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 Juni 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 Juni 20221h 10min
Overcoming Comparison and Accepting Ordinary with Dr. Ron Siegel
When was the last time you went through a day without comparing yourself to anyone? For instance, by comparing your life to someone else’s highlight reel on social media, or being critical of your own...
30 Maj 20221h 3min
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
