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Writings on Well-Being Dr. Rick Hanson
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
The most important things often get pushed to the sidelines. But if you don’t make a sanctuary for what is important, it will get overrun B and C priorities.
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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.
Meditation + Talk: Already Free of Fear, Already at Peace
Balance out stress, anxiety, and dissatisfaction by embracing a sense of already being enough, already being safe, and already being at peace.
Vote
Sometimes it’s natural to feel stunned, shocked, powerless. And natural to be flooded with rage or fear or an overwhelming sorrow. Still, even in the midst of all this, you can be mindful: aware and present, and not entirely swept away. Then at some point, you take a breath and look around and try to figure out what to do. One thing to do is to vote.
Being Well Podcast: Cognitive Bypassing, Traumatic Experiences, and Feeling Your Feelings with Simone Saunders
Forrest dives into cognitive bypassing – a common strategy many of us use to avoid feeling difficult emotions – with trauma therapist Simone Saunders.
Meditation + Talk: How to Feel Already OK
It’s easy to get caught up in chasing goals and fixating on what’s wrong. By noticing what we already have, we can feel a sense of peace, contentment, and love.