On this episode, Rick and I answer questions from listeners. We share what we’re still working on in our relationship, how to disengage from obsessive thoughts, our views on psychedelics, and whether human nature is innately cooperative or competitive.

On today’s episode of Being Well, former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander joins me to talk about his personal journey recovering from PTSD, the impact of his time serving in Afghanistan, and what we can do to better support veterans.

In this episode, Dr. Rick Hanson and I explore best practices for claiming and expressing our needs. This includes how to navigate shame and inhibition, make effective agreements, and become more skillful at negotiation and repair.

On today’s episode of Being Well, Forrest and I discuss different frameworks for categorizing our needs, what to do when we are confused by our desires, and how to best identify what we want and need.

On today’s episode of Being Well Podcast, Dr. Gabor Maté joins Rick and I explore the many problems for our body and mind that arise out of our modern culture, and what we can do to meet our needs, heal ourselves, and become more whole.

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.