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March 7, 2022
Being Well Podcast: Supporting Yourself During Difficult Times
Today we focus on supporting yourself during difficult times and what you can do, in your mind and in your life, to support to relate to the challenging emotions – fear, grief, anxiety, anger, helplessness, and so on – that naturally arise during these times.
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The tone of this episode of Being Well is a bit different. For context...
March 4, 2022
Meditation + Talk: How to Take Heart When the World Gets Scary
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 33-minute meditation and 54-minute talk and discussion about How to Take Heart When the World Gets Scary.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: How to Take Heart When the World Gets Scary Talk: How to Take Heart When the World Gets Scary ...February 28, 2022
Being Well Podcast: How to Cope with Failure and Deal with Disappointment
One of the most important skills we can develop is the ability to deal with disappointment and cope with failures big and small. On this episode of Being Well, Forrest and I discuss what it looks like to experience failure not as falling short, but as an opportunity for growth.
We consider how internalized narratives about how we’re supposed to be or how we define success might make some more failure sensitive than others, and how to manage ...
February 24, 2022
Meditation + Talk: Three Kinds of Mindfulness
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 51-minute meditation and 34-minute talk and discussion about Three Kinds of Mindfulness.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Three Kinds of Mindfulness Talk: Three Kinds of MindfulnessFebruary 22, 2022
Have Compassion
Do You Care?
The Practice:
Have compassion.
Why?
Compassion is essentially the wish that beings do not suffer – from subtle physical and emotional discomfort to agony and anguish – combined with feelings of sympathetic concern.
You could have compassion for an individual (a friend in the hospital, a co-worker passed over for a promotion), groups of people (victims of crime, those displaced by a hurricane, refugee children), animals (your pet, livestock heading for the slaughterhouse), ...
February 21, 2022
Being Well Podcast: Defy Authority! (With an Open Heart)
There’s a tension we’ve all felt at some point between the benefits of conformity and the desire to be true to ourselves and stand up for what we think is right. On today’s episode, we’re joined by Dr. Todd Kashdan to explore how we can combine prosocial values with principled insubordination, so we can speak up for others (and ourselves) and maximize our chances of creating meaningful change even in the face of social pressure.
About Our Gue...
February 17, 2022
Meditation + Talk: Welcoming and Embracing Our Selves
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 36-minute meditation and 47-minute talk and discussion, with guest teacher Daniel Ellenberg.
Daniel Ellenberg, Ph.D., is a co-founder of Relationships That Work®, founder/director of Strength with Heart® men’s groups and workshops, and a principal in Rewire Leadership Institute®. He is a licensed psychotherapist, leadership coach, and seminar leader.
Daniel Ellenberg and I will be offering a live online workshop on Courage, Vulnerability, and C...
February 15, 2022
Give No One Cause to Fear You
What puts people at ease?
The Practice:
Give no one cause to fear you.
Why?
We evolved to be afraid.
The ancient ancestors that were casual and blithely hopeful, underestimating the risks around them – predators, loss of food, aggression from others of their kind – did not pass on their genes. But the ones that were nervous were very successful – and we are their great-grandchildren, sitting atop the food chain.
Consequently, multiple hair-trigger systems in your brain continually sca...
February 14, 2022
Being Well Podcast: Integration: How to Solve Most of Your Problems
On today’s episode of Being Well, Forrest and I discuss the fundamental strategies that allow us to become aware of and integrate all parts of ourselves – those we want to celebrate and expand, and those we’d like to heal and change.
We explore a lot of big ideas on this show, and alongside them a lot of specific tactics and frameworks that can support people in growing and changing for the better. This includes everything from how to get the...
February 11, 2022
Meditation + Talk: 5 Ways to Steady Your Mind
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and 57-minute talk and discussion about 5 Ways to Steady Your Mind.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: 5 Ways to Steady Your MindTalk: 5 Ways to Steady Your Mind
