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Writings on Well-Being Dr. Rick Hanson
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
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Meditation + Talk: What to Do If You’re Feeling Disgusted
Explore how to handle feelings of disgust mindfully, keeping a moral view without disconnecting. Discover practical steps to foster compassion and clarity amidst challenges.
Don’t 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
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
Discover how to break free from exhausting cycles, realign your energy with what matters, and unlock your unique strengths to find renewed purpose and vitality.
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: 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
Feeling stuck? Learn 5 key psychological barriers that keep us from moving forward and how breaking free from “normal” can unlock new possibilities.
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
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
In a time of widespread loneliness and isolation, it’s crucial we recognize that our “friendship net worth” matters deeply.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Forrest sits down with marriage and family therapist Julie Menanno to explore one of the most crucial aspects of healthy relationships: secure attachment.
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.
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.
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.