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Writings on Well-Being Dr. Rick Hanson
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
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Being Well Podcast: How to Feel Your Feelings with Simone Saunders
Forrest talks with trauma therapist Simone Saunders about how to go from knowing your patterns to being able to do something about them when things get intense.
Talk + Meditation: Insight – The Power of Seeing Reality Clearly
Melvin McLeod and Rick explore five keys that can transform mindfulness from a meditation practice into a complete path for life.
Parent From the Same 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.
Being Well Podcast: The Manipulator’s Playbook: How to Become Manipulation Resistant
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how to become more resistant to manipulation, discussing terms like gaslighting, DARVO, and love bombing.
Talk + Meditation: How to Find Peace in the Present Moment
Learn how to stop worrying about the future, let go of expectations, and find more peace, freedom, and contentment in the present.
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?
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.
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.