On this episode, Forrest is joined by Dr. Craig Malkin to explore narcissism and narcissistic traits. They talk about the different forms narcissism takes, dealing with narcissists, treatment options, and finding the “right amount” of feeling special.

On today’s episode of Being Well Podcast, I am joined by author, coach, and content creator Mollie West Duffy to explore how we can accept big feelings, learn to live alongside them, and develop tools that help us deal with them more effectively.

On this episode Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson how to use your diagnosis— what it is, how the diagnostic process works, the limitations of diagnosing someone, dealing with the emotions that come up, and how we can better think about and relate to receiving a diagnosis.

On today’s episode of Being Well, I am joined by Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu from the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. We explore the history and current state of psychedelic research, and what a psychedelic-assisted therapy session looks like.

On today’s episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick Hanson and I talk about what's helped us come to terms with mortality, the reality of our limited time, and how we can use that knowledge to refine our focus and live a more fulfilling life.

On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick Hanson and I take a deep dive into what shame is, and how questioning our assumptions about it can help us identify its origins in our lives so we can make an informed decision on how to respond to it.

On today’s episode of Being Well, I am joined by Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor, to help us better understand grief and grieving. We explore why grief is such a unique and intense emotion, how grief works in the brain, and how we can learn to live with loss.

On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick Hanson and I look at what to do when borderline tendencies show up in our lives even at sub-clinical levels. We discuss how to cultivate a healthy amount of sensitivity, how to regulate ourselves, and how to navigate relationships.

On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick Hanson and I dive into Rick’s recently published study on our capacity for deliberate growth. We talk a bit about the neurological components of learning, how the study worked, and what the practical takeaways are to help us make learning stick.

On today’s episode of Being Well Dr. Rick Hanson and I explore how to heal from the effects of parentification through the lens of Alice Miller’s 1979 classic The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self.

On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick Hanson and I focus on how to accept, appreciate, and connect with our positive aspects, and how to deal with some of the blocks that prevent us from embracing the good in ourselves.

On this episode, we are joined by Elizabeth Ferreira to discuss the experience of CPTSD. Elizabeth shares how CPTSD came about for her, what it can feel like, and how to create a compassionate environment with or without a therapist to safely heal.

On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick Hanson and I discuss the challenges of attachment, what differentiates healthy and unhealthy forms of attachment, and what we can do to relax our attachments over time.

On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick Hanson and I are joined by author and therapist Terry Real to talk about how to successfully metabolize our trauma and experience real intimacy in our relationships.

On this episode of Being Well, we are joined by psychologist and author Ronald Siegel to discuss how to drop the myth of the extraordinary, how to heal from feelings of inadequacy, and what healthy self-esteem looks like.

On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick Hanson and I explore the varied ways anger surfaces, how we can relate to it, and how in recognizing what it has to tell us we can channel its energy towards positive changes in our lives.

In this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick Hanson and I explore what it takes to develop self-awareness over time, why maintaining awareness can be such a struggle, and how much of what self-awareness reveals is our natural movement towards health and integration.

On this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick Hanson and I open up the mailbag to explore a variety of questions from our listeners.

On this episode of Being Well, we explore how to optimize our motivation.and how to best frame our outlook so we can feel relaxed, diligent, and uninhibited from being who we want to be and accomplishing what we want to accomplish.

On this episode of Being Well, Forrest talks with trauma expert Laura van Dernoot Lipsy about how we can better manage secondary traumatic stress, how to avoid burnout and overwhelm, and what it looks like to stay hopeful and live fully in the face of daunting societal challenges.