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October 16, 2022
Being Well Podcast: Evolving Our Approach to Treating Trauma with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
On today’s episode of Being Well, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, the author of The Body Keeps the Score, joins Rick and Forrest to explore how trauma keeps us stuck, and how we can use imagination, self-expression, and creativity to break away from those old patterns. Along the way they talk about using somatic and non-cognitive interventions, internalized abuse, the value of a developmental perspective, using psychedelics for complex trauma, some of the problems with moder...
October 13, 2022
Meditation + Talk: Appreciating Humanness in Others – and Yourself
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 35-minute meditation and a 31-minute talk and discussion about Appreciating Humanness in Others – and Yourself.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Appreciating Humanness in Others – and YourselfTalk: Appreciating Humanness in Others – and You...
October 11, 2022
Hug the Monkey
Longing for love?
The Practice:
Hug the monkey.
Why?
To simplify a complex process spanning 600 million years, your brain developed in ways that are loosely related to three major stages of vertebrate evolution:
Reptile – Brainstem, focused on avoiding harmsMammal – Subcortex, focused on approaching rewardsPrimate/human – Neocortex, focused on attaching to “us”Since the brain is integrated, avoiding, approaching, and attaching are accomplished by its parts working together. Noneth...
October 9, 2022
Being Well Podcast: Changing Old Patterns, Using Psychedelics Thoughtfully, and Exploring Human Nature: October Mailbag
On this episode of Being Well, Rick and Forrest answer questions from listeners. They share what they’re still working on in their relationship, how we can disengage from obsessive thoughts and old patterns, Rick’s thoughts on psychedelics and how they can be used with discernment, and their views on whether human nature is innately cooperative or competitive.
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October 6, 2022
Meditation + Talk: Living in Harmony While Also Taking Care of Yourself
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 35-minute meditation and a 47-minute talk and discussion about Living in Harmony While Also Taking Care of Yourself.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Living in Harmony While Also Taking Care of Yourself Talk: Living in Harmony While Also Taki...October 4, 2022
Give Over to Good
What is living you?
The Practice:
Give over to good.
Why?
In every moment, you and I and everyone and everything else – from quantum foam to fleeting thoughts, intimate relationships, rainforest ecosystems, and the stars themselves – are each a kind of standing wave, like the ever-changing through a persistent pattern of water rising above a boulder in a river.
We are the result of multiple causes flowing through us. As Buckminster Fuller famously said, “I seem to be a verb.”
This fact...
October 2, 2022
Being Well Podcast: PTSD and Politics with Jason Kander
In 2016 Jason Kander was a rising star in the Democratic Party. After narrowly losing the race to become one of Missouri’s Senators, he began laying the groundwork for a Presidential run. Jason unexpectedly pivoted to declaring his candidacy for the 2019 Kansas City mayoral election, and quickly became the clear favorite. Three months into that campaign he ended his candidacy and stepped back from public life after revealing that he had suffered from PTSD and depressi...
September 29, 2022
Meditation + Talk: The Power of Realistic Optimism in Your Relationships
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and a 52-minute talk and discussion about The Power of Realistic Optimism in Your Relationships.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: The Power of Realistic Optimism in Your Relationships Talk: The Power of Realistic Optimi...September 27, 2022
Feel the Support
What helps you carry your load?
The Practice:
Feel the support.
Why?
We’re all carrying a load, including tasks, challenges, worries, inner criticism, mistreatment from others, physical and emotional pain, loss and illness now or later, and everyday stresses and frustrations.
Take a moment to get a sense of your load. It’s very real, isn’t it? Recognizing it is just honesty and self-compassion, not exaggeration or self-pity.
There’s a fundamental model in the health sciences that how ...
September 26, 2022
Being Well Podcast: How to Effectively Communicate What You Want
We explore best practices to effectively communicate so we can claim and express our needs. This includes navigating shame and inhibition, making effective agreements, being considerate of the person on the receiving end of our wants, and becoming more skillful at negotiation and repair.
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