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Writings on Well-Being Dr. Rick Hanson
Talk + Meditation: The Freedom Found in Bodily Awareness
Learn how mindfulness of the body can help release old pain, build resilience, and reconnect you with inner peace.
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Talk + Meditation: Science Says You Need Social Support
Science shows feeling supported makes you healthier and happier. Learn how to recognize, receive, and grow the support already around you.
Lean Into Good On First Waking
Try to influence your mind with positive and loving thoughts, when you wake.
Talk + Meditation: Thankfulness for What Protects and Nurtures You
Explore how to feel grounded and supported by the refuges in your life—people, places, practices, and inner strengths that steady you.
Being Well Podcast: Why Good People Get Stuck in Bad Relationships
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how to exit bad relationships, and why it can be so hard to do just that.
Say Thanks
Say Thanks – it’s a small moment with big ripples. What do you feel when someone thanks you for something? For a comment in a meeting, a task done at home, an extra step taken, an encouraging word.
Being Well Podcast: Dr. Becky on Becoming the Person (and Parent) You Needed
Dr. Becky Kennedy joins Forrest for a conversation about building better relationships, with ourselves, our partners, and our children.
Talk + Meditation: Releasing Anxiety with Three Kinds of Insights
Find out why anxiety shows up and three small insights that can help you relax, feel safer inside, and handle life with more ease.
Find What’s Sacred
Sacred, has two meanings. One means spirituality, the other something precious. Try to identify what is sacred to you. Maybe you already know.
Being Well Podcast: Guilt Trips, Boundaries, and Non-Monogamy: November Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag to answer listener questions about effective communication, guilt trips, and contentment.
Talk + Meditation: Empathy and Engaged Compassion
Learn how to stay empathic without getting overwhelmed, grow real compassion, and take wise, collective action to reduce suffering at its roots.
Empty the Cup
What’s the “wallpaper” in your own mind? Enjoy emptiness in the forms, the space between thoughts as your mind calms and becomes still, when you have no plans at all.
Being Well Podcast: How to Be Yourself: Authenticity in Relationships with Elizabeth Ferreira
Forrest and Elizabeth discuss how to be yourself and get on the same team in a relationship.
Talk + Meditation: Letting Go of Old Baggage for a Better Future
Holding onto old regrets? Learn how to take responsibility without shame — and how forgiveness and compassion can set you free from old burdens.
Embrace Fragility
Be mindful of both actual and potential fragility in yourself and others. Do what’s in your heart about what’s fragile in our world. Be at peace with the inevitable: things fall apart. Yet there is something beautiful about this part of the truth.
Being Well Podcast: Trauma Masterclass: Understanding and Repairing Our Hidden Wounds
Today we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes to explore one of the most salient topics in psychology today: trauma.
Talk + Meditation: Appreciating Your Own Generosity and Good Intentions
Even our messy, reactive parts come from good intentions. Learn how to rest in your own goodness and act from it more often.
Drop Tart Tone
People are more sensitive to tone. To paraphrase the poet Maya Angelou, people will forget what you said, but they’ll remember how you made them feel.
Being Well Podcast: End Self-Punishment: Curiosity, Joy, and Real Growth with Joe Hudson
Forrest is joined by one of the world’s top executive coaches, Joe Hudson, for a conversation focused on how we can reduce self-punishment and live more fulfilling lives by welcoming our emotions and loosening identification with the critical mind.
Talk + Meditation: How to Be Compassionate and Wise: Lessons from the Mahayana
Discover how compassion, wisdom, and skillful action unite to create the awakened heart of the Mahayana path.
Change the Channel
Sometimes when inner practices fail you, it helps to change the channel. A respite or some sort of pleasure will help to refuel you for challenges.
Being Well Podcast: Emotional Regulation: How to Feel Your Feelings Flexibly
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how emotional regulation helps us feel, manage, and process our emotions with greater skill and ease.