Talk + Meditation: How to Heal the Emotional Baggage You’ve Been Carrying
Learn the neuroscience of how to heal old emotional wounds and find the right antidote for painful patterns.
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.
Being Well Podcast: Self-Acceptance: How to Accept Yourself Without Giving Up on Change
Dr. Rick and Forrest discuss what self-acceptance is, what it isn’t, and why it’s the starting point for real change.
Talk + Meditation: The Four Immeasurables for Staying Calm, Kind, and Compassionate
Michael Gayner explores equanimity, loving-kindness, compassion, and joy—and how to return to these qualities when difficult emotions take over.
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.
Being Well Podcast: Treating Shame with Self-Compassion with Dr. Chris Germer
Dr. Chris Germer, co-developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion program, joins Forrest to discuss how we can go about treating shame with self-compassion.
Talk + Meditation: How to Keep an Open Heart in a Difficult World
Explore four qualities that can help you meet yourself, other people, and even difficult experiences with greater wisdom and care .
Expanding Compassion for Our Times
Compassion can expand beyond empathy for those who are like us.
Choose To 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.
Being Well Podcast: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: What the Critics Get Right (and Wrong) with Dr. Ellen Hendriksen
Clinical psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen joins Forrest to talk about what Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is, its history, its strengths and weaknesses, and why it’s gotten such a bad rap.