Working with Anger: Costs and Benefits, Repression, and the "Empty Boat"
Anger is one of the most complex, demanding, and difficult emotions we deal with on a regular basis, in part because it has both many costs and many uses. It burdens our bodies, relationships, and the...
23 Maj 202253min
Increasing Self-Awareness: The Key to Personal Growth
Self-awareness is both one of the most important skills for a person to have, and one of the most challenging to develop. In this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson explore what it tak...
16 Maj 20221h 6min
Changing Old Patterns, Self-Awareness, and Repairing Family Relationships: Mailbag
Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson open up the mailbag to explore a variety of listener questions. They talk about what causes our brains to become attached to unwanted habits, how to know which of your thou...
9 Maj 202257min
Maximize Your Motivation: Dopamine, Discipline, and Accepting Our Nature
We all have things we want to accomplish in life, but having goals or knowing we should be doing something is often not nearly enough to get us to actually sustain our efforts in getting where we want...
2 Maj 20221h 3min
Preventing Secondary Trauma and Compassion Fatigue with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
With so much suffering going on in the world that’s worthy of our compassion and engagement, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by it even as we have the desire to remain engaged. Secondary traumatic str...
25 Apr 202252min
Rumination: How to Disrupt Obsessive Thoughts
It’s normal and healthy for us to try to process our experiences emotionally, but sometimes during that process we find ourselves getting stuck on the same painful memory, anxiety, or disturbing thoug...
18 Apr 20221h 2min
Navigating Modern Dating with Logan Ury
We’ve spent a lot of time on the podcast exploring how we can improve our skills in romantic relationships, but for many people one of the most difficult parts of a relationship is getting into one in...
11 Apr 202258min
Understand and Manage Stress: Causes, Biological Basis, and Increasing Resilience
On this episode, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson take a deep dive into defining stress, how it functions, how it impacts our lives and bodies, and what we can do to repair from its effects. We discuss ho...
4 Apr 20221h 5min
