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In this episode, we hear from mindful communications expert Oren Jay Sofer on how being present refines both our listening & speaking skills.
Chris Germer, co-developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion program with Kristin Neff, talks with Sean Fargo about how mindfulness and self-compassion relate and what each adds to the other.
Dr. Judson Brewer, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Brown University, talks with Sean Fargo about his account of how habits form and why he says willpower alone is a poor tool for weight loss.
Jake Eagle, a licensed counselor and co-author of The Power of Awe, talks with Sean Fargo about microdosing mindfulness and the A.W.E. Method, a practice that takes about 15 seconds.
Sean Fargo explains what self-compassion is and is not, why it is not all-or-nothing, and where to begin when it feels hard.
Dr. Jud Brewer, a psychiatrist and researcher at Brown University, describes a step-by-step approach that treats worry as a habit, and how mindfulness works with the brain’s reward system to change it.
Listen now Listen on Apple Listen on Spotify Listen on TuneIn Anxiety, depression, auto-immune disease, addiction and suicide have been on the rise in the United States since even before the COVID-19 pandemic. So what’s going on? Typically, we glaze over this question and focus instead on labeling people with diagnoses and medicating symptoms.In this […]
Sean Fargo talks with Gabor Maté, a physician and author, about Compassionate Inquiry: how caring curiosity relates to mindfulness, the five levels of compassion, and why being triggered is not always a problem.
Dr. Rick Hanson, a psychologist and author of Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha's Brain and Neurodharma, describes the relationship between doing and just being, what he says the brain's midline cortex does, and how neuro-learning can amplify the benefits of meditation. A brief version of his guest talk to students in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification.
Mindfulness Exercises founder Sean Fargo talks about his own experience with imposter syndrome when teaching mindfulness, and how, for him, teaching with confidence, compassion and courage meant moving out of his head and into his heart.
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