Before becoming the “Buddhist brain guy” Dr. Rick spent over 30 years working in private practice as a couples counselor and family therapist. Today we’re leaning on that experience, and learning what we can do to build stronger, more fulfilling relationships....
Dr. Rick and Forrest are joined by Columbia University professor Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman and well-being researcher Dr. Jordyn Feingold to explore how we can learn to consistently choose our best selves, overcome barriers to growth, and fully actualize ourselves. ...
On this fifth anniversary of the podcast, Forrest and I explore why, for many people, some things remain very difficult to change, how much change is possible, what makes change hard, the hidden barriers to real change, and what we can do about them. ...
Rick and Forrest talk about how they’d like to change over the next year, different approaches to new year’s resolutions, do a little digging around in Forrest’s psychology, and highlight a few practical things we can do to support our change. ...
We all think of stress as “bad” for you, but what if some forms of stress could actually help us grow and change for the better? On today’s episode Forrest and Dr. Rick are joined by Dr. Elissa Epel, a psychologist and leading stress...
Even though we’re all going to be criticized from time to time, many of us spend much of our lives living in fear of criticism. On the flip side, we’re all critics ourselves. Forrest and I focus on how we can get better at receiving...
“All the time I work with dying people, and only a few of them know they are dying.” On this episode of Being Well, Soto Zen teacher Koshin Paley Ellison joins Forrest and Rick to explore living, dying, and personal practice in the midst of...
Part of the reason we’re anxious today is because of the real challenges we face both individually and collectively. But we’re also affected by the natural tendencies of the brain, which is easily influenced by fear and threat. On this episode Forrest and Dr. Rick...