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February 7, 2022
Being Well Podcast: Family Challenges, Financial Risks, and Connecting with a Wounded Inner Child: Mailbag
We’re incredibly lucky to have such an engaged and interested group of people listening to the podcast, and because of that we regularly receive a lot of interesting questions via email and social media (links below).
On today’s episode, Forrest and I dive into a few of these questions, discussing topics such as: how to manage family relationships, principles for approaching life’s changes, and what kind of therapy I actually practice.
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Being Well Podcast: Family Challenges, Financial Risks, and Connecting With a Wounded Inner Child: Mailbag
We’re incredibly lucky to have such an engaged and interested group of people listening to the podcast, and because of that we regularly receive a lot of interesting questions via email and social media (links below).
On today’s episode, Forrest and I dive into a few of these questions, discussing topics such as: how to manage family relationships, principles for approaching life’s changes, and what kind of therapy I actually practice.
...February 3, 2022
Meditation + Talk: The Relevance of Mindfulness Meditation to Managing Mood Disorders
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 36-minute meditation and 47-minute talk and discussion, with guest teacher Zindel Segal.
Dr. Segal is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders at the University of Toronto, and one of the creators of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression. He is a world-class expert on the applications of mindfulness – and having interviewed him on the Being Well podcast, I can add that he is a very warm and deep person who is dedic...
February 1, 2022
Don’t Be Intimidated
What makes you feel threatened?
The Practice:
Don’t be intimidated.
Why?
Humans evolved to be fearful, since anxiety helped keep our ancestors alive. Consequently, we are vulnerable to being alarmed, manipulated, and even intimidated by threats, both real ones and “paper tigers.”
This vulnerability to feeling threatened has effects at many levels, ranging from individuals, couples, and families to schoolyards, organizations, and nations. Whether it’s an individual who worries about th...
January 31, 2022
Being Well Podcast: Embracing Uncertainty with Kaira Jewel Lingo
Forrest and I share a great conversation with Kaira Jewel Lingo about how to cultivate trust and equanimity in the face of uncertainty. We discuss the somatic experience of opening to the unknown, taking action as an antidote to anxiety, and how to have equanimity both when things work out, and when they don’t.
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Buddhist teacher who weaves mindfulness and meditation practice with social justice. At the age of 25, she bec...
January 27, 2022
Meditation + Talk: Virtuous Conduct: How to Promote Healthy Human Politics
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and 54-minute talk and discussion about Virtuous Conduct: How to Promote Healthy Human Politics. You can find the detailed notes I used here.
You can also see my notes for the first talk in this series, Do’s and Don’ts of Virtuous Conduct, and the notes for the second talk, on Not Harming Others – Including during the Climate Crisis, and the notes for the third talk, on Not Harming Others – Including during the COVID Pandem...
January 24, 2022
Being Well Podcast: Creating an Abundance Mindset
On this episode of Being Well, Forrest and I talk about what a scarcity and an abundance mindset is, what some sources of scarcity are, and how we can move toward the authentic experience of abundance.
There are so many different forces in our brains, bodies, and culture as a whole that move us toward the experience of scarcity – that something is missing, that we don’t have enough, and that we never will have enough. The feeling of scarcity ...
January 22, 2022
How to Promote Healthy Human Politics
Note: This is the fourth article in a 4-part series on Virtuous Conduct as the Foundation of All Happiness that also includes:
Part 1: Do’s and Don’ts of Virtuous ConductPart 2: Not Harming by Not Externalizing Costs With Special Reference to the Climate CrisisPart 3: Not Harming by Not Externalizing Costs With Special Reference to the COVID PandemicCaught up in the daily now, it’s easy to forget that we are each a living museum, containing the solutions to harsh su...
The Three Foundations of Healthy GroupsFrom Families to Nations
Note: This is the fourth article in a 4-part series on Virtuous Conduct as the Foundation of All Happiness that also includes:
Part 1: Do’s and Don’ts of Virtuous ConductPart 2: Not Harming by Not Externalizing Costs With Special Reference to the Climate CrisisPart 3: Not Harming by Not Externalizing Costs With Special Reference to the COVID PandemicCaught up in the daily now, it’s easy to forget that we are each a living museum, containing the solutions to harsh su...
January 20, 2022
Meditation + Talk: Not Harming Others – Including during the COVID Pandemic
This Wednesday Night Meditation included a 34-minute meditation and 47-minute talk and discussion about Not Harming Others – Including during the COVID Pandemic.
I hope you find it helpful, and you are welcome to join my free Wednesday Meditations – open to everyone!
Meditation: Not Harming Others – Including during the COVID Pandemic Talk: Not Harming Others – Inclu...
