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Writings on Well-Being Dr. Rick Hanson
Find Your Own Way
In the body or the mind, there is no life without goals. Trying to “transcend” goals is itself a goal. The only question is: Are your goals good ones?
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Self-Worth Exercises
Exercises to encourage you to keep moving from shame to worth.
From Shame to Self-Worth
For most people, chronic shame pulls them back from fully expressing themselves. This article explores where shame comes from, in human evolutionary history, and in personal development.
Being Well Podcast: What Addiction (and Recovery) Can Teach Us About Change with Eric Zimmer
Eric Zimmer, host of The One You Feed podcast, joins Forrest and Rick on the Being Well Podcast to explore what really helps us change our ingrained patterns of behavior through the lens of Eric’s journey with addiction and recovery. They...
Being Well Podcast: Repairing with Family, Dealing with Difficult People, and Recognizing Power: Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag and answer questions from listeners related to how we can build better relationships (particularly with our families) and deal with difficult people.
Meditation + Talk: Lovingness and Peacefulness: Combining Compassion and Equanimity
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Lovingness and Peacefulness: Combining Compassion and Equanimity.
Respect Your Needs
Many people feel needy or ashamed about their needs and deep wants. But needs are normal; we all have them.
Let Go of Needless Fear
Blasting another person with anger is like throwing hot coals with bare hands: both people get burned. Speak calmly and from your heart, even when wronged.
Being Well Podcast: How to Navigate Common Arguments
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the four common structures of relationship disagreements, the subtle ways power shows up in our relationships, separating content from process, and how to stand your ground.
Stay Right When You’re Wronged
Blasting another person with anger is like throwing hot coals with bare hands: both people get burned. Speak calmly and from your heart, even when wronged.
Meditation + Talk: Equanimity: Inner Freedom with a Heart as Wide as the World
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Equanimity: Inner Freedom with a Heart as Wide as the World.
Being Well Podcast: Letting Go of Our Conditioning with Caverly Morgan
Dr. Rick and Forrest are joined by meditation teacher and former Zen monastic Caverly Morgan to discuss how we can release our conditioning, identify the inner voice that leads to change, and get to the heart of who we are.
Meditation + Talk: Privilege: What We Don’t Take into Account – and Should
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Privilege: What We Don’t Take into Account – and Should.
Being Well Podcast: The Keys to a Great Relationship
Today we’re leaning on Dr. Rick 30 years working in private practice as a couples counselor and family therapist, and learning what we can do to build stronger, more fulfilling relationships.
Meditation + Talk: Loving Freely
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Loving Freely.
Being Well Podcast: Choosing Our Best Selves with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman and Dr. Jordyn Feingold
Drs. Scott Barry Kaufman and Jordyn Feingold help us explore how we can learn to consistently choose our best selves, overcome barriers to growth, and fully actualize ourselves.
Meditation + Talk: What Matters, and What Doesn’t
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on What Matters, and What Doesn’t
Being Well Podcast: Why Don’t We Get Better?
Forrest and Dr. Rick explore why we struggle to change that which matters most to us, how much change is realistically possible, what makes real change hard, the hidden barriers to lasting change, and what we can do about them.
Meditation + Talk: Most Things Fall Apart Eventually, Yet Some Things Endure
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Most Things Fall Apart Eventually, Yet Some Things Endure.
Being Well Podcast: How to Reinvent Yourself (in 2023)
Forrest and Dr. Rick focus on what supports us and what holds us back from reinventing ourselves and becoming all we wish to be, how they’d like to change over the next year, different approaches to new year’s resolutions, and highlight a few practical things we can do to support our change.
Meditation + Talk: The Metta Sutta – and Compassion’s Shadow
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Metta Sutta – and Compassion’s Shadow.
Being Well Podcast: The Science of Stress with Dr. Elissa Epel
Dr. Elissa Epel joins us to explore the science behind the stress response, different forms of stress, what separates “good” stress from “bad” stress, how we can take advantage of good stress, and dealing with existential forms of stress like the climate crisis.