Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson Rick Hanson, Ph.D., Forrest Hanson
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Forrest Hanson is joined by clinical psychologist Dr. Rick Hanson and a world-class group of experts to explore the practical science of lasting well-being. Conversations focus on the key insights from psychology, science, and contemplative practice that you need to build reliable inner strengths, overcome your challenges, and get the most out of life. New episodes every Monday.
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10 Things We Wish We Knew in Our 20s
Our 20s are a unique decade filled with opportunity…including the opportunity to make a lot of mistakes. On today’s episode, Dr. Rick and Forrest share (roughly) 10 things they wish they’d known back then. They explore the balance of enjoying freedom with the compounding value of effort, a framework for finding meaning and purpose, and some of the common pitfalls that keep us stuck. Regardless of where you are in life, you’ll learn how to find and embrace your natural talents, appreciate meaningful relationships, and see things in a new light.
You can watch this episode on YouTube.
Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
1:35: The importance of the choices you make in your 20s
4:45: Balance the freedom of youth with the value of action
8:00: Embrace mentorship
13:40: Find the Three Circles: Talent, Enjoyment, and Values
21:30: Try things, and let yourself change
24:20: Avoid getting stuck (and codependent relationships)
27:35: Identify useful feedback
31:00: Avoid swerving away from natural talents, kindred spirits, good advice, and failure
36:05: The intrinsic value of creating, and lightening up about results
38:25: Focus on where you have agency
44:45: Appreciate relationships based on shared values
46:55: You get to decide what your relationships look like
47:50: Showing appreciation for your younger self
49:50: Recap
Forrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there.
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Repairing Self-Abandonment: Anxious Attachment, Healthy Boundaries, and Creating Strong Relationships
On today’s episode Dr. Rick and Forrest explore self-abandonment, which occurs when we go against our authentic wants, emotions, and boundaries in order to serve others, meet external expectations, or protect ourselves emotionally. They cover where self-abandonment comes from, the psychological function it serves, and the relationship between self-abandonment and similar concepts like anxious attachment, low self-worth, and external referencing. You’ll learn how to set healthy boundaries, stop neglecting yourself, and become more secure from the inside out.
You can watch this episode on YouTube.
Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
2:00: Common features of self-abandonment
12:30: Facing the fear of our authentic self being seen
16:05: Facing shame and self-criticism
21:00: Self-referencing vs. referencing ourselves in relation to others
33:10: The belief that safety feels more critical than authenticity
40:55: Our relationship to nature, and joining with the defense
50:55: Relationships, openness to change, and bringing parts into awareness
55:20: Cognitive restructuring, and redefining our self-abandoning beliefs
58:50: Recap
Forrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there.
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Start each day right with IQBAR’s bars, hydration mixes, and mushroom coffees. Just text BEINGWELL to sixty-four thousand (64-000) and get an exclusive offer of 20% off plus free shipping.
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Hunger, Habits, and Changing Your Relationship with Food with Dr. Jud Brewer
There are as many ways to have a difficult relationship with food as there are ways to eat. It’s hard to get conversations about these challenges right, but today we’re taking the plunge and exploring the habit of eating when we’re not hungry with psychiatrist Dr. Jud Brewer.
Dr. Rick, Forrest, and Dr. Jud start by discussing our often flawed approach to conversations about eating patterns, shame spirals, and the many problems with diets. They then move the conversation from what we eat to how we eat, applying Dr. Jud’s work on habits and craving to the challenge of emotional eating. Specific topics include the neuroscience behind how our hunger cues and emotional cues get mixed up, common habit loops related to food, reward value and the importance of creating a prediction error, the nature of craving as wanting without liking, mindfulness-based tools, and how we can create a bigger, better offer for our brains.
About our Guest: Dr. Jud Brewer is a psychiatrist, the director of research and innovation at Brown University’s Mindfulness Center, a professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences at the School of Public Health and Psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, and a research affiliate at MIT. He’s also the bestselling author of a number of books, including The Craving Mind, Unwinding Anxiety, and his most recent book The Hunger Habit.
Disclaimer: If you struggle with a serious restrictive eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia nervosa, the material in this conversation will not support your needs. Please consider working with your doctor or mental health clinician, or using the free resources at www.nationaleatingdisorders.org. If you need immediate help, call the ANAD hotline at 1-888-375-7767.
You can watch this episode on YouTube.
Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction and disclaimer
2:40: The surprising finding from Jud’s smoking cessation program
6:05: What Jud’s new book is not about, and information vs. behavior
11:05: The mental health impact of dieting, and the problem with willpower
18:05: Hedonic hunger, and food-mood wiring
24:15: Bringing awareness to how we eat, and our cultural conditioning
31:50: Developing freedom of choice, and the MBSR raisin exercise
36:20: A walkthrough of mindful eating
44:25: When you don't want to let go of a behavior, and finding the bigger better offer
52:50: Kindness, curiosity, and other tools for improving interoception
57:00: Ways to find the bigger better offer
1:07:45: Caring for our future self
1:11:30: Recap
Forrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there.
Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.
Sponsors
Get your stand on with UPLIFT Desk! Go to UPLIFT Desk.com/BEINGWELL for 5% off your order of one of their fantastic standing desks or office products.
Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month!
Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.
Trust your gut with Seed’s DS-01 Daily Synbiotic. Go to Seed.com/BEINGWELL and use code 25BEINGWELL to get 25% off your first month.
Start each day right with IQBAR’s bars, hydration mixes, and mushroom coffees. Just text BEINGWELL to sixty-four thousand (64-000) and get an exclusive offer of 20% off plus free shipping.
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Somatic Tools for Self-Regulation with Elizabeth Ferreira
One of the most important skills we can learn is how to regulate ourselves, riding the emotional waves without either ignoring or being overwhelmed by them. Associate therapist Elizabeth Ferreira joins Forrest to explore how we can feel our feelings while staying calm, collected, and in control. They walk through two examples of under- and over-regulation, and Elizabeth offers specific practices that might help in each common situation.
You can watch this episode on YouTube.
Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
1:50: Creating safety and connection with a new client
6:30: Therapy as an opportunity for reparative experiences
9:45: Learning to regulate when you have traumatized parts
16:55: What’s helped Elizabeth heal patterns of overregulation and dissociation
23:50: A hypothetical dialogue with an overregulated client
29:10: Titration and traumatic release
33:05: Labeling and accepting emotions, and empowering the “wise adult”
40:15: A hypothetical dialogue with an underregulated client
46:30: Celebrating when we notice our patterns
49:30: Movement, tapping, tremoring, journaling, and other practices
53:55: Finding a supportive community
57:10: Being with your body, and following your curiosity
58:55: Recap
Forrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there.
Support the Podcast: We're on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.
Sponsors
Start each day right with IQBAR’s brain-and-body-boosting bars, hydration mixes, and mushroom coffees. Just text BEINGWELL to sixty-four thousand (64-000) and get an exclusive offer of 20% off plus free shipping.
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Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month!
Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription.
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Build Strong Relationships and Heal in Community with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
Our relationships are some of the most important parts of our life, and our happiness is often directly correlated to the strength of those relationships. Dr. Joy Harden Bradford joins the podcast to explore how we can apply lessons from group therapy to build stronger friendships. Forrest and Dr. Joy focus on how we can build the trust necessary for vulnerability, how attachment issues show up in friendships, and the common friend roles you might be placing yourself into without realizing it.
About our Guest: Dr. Joy is a Licensed Psychologist based out of Atlanta, Georgia, the host of the wildly popular podcast Therapy for Black Girls – which has more than 34 million downloads - and the author of the recently released book Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community.
Forrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there.
You can watch this episode on YouTube.
Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
1:20: What group therapy is like, and some its unique advantages
5:50: Creating a safe container for vulnerability
11:50: Trust, loyalty, respect, and gender dynamics
19:55: Attachment patterns in friendships
25:50: The Wallflower, the Leader, the Peacemaker, and the Firecracker
33:30: Navigating social circles with differing levels of openness to change
36:35: Challenges identifying, accepting, and expressing our needs
41:40: Specific challenges for black women in getting needs met
46:15: How stigma around therapy has changed over time
48:55: Curiosity, and guidelines for global sisterhood
52:00: Recap
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How to ADHD with Jessica McCabe
ADHD is one of the most common - and most misunderstood - conditions out there, and today we’re setting the record straight with author and YouTuber Jessica McCabe. Jessica joins Forrest to explore her journey with ADHD, dealing with common challenges like self-criticism, shame, and sensitivity, and how we can work with our unique brain, not against it.
About our Guest: Jessica McCabe is the creator of the popular YouTube channel How to ADHD and author of the new book How to ADHD: An Insider’s Guide to Working with Your Brain, Not Against It.
Forrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there. You can watch this episode on YouTube.
Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
1:15: Jessica’s history with ADHD, and how she wrote her book
7:15: Stigma, pride, self-criticism, and letting others help you
12:05: Dealing with shame
14:55: Self-advocacy, self-acceptance, and asking the right questions
24:40: Believing in your experience
27:45: Common misconceptions about ADHD
31:40: The relationship between ADHD and emotional sensitivity and regulation
36:05: Creating a sense of community
39:25: Advice for partners, family, and friends of people with ADHD
47:25: Recap
Support the Podcast: We're on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link.
Sponsors
Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month!
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Trust your gut with Seed’s DS-01 Daily Synbiotic. Go to Seed.com/BEINGWELL and use code 25BEINGWELL to get 25% off your first month.
OneSkin focuses on delivering more than superficial results for your skin. Get started today with 15% off using code BEINGWELL at oneskin.co.
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Customer Reviews
Wonderful
I think I’ve probably listened to most of these now. Sometimes I just put them on at night to fall asleep to because Forrest and Rick are such comforting, positive, intelligent voices. It is amazing how much research and work Forrest must have to do to continually produce this complex, thoughtful, meaningful material. Please know that you are helping people and we admire your efforts and the ability you have to analyze and articulate ideas, clearly. What an extraordinary relationship you two have. It is lovely to be part of it. Thank you. This is a wonderful podcast and learning tool.
Thank you
I’m enormously grateful to Forrest and Rick for this podcast. It’s helping me in immeasurable ways to heal my C-PTSD, insecure attachment and anxiety. Thank you both for all the work and energy that you put into this podcast, for being sources of safety and support, for your compassion and care. I would love more short meditations from Rick; the gratitude/pleasure meditation is so helpful.
Intelligent, inspirational, applicable and heartwarming
I have listened to a lot of self-development podcasts over the years, but this one has quickly become my all time favourite. It’s intellectually stimulating and challenging in a wise, inspirational way. It’s lovely balm to weary and healing souls. I have a lot of respect for this heartwarming duo of father and son and their refreshing no-nonsense, no frills, no ego approach to educating and supporting their listeners’ journeys with actually relevant topics and applicable advice. Thank you, Forrest and Rick, for your contribution to my personal development. Your work is beautiful and its benefits are far reaching. I appreciate you.