Author: Rick Hanson

Look for opportunities to amaze yourself as you will find them all around you....

Forrest and Rick sit down with Dr. Susan David, the creator of the concept of Emotional Agility. Emotional agility is what allows us to navigate our complex emotions, make choices aligned with our values, and ultimately lead more authentic and fulfilling lives....

We are hungry for love and need others. Let this truth in. Accepting your inherent dependence brings you into harmony with the way life is....

In this episode, Forrest and Dr. Rick explore impermanence anxiety: the fears we have related to change. They discuss “macro” and “micro” impermanence, terror management theory, the courage to care, fully embracing life, what tends to help people come to peace with impermanence, and how...

Nourish the things that nourish you. Try to do one thing each day to. "Pass forward" a gift to the person you will be tomorrow . . . and a year from now....

Dr. Chris Palmer, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, joins Forrest to discuss the relationship between metabolic function and mental illness, including Dr. Palmer’s work with patients suffering from severe conditions like schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, psychiatry’s current challenges with treatment-resistant conditions, and...