How to get ready for the Kickstart Challenge
When we are about to kick off a new health regime to improve our overall wellbeing and weight balance, we often focus on the practical aspects like: What will I eat? What do I need to buy? What is my meal plan? While this is important, whatβs just as essential is our mindset and emotional […]
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How Self-Love Can Improve Your Relationships β My Self-Love Supply
βhow you love yourself is how you teach others to love youβ β Rupi Kaur Β Self-love describes how you feel about and treat yourself.Β Self-love involves being able to appreciate your own value and worth. It also involves taking steps to optimise your happiness and wellbeing. So, nurturing self-love means taking steps to work […]
Taking Personal Responsibility (11 ways to improve to control your own life)
Do you take personal responsibility for your actions? Do you sometimes wonder what that actually means β and whether or not youβre doing enough? Taking personal responsibility has to do with your actions, words, and choices and how they affect you and others. Accepting responsibility is essential to anyone who acknowledges and seeks to honor […]
How Unhelpful Perfectionism can Stand in the way of Self Love β My Self-Love Supply
βGood enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.β β Rebecca Wells Β Do you feel a lot of pressure to achieve βperfectionβ? Perhaps you feel that you must look a certain way, that you must do things right so that nobody else judges you, that you need to […]
Being Well Podcast: Psychoanalysis: Therapyβs Controversial Origins
In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the ideas, context, and legacy of psychoanalysis, the often-controversial origin point for modern therapy. They discuss psychoanalysisβ early history and key concepts like the unconscious mind, repression, inner conflict, and transference. Alongside those major contributions, they wrestle with what hasnβt aged so […]
Lived By Love – Rick Hanson, PhD
Whatβs carrying you? The Practice: Lived by love. Why? Feeling both the world and myself these days, one phrase keeps calling: lived by love. Explicitly, this means coming from love in a broad sense, from compassion, good intentions, self-control, warmth, finding whatβs to like, caring, connecting, and kindness. Implicitly, and more fundamentally, this practice means […]
Talk + Meditation: How to Feel Lived by Love
Feeling isolated, burdened, or unseen? In a world that often feels fragmented and exhaustingβwith anxiety, stress, and a subtle sense that youβre not quite enoughβyou may long to feel more supported, connected, and grounded. So this week I invite you to shift from striving to be loved to being carried by loveβnot imaginary, but foundational. […]
Being Well Podcast: Reclaiming Anger: Trauma, Repression, and Healthy Protest with Elizabeth Ferreira
In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Forrest and associate therapist Elizabeth Ferreira talk about healthy (and unhealthy) anger. They challenge the common framing of anger as a βsecondary emotion,β and explore why anger matters, how it relates to trauma, and what it can tell us about our wants and needs. They discuss how […]