Why We're All Grieving - and How To Deal With It | David Kessler
Most, if not all, of us are experiencing a cocktail of challenging emotions these days - whether in the background or in the foreground of our psyche. Speaking personally, I thought my primary issue w...
20 Apr 202043min
How to Go Easy on Yourself in a Pandemic | Dr. Kristin Neff
It's easy to add insult to injury in this pandemic by beating ourselves up. Why are we not exercising more? Eating less? Or boosting our productivity? Kristin Neff, an associate professor at the Unive...
15 Apr 20201h 3min
You Don't Have to be Alone to be Lonely | Former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy
Our guest this week gives a bracingly candid account of loneliness - one made all the more remarkable by the fact that he is a former surgeon general. Even before the current coronavirus pandemic, we ...
13 Apr 20201h 27min
Is It Still OK to Be Happy? | Sylvia Boorstein
Even in the middle of a pandemic, it's still OK to experience delight. That's per legendary meditation teacher, Sylvia Boostein. In fact, she says, moments of happiness can fortify you to deal with th...
8 Apr 20201h 7min
Love in the Time of COVID | Esther Perel
The coronavirus outbreak may pose one of the greatest challenges to romantic relationships in modern memory. For those of us living in close quarters with spouses or partners, how do we live our day t...
6 Apr 20201h 12min
Joseph Goldstein | Meditating In A Pandemic
A statement of the blazingly obvious: we are living in stressful times. A statement of the slightly less obvious: meditation, while not a panacea, can help. In this episode, we're bringing you one of ...
1 Apr 20201h 11min
How to Engage Corona-Deniers (and Other Ethical Dilemmas)
So many of us have people in our lives who we feel are not taking this pandemic seriously enough. How do we handle them? Yell, lecture, call them out on Twitter? What about flooding them with articles...
27 Mar 20201h
Sharon Salzberg Makes Me Feel Better
If, given the deeply suboptimal circumstances in which we find ourselves right now, you are cycling through anxiety, depression, anger, and apathy, I suspect this conversation with legendary meditatio...
25 Mar 202059min
