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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.