
- [Being Well Podcast: Gretchen Rubin on Happiness and Habit](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-gretchen-rubin-on-happiness-and-habit/) - On today’s episode Forrest and I speak with many-time bestselling author, award-winning podcaster, and explorer of happiness, good habits, and human nature Gretchen Rubin.
- [Being Well Podcast: Understanding Shame](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-understanding-shame/) - Shame is one of the most common, damaging experiences all of us face in our lives, and learning to deal with and heal shame injuries over time is a key part of becoming as healthy and happy as possible.
- [Being Well Podcast: OCD](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-obsessive-compulsive-disorder/) - On this episode of the podcast, Forrest and I continue our series on “Who Am I” with an episode dedicated to exploring tendencies related to obsessive compulsive disorder.
- [Being Well Podcast: Minimalism and Success with Matt D’Avella](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-minimalism-and-success-with-matt-davella/) - These days it’s easy for our lives to feel like they’re getting a bit out of control. That’s why we’re so excited to be joined by minimalist, filmmaker, podcaster, fellow coffee lover, and YouTube superstar Matt D’avella.
- [Being Well Podcast: Managing Anxiety and Fear](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-managing-anxiety-and-fear/) - How we can manage an anxious temperament, or help loved ones manage their own.
- [Being Well Podcast: Grit with Angela Duckworth](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-angela-duckworth-grit/) - Much of our success in life comes down to our ability to identify the things we’re passionate about, pursue them with consistency, and keep going when things get tough.
- [Being Well Podcast: Why We Worry](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-why-we-worry/) - We continue our series on the central question “Who Am I” by exploring some subjects related to people who have an anxious or fearful temperament.
- [Being Well Podcast: Managing Worry with Lori Deschene](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-managing-worry-with-lori-deschene/) - For many of us, worry and anxiety are constant companions. Learn how to manage, cope, and overcome those feelings with Lori Deschene, founder and editor of Tiny Buddha.
- [Being Well Podcast: Who Am I?](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-who-am-i/) - What are the different kinds of tendencies people might have, where do they come from, and what can we do to relate to them as healthily as possible? And how is our answer to the question “Who Am I” shaped by the labels others have put upon us, or we’ve put upon ourselves?
- [Being Well Podcast: Caring for Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-tara_brach/) - We’re starting off our new year with a very special episode dedicated to Self-Caring. This episode features a wonderful conversation between Dr. Rick Hanson and an internationally recognized clinical psychologist, author, and meditation teacher: Dr. Tara Brach.
- [Being Well Podcast: New Year's Resolutions](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-new-years-resolutions/) - Today’s episode is going to focus on making effective New Year's Resolutions, and getting the most out of that process!
- [Being Well Podcast: Forgiving Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-forgiving-yourself/) - However challenging it may be to forgive other people, we often struggle even more to forgive ourselves. Today we explore how we can give to ourselves as generously as we give it to other people.
- [Being Well Podcast: Forgiveness](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-forgiveness/) - On this episode, we explore why and how we can forgive someone who has hurt us and disentangle from others.
- [Being Well Podcast: Making Your Offering](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-making-your-offering/) - Think about what you give, large and small, at home, on the job, to friends, to strangers, and to the wider world. We all offer so much each day, even if we don’t realize it in the moment.
- [Being Well Podcast: Aspiration Without Attachment](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-aspire-without-attachment/) - Explore what it means to "aspire without attachment:" dreaming big dreams and pursuing them with commitment, while also being at peace with whatever happens.
- [Being Well Podcast: Childhood Dreams](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-childhood-dreams/) - On this episode, we focus on learning from and bringing to life our childhood dreams.
- [Being Well Podcast: Aspiration with Dan Siegel](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-aspiration-with-dan-siegel/) - Join Dr. Dan Siegel to learn how you can use “mindsight" to tap into the dreams you had as a child, and honor those aspirations as an adult.
- [Being Well Podcast: Repairing Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-repairing-relationships/) - At even the best of times, our relationships require a natural process of correction – let’s call it repair – to clear up little misunderstandings and ease points of friction. More seriously, you may need to work through conflicts, reestablish trust, or change aspects of a relationship.
- [Being Well Podcast: How To Assert Yourself Effectively](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-assert-yourself-effectively/) - In this episode, we cover the importance of asserting ourselves in relationships, and how to do that with empathy and strength.
- [Being Well Podcast: Speaking From the Heart](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-speaking-from-the-heart/) - Learn the dangers of important things that are left unsaid, and how to express those undelivered communications with kindness and skill.
- [Being Well Podcast: When Others are Undependable](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-when-others-are-undependable/) - Today we have a special episode for you concluding the strength of Intimacy.
- [Being Well Podcast: Unilateral Virtue](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-unilateral-virtue/) - Waiting for others to change first creates deadlocks, vicious cycles, and a sense of helplessness. The alternative is unilateral virtue, the focus of our episode today.
- [Being Well Podcast: Growing Compassion & Kindness](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-growing-compassion-kindness/) - In this episode, we learn how to expand upon empathy so we can warm the heart and develop greater compassion and kindness as personal traits.
- [Being Well Podcast: Empathy](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-become-more-empathic/) - Today we’re focusing on Empathy, which allows us to tune into and understand other people. Empathy is a key social skill that helps us make sense of nuance, read intentions correctly, recognize the hurt under anger, and communicate and interact more skillfully.
- [Being Well Podcast: Intimacy and Autonomy](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-intimacy-and-autonomy/) - Learn about Intimacy, focusing on how to balance two seemingly conflicting goals: maintaining our independence from other people while also forging emotionally intimate relationships with them.
- [Being Well Podcast: Pursuing Your Goals](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-pursuing-your-goals/) - Forrest Hanson interviews Dr. Rick Hanson about his personal story of motivation – including how to transform from someone who lacks a natural feeling of motivation to someone who can diligently pursue their goals.
- [Being Well Podcast: Motivating Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-motivating-yourself/) - Learn a key aspect of motivation: how we can incline our minds to break bad habits, and want the things that are good for it.
- [Being Well Podcast: Passion and Stress](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-passion-and-stress/) - In this episode, we cover the topic of motivation and how to pursue goals in healthy ways - with dedication, assertiveness, enthusiasm - while avoiding an unhealthy and overactive sense of passion - with pressure, irritation, anxiety, frustration, and anger.
- [Being Well Podcast: Liking Without Wanting](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-liking-without-wanting/) - Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest begin the strength of Motivation with an episode that explores how we can pursue our goals with passion and purpose, without becoming painfully attached to them.
- [Being Well Podcast: 7 Ways Past Anger](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-working-with-anger/) - Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest conclude the strength of Calm with an episode dedicated to exploring seven ways we can work with anger skillfully.
- [Being Well Podcast: Injustice and Anger](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-injustice-and-anger/) - On today’s episode, we talk about managing one of our most difficult emotions: anger.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Feel Safer](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-feel-safer/) - On this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest discuss how we can fight back against fear and learn to feel safer.
- [Being Well Podcast: Avoiding Needless Fear](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-avoiding-needless-fear/) - On this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest discuss how we can manage and reduce experiences related to needless fear.
- [Being Well Podcast: Why Be Calm?](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-why-be-calm/) - On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson and Forrest begin a new series of episodes exploring the strength of Calm.
- [Being Well Podcast: Knowing You're a Good Person](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-knowing-youre-a-good-person/) - Welcome to the Being Well Podcast! In our last episode we talked about the role of the two voices in our mind – the inner nurturer and the inner critic – and discussed how we can keep those two personalities in balance. Today we’re going to wrap up the strength of Confidence with a conversation on a simple concept with surprising depth: knowing you’re a good person.
- [Being Well Podcast: Managing Your Inner Critic](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-managing-your-inner-critic/) - On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and Dr. Hanson discuss the two “characters” we all have inside our minds: the inner critic and inner nurturer. Particularly, they focus on how we can manage our inner critic while building up a strong inner nurturer.
- [Being Well Podcast: Paul Gilbert on Confidence](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-paul-gilbert-on-confidence/) - On today’s special bonus episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson interviews Dr. Paul Gilbert, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Darby and the founder of compassion-focused therapy.
- [Being Well Podcast: First and Second Dart](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-first-and-second-dart/) - Dr. Hanson and Forrest talk about how we can avoid “second darts” – our negative reactions to the painful experiences of life that are often more harmful than those experiences themselves.
- [Being Well Podcast: Secure and Insecure Attachment](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-secure-and-insecure-attachment/) - On this episode we begin the strength of Confidence with an exploration of “attachment theory.” Particularly, we focus on how adults who may have had challenging childhood relationships can become more securely attached in the here and now.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Be Happy for Other People](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-how-to-be-happy-for-other-people/) - Dr. Hanson and Forrest have a conversation about “the happiness that is always available”: happiness for others. Particularly, they explore how feelings of altruistic joy can be a powerful antidote for experiences of disappointment and envy.
- [Being Well Podcast: Forming a Healthy Relationship with Goals](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-forming-a-healthy-relationship-with-goals/) - Explore our relationship with goals of various kinds, particularly how we can feel more successful by noticing the many small goals we accomplish each day, and fully internalizing that experience so it becomes a lasting resource.
- [Being Well Podcast: Finding and Taking Pleasure](https://rickhanson.com/well-podcast-finding-taking-pleasure/) - On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson and Forrest look at the role fully taking in the good things in life has in the process of building mental strengths.
- [Being Well Podcast: Gratitude](https://rickhanson.com/well-podcast-gratitude/) - On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson and Forrest move on to the fifth of the twelve strengths they’ll be covering during this series: Gratitude. During this episode they explore the role of positive emotions generally, and particularly the value of “thankfulness.”
- [Being Well Podcast: Relating to Your Body](https://rickhanson.com/well-podcast-relating-to-your-body/) - On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson and Forrest discuss the strength of Vitality, and how it relates to grit. They explore how we can form more positive relationships with our bodies by accepting, nurturing, and appreciating them
- [Being Well Podcast: Fierceness](https://rickhanson.com/well-podcast-fierceness/) - Explore how the ‘feral’ parts of our mind can be a powerful resource, and how we can use that inner strength rather than be used by it.
- [Being Well Podcast: Determination](https://rickhanson.com/well-podcast-determination/) - ​​On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson and Forrest continue their focus on the strength of Grit with determination. Particularly, they look at the different aspects of determination, and explore how we can grow each of them over time.
- [Being Well Podcast: Agency](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-agency/) - On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson begins a new focus on the fourth of the twelve strengths he’ll be covering throughout this series: Grit. Particularly, this episode explores how to grow agency – an aspect of grit where we feel like a cause rather than an effect.
- [Being Well Podcast: H.E.A.L. Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/well-podcast-h-e-a-l-yourself/) - On today’s episode of the Being Well podcast, Dr. Rick Hanson beings his focus on the strength of Learning with a critical question: HOW can we grow the positive traits we want more of inside ourselves? To do this, he explains the HEAL process that allows us to learn from our experiences more effectively.
- [Being Well Podcast: Don't React](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dont-react/) - Discover why it’s important to respond to challenges from the “green zone” of the brain rather than reacting instinctively from the “red zone.” Also, learn the biology behind these two systems, the role of mindfulness, and how to combat the brain’s evolved negativity bias.
- [Being Well Podcast: How to Meet Your Needs](https://rickhanson.com/well-podcast-meet-needs/) - In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick Hanson explains why it’s not so bad to be “needy.”
- [Being Well Podcast: Dealing With The Mind](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-dealing-with-the-mind/) - On this episode, Dr. Rick Hanson explains the three ways we can skillfully 'deal with' our complicated minds. This includes practical ways to truly be with our experience, let go of negative thoughts and feelings, and plant new flowers in the garden of the mind.
- [Being Well Podcast: Mindfulness](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-mindfulness/) - On this episode, Dr. Rick Hanson focuses on how we can use mindfulness in practical ways in the flow of our daily lives.
- [Being Well Podcast: Enjoying Life](https://rickhanson.com/well-podcast-enjoying-life/) - On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick Hanson explains why enjoying life is both easy to dismiss and surprisingly hard to do. Particularly, he explores how we can authentically find enjoyable moments even during very difficult times in our lives.
- [Being Well Podcast: Acceptance](https://rickhanson.com/being-well-podcast-acceptance/) - On this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson and Forrest focus on the importance of acceptance. Particularly, they talk about how an authentic moment of acceptance can be a catalyst for positive growth.
- [Being Well Podcast: Self-Compassion](https://rickhanson.com/well-podcast-self-compassion/) - Today Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore how to use self-compassion to reduce rumination, feel safe while taking big risks, and improve our relationships with other people.
- [Being Well Podcast: Introducing Resilience](https://rickhanson.com/well-podcast-introducing-resilience/) - In the first episode of Season 2 of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick Hanson starts a series on Resilience by explaining the importance of Resilience and HOW we can begin to grow this key strength.
- [Meditation + Talk: From Autonomic to Volitional Attention](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-from-autonomic-to-volitional-attention/) - At the heart of meditation is the work of retraining our attention away from emotionally-charged thinking back to the experience of body or breath.
- [10 Reasons to Take Good Care of a Mother](https://rickhanson.com/10-reasons-take-good-care-mother/) - Mothers get stressed and depleted over time through the accumulation of a thousand little things. It is through doing little things each day that are good for you that you accumulate a growing pile of positive resources for your health, well-being, strong teamwork, and lasting love. These are worth knowing for a mother herself, and for anyone who knows her.
- [Meditation + Talk: Exploring the Costs and Benefits of Anger and the Value of Forgiveness](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-exploring-the-costs-and-benefits-of-anger-and-the-value-of-forgiveness/) - Guest teacher sujatha baliga explores forgiving ourselves and others and letting go of anger once it's no longer useful.
- [Meditation + Talk: Forgiving Yourself, Encouraging Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-forgiving-yourself-encouraging-yourself/) - When we use forgiveness to move past our mistakes, we can start to encourage ourselves, cherish our achievements, and let go of the pursuit of perfection.
- [Meditation + Talk: Wise Friendship: Nurturing Your Inner Ally with Dr. Diana Hill](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-wise-friendship-nurturing-your-inner-ally-with-dr-diana-hill/) - What does it mean to be a wise friend to yourself? Dr. Diana Hill explores three qualities of wise friendship in this heartfelt talk and guided meditation.
- [Meditation + Talk: How "Not Knowing" Dissolves Suffering](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-not-knowing-dissolves-suffering/) - When we cling to what we "know", we often suffer. Embracing "not knowing" can help dissolve suffering and release us from the shackles of our mind.
- [Findings on the Positive Neuroplasticity Training](https://rickhanson.com/findings-on-the-positive-neuroplasticity-training/) - How do you practice taking in the good and what effects does your practice have on your life?
- [Meditation + Talk: The Deep Peace in Approaching Your Life as an Offering](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-deep-peace-in-approaching-your-life-as-an-offering/) - When we approach life as an offering, we let go of the constant striving and struggling and we open to a deeper sense of peace, acceptance, and reverence for the gift of existence itself.
- [Sex After Children](https://rickhanson.com/sex-after-children/) - This is a BIG topic, so please consider this column a summary of the summary of what could be said about it. For much more information, please see chapter 8 of our book, Mother Nurture.
- [Meditation + Talk: Finding Contentment - Wherever You Are](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-finding-contentment-wherever-you-are/) - In this weekly live meditation and talk from Dr. Rick Hanson, he focused on Finding Contentment - Wherever You Are.
- [Meditation + Talk: Eat the Meal, Not the Menu](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-eat-the-meal-not-the-menu/) - In this weekly live meditation and talk from Dr. Rick Hanson, he focused on Eat the Meal, Not the Menu.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Power of Wishing Others Well](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-power-of-wishing-others-well/) - In this weekly live meditation and talk from Dr. Rick Hanson, he focused on The Power of Wishing Others Well.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Be Calmer . . . Now](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-be-calmer-now/) - In this weekly live meditation and talk from Dr. Rick Hanson, he focused on How to Be Calmer . . . Now.
- [Meditation + Talk: A Little Big Thing: In the Present, Craving - or Not?](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-craving-or-not-5-body-indicators-of-craving-that-causes-suffering/) - In this weekly live meditation and talk from Dr. Rick Hanson, he focused on A Little Big Thing: In the Present, Craving - or Not?
- [Meditation + Talk: The Heart of Who We Are](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-heart-of-who-we-are/) - In this weekly live meditation and talk from Caverly Morgan, the focus was on The Heart of Who We Are.
- [Find the Good News](https://rickhanson.com/find-the-good-news/) - We need to recognize genuinely bad news so we can protect ourselves and others. The root cause of suffering and harm is ignorance, illusion, not seeing things as they actually are. See the facts and live in the light, we feel freer, at ease, unthreatened, confident, overflowing, loved, and loving.
- [Meditation + Talk: Coming Home: Resting in Peace and Stillness](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-coming-home-resting-in-peace-and-stillness/) - In this weekly live meditation and talk from Stephen Doetsu Snyder, the focus was on Coming Home: Resting in Peace and Stillness.
- [Feeling Cared About](https://rickhanson.com/feeling-cared/) - The practice of feeling cared about is really good if you’ve felt excluded, left out, hurt, unappreciated, or maybe something didn’t go well in a relationship recently. Or perhaps things are coming up from previous relationships – even going all the back to childhood – in which you felt like you didn’t matter enough to other people.
- [Meditation + Talk: Greenlighting, the Green Zone, and Maximizing Your Joy](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-greenlighting-the-green-zone-and-maximizing-your-joy/) - In this weekly live meditation and talk from Saniel and Linda, they focused on Greenlighting, the Green Zone, and Maximizing Your Joy.
- [Meditation + Talk: Appreciating Life Through Mindfulness of Death](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-appreciating-life-through-mindfulness-of-death/) - In this weekly live meditation and talk from Sean Fargo, he focused on Appreciating Life Through Mindfulness of Death.
- [Taking in the Good](https://rickhanson.com/taking-good/) - Resources for Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
- [Meditation + Talk: The Wise Effort of Letting Go of Self](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-wise-effort-of-letting-go-of-self/) - In this weekly live meditation and talk from Dr. Rick Hanson, he focused on The Wise Effort of Letting Go of Self.
- [Meditation + Talk: What Are You Doing Here? The Why and the How of Buddhist Practice](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-what-are-you-doing-here-the-why-and-the-how-of-buddhist-practice/) - In this weekly live meditation and talk from Dr. Rick Hanson, he focused on What Are You Doing Here? The Why and the How of Buddhist Practice.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Let Go](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-let-go/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 29-minute meditation and a 53-minute talk about How to Let Go.
- [Avoid The Rush](https://rickhanson.com/avoid-the-rush/) - Be mindful of rushing. See how other people assume deadlines that aren't actually real, or feel pressured about things that aren't that important.
- [Meditation + Talk: Caring More . . . and Caring Less](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-caring-more-and-caring-less/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and a 47-minute talk about Caring More . . . and Caring Less.
- [Meditation + Talk: Right Effort . . . about Right Effort!](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-right-effort-about-right-effort/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and a 47-minute talk about Right Effort . . . about Right Effort!
- [Activities for Kids](https://rickhanson.com/activities-for-kids/) - Kathy Hegberg, M.A., creator of the FocusedKids™ program, has adapted Rick Hanson’s practices of Hug the Monkey and Pet the Lizard for children ages 3-5. You can view and download the practices below. Kathy developed FocusedKids™ in 2013 to teach preschoolers basic executive function skills. Using puppets and simple calming and focusing techniques, kids learn about their brain
- [Key Scientific Papers](https://rickhanson.com/key-scientific-papers/) - This collection of scientific papers was created by the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom.
- [Learning to Learn from Positive Experiences](https://rickhanson.com/preliminary-findings-taking-good-course/) - Resilience, positive emotions, compassion, gratitude, and other inner strengths lower stress, grow well-being and effectiveness, and heal anxiety and depression.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Balance Caring for Them and Caring for Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-balance-caring-for-them-and-caring-for-yourself/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk about How to Balance Caring for Them and Caring for Yourself.
- [Meditation + Talk: How Mindful Awareness of Emotional Pleasure and Pain Can Break the Chain of Suffering](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-mindful-awareness-of-emotional-pleasure-and-pain-can-break-the-chain-of-suffering/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk about How Mindful Awareness of Emotional Pleasure and Pain Can Break the Chain of Suffering.
- [Meditation + Talk: Two Fundamental Realities – 1. We Will All Die; 2. We Know Not When](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-two-fundamental-realities-1-we-will-all-die-2-we-know-not-when/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Daniel Ellenberg offered a meditation and talk on Two Fundamental Realities - 1. We Will All Die; 2. We Know Not When.
- [Meditation + Talk: Bringing Wisdom to Our Reactions to World Events](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-bringing-wisdom-to-our-reactions-to-world-events/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk about Bringing Wisdom to Our Reactions to World Events.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Power of Love in Turbulent Times](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-power-of-love-in-turbulent-times/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk about The Power of Love in Turbulent Times.
- [Meditation + Talk: See the Whole, Be the Whole](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-see-the-whole-be-the-whole/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk called See the Whole, Be the Whole.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Use Fear and Not Let It Use You](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-use-fear-and-not-let-it-use-you/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk called How to Use Fear and Not Let It Use You.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Essence of Practice – Loving, Knowing, and Growing](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-essence-of-practice-loving-knowing-and-growing/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick offered a meditation and talk called The Essence of Practice: Loving, Knowing, and Growing.
- [Meditation + Talk: Releasing and Receiving](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-releasing-and-receiving/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Rick offered a meditation and talk called Releasing and Receiving.
- [Meditation + Talk: Tools For Difficult Conversations](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-tools-for-difficult-conversations/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Oren Jay Sofer offered a meditation and talk called Tools For Difficult Conversations.
- [Meditation + Talk: Wise Effort: Already Home](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-wise-effort-already-home/) - In this series on Wise Effort, Rick talks about what to do when we are feeling discombobulated, rattled alarmed, and outraged.
- [Meditation + Talk: Effortless Effort – The Wise Effort of No-Self](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-effortless-effort-the-wise-effort-of-no-self/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Stephen Doetsu Snyder offered a meditation and talk about Effortless Effort: The Wise Effort of No-Self.
- [Twelve Good Things 2023](https://rickhanson.com/twelve-good-things-2023/) - Each year I use an issue of the Just One Thing newsletter to offer Twelve Good Things that I think are really wonderful and worth your attention. May you and those you love and the whole wide world be truly well, truly happy, and truly at peace. — O N E —Global Compassion Coalition The Global Compassion Coalition is working to
- [Coping with Loss: Implications of Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, Part Two](https://rickhanson.com/coping-loss-implications-neuroscience-contemplative-wisdom-part-two/) - Learn methods from psychology and contemplative practice – both informed by neuroscience – that you can use to bear and cope with and heal and grow from your difficult experiences, and those of others you care about.
- [Train Your Brain: From Sadness to Contentment](https://rickhanson.com/train-your-brain-from-sadness-to-contentment/) - Exercises to encourage you to keep moving from shame to worth.
- [Coping with Loss: Implications of Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom](https://rickhanson.com/coping-with-loss-implications-of-neuroscience-and-contemplative-wisdom/) - Exercises to encourage you to keep moving from shame to worth.
- [Welcome Joy](https://rickhanson.com/welcome-joy/) - What’s the spark and what’s the fuel? Welcome joy. Positive emotions – such as feelings of gratitude, love, and confidence – strengthen the immune system, protect the heart against loss and trauma, build relationships, increase resilience
- [Be Amazed](https://rickhanson.com/be-amazed/) - Look for opportunities to amaze yourself as you will find them all around you.
- [Step into the Cloud](https://rickhanson.com/step-into-the-cloud/) - Stressed by all the things you have to do? Seen as brick-like entities, tasks can feel heavy, oppressive, burdensome. If instead we view our tasks as clouds, tasks feel more fluid, like streams or eddies you step into, influencing or contributing as best you can, before they swirl on and become something else.
- [Accept Dependence](https://rickhanson.com/accept-dependence/) - We are hungry for love and need others. Let this truth in. Accepting your inherent dependence brings you into harmony with the way life is.
- [Meditation + Talk: Buddhist Myth #1: “Life Is Suffering”](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-buddhist-myth-1-life-is-suffering/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a meditation, talk, and a discussion about Buddhist Myth #1: “Life Is Suffering.”
- [Meditation + Talk: Buddhist Myth #3: “Have No Judgments”](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-buddhist-myth-3-have-no-judgments/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a meditation, talk, and a discussion about Buddhist Myth #3: “Have No Judgments.”
- [Meditation + Talk: Buddhist Myth #2: “Just Be Mindful”](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-buddhist-myth-2-just-be-mindful/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a meditation, talk, and a discussion about Buddhist Myth #2: “Just Be Mindful.”
- [Let It R.A.I.N.](https://rickhanson.com/let-it-recognize-accept-investigate-not-identify/) - R.A.I.N. is an acronym developed by Michelle McDonald but adapted a bit by me, to summarize a powerful way to expand self-awareness.
- [Rest Your Weary Head](https://rickhanson.com/rest-your-weary-head/) - Our minds are hauled along in a culture without a speed limit – exceeding the limit, and there is always a price. Pulling out of the mental traffic, it's an act of freedom and wisdom.
- [Stay Right When You’re Wronged](https://rickhanson.com/stay-right-when-youre-wronged-2/) - Blasting another person with anger is like throwing hot coals with bare hands: both people get burned. Speak calmly and from your heart, even when wronged.
- [Eat Right](https://rickhanson.com/eat-right/) - Eating healthy is one way to be a good role model for your children. Good nutrition is a key part of maintaining your energy as a parent. Eating healthy helps parents stay good-humored and patient with children, even when the oatmeal starts flying.
- [Stay Well](https://rickhanson.com/stay-well/) - To stay well, make sure you're getting enough sleep, eating correctly, doing exercise regularly, avoiding health hazards, and having regular checkups.
- [Rest in Center](https://rickhanson.com/rest-center/) - There is a deeper place that is undisturbed, your center. As you deepen your sense of connection with this core of your being, you'll be more resilient, happier, and at ease.
- [Drop the Stone](https://rickhanson.com/drop-the-stone/) - Are you lugging around a needless burden? Carrying an unnecessary load can be stressful and harmful. Instead, it's OK to drop the load and let go of repetitive preoccupations.
- [Good Intentions: Neurological, Contemplative, and Practical Perspectives](https://rickhanson.com/good-intentions-neurological-contemplative-practical-perspectives/) - The first question regarding intention is, for what? All the great wisdom traditions of the world, and all the great moral philosophers, have grappled with this question.
- [Cultivate Goodwill](https://rickhanson.com/cultivate-goodwill/) - Ill will creates negative qualities, whereas goodwill creates positive qualities. As a social and loving species on the planet, we have the wonderful ability and inclination to connect with others, be empathic. But we are also aggressive.
- [Relax Needless Fear Around Others](https://rickhanson.com/relax-needless-fear-around-others/) - People don't care what you're doing - you are just a bit player in their own personal drama. Or if they do care, it's a passing feeling.
- [Getting More Sleep](https://rickhanson.com/getting-more-sleep/) - Loss of sleep is a major reason why many mothers of young children feel depleted; besides wearing you out, sleep deprivation robs the brain of certain substances you need for health and well-being. Here are some suggestions.
- [Your Wonderful Brain](https://rickhanson.com/your-wonderful-brain/) - Although your brain isn't heavy - about three pounds of soft, gooshy tissue-like tapioca pudding - it has about 1.1 trillion cells altogether. It literally is the most complex object known in the universe.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Buddha’s Last Words: “Tread the Path with Care"](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-buddhas-last-words-tread-the-path-with-care/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on The Buddha's Last Words: "Things fall apart. Tread the path with care," which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Finding Refuge in Positive Qualities We Internalize from Others](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-finding-refuge-in-positive-qualities-we-internalize-from-others/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Finding Refuge in Positive Qualities We Internalize from Others, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Your Life’s Journey - and Lessons from the Buddha’s Own Journey](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-your-lifes-journey-and-lessons-from-the-buddhas-own-journey/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Your Life’s Journey - and Lessons from the Buddha’s Own Journey, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Freedom from Suffering in the Buddha’s Central Insight](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-freedom-from-suffering-in-the-buddhas-central-insight/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on The Freedom from Suffering in the Buddha’s Central Insight, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Letting Go While Aiming High](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-letting-go-while-aiming-high/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on The Freedom from Suffering in the Buddha’s Central Insight, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Inner Peace That Releases Fear](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-inner-peace-that-releases-fear/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on The Inner Peace That Releases Fear, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: 5 Ways to Steady the Mind](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-5-ways-to-steady-the-mind/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on 5 Ways to Steady the Mind, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Finding Peace and Presence in Daily Life](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-finding-peace-and-presence-in-daily-life/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Finding Peace and Presence in Daily Life, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Use Anger and Not Let It Use You](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-use-anger-and-not-let-it-use-you/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on How to Use Anger and Not Let It Use You, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Working with Anger in Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-working-with-anger-in-relationships/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Working with Anger in Relationships, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Calming Reactions to Others](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-calming-reactions-to-others/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Calming Reactions to Others, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Brain Tips for Deep Calm](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-brain-tips-for-deep-calm/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Brain Tips for Deep Calm, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Develop Genuine Equanimity](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-develop-genuine-equanimity/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on How to Develop Genuine Equanimity, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Acceptance](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-acceptance/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on acceptance, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Accepting All of Who You Are](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-accepting-all-of-who-you-are/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Accepting All of Who You Are, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Accepting Other People](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-accepting-other-people/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Accepting Other People, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Accepting the World](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-accepting-the-world/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Accepting the World, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Taking Refuge In The Good That Endures](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-taking-refuge-in-the-good-that-endues/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Taking Refuge In The Good That Endures, both inside yourself and in reality altogether, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Making Peace in Your Mind with Other People](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-making-peace-in-your-mind-with-other-people/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Making Peace in Your Mind with Other People, both inside yourself and in reality altogether, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Developing Lovingkindness and Equanimity](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-developing-lovingkindness-and-equanimity/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest speaker Leslie Booker offers a guided meditation and talk on developing lovingkindness and equanimity through the “Paramis”, both inside yourself and in reality altogether, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Thankfulness and Gratitude](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-thankfulness-and-gratitude/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on thankfulness and gratitude - even amidst losses and frustrations, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Perfection of Patience](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-perfection-of-patience/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on The Perfection of Patience, both inside yourself and in reality altogether, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Knowing How Deeply Our Lives Are Intertwined](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-knowing-how-deeply-our-lives-are-intertwined/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest speaker Leslie Booker offers a guided meditation and talk on knowing how deeply our lives are intertwined, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: A Powerful Simple Way to Stay Rested in the Heart](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-a-powerful-simple-way-to-stay-rested-in-the-heart/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on A Powerful Simple Way to Stay Rested in the Heart, both inside yourself and in reality altogether, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Remembering Your True Home](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-remembering-your-true-home/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on remembering your true home, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Rested in the Qualities of Being](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-rested-in-the-qualities-of-being/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Rested in the Qualities of Being, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Learning to Care . . . and Not to Care](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-learning-to-care-and-not-to-care/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Learning to Care . . . and Not to Care, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Equanimity](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-equanimity-2/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Equanimity, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Growing What You Want to Be, and Being What You Already Are](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-growing-what-you-want-to-be-and-being-what-you-already-are/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Growing What You Want to Be, and Being What You Already Are, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Resting in Simply Being in the Present](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-resting-in-simply-being-in-the-present/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Resting in Simply Being in the Present, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Guided Connection to Calm and Equanimity with Wisdom Mudra](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-guided-connection-to-calm-and-equanimity-with-wisdom-mudra/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest speaker Tarané Sayler offers a guided meditation and talk focus on Guided Connection to Calm and Equanimity with Wisdom Mudra, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Cultivating Compassion for the Journey](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-cultivating-compassion-for-the-journey/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest speaker JD Doyle offers a guided meditation and talk focus on Cultivating Compassion for the Journey, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Changing Your Mind](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-changing-your-mind/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Changing Your Mind, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Seven Factors of Awakening, and Three Approaches to the Unconditioned](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-seven-factors-of-awakening-and-three-approaches-to-the-unconditioned/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Seven Factors of Awakening, and Three Approaches to the Unconditioned, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Upward Spiral of Sudden Awakening and Gradual Cultivation](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-upward-spiral-of-sudden-awakening-and-gradual-cultivation/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on the upward spiral of sudden awakening and gradual cultivation, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Four Ways to Let Go](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-four-ways-to-let-go/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Four Ways to Let Go, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Steady Your Mind and Enter Deep States of Meditative Absorption](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-steady-your-mind-and-enter-deep-states-of-meditative-absorption/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest speaker Tina Rasmussen offers a guided meditation and talk which focused on How to Steady Your Mind and Enter Deep States of Meditative Absorption, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Steadying the Mind, and Working with Hindrances](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-steadying-the-mind-and-working-with-hindrances/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest speaker Tina Rasmussen offers a guided meditation and talk which focused on Steadying the Mind, and Working with Hindrances, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Letting Go of Fear, and Resting in Peaceful Confidence](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-letting-go-of-fear-and-resting-in-peaceful-confidence/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Letting Go of Fear, and Resting in Peaceful Confidence, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Walking Lightly in the World](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-walking-lightly-in-the-world/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Walking Lightly in the World, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Liberation - Awake and Full of Feeling](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-liberation-awake-and-full-of-feeling/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Amana Brembry Johnson offers a guided meditation and talk on Liberation: Awake and Full of Feeling, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Why and How to Meditate](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-why-and-how-to-meditate/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Why and How to Meditate, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Why and How to Meditate - and Answering Questions](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-why-and-how-to-meditate-and-answering-questions/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Why and How to Meditate - and Answering Questions, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Original Love - and the Path of Awakening](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-original-love-and-the-path-of-awakening/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Henry Shukman offers a guided meditation and talk on Original Love - and the Path of Awakening, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Anxiety - and the Noble Truth of Suffering](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-why-we-suffer-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Anxiety - and the Noble Truth of Suffering, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness - Embodied, Trauma-Informed Approach to Mindfulness Meditation & Self-Healing](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-neuro-somatic-mindfulness-embodied-trauma-informed-approach-to-mindfulness-meditation-self-healing/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Fleet Maull offers a guided meditation and talk on Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness -Deeply Embodied, Trauma-Informed Approach to Mindfulness Meditation & Self-Healing, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Anxiety - and the Noble Truth of Craving](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-anxiety-and-the-noble-truth-of-craving/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Anxiety - and the Noble Truth of Craving, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Anxiety - and the Noble Truth of Cessation](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-anxiety-and-the-noble-truth-of-cessation/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Anxiety - and the Noble Truth of Cessation, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Innate Goodness](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-innate-goodness/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Stephen Snyder offers a guided meditation and talk on Innate Goodness, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of the End of Anxiety](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-an-eightfold-path-leads-to-the-end-of-anxietyl/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson discusses Anxiety – and the Noble Truth of An Eightfold Path Leads to the End of Anxiety, which also includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Feel Less Anxious and More Peaceful](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-feel-less-anxious-and-more-peaceful/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on How to Feel Less Anxious and More Peaceful, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Talk: What Is Your Ultimate Concern?](https://rickhanson.com/talk-what-is-your-ultimate-concern/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo offers a talk on "What Is Your Ultimate Concern?", which also includes a discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Be Loyal to You](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-be-loyal-to-you/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Be Loyal to You, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Feeling Calm and Strong in Your Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-feeling-calm-and-strong-in-your-relationships/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Feeling Calm and Strong in Your Relationships, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Accepting Yourself and Your Needs](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-accepting-yourself-and-your-needs/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Accepting Yourself and Your Needs, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Letting Go of Toxic Self-Doubt and Trusting Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-letting-go-of-toxic-self-doubt-and-trusting-yourself/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Letting Go of Toxic Self-Doubt and Trusting Yourself, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Forgiving Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-forgiving-yourself/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Forgiving Yourself, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Hug the Monkey](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-hug-the-monkey/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Hug the Monkey, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Lived by Love](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-lived-by-love/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Lived by Love, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Seeing the Person Behind the Eyes](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-seeing-the-person-behind-the-eyes/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Seeing the Person Behind the Eyes, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Suffering and the Two-Rut Track](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-suffering-and-the-two-rut-track/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Henry Shukman offers a guided meditation and talk on Suffering and the Two-Rut Track, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Introduction to a Koan - Washing Your Bowls](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-introduction-to-a-koan-washing-your-bowls/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Henry Shukman offers a guided meditation and talk on Introduction to a Koan - Washing Your Bowls , which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Honoring the Deepest Wants in Yourself and Others](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-honoring-the-deepest-wants-in-yourself-and-others/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Honoring the Deepest Wants in Yourself and Others, including a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Taking Life Less Personally](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-taking-life-less-personally/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Taking Life Less Personally, including a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Emptiness of Interpersonal Upsets](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-emptiness-of-interpersonal-upsets/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on The Emptiness of Interpersonal Upsets, including a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Get Out of the War in Your Head](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-get-out-of-the-war-in-your-head/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on How to Get Out of the War in Your Head, including a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Accepting Other People](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-accepting-other-people-2/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Accepting Other People, including a Q&A and discussion.
- [Forgive Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/forgive-yourself-now/) - It's important to acknowledge mistakes and learn from them so they don't happen again. But most people beat themselves up past that point.
- [Find the Facts](https://rickhanson.com/find-the-facts/) - When you find the facts, you’re more able to handle threats and fulfill opportunities, understand others, and make wise choices.
- [Take Pleasure](https://rickhanson.com/just-one-thing-take-pleasure/) - When you find pleasure in life, you are not pushing away things that are hard or painful. You are simply opening up to the sweet stuff that’s already around you—and basking, luxuriating, and delighting in it.
- [Foundations of Mindfulness](https://rickhanson.com/bb-foundations-of-mindfulness/) - When your attention is steady, so is your mind: not rattled or hijacked by whatever pops into awareness, but stably present, grounded, and unshakable. You can train and strengthen your attention just like any other mental ability.
- [Two Wolves in the Heart](https://rickhanson.com/bb-two-wolves-in-the-heart/) - In our hearts, there are two wolves: a wolf of love and a wolf of hate. Our happiness and well-being all depends on which one we feed each day.
- [The Self-Transforming Brain](https://rickhanson.com/bb-introduction/) - When your mind changes, your brain changes, too. As a result, even fleeting thoughts and feelings can leave lasting marks on your brain, much like a spring shower can leave little trails on a hillside.
- [Compassion and Assertion](https://rickhanson.com/bb-compassion-and-assertion/) - Compassion and assertion work together as the two wings that get any relationship off the ground and keep it flying. They support each other, and they both nourish the wolf of love.
- [Taking in the Good](https://rickhanson.com/bb-taking-in-the-good/) - Your mind is built from the experiences you have. The flow of experience gradually sculpts your brain, thus shaping your mind.
- [One Minute for Good](https://rickhanson.com/one-minute-for-good/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ ul_line_height=”1.8em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]Practicing taking in a sense of protection, relaxation, pleasure, enthusiasm, self-compassion, feeling like a good person—and of course the hallmarks of the responsive brain: peace, contentment, and love, creates a foundational inner strength
- [Changing Negative Thoughts](https://rickhanson.com/changing-negative-thoughts/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_margin=”|auto|16px|auto||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Unpleasant experiences are a natural part of life. And some of them have benefits. Sorrow can tenderize your heart, hardship can make you stronger, and anger can energize
- [Growing Good](https://rickhanson.com/growing-good/) - When something difficult or uncomfortable happens, these three ways to engage your mind give you a very useful, step-by-step sequence.
- [How Your Childhood Experiences Shape You](https://rickhanson.com/childhood-experiences-shape/) - Your experiences as a child make a big impact on your own sense of autonomy, and how it affects your relationships. In the excerpt below, we'll explore how your childhood has impacted your own sense of intimacy.
- [Feeling Successful](https://rickhanson.com/feeling-successful/) - Experiences of meeting your goals feel good, lower stress, and build positive motivation. They reassure you that you’re making progress, which helps you stay in the Responsive mode – in the green zone – as you go through your day.
- [Three Reasons to Be For Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/three-reasons-to-be-for-yourself/) - Imagine treating yourself like you do a friend. You’d be encouraging, warm, and sympathetic. You wouldn’t pour salt in your wounds, and you’d help yourself heal and grow. Think about what a typical day would be like if you were on your own side. Would you appreciate your good intentions and good heart? Would you be less self-critical?
- [Enjoy Life](https://rickhanson.com/enjoy-life/) - If you’d like to be more motivated about certain things–such as exercising, eating healthy foods, or pushing through a tough project at work–focusing on what’s enjoyable about them will naturally draw you into doing them.
- [Feeling Safer](https://rickhanson.com/feeling-safer/) - Fear arises when threats seem bigger than resources. Sometimes this is actually the case, such as getting an unexpected bill that you don’t have the money to pay. But due to “paper tiger paranoia,” threats often look larger than they really are while resources look smaller than they really are.
- [The Importance of Learning](https://rickhanson.com/the-importance-of-learning/) - Going on a long hike, we need to bring food and other supplies. Similarly, on the road of life we need psychological supplies such as compassion and courage. How do we get these supplies into the neural “backpack”? We do it by learning.
- [The Self Is a Unicorn](https://rickhanson.com/the-self-is-a-unicorn/) - In this excerpt from Dr. Rick Hanson's book Neurodharma, he offers a contemplation on the question: Who am I?
- [Mind in Life](https://rickhanson.com/mind-in-life/) - An outline of the seven steps to the highest happiness in an excerpt from Dr. Rick Hanson's new book Neurodharma.
- [Suffering and Happiness](https://rickhanson.com/suffering-and-happiness-2/) - Blasting another person with anger is like throwing hot coals with bare hands: both people get burned. Speak calmly and from your heart, even when wronged.
- [Respect Your Needs](https://rickhanson.com/respect-your-needs/) - Many people feel needy or ashamed about their needs and deep wants. But needs are normal; we all have them.
- [Let Go of Needless Fear](https://rickhanson.com/let-go-of-needless-fear/) - Blasting another person with anger is like throwing hot coals with bare hands: both people get burned. Speak calmly and from your heart, even when wronged.
- [Your Best Brain](https://rickhanson.com/your-best-brain/) - Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Practicing with Negative Reactions to Others. More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
- [Meditation + Talk: How To Stay Up When Others Put You Down](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-stay-up-when-others-put-you-down/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on How To Stay Up When Others Put You Down, including a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Joy of Unilateral Virtue](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-joy-of-unilateral-virtue/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on The Joy of Unilateral Virtue, including a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Confidence - The Power of Bodhicitta](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-confidence-the-power-of-bodhicitta/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest speaker Kaira Jewel Lingo offers a talk and meditation on "Confidence - The Power of Bodhicitta."
- [Meditation + Talk: Being Who You Want to Become](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-being-who-you-want-to-become/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Being Who You Want to Become, including a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Gratitude That Frees the Mind and Opens the Heart](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-gratitude-that-frees-the-mind-and-opens-the-heart/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on The Gratitude That Frees the Mind and Opens the Heart, including a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Stay Grounded in “Me” While Opening to “We”](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-stay-grounded-in-me-while-opening-to-we/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on How to Stay Grounded in “Me” While Opening to “We,” including a Q&A and discussion. Also included is a brief discussion at the beginning of the talk on The Great Un.
- [Meditation + Talk: Embracing Vulnerability](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-embracing-vulnerability/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Daniel Ellenberg offers a guided meditation and talk on Embracing Vulnerability, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Letting Go of Fear Around Other People](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-letting-go-of-fear-around-other-people/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation, talk, and discussion on Letting Go of Fear Around Other People.
- [Meditation + Talk: Facing Loss, Illness, and Death: Practical Wisdom from the Buddha](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-facing-loss-illness-and-death-practical-wisdom-from-the-buddha/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation, talk, and discussion on Facing Loss, Illness, and Death: Practical Wisdom from the Buddha.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Rest in Peacefulness, Contentment, and Love](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-rest-in-peacefulness-contentment-and-love/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation, talk How to Rest in Peacefulness, Contentment, and Love.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Foundation of all Happiness - Virtuous Conduct](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-foundation-of-all-happiness-virtuous-conduct/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers meditation and talk on The Foundation of all Happiness: Virtuous Conduct. and notes
- [Meditation + Talk: Not Harming Oneself and Others - with Reference to the Climate Crisis](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-not-harming-oneself-and-others-with-reference-to-the-climate-crisis/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers meditation and talk on Not Harming Oneself and Others with Reference to the Climate Crisis and notes
- [Meditation + Talk: Not Harming Others - Including during the COVID Pandemic](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-not-harming-others-including-during-the-covid-pandemic/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Not Harming Others - Including during the COVID Pandemic.
- [Meditation + Talk: Virtuous Conduct: How to Promote Healthy Human Politics](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-virtuous-conduct-how-to-promote-healthy-human-politics/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation and talk on Virtuous Conduct: How to Promote Healthy Human Politics.
- [How to Promote Healthy Human Politics](https://rickhanson.com/how-to-promote-healthy-human-politics/) - As we seek the greater good in the 21st century, we must ask how we will solve our modern problems – such as great inequalities of wealth and power – with our Stone Age brains.
- [Not Harming by Not Externalizing Costs - with Special Reference to the COVID Pandemic](https://rickhanson.com/not-harming-by-not-externalizing-costs-with-special-reference-to-the-covid-pandemic/) - An exploration of the covid pandemic and virtuous conduct – in terms of not harming others by externalizing our costs upon them.
- [Not Harming by Not Externalizing Costs - with Special Reference to the Climate Crisis](https://rickhanson.com/not-harming-by-not-externalizing-costs-with-special-reference-to-the-climate-crisis/) - An overview on not causing harm through costs that are pushed downstream to others, with particular emphasis on the climate crisis.
- [Do's and Don'ts of Virtuous Conduct](https://rickhanson.com/dos-and-donts-of-virtuous-conduct/) - Practical Do's and Don'ts for virtuous conduct that lead to happiness and away from suffering, for ourselves and others.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Relevance of Mindfulness Meditation to Managing Mood Disorders](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-relevance-of-mindfulness-meditation-to-managing-mood-disorders/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Zindel Segal offers a meditation and talk on The Relevance of Mindfulness Meditation to Managing Mood Disorders.
- [Meditation + Talk: 5 Ways to Steady Your Mind](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-5-ways-to-steady-your-mind/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on 5 Ways to Steady Your Mind.
- [Meditation + Talk: Welcoming and Embracing Our Selves](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-welcoming-and-embracing-our-selves/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Daniel Ellenberg offers a guided meditation and talk on Welcoming and Embracing Our Selves, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Three Kinds of Mindfulness](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-three-kinds-of-mindfulness/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Three Kinds of Mindfulness.
- [Meditation + Talk: How to Take Heart When the World Gets Scary](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-to-take-heart-when-the-world-gets-scary/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on How to Take Heart When the World Gets Scary.
- [Meditation + Talk: Embracing What Can Be](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-embracing-what-can-be/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Daniel Ellenberg offers a guided meditation and talk on Embracing What Can Be, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Innate Goodness As A Portal To Awakening](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-innate-goodness-as-a-portal-to-awakening/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Stephen Snyder offers a guided meditation and talk on Innate Goodness as a Portal to Awakening, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Resting in the Ground of Everything](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-resting-in-the-ground-of-everything/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Resting in the Ground of Everything.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Essence of Practice in Three Breaths](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-essence-of-practice-in-three-breaths/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Essence of Practice in Three Breaths.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Living Heart of Compassion](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-living-heart-of-compassion/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Living Heart of Compassion.
- [Meditation + Talk: What to Do When You Get Triggered](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-what-to-do-when-you-get-triggered/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on What to Do when You Get Triggered.
- [Meditation + Talk: What to Do When They Get Triggered](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-what-to-do-when-they-get-triggered/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on What to Do when They Get Triggered.
- [Meditation + Talk:  What Do You Do When You Meditate?](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-what-do-you-do-when-you-meditate/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on What Do You Do When You Meditate?
- [Meditation + Talk: What Were You Like When You Were 9 Years Old?](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-what-were-you-like-when-you-were-9-years-old/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on What Were You Like When You Were 9 Years Old?
- [Meditation + Talk: Self-Reliance](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-self-reliance/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Self-Reliance.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Multifaceted Powers of Mindfulness and Compassion Practices](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-multifaceted-powers-of-mindfulness-and-compassion-practices/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Lakiba Pittman offered a guided meditation and talk on The Multifaceted Powers of Mindfulness and Compassion Practices, which included a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Appreciating the Many Kinds of Diversity, Including Inside Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-appreciating-the-many-kinds-of-diversity-including-inside-yourself/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Appreciating the Many Kinds of Diversity, Including Inside Yourself.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Essence of Mindfulness, the Foundation of All Inner Practice](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-essence-of-mindfulness-the-foundation-of-all-inner-practice/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Essence of Mindfulness, the Foundation of All Inner Practice.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Simple Power of Widening Your View](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-simple-power-of-widening-your-view/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Simple Power of Widening Your View.
- [Meditation + Talk: Is Life Suffering?](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-is-life-suffering/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Is Life Suffering?
- [Meditation + Talk: Opening to Deep Peace and Unconditioned Love](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-opening-to-deep-peace-and-unconditioned-love/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”5px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 31-minute meditation and a 44-minute talk and discussion, with guest teacher Stephen Snyder.[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]Stephen Snyder began daily meditation and retreat practice
- [Talk + Meditation + Discussion: Equanimity and Letting Go](https://rickhanson.com/talk-meditation-discussion-equanimity-and-letting-go/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo covered the topic of Equanimity and Letting Go.
- [Meditation + Talk: Cultivating a Wholehearted Practice](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-cultivating-a-wholehearted-practice/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison covered the topic of Cultivating a Wholehearted Practice.
- [Meditation + Talk: Presence Infused with Heart](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-presence-infused-with-heart/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Caverly Morgan covered the topic of Presence Infused with Heart.
- [Meditation + Talk: Compassion in Society: Embodying the Changes We Want to See](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-compassion-in-society-embodying-the-changes-we-want-to-see/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Lakiba Pittman covered the topic of Compassion in Society: Embodying the Changes We Want to See.
- [Meditation + Talk: Being Nature](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-being-nature/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Being Nature.
- [Meditation + Talk: A Spacey Ecstatic Riff on Everything Is Relationship](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-a-spacey-ecstatic-riff-on-everything-is-relationship/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on A Spacey Ecstatic Riff on Everything Is Relationship.
- [Meditation + Talk: Joining and Separating in Your Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-joining-and-separating-in-your-relationships/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Joining and Separating in Your Relationships.
- [Meditation + Talk: Love and Power](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-love-and-power/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Love and Power.
- [Meditation + Talk: Trust, Mistrust, and Deep Trust](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-trust-mistrust-and-deep-trust-2/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Trust, Mistrust, and Deep Trust.
- [Meditation + Talk: Trusting Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-trust-mistrust-and-deep-trust/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Trusting Yourself.
- [Meditation + Talk: Not-Knowing in Your Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-not-knowing-in-your-relationships/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Not-Knowing in Your Relationships.
- [Meditation + Talk: Appreciating Humanness in Others – and Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-appreciating-humanness-in-others-and-yourself/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Appreciating Humanness in Others - and Yourself.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Power of Realistic Optimism in Your Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-power-of-realistic-optimism-in-your-relationships/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Power of Realistic Optimism in Your Relationships.
- [Meditation + Talk: Living in Harmony While Also Taking Care of Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-living-in-harmony-while-also-taking-care-of-yourself/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Living in Harmony While Also Taking Care of Yourself.
- [Meditation + Talk: Skillful and Unskillful Patience in Your Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-skillful-and-unskillful-patience-in-your-relationships/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Skillful and Unskillful Patience in Your Relationships
- [Meditation + Talk: Letting Go of Problematic Beliefs in Your Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-letting-go-of-problematic-beliefs-in-your-relationships/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Letting Go of Problematic Beliefs in Your Relationships.
- [Meditation + Talk: Four Ways to Help Yourself in Challenging Relationships](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-four-ways-to-help-yourself-in-challenging-relationships/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Four Ways to Help Yourself in Challenging Relationships.
- [Meditation + Talk: Abiding In and Radiating Love](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-abiding-in-and-radiating-love/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Tarané Sayler covered the topic of Abiding In and Radiating Love.
- [Meditation + Talk: Accessing the Absolute: Pure Love and Peace Guided Meditation](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-accessing-the-absolute-pure-love-and-peace-guided-meditation/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Stephen Snyder covered the topic of Accessing the Absolute: Pure Love and Peace.
- [Meditation + Talk: Fear Doesn’t Help](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-fear-doesnt-help/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Fear Doesn’t Help.
- [Meditation + Talk: Appreciating Others and Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-appreciating-others-and-yourself/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Appreciating Others and Yourself.
- [Tara Brach Interview on Self-Caring](https://rickhanson.com/tara-brach-interview-on-self-caring/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] Check out a clip from my Foundations of Well-Being interview with Tara Brach where we discuss the foundations of Self-Caring. [/et_pb_text][et_pb_video src=”https://youtu.be/JWUCFjuIr_g?si=I4_I1EodLceCegR5″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][/et_pb_video][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
- [The Power of Self-Compassion](https://rickhanson.com/the-power-of-self-compassion/) - Session Highlights: • An in-depth conversation with Dr. Kristin Neff, professor of human development and culture at the University of Texas, Austin and author of Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind • How to cultivate self-compassion • Compassion for those with special needs
- [Healthy Desire, Benevolence Toward Yourself, and Self-Compassion](https://rickhanson.com/healthy-desire-benevolence-toward-yourself-and-self-compassion/) - In this talk from the San Rafael Meditation group, we explore warming the heart and benevolence towards oneself in the form of self-compassion.
- [Hardwiring Happiness: Being for Yourself, and the Three Ways to Practice with Your Mind](https://rickhanson.com/hardwiring-happiness-three-ways-practice-mind/) - This is the second talk in the series on "Hardwiring Happiness", based on my book of the same name. This talk was given at the San Rafael Meditation gathering on September 18, 2013.
- [From Shame to Self-Worth](https://rickhanson.com/from-shame-to-self-worth-2/) - For most people, chronic shame pulls them back from fully expressing themselves. This article explores where shame comes from, in human evolutionary history, and in personal development.
- [Is the “Self” Real?](https://rickhanson.com/self-real/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Is the “Self” real? What’s the nature of the sense of being that remains when parts of the psyche fall away? The answer depends on how you define “Self.” I use
- [Helping Yourself Speak Your Truth](https://rickhanson.com/helping-speak-truth/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Continuing the discussion on Inhibition Profiles, let’s look at some methods to help you speak your truth. Normal as they are, these inhibitions limit your autonomy, and consequently, your intimacy.
- [Inhibition Profiles](https://rickhanson.com/inhibition-profiles/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” ul_line_height=”1.8em” sticky_enabled=”0″] The inhibition profile of a particular person can be quite nuanced. For example, in terms of attachment theory, a person raised by a “dismissing” parent could worry about asking
- [Balancing Joining and Separating](https://rickhanson.com/balancing-joining-and-separating/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] There is a natural balance within us all between the desire for joining and the desire for separation, between the desire for closeness and the desire for distance. These two
- [Meditation + Talk: Generosity – for Others and for Yourself](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-what-matters-and-what-doesnt/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Generosity - for Others and for Yourself.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Metta Sutta – and Compassion’s Shadow](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-metta-sutta/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Metta Sutta - and Compassion’s Shadow.
- [Meditation + Talk: Most Things Fall Apart Eventually, Yet Some Things Endure](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-most-things-fall-apart-eventually-yet-some-things-endure/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Most Things Fall Apart Eventually, Yet Some Things Endure.
- [Meditation + Talk: What Matters, and What Doesn’t](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-what-matters-and-what-doesnt-2/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on What Matters, and What Doesn’t
- [Meditation + Talk: Loving Freely](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-loving-freely/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Loving Freely.
- [Meditation + Talk: Privilege: What We Don’t Take into Account – and Should](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-privilege-what-we-dont-take-into-account-and-should/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Privilege: What We Don’t Take into Account - and Should.
- [Meditation + Talk: Equanimity: Inner Freedom with a Heart as Wide as the World](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-equanimity-inner-freedom-with-a-heart-as-wide-as-the-world/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Equanimity: Inner Freedom with a Heart as Wide as the World.
- [Meditation + Talk: Lovingness and Peacefulness: Combining Compassion and Equanimity](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-lovingness-and-peacefulness-combining-compassion-and-equanimity/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Lovingness and Peacefulness: Combining Compassion and Equanimity.
- [Meditation + Talk: Love’s In Need of Love Today](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-loves-in-need-of-love-today/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Reggie Hubbard offered a meditation and talk on Love’s In Need of Love Today.
- [Meditation + Talk: How Do You Know You’re a Good Person?](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-how-do-you-know-youre-a-good-person/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on How Do You Know You’re a Good Person?
- [Meditation + Talk: Practicing with Mistakes, Regret, and Remorse](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-practicing-with-mistakes-regret-and-remorse/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Practicing with Mistakes, Regret, and Remorse.
- [Meditation + Talk: Finding A Greater Wholeness](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-finding-a-greater-wholeness/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Henry Shukman offers a guided meditation and talk on Finding A Greater Wholeness.
- [Meditation + Talk: Why Do We Take in the Good?](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-why-do-we-take-in-the-good/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Why Do We Take in the Good?
- [Meditation + Talk: The Seven Factors of Awakening – Starting with Mindfulness](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-seven-factors-of-awakening-starting-with-mindfulness/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Seven Factors of Awakening – starting with Mindfulness.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Enlightenment Factor of “Investigation”](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-enlightenment-factor-of-investigation/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Enlightenment Factor of “Investigation”.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Brahma Viharas and Moral Beauty: Portals to Awe and Inter-Connectedness](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-brahma-viharas-and-moral-beauty-portals-to-awe-and-inter-connectedness/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Linda Graham offered a meditation and talk on The Brahma Viharas and Moral Beauty: Portals to Awe and Inter-Connectedness.
- [Meditation + Talk: Making Efforts – The Third Factor of Awakening](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-making-efforts-the-third-factor-of-awakening/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Making Efforts – The Third Factor of Awakening.
- [Meditation + Talk: Bliss, Rapture, Joy – The Fourth Factor of Awakening](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-bliss-rapture-joy-the-fourth-factor-of-awakening/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Bliss, Rapture, Joy – The Fourth Factor of Awakening.
- [Meditation + Talk: Tranquility – The Fifth Factor of Awakening](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-tranquility-the-fifth-factor-of-awakening/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Tranquility – The Fifth Factor of Awakening.
- [Meditation + Talk: “Samadhi” – The Sixth Factor of Awakening](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-samadhi-the-sixth-factor-of-awakening/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on “Samadhi” – The Sixth Factor of Awakening.
- [Meditation + Talk: Equanimity – The Seventh Factor of Awakening](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-equanimity-the-seventh-factor-of-awakening/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Equanimity – The Seventh Factor of Awakening
- [Meditation + Talk: Coming to Rest in Both Ordinary and Extraordinary Ways](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-coming-to-rest-in-both-ordinary-and-extraordinary-ways/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Coming to Rest in Both Ordinary and Extraordinary Ways.
- [Meditation + Talk: Who Most Needs Your Compassion and Appreciation? You!](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-who-most-needs-your-compassion-and-appreciation-you/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Who Most Needs Your Compassion and Appreciation? You!.
- [Meditation + Talk: Tenderness and Vastness, Assertiveness and Compassion](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-tenderness-and-vastness-assertiveness-and-compassion/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Tenderness and Vastness, Assertiveness and Compassion.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Sense of Inner Knowing](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-sense-of-inner-knowing/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher John Prendergast, Ph.D. offers a meditation and talk on the inner sense of knowing.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Sense of Inner Knowing and R.A.I.N.](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-sense-of-inner-knowing-and-r-a-i-n/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher John Prendergast, Ph.D. offers a meditation and talk on the inner sense of knowing and R.A.I.N.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Ten Ways of Dealing with Difficult Emotions](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-ten-ways-of-dealing-with-difficult-emotions/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 39-minute meditation, a 61-minute talk, and a discussion with Venerable Bhante Buddharakkita on The Ten (10 ) Ways of Dealing with Difficult Emotions.
- [Meditation + Talk: Connecting with Yourself and Others – Three Foundational Practices](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-connecting-with-yourself-and-others-three-foundational-practices/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 33-minute meditation, a 47-minute talk, and a discussion on Connecting with Yourself & Others: Three Foundational Practices with Daniel Ellenberg, Ph.D.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Power of Giving and Receiving](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-power-of-giving-and-receiving/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 33-minute meditation, a 50-minute talk, and a discussion on The Power of Giving and Receiving by Daniel Ellenberg, Ph.D.
- [Meditation + Talk: Practicing with Sorrow](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-practicing-with-sorrow/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 35-minute meditation, a 48-minute talk, and a discussion with Rick Hanson about Practicing with Sorrow.
- [Meditation + Talk: Wisdom in the Wounds](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-wisdom-in-the-wounds/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included an 18-minute meditation, a 45-minute talk, and a discussion about Wisdom in the Wounds with Lakiba Pittman.
- [Meditation + Talk: Struggles, Lessons, and Hope](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-struggles-lessons-and-hope/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a meditation and talk with Dr. Rick Hanson and Mamphela Ramphele on Struggles, Lessons, and Hope.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Good News in the Four Ennobling Truths](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-good-news-in-the-four-ennobling-truths/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation, a 48-minute talk, and a discussion about The Good News in the Four Ennobling Truths.
- [Meditation + Talk: Cultivating Belonging](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-cultivating-belonging/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a meditation, talk, and a discussion about Cultivating Belonging.
- [Meditation + Talk: You Are Whole and Complete, and There Is Nothing to Add](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-you-are-whole-and-complete-and-there-is-nothing-to-add/) - This Wednesday Night Meditation included a meditation, talk, and a discussion about You Are Whole and Complete, and There Is Nothing to Add.
- [Letting Yourself Be Loved: Balancing Self-Reliance and Care](https://rickhanson.com/letting-yourself-be-loved-balancing-self-reliance-and-care/) - In this short clip from his online Neurodharma program, Dr. Rick Hanson discussions the importance of taking in healthy social supplies.
- [Why and How to Cultivate Happiness, Love, and Wisdom](https://rickhanson.com/why-and-how-to-cultivate-happiness-love-and-wisdom/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding=”5px|||||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson, Ph.D. It focuses on cultivating personal strengths into happiness by training yourself to do good that lasts, and brings happiness, peace,
- [Love More, Cling Less](https://rickhanson.com/love-cling-less/) - Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled, "Love More, Cling Less."
- [Love](https://rickhanson.com/love/) - "Love is a deep, powerful, often intense feeling of affection, caring, sweetness, and commitment. It is usually applied to others, though it is possible to feel love for the natural world, humanity as a whole, God (in whatever way you experience or imagine this), and oneself. Whether you feel loved or feel loving, love is love, whether it’s coming in or going out. When you’re resting in love, any knots of longing or clinging can loosen and fall away." *Excerpted from, Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence
- [Restoring Love](https://rickhanson.com/restoring-love/) - Keeping romantic love alive in the midst of raising kids and earning a living is one of the hardest things that anyone can do. By keeping commitments, building a framework and using a variety of tools, you can turn things around.
- [The Neurodharma of Love](https://rickhanson.com/neurodharma-love/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding=”2px|||||”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] Most of our greatest joys and sorrows happen in our relationships with others. Imagine then: what if you could guide your mind to forgive, heal, and find greater happiness in your
- [Empathy: A Key Relationship Skill](https://rickhanson.com/empathy-key-relationship-skill/) - Fundamentally, empathy is a skill, like any other, and you can get better at it. And much the same, you can ask your partner to get better at it, too! Getting better at empathy will only help a person become a better parent.
- [21 Ways To Turn Ill Will to Good Will](https://rickhanson.com/21-ways-to-turn-ill-will-to-good-will/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] My recent posts have highlighted two very powerful, yet opposing forces in the human heart: in a traditional metaphor, we each have a wolf of love and a wolf of
- [5 Tips to Wire for Compassion](https://rickhanson.com/5-tips-wire-compassion/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] During this time, we could all use more understanding and relating to one another. Did you know that requires a healthy prefrontal cortex (PFC) otherwise we will biologically default to
- [Turning a Negative Nelly Into a Positive Polly](https://rickhanson.com/turning-negative-nelly-positive-polly/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] I’ve been talking about ways to Hardwire Your Happiness on the blog lately. So I thought it would be great to give you a sense of how it feels
- [What Is the Negativity Bias?](https://rickhanson.com/what-is-the-negativity-bias/) - Dr. Rick Hanson is a psychologist and leading expert on positive neuroplasticity. Over the last 30 years, he has taught literally thousands and thousands of people on how to be well.
- [Practicing with Negative Reactions to Others](https://rickhanson.com/practicing-with-negative-reactions-to-others/) - Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled Practicing with Negative Reactions to Others. More information on the San Rafael Mediation group can be found here.
- [Train Your Brain: Letting Go](https://rickhanson.com/train-brain-letting-go-2/) - Use letting go whenever you relax, get stress relief, release painful feelings like worry or anger, take things less personally, or drop thoughts that make you and others unhappy.
- [Taking in the Good Stuff](https://rickhanson.com/taking-good-stuff/) - Parents put out so much during the day that it’s easy to get depleted: more is going out than is coming back in. It’s so vital to keep putting back in your tank. Here, let’s look at how to fill yourself back up emotionally.
- [Overcoming the Negativity Bias](https://rickhanson.com/overcoming-negativity-bias/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding=”|0px||||”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] You were quoted in a short post about negativity bias in which you stated, “The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positives ones.” Can you
- [How to Take in the Good](https://rickhanson.com/how-to-take-in-the-good/) - This is a brief article outlining the basic steps of training your brain to retain positive experiences.
- [Cultivating Wholesome Motivation](https://rickhanson.com/cultivating-wholesome-motivation/) - Here is a talk from the San Rafael Meditation group with Rick Hanson. It is titled, "Cultivating Wholesome Motivation".
- [Wholesome Intentions - The Neurology of Intention](https://rickhanson.com/wholesome-intentions-neurology-intention/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” ul_line_height=”1.8em” sticky_enabled=”0″] Our intentions arise in the brain, are represented in the brain, and are pursued in the brain. Where else? Therefore, a basic understanding of how intentions work in the
- [Ways to Deepen Householder Practice](https://rickhanson.com/ways-deepen-householder-practice/) - The Buddha taught that complete enlightenment was possible for householders and monastics alike. It's wonderful news that ordinary activities such as going to work, raising a family, driving in traffic, paying bills, raking the leaves, etc. are not inherent barriers to complete freedom, joy, love, and inner peace.
- [Supporting Positive Motivation in Teenagers](https://rickhanson.com/supporting-positive-motivation-teenagers/) - In this column we will explore how parents can support the development of the positive motivations within their kids that will draw them toward productive and healthy paths.
- [Is the Intention a Goal or Already Realized?](https://rickhanson.com/intention-goal-already-realized/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Do you express the intention as a goal or as something already realized? This gets at a recurring question, even a debate, in Buddhism (and also in psychology and
- [Compassionate Assertiveness](https://rickhanson.com/compassionate-assertiveness/) - This talk from the San Rafael Meditation focuses on warming the heart and assertiveness that is grounded in the underlying ventures of Buddhism that have to do with wise speech, action, livelihood, and conduct.
- [Is Life Actually Suffering?](https://rickhanson.com/is-life-actually-suffering/) - Discover what causes suffering and learn how we can rest in fullness with the experiences we are already having.
- [A Meditation for Feeling As Safe As You Reasonably Can](https://rickhanson.com/a-meditation-for-feeling-as-safe-as-you-reasonably-can/) - During times like this, it's natural to feel afraid, stressed, threatened, or anxious - but being consumed by fear causes wear and tear on the body, which actually undermines your safety. That's why it's very important to be able to find a place inside that feels calm and strong. And one of the best ways to do this is to notice that you're alright, right now - which we'll explore in this 5-minute meditation.
- [Meditation + Talk: 3 Ways to Deal With Hard Times](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-3-ways-to-deal-hard-times/) - In this meditation, talk and discussion we start with a 45-minute meditation in Grounding in Openhearted Peacefulness. Then, with many concerned about the current Coronavirus pandemic and uncertainty, stress, and anxiety surrounding it, I share three ways for dealing with hard times.
- [Meditation + Talk: Love and Anger in the Time of Corona](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-love-and-anger-in-the-time-of-corona/) - Learn how to deal with anger during challenging times and rest at peace in a radiant heart. This is a talk and meditation from Dr. Rick Hanson's Wednesday Meditation series.
- [Meditation + Talk: Dealing with Worries and Releasing Anxiety](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-dealing-with-worries-and-anxiety/) - In this meditation, talk, and discussion from the Wednesday Night Meditation series, we start with a 45-minute meditation in Releasing Anxiety, Finding Peace. Then, as this is a time of much concern, Rick offers a talk on Dealing with Worries.
- [Meditation + Talk: What Can't Be Lost and Can Always Be Found](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-what-cant-be-lost-and-can-always-be-found/) - In this Meditation and Talk, Dr. Rick Hanson offers an meditation on being the space in which experiences flow, and he shares insights about what inside us can't be lost and can always be found.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Essence of Mindfulness](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-essence-of-mindfulness/) - Dr. Rick Hanson leads a meditation and talk on the essence of mindfulness he will share with you his ideas of the fundamentals taught by the Buddha 2,500 years ago.
- [Meditation + Talk: Three Wise Efforts](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-three-wise-efforts/) - In this Meditation and Talk, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a meditation on Mindful Spaciousness, and he shares insights about Three Wise Efforts.
- [Meditation + Talk: Practicing with a Warm Heart](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-practicing-with-a-warm-heart/) - In this Wednesday Meditations, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and teaching on Practicing with a Warm Heart, and concludes with a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Practicing Seven Aspects of Awakening](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-practicing-seven-aspects-of-awakening/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and teaching on Practicing Seven Aspects of Awakening, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Deep Rest](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-deep-rest/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and teaching on Deep Rest, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Children: Kind Wishes](https://rickhanson.com/yoga-mindfulness-practices-children-kind-wishes/) - Many of the practices that support our well-being and happiness as adults are wonderful for children as well, but the way that they are taught must be developmentally appropriate and meet their sometimes very different needs.
- [Why Develop Mindful Presence?](https://rickhanson.com/develop-mindful-presence/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] This is the second post in the series on mindful presence. You can view Part One here. So why should we go out of our way to develop mindfulness? Mindful
- [Open Space Mindfulness](https://rickhanson.com/open-space-mindfulness/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ ul_line_height=”1.8em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] This is the fourth and final post in the series on developing mindful presence. Here’s Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. In Part Three we did a
- [Mindfulness Tune Up](https://rickhanson.com/mindfulness-tune-up/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”8px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ ul_line_height=”1.8em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] This is the third post in the series on developing mindful presence. Here’s Part One and Part Two. Steady mindfulness requires overcoming the natural – and evolutionarily adaptive
- [Handling Blocks to Any Inner Practice – Meditation, Yoga, Gratitude, Mindfulness](https://rickhanson.com/handling-blocks-inner-practice-meditation-yoga-gratitude-mindfulness/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”3px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”19px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] When you try to change your life for better, sometimes you bump into a block, such as distracting thoughts. Blocks are common. They’re not bad or wrong – but they do
- [The Neurology of Awareness and Self](https://rickhanson.com/the-neurology-of-awareness-and-self-darwinian-and-nondual-perspectives-and-tools-for-transcendence-of-the-self/) - It is sometimes said that the three greatest – and toughest, and most significant – remaining scientific questions are these: What caused the Big Bang? What is the “Grand Unified Theory” that integrates quantum mechanics and general relativity? What is the conscious self?
- [The Noble Eightfold Path](https://rickhanson.com/the-noble-eightfold-path/) - The Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Buddha's Noble Truths, and he described it as the way that leads to the uprooting of the causes of suffering, and thus to increasingly stable and profound peacefulness, wisdom, virtue, and happiness.
- [Meditation + Talk: Equanimity](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-equanimity/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and teaching on Equanimity, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Impermanence of Experiences](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-the-impermanence-of-experiences/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and teaching on The Impermanence of Experiences, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Openhearted Peacefulness](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-openhearted-peacefulness/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Openhearted Peacefulness, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: The Power of Love](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-power-of-love/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on The Power of Love, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Lived by Everything](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-lived-by-everything/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Lived by Everything, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Meditation + Talk: Finding Refuge - Why and How, in Turbulent Times](https://rickhanson.com/meditation-talk-finding-refuge-why-and-how-in-turbulent-times/) - In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation and talk on Finding Refuge - Why and How, in Turbulent Times, which includes a Q&A and discussion.
- [Talk: The Refuge of Calm](https://rickhanson.com/talk-the-refuge-of-calm/) - In this talk from his weekly Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson speaks about the Refuge of Calm.
- [Where's Dad?](https://rickhanson.com/wheres-dad/) - These days, dads too (like moms) are pulled in different directions by changing expectations about their proper role in the family coupled with unrelenting pressures to be a successful breadwinner. Find out how to be an excellent team player in the role of childrearing.
- [When Kids Are Distractible or "Hyper"](https://rickhanson.com/kids-distractible-hyper/) - The topic of ADHD is fairly controversial these days. There’s no controversy about the fact that individuals range on a spectrum of distractibility, restlessness, and impulsivity. In this post, we’ll explore what that spectrum means – and what to do about it.
- [What "Mom" Can Do for "Dad"](https://rickhanson.com/mom-can-dad/) - Here’s a list of eight things a mom can do tend to a dad’s needs.
- [True Love](https://rickhanson.com/true-love/) - Sometimes two people seem like they’re just an inch away from falling in love again – but somehow it never quite clicks and they keep on slowly drifting apart. In this column we explore the foundations of marriage and ways to show that your partner truly matters to you.
- [Translating Mom-Speak and Dad-Speak](https://rickhanson.com/translating-mom-speak-dad-speak/) - In relationships, women generally tend to focus on feeling connected, while men are sensitive to status and dominance. Each gender style is valid and skill with the other gender’s style lets you shift gears effectively, depending on what’s needed.
- [Talking About Parental Values](https://rickhanson.com/talking-parental-values/) - Parents often work out their differences informally, but sometimes, you’d benefit from a process that’s a little more structured. Here are some questions to help discuss the values that guide your parenting.
- [Swimming up Stream](https://rickhanson.com/swimming-up-stream/) - Many mothers think back to their own moms and feel dismayed that they may not be handling things as well. It’s both poignant and sadly unfair to the women who feel this way, since times have changed so dramatically. In response, we’d like to offer these words.
- [Speaking from Your Heart](https://rickhanson.com/speaking-from-your-heart/) - Here are some questions that you can use as a checklist to help yourself communicate authentically and skillfully – so that the outside you show the world more closely matches your insides.
- [Skillful Responses to Child Wants](https://rickhanson.com/skillful-responses-child-wants/) - Skillfully responding to child wants are the foundation of a lifetime of success and satisfaction with our wishes, hopes, and dreams.
- [Sharing the Load](https://rickhanson.com/sharing-the-load/) - Here, we will discuss the (often heated) issue of who does what and how to share the load fairly.
- [Self-Awareness for Kids and Grownups](https://rickhanson.com/self-awareness-kids-grownups/) - Everybody’s self-aware, to some degree — and here are some ways to get even better at it.
- [Resolving Quarrels](https://rickhanson.com/resolving-quarrels/) - Disagreements and grievances are normal in any relationship, whether it’s between a mom and dad, or between two nations or peoples. Here are four things that will lead to your best chance of resolving a quarrel.
- [The Marathon of Parenthood](https://rickhanson.com/the-marathon-of-parenthood/) - Parenthood is a long journey, a marathon, not a sprint. We’d like to offer this advice to help you through it.
- [Making Time for Your Relationship](https://rickhanson.com/making-time-relationship/) - During periods of intense demands – such as the first months after birth – it’s normal for a couple to have less time for each other. Time together for conversation, doing fun things together, sweet moments, and affection is the foundation of a strong and enduring love. Here are some suggestions for busy parents.
- [Making It Work to Stay Home from Work](https://rickhanson.com/making-it-work-to-stay-home-from-work/) - This is a brief summary of suggestions to bring some of the social aspects back in to life after having a child.
- [Letting Go](https://rickhanson.com/letting-go/) - Moms deal with so many feelings and needs and wants in her children and partner that the stress builds up over the course of a day. Here’s a summary of practical methods for letting go.
- [Issues with Relatives](https://rickhanson.com/issues-with-relatives/) - When children come along, relatives can be an incredible blessing or something of a curse – and sometimes both at the same time. Happily, there are lots of ways to keep things on a good footing with the relatives. Here are just a few.
- [How to Lower Your Stress](https://rickhanson.com/how-to-lower-your-stress/) - Nurturing yourself is what enables you to be at your best for your children. You work hard for the sake of your children and family, and that entitles you to respect, care – and stress relief.
- [How a Parent Gets Depleted](https://rickhanson.com/parent-gets-depleted/) - Parenthood is profoundly fulfilling . . . but it is also the most physically demanding and stressful activity most people – whether women or men – will ever do, and it gets done day after day for twenty or more years. You can start feeling better about things just knowing that you are not alone.
- [Having a Life of Your Own](https://rickhanson.com/having-a-life-of-your-own/) - Feeling the stresses of multiple commitments tugging at you can make you feel like you can never take care of any single one as much as you would like. We’ve listed just a few ways that you can help serve yourself in this column.
- [Giving Emotional Support](https://rickhanson.com/giving-emotional-support/) - Under the press of everything you have to do as a parent, combined with feeling tired and frazzled, it’s only natural to feel a little distant from your mate. But as the saying goes, “love is a verb,” which means that an intimate relationship ultimately rests on how we act toward our partner.
- [Getting a Father to Help More with the Baby](https://rickhanson.com/getting-father-help-baby/) - Many new fathers – not all, to be sure – love their children enormously . . . but from a safe distance. Here we’ll discuss a variety of ways to get dad more involved with the baby.
- [Foundations of Love](https://rickhanson.com/foundations-of-love/) - Just parenting itself is very difficult. The larger task of making a family — earning a living, maintaining a marriage, juggling schedules, managing a household, etc. etc. — is even harder. This article explores what to do individually and as a couple to keep the flame of love burning.
- [Finding Your Footing](https://rickhanson.com/finding-your-footing/) - It’s really natural to feel pulled in a million directions when you’re a mother. Many people have a hard time seriously getting on their own side, so that they feel mobilized to reduce their suffering and increase their happiness. Here are some quick methods.
- [Empathy for a Partner](https://rickhanson.com/empathy-for-a-partner/) - It is often true that parents wish their partners understood them more. Here we explore empathy for a father.
- [Dealing with Summertime Stress](https://rickhanson.com/dealing-summertime-stress/) - Summertime is also a time when it behooves parents to be really on top of their game in terms of keeping the needle on their personal stress meter out of the red zone. Here are ten great ways to weave stress relief into the fabric of your everyday life.
- [The Comforts of Support](https://rickhanson.com/the-comforts-of-support/) - In this column I will describe how to comfort the self of each parent and the comforts of support.

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://rickhanson.com/) - With simple practices, you can hardwire more happiness, love, and wisdom into your brain and your life — Really! Grow the Inner strengths you need to handle life's challenges.
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- [Wednesday Meditations with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/wednesday-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_enable_color=”off” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”rgba(0,0,0,0.24) 0pt|rgba(0,0,0,0.37) 100pt” background_color_gradient_unit=”pt” background_color_gradient_overlays_image=”on” background_image=”https://rickhanson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Wednesday-Free-Online-Meditations-2024v2.jpg” custom_padding=”140px||180px||false|false” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” border_style_bottom=”none” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#ffffff” text_font_size=”24px” header_font=”|300|||||||” header_text_color=”#ffffff” header_2_text_color=”#ffffff” header_2_font_size=”24px” header_text_shadow_style=”preset1″ global_colors_info=”{}”] Wednesday Meditations Free Weekly Talks and Meditations with Dr. Rick Hanson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”20px||20px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column
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- [Navigating Political Turmoil](https://rickhanson.com/topics-for-personal-growth/navigating-political-turmoil/) - By acknowledging our fears and anxiety while taking purposeful action, we can navigate political turmoil with greater calm and effectiveness.
- [Brain Facts: Explore Your Amazing Brain](https://rickhanson.com/brain-facts-explore-your-amazing-brain/)
- [Slide Sets](https://rickhanson.com/slide-sets/)
- [Reading Guides](https://rickhanson.com/writings/books/reading-guides/)
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- [About Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/about-dr-rick-hanson/) - Dr. Rick Hanson is a psychologist, NYT bestselling author, expert in positive neuroplasticity, co-host of the Being Well Podcast, and meditation teacher.
- [100+ Overthinking Quotes to Bring Clarity and Peace to Your Mind](https://rickhanson.com/overthinking-quotes/) - Explore our expert-reviewed list of overthinking quotes to help you understand and manage your thoughts. Find inspiration and tips for overcoming overthinking.
- [How to Remove Negative Thoughts from the Mind Permanently](https://rickhanson.com/how-to-remove-negative-thoughts-from-mind-permanently/) - Struggling with repetitive negative thinking? Learn how to remove negative thoughts from your mind permanently using expert-backed tools and mindset shifts.
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- [Opt-out preferences](https://rickhanson.com/opt-out-preferences/)
- [Mindfulness and Rumination: How Mindfulness Can Quiet Your Overactive Mind](https://rickhanson.com/mindfulness-for-rumination/) - Discover expert-backed mindfulness techniques for rumination. Learn practices like the 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique, Loving-Kindness Meditation, and more.
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- [Foundations of Well-Being 2.0 - groups](https://rickhanson.com/online-courses/foundations-of-well-being-2-0-groups/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ next_background_color=”#ffffff” admin_label=”Hero” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_image=”https://rickhanson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/FWB-BG.jpg” custom_margin=”|||” custom_padding=”5vw||22px||false|false” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_repeat=”0.5x” bottom_divider_flip=”horizontal|vertical” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”|||” custom_padding=”27px|0px|0|0px|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”|||” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”||||||||” header_line_height=”1.4em” header_2_font=”Josefin Sans||||||||” header_2_text_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.6)” header_2_font_size=”32px” header_2_line_height=”1.4em” background_layout=”dark” min_height=”67px” custom_margin=”18px||10px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px|||” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”right” animation_intensity_slide=”4%” header_font_size_tablet=”50px” header_font_size_phone=”32px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” header_2_font_size_tablet=”” header_2_font_size_phone=”24px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”] The Foundations of Well-Being [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″
- [Icelandic](https://rickhanson.com/writings/foreign-languages/icelandic/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#284b71 0%|#017580 100%” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_text_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Foreign Languages [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font_size=”28px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writings from Dr. Rick Hanson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”31px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”119.1px” custom_padding=”||11px|||”
- [French](https://rickhanson.com/writings/foreign-languages/french/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#284b71 0%|#017580 100%” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_text_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Foreign Languages [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font_size=”28px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writings from Dr. Rick Hanson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”31px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”119.1px” custom_padding=”||11px|||”
- [Dutch](https://rickhanson.com/writings/foreign-languages/dutch/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#284b71 0%|#017580 100%” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_text_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Foreign Languages [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font_size=”28px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writings from Dr. Rick Hanson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”31px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”119.1px” custom_padding=”||11px|||”
- [Czech](https://rickhanson.com/writings/foreign-languages/czech/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#284b71 0%|#017580 100%” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_text_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Foreign Languages [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font_size=”28px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writings from Dr. Rick Hanson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”31px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”119.1px” custom_padding=”||11px|||”
- [Chinese](https://rickhanson.com/writings/foreign-languages/chinese/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#284b71 0%|#017580 100%” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_text_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Foreign Languages [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font_size=”28px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writings from Dr. Rick Hanson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”31px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”119.1px” custom_padding=”||11px|||”
- [Ukrainian](https://rickhanson.com/writings/foreign-languages/ukrainian/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#284b71 0%|#017580 100%” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_text_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Foreign Languages [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font_size=”28px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writings from Dr. Rick Hanson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”31px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”119.1px” custom_padding=”||11px|||”
- [Romanian](https://rickhanson.com/writings/foreign-languages/romanian/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#284b71 0%|#017580 100%” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_text_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Foreign Languages [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font_size=”28px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writings from Dr. Rick Hanson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”31px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”119.1px” custom_padding=”||11px|||”
- [Spanish](https://rickhanson.com/writings/foreign-languages/spanish/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#284b71 0%|#017580 100%” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_text_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Foreign Languages [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font_size=”28px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writings from Dr. Rick Hanson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”31px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”119.1px” custom_padding=”||11px|||”
- [Vietnamese](https://rickhanson.com/writings/foreign-languages/vietnamese/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#284b71 0%|#017580 100%” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_text_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Foreign Languages [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font_size=”28px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writings from Dr. Rick Hanson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”31px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”119.1px” custom_padding=”||11px|||”
- [Polish](https://rickhanson.com/writings/foreign-languages/polish/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#284b71 0%|#017580 100%” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_text_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Foreign Languages [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font_size=”28px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writings from Dr. Rick Hanson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”31px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”119.1px” custom_padding=”||11px|||”
- [German](https://rickhanson.com/writings/foreign-languages/german/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#284b71 0%|#017580 100%” bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.17.4″ _module_preset=”default” pac_dcm_carousel_specific_module_num=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_text_color=”#ffffff” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”] Foreign Languages [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font=”Open Sans|300|||||||” header_2_text_color=”#F2F0ED” header_2_font_size=”28px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writings from Dr. Rick Hanson [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”31px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”119.1px” custom_padding=”||11px|||”
- [The Strong Heart Relationship Series](https://rickhanson.com/online-courses/the-strong-heart-relationship-series/)
- [The Professional Course in Positive Neuroplasticity](https://rickhanson.com/online-courses/the-professional-course-in-positive-neuroplasticity/)
- [The Positive Neuroplasticity Training Online Course](https://rickhanson.com/online-courses/the-positive-neuroplasticity-training-online-course/)

## Donation Forms

- [Wednesday Meditations Donations](https://rickhanson.com/donations/wednesday-meditations-donations/) - []

## Venues

- [Virtual](https://rickhanson.com/venue/virtual/)

## Events

- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-36/2026-03-04/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Taylor Rechtschaffen](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-taylor-rechtschaffen/) - Join guest teacher Taylor Rechtschaffen for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-35/2026-03-25/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-34/2026-02-04/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-33/2026-01-07/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [The Foundations of Well-Being 2026](https://rickhanson.com/event/the-foundations-of-well-being-2026/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson for a yearlong program to beat the brain's negativity bias and grow 12 inner-strengths for more resilience, calm, and happiness.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Sean Oakes](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-sean-oakes-2/) - Join guest teacher Sean Oakes for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-31/2025-11-19/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Hardwiring Happiness Masterclass](https://rickhanson.com/event/hardwiring-happiness-masterclass/) - A LIVE, Online Masterclass on Changing Your Brain for the Better
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-32/2025-12-03/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-28-2/2025-11-05/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Michael Gayner](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-michael-gayner/) - Join guest teacher Michael Gayner for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [The Self-Worth Workshop](https://rickhanson.com/event/the-self-worth-workshop/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson for a 6-week workshop on feeling truly cared about and worthy, from the inside out.
- [Grief and Loss 4-week Course](https://rickhanson.com/event/grief-and-loss-4-week-course/)
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Ajahn Nisabho](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-ajahn-nisabho/) - Join guest teacher Ajahn Nisabho for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-28/2025-10-01/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Ajahn Kovilo](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-ajahn-kovilo/) - Join guest teacher Ajahn Kovilo for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Navigating Loss Free Webinar](https://rickhanson.com/event/navigating-loss-free-webinar/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson on August 24th for a free 1-hour webinar with practical and heartfelt ways to meet grief with more understanding and self-compassion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Diana Hill](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-diana-hill-5/2025-09-17/) - Join guest teacher Dr. Diana Hill for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-27/2025-08-20/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-26/2025-07-23/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Sean Fargo](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-sean-fargo-2/) - Join guest teacher Sean Fargo for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Lakiba Pittman](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-lakiba-pittman/) - Join guest teacher Lakiba Pittman for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-25/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-24/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-23/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-22/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [The Calm Mind Workshop](https://rickhanson.com/event/the-calm-mind-workshop/) - Feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck in reactivity? Learn 4 Habits for Finding Peace in a Chaotic World, in this special live event with Dr. Rick Hanson.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Mandar Apte](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-mandar-apte/) - Join guest teacher Mandar Apte for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Healing Insecure Attachment](https://rickhanson.com/event/healing-insecure-attachment/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson for a 5-week course on healing old relationship wounds and creating deeper, more fulfilling connections with others.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-21/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-20/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-19/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-18/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-17/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Matthew Legge](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-matthew-legge/) - Join guest teacher Matthew Legge for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Breaking Out of Rumination 5-Week Course](https://rickhanson.com/event/breaking-out-of-rumination-5-week-course-2/) - Join Rick for a 5-week, self-paced course on disrupting negative, obsessive thoughts.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Maria Paula Jimenez](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-maria-paula-jimenez-2/) - Join guest teacher Maria Paula Jimenez for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-16/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-16-2/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-15/2025-04-02/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [The Strong Heart 4 Week Series](https://rickhanson.com/event/the-strong-heart/) - A 4-Week series on Improving your Important Relationships with Dr. Rick Hanson.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Daniel Ellenberg](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-daniel-ellenberg/) - Join guest teacher Dr. Daniel Ellenberg for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Kristine Claghorn](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-kristine-claghorn/) - Join guest teacher Kristine Claghorn for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Tina Rasmussen](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-tina-rasmussen/2025-03-19/) - Join guest teacher Tina Rasmussen for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-14/2025-02-12/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Resolutions That Last](https://rickhanson.com/event/resolutions-that-last/) - A Live, Online Event with Dr. Rick Hanson on Harnessing Momentum for a Year of Growth. Realign with your goals, tap your inner strengths, and create a plan.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Anne Roise](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-anne-roise-2/) - Join guest teacher Anne Roise for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Maria Paula Jimenez](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-maria-paula-jimenez/) - Join guest teacher Maria Paula Jimenez for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Roger Walsh](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-roger-walsh/) - Join guest teacher Dr. Roger Walsh for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-13/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Diversity Dialogues: Special Event with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/diversity-dialogues-special-event-with-dr-rick-hanson/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson for an in-person event at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Auditorium in Paradise, Nevada, as he shares insights from his ground breaking book, Buddha's Brain.
- [Trauma and the Healing Power of Love](https://rickhanson.com/event/trauma-and-the-healing-power-of-love/) - A 5-Week Course with Dr. Rick Hanson with experiential practices for building up a strong sense of love and support inside yourself so you can start accepting and healing from past wounds.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-12/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-11/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-2/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [The Positive Neuroplasticity Training](https://rickhanson.com/event/the-positive-neuroplasticity-training/) - A 6-Week course with Rick Hanson in overcoming the brain's negativity bias with the power of positive neuroplasticity for less stress and more happiness.
- [Courage to Connect 5-Week Course](https://rickhanson.com/event/courage-to-connect-5-week-course/)
- [Neurodharma 8-Week Course](https://rickhanson.com/event/neurodharma-8-week-course/)
- [Breaking Out of Rumination 5-Week Course](https://rickhanson.com/event/breaking-out-of-rumination-5-week-course/)
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-8/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-9/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-3/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-10/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Leah Penniman](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-leah-penniman/) - Join guest teacher Leah Penniman for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Oren Jay Sofer](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-oren-jay-sofer/) - Join guest teacher Oren Jay Sofer for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Diana Hill](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-diana-hill-4/) - Join guest teacher Dr. Diana Hill for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Diana Hill](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-diana-hill-3/) - Join guest teacher Dr. Diana Hill for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Inner Peace and Outer Action for Challenging Times: Practices to Cultivate Resilience](https://rickhanson.com/event/inner-peace-and-outer-action-for-challenging-times-practices-to-cultivate-resilience/)
- [Rick Hanson + Steven Hayes Conversation: Where Do We Want To Take This?](https://rickhanson.com/event/rick-hanson-steven-hayes-conversation-where-do-we-want-to-take-this/) - Exploring the Future of a Process-Based Approach to Human Empowerment With Rick Hanson and Steven C. Hayes
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-5/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-6/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-4/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Henry Shukman](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-henry-shukman/) - Join guest teacher Henry Shukman for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Anne Roise](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-anne-roise/) - Join guest teacher Anne Roise for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Ethan Nichtern](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-ethan-nichtern/) - Join guest teacher Ethan Nichtern for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom](https://rickhanson.com/event/the-practical-neuroscience-of-happiness-love-and-wisdom/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson for a special 90-minute event inspired by the book Buddha's Brain. Includes meditations and practices on training your brain for the good.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Caverly Morgan](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-caverly-morgan/) - Join guest teacher Caverly Morgan for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-7/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson every Wednesday for a Free, live-streamed weekly meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Diana Hill](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-diana-hill-2/) - Join guest teacher Dr. Diana Hill for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Sean Oakes](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-sean-oakes/) - Join guest teacher Sean Oakes for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with sujatha baliga](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-sujatha-baliga/) - Join guest teacher sujatha baliga for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Diana Hill](https://rickhanson.com/event/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-diana-hill/) - Join guest teacher Dr. Diana Hill for a free, live-streamed meditation, talk, and discussion.
- [The Neuroscience of Well-Being](https://rickhanson.com/event/the-neuroscience-of-well-being/) - In this masterclass, Dr. Rick Hanson and Breathworks Founder Vidyamala Burch OBE will guide you through a warm and open session of learning, practice, and discussion. Exploring the plasticity of the brain, you will learn how to harness the mind and calm the threat system to manage pain, illness, and other challenges while building an unshakable core of resilient wellbeing.
- [Strong Heart Relationship Series](https://rickhanson.com/event/strong-heart-relationship-series/) - Join Dr. Rick Hanson for a 4-Week Course on improving all of your important relationships with others.

## Series

- [Wednesday Weekly Meditation and Talk with Dr. Rick Hanson](https://rickhanson.com/series/wednesday-weekly-meditation-and-talk-with-dr-rick-hanson-3/)
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