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Writings on Well-Being Dr. Rick Hanson
Being Well Podcast: What’s The Problem With Therapy Speak? August Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest answer a listener question about the consequences of “therapy speak,” focusing on the good and bad of clinical language escaping the therapy room.
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Talk + Meditation: Patience – Why We Need It, and How to Grow It
Learn how patience reduces stress and conflict, builds inner strength, and helps you stay calm when life and other people test you.
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.
Being Well Podcast: Burnout Advice for Real People
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore burnout advice: what burnout is, why it’s so common, and what people can do about it.
Talk + Meditation: How to Feel That You’ve Done Enough – and Are Enough
Many of us believe we need to do more to feel at peace. What if peace doesn’t come from becoming more—but from recognizing you’re already enough?
Be Mind Full of 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.
Being Well Podcast: How to Heal After Loss with Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor
Forrest is joined by clinical psychologist and researcher Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor to explore the physiology of grief and how to heal after loss.
Talk + Meditation: How to Stop Ruminating
Learn how to stop ruminating and quiet craving, comparison, and overthinking—so you can cultivate more gladness, tranquility, contentment, and peace of mind.
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.
Being Well Podcast: Healing from Parentification: Finding Your True Self
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the costs of being a ‘gifted child,’ many of whom take on the emotional or practical care of their parents in a process known as parentification.
Talk + Meditation: Bows and Vows
What we bow toward shapes who we become. Reflect on the vows, values, and practices that can guide a meaningful life.
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.
Being Well Podcast: Understanding Dissociation and DID: What It’s Really Like, and How People Recover w/ Dr. Milissa Kaufman and Dr. Lauren Lebois
Forrest is joined by Dr. Milissa Kaufman and Dr. Lauren Lebois, experts in dissociative disorders and trauma research, to discuss understanding dissociation.
Talk + Meditation: Coming Home: The Power of One Compassionate Connection
Feeling overwhelmed by the world? Start with one compassionate connection. Small moments of kindness can change lives—including your own.
Love Your Neighbor
Kindness to others is enlightened self-interest. Compassion and kindness expresses an inner freedom.
Being Well Podcast: From Insight to Action: How to Face the Fear You Keep Avoiding
Dr. Rick and Forrest continue last week’s conversation on avoidance coping, this time focusing on how to face the fear you keep avoiding and move from insight into meaningful action.
Talk + Meditation: The Sweet Power of Kindness, Compassion, and Happiness for Others
The more we rest in kindness, compassion, and joy for others, the less they become something we practice—and the more they become who we are.
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.
Being Well Podcast: Breaking the Avoidance Loop: Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how avoidance fuels these patterns, and how we can break the avoidance loop by updating our expectations and predictions about the future.
Talk + Meditation: Positive Emotions as Key Steps in the Path of Awakening
The Buddha didn’t just tolerate joy — he prescribed it. Gladness, rapture, tranquility & happiness are essential steps on the path to awakening.
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.
Being Well Podcast: The Secret to Happiness: How to Feel Loved with Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky
Forrest is joined by one of the world’s leading happiness researchers, Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, to discuss the real secret to happiness: feeling loved.