Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRecovering from Complex PTSD with Elizabeth Ferreira
Season 3 Episode 211
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) is the result of the slow accumulation of many small traumatic experiences over time. On our most popu…
3 years, 9 months ago
Attachment, and Cultivating Nonattachment
Season 3 Episode 210
You might have heard the line “attachment is the root of suffering.” It comes from the Buddha, but you don’t have to be a Buddhist to recognize that …
3 years, 9 months ago
Intimacy, Individuality, and Breaking the Trauma Cycle with Terry Real
Season 3 Episode 209
On one of our favorite episodes of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson are joined by author and therapist Terry Real to talk about how to overcom…
3 years, 10 months ago
Overcoming Comparison and Accepting Ordinary with Dr. Ron Siegel
Season 3 Episode 208
When was the last time you went through a day without comparing yourself to anyone? For instance, by comparing your life to someone else’s highlight …
3 years, 10 months ago
Working with Anger: Costs and Benefits, Repression, and the "Empty Boat"
Season 3 Episode 207
Anger is one of the most complex, demanding, and difficult emotions we deal with on a regular basis, in part because it has both many costs and many …
3 years, 10 months ago
Increasing Self-Awareness: The Key to Personal Growth
Season 3 Episode 206
Self-awareness is both one of the most important skills for a person to have, and one of the most challenging to develop. In this episode of Being We…
3 years, 10 months ago
Changing Old Patterns, Self-Awareness, and Repairing Family Relationships: Mailbag
Season 3 Episode 205
Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson open up the mailbag to explore a variety of listener questions. They talk about what causes our brains to become attached…
3 years, 11 months ago
Maximize Your Motivation: Dopamine, Discipline, and Accepting Our Nature
Season 3 Episode 204
We all have things we want to accomplish in life, but having goals or knowing we should be doing something is often not nearly enough to get us to ac…
3 years, 11 months ago
Preventing Secondary Trauma and Compassion Fatigue with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Season 3 Episode 203
With so much suffering going on in the world that’s worthy of our compassion and engagement, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by it even as we have th…
3 years, 11 months ago
Rumination: How to Disrupt Obsessive Thoughts
Season 3 Episode 202
It’s normal and healthy for us to try to process our experiences emotionally, but sometimes during that process we find ourselves getting stuck on th…
3 years, 11 months ago