Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOvercoming 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, 11 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 …
4 years 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…
4 years 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…
4 years 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…
4 years 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month ago
Navigating Modern Dating with Logan Ury
Season 3 Episode 201
We’ve spent a lot of time on the podcast exploring how we can improve our skills in romantic relationships, but for many people one of the most diffi…
4 years, 1 month ago
Understand and Manage Stress: Causes, Biological Basis, and Increasing Resilience
Season 3 Episode 200
On this episode, Dr. Rick and Forrest Hanson take a deep dive into defining stress, how it functions, how it impacts our lives and bodies, and what w…
4 years, 1 month ago
Use the Enneagram to Rewrite Your Story with Ian Cron
Season 3 Episode 199
One of the most effective ways to change how we show up in the world is to identify and change our underlying personal narrative. On this episode, Fo…
4 years, 1 month ago