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Writings on Well-Being Dr. Rick Hanson
Talk + Meditation: Finding a Way Forward through Grief
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Meditation + Talk: Not-Knowing in Your Relationships
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Not-Knowing in Your Relationships.
Being Well Podcast: Discovering Your Wants and Needs
In this week’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, we talk about the wants and needs we all have — and especially those that we find difficult to identify. Listen and reflect to discover your own wants and needs, and take practical steps to achieve meeting those needs.
Meditation + Talk: Trusting Yourself
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Trusting Yourself.
Being Well Podcast: Healing Trauma in a Toxic Culture with Dr. Gabor Maté
Renowned physician Dr. Gabor Maté joins Rick and Forrest on this episode of Being Well to explore the many problems for our body and mind that arise out of our modern culture, and what we can do to meet our needs, heal ourselves, and become more whole.
Meditation + Talk: Trust, Mistrust, and Deep Trust
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Trust, Mistrust, and Deep Trust.
Being Well Podcast: Understanding Narcissism and Narcissistic Traits with Dr. Craig Malkin
On today’s episode, we’re joined by Dr. Craig Malkin to explore narcissism and narcissistic traits. We talk about the different forms narcissism takes, the difference between narcissistic traits and narcissistic personality disorder, red flags, dealing with narcissists, treatment options, and finding the “right amount” of feeling special.
Meditation + Talk: Love and Power
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Love and Power.
Being Well Podcast: Dealing with Challenging Emotions with Mollie West Duffy
On today’s episode, we’re joined by the wonderful author, coach, and content creator Mollie West Duffy to explore how we can accept those big feelings, learn to live alongside them, and develop tools that help us deal with them more effectively.
Meditation + Talk: Joining and Separating in Your Relationships
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Joining and Separating in Your Relationships.
Meditation + Talk: The Cradle of Relationships
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on The Cradle of Relationships.
Being Well Podcast: How to Use Your Diagnosis (Without It Using You)
On this episode Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson explore what a diagnosis is, how the diagnostic process works, the limitations of diagnosing someone, dealing with the emotions that come up, and how we can better think about and relate to receiving a diagnosis.
Being Well Podcast: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu
On today’s episode, Forrest is joined by Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu from the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. They explore the history and current state of psychedelic research, their subjective effects, the necessity of the “trip,” how psychedelics work in the brain, why researchers are so interested in these substances, and what a psychedelic-assisted therapy session looks like.
Meditation + Talk: A Spacey Ecstatic Riff on Everything Is Relationship
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on A Spacey Ecstatic Riff on Everything Is Relationship.
Being Well Podcast: Relating to Death, and Living a Better Life
On today’s episode of Being Well, Forrest and I talk about coming to terms with mortality, the reality of our limited time, and how we can use that knowledge to refine our focus and live a more fulfilling life.
Meditation + Talk: Being Nature
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, Dr. Rick Hanson offered a meditation and talk on Being Nature.
Being Well Podcast: Changing Your Relationship to Shame
Shame is one of the most complex and difficult emotions we experience on a regular basis, and one that can have seriously negative impacts on our sense of self-worth and ability to experience healthy connection with others.
Meditation + Talk: Compassion in Society: Embodying the Changes We Want to See
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Lakiba Pittman covered the topic of Compassion in Society: Embodying the Changes We Want to See.
Being Well Podcast: The Grieving Brain with Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor
On today’s episode we’re joined by one of the world’s leading researchers on grief, Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor. We explore why grief is such a unique and intense emotion, how grief works in the brain, the problems with generalized models like the “five stages of grief,” and how we can learn to live with loss.
Meditation + Talk: Presence Infused with Heart
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Caverly Morgan covered the topic of Presence Infused with Heart.
Being Well Podcast: How to Make Learning STICK
We dive into Rick’s recently published study on our capacity for deliberate growth. We talk a bit about the neurological components of learning, how the study worked, and what the practical takeaways are to help us make learning stick.
Meditation + Talk: Cultivating a Wholehearted Practice
In this Wednesday Night Meditation, guest teacher Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison covered the topic of Cultivating a Wholehearted Practice.