The Grieving Brain with Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor
There’s a lot of loss in the world these days, both in our individual lives and in our broader communities, and with those losses comes grief. Grief is one of the most challenging emotions to be with,...
25 Jul 20221h 11min
Borderline Personality Disorder: Regulation, Nurturance, and Compassion
One of the most important and challenging skills we can develop is learning to regulate our strong emotions. While it’s very natural to have fluctuations in how we feel about others and ourselves, for...
18 Jul 20221h 1min
How to Make Learning STICK
One of the most important skills we can develop is learning how to learn–how to update old beliefs about ourselves, take in new information, and build psychological resources like courage, gratitude, ...
11 Jul 20221h 2min
Rediscovering Your True Self: Parentification and the "Gifted Child"
When a child is particularly emotionally intelligent, and a parent is particularly emotionally vulnerable, an inversion of the typical relationship can occur where the child devotes themselves to meet...
4 Jul 20221h 2min
Connecting with Your Best Parts
A little while ago, we had an episode on self-awareness where Rick emphasized how the majority of what people have to become self-aware of is the good inside themselves. The point felt significant eno...
27 Jun 202255min
Recovering from Complex PTSD with Elizabeth Ferreira
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) is the result of the slow accumulation of many small traumatic experiences over time. On our most popular Being Well episode to date, Dr. Rick and Forres...
20 Jun 20221h 11min
Attachment, and Cultivating Nonattachment
You might have heard the line “attachment is the root of suffering.” It comes from the Buddha, but you don’t have to be a Buddhist to recognize that becoming overly attached to a particular outcome, p...
13 Jun 20221h 1min
Intimacy, Individuality, and Breaking the Trauma Cycle with Terry Real
On one of our favorite episodes of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson are joined by author and therapist Terry Real to talk about how to overcome the myth of toxic individualism, break trauma cyc...
6 Jun 20221h 10min
