Best Forrest Hanson Podcasts (2025)

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Emotional Regulation: How to Feel Your Feelings Flexibly 1:27:05

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Dr. Rick and Forrest discuss how we can regulate our emotions by feeling, managing, and processing them more effectively. They begin by unpacking common misconceptions and clarifying what healthy regulation looks like - feeling our feelings without being overwhelmed by them. From there, they walk through the three key steps of emotional regulation,…

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You’re Not Broken — Here’s What’s Really Going On in Your Brain | Emotional Longevity Podcast 1:02:19

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What if your brain was never broken — just misunderstood? In this deeply insightful episode of the Emotional Longevity Podcast, Dr. Elisha Goldstein sits down with neuroscientist Dr. Alex Korb — author of *The Upward Spiral* — to unpack what’s really happening inside your brain during depression, anxiety, and emotional spirals. Together, they explo…

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10 Hidden Truths About How Emotions Shape Your Health and Longevity 34:13

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What if the key to living longer isn't just about diet and exercise—but about how you process your emotions? In this essential solo episode, Dr. Elisha Goldstein reveals 10 science-backed truths that bridge emotional health with physical longevity—truths that most people completely overlook. From the Surgeon General's warning that loneliness is as …

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Trauma or Personality, When to Walk Away, and Burnout: October Mailbag 59:46

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Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag to answer listener questions about trauma and its impact on personality, boundaries, anger, and burnout. They discuss how to distinguish the authentic self from the patterns we needed to learn to survive, how to balance duty to self with duty to others, and how to work with explosive anger by first joining w…

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The Overlooked Key to Longevity: Breathing, Ayurveda, and Emotional Health | Dr. John Douillard 1:03:55

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By Elisha Goldstein

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The Psychology of Resentment: Over-Functioning, Repression, and Repair 1:18:39

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Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the silent killer of relationships: resentment. They discuss resentment as a combination of perceived grievance (“I was wronged”) and helplessness (“and I can’t fix it”), before talking about how over-functioning and control tendencies can lead to resentment in relationships - one person shoulders more of the load while…

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Puberty Unpacked: What Every Parent Needs to Know | The Truth About Modern Adolescence 1:05:39

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By Elisha Goldstein

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How to Believe in Yourself: Carl Rogers and Humanistic Psychology 1:21:17

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Dr. Rick and Forrest explore humanistic psychology, the mid-20th century movement that redefined how therapists relate to clients. It challenged the pessimism of Freud and the mechanism of behaviorism, offering a more hopeful alternative: that our nature is fundamentally good, and our job is to let it shine through. They discuss Carl Rogers’ work, …

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Stop Falling for Self-Help That Doesn't Work | Joe Nucci 58:01

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By Elisha Goldstein

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AI Therapy Deep Dive: Can a Chatbot Be Your Therapist? w/ Dr. Nick Jacobson 1:25:50

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AI chatbots may already be the largest providers of mental health services in the United States, raising big questions about safety, effectiveness, and oversight. Dr. Rick and Forrest are joined by Dr. Nick Jacobson to explore the risks and opportunities of AI therapy: Can a chatbot be good at therapy? Will it replace human therapists? What about A…

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How to Have a (Good) Life Crisis: Authenticity, Healthy Discontent, and the Anxiety of Choice 1:12:02

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Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how to use a life crisis productively, drawing on developmental stage theories, existential philosophy, literature, personal experience, and Rick’s clinical work. They examine the anxieties of death, freedom, responsibility, and choice that often underlie these crises, and discuss how we can not only cope with these anx…

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You Think You're Too Sensitive? Here's Why It's Your Superpower | Dr. Judith Orloff 1:02:19

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By Elisha Goldstein

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Why You Still Feel Lonely (Even with People Around) 1:15:06

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By Elisha Goldstein

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People Pleasing and the Fawn Response with Meg Josephson 1:14:32

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Forrest and therapist Meg Josephson explore the fawn response, a survival strategy where safety is sought by pleasing other people. They discuss how fawning can start as self-protection in childhood, but later morph into overthinking, hypervigilance, and self-abandonment. Meg shares her own experience, including how fawning creates resentment and m…

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How to Deal With Your Feelings (and Find Emotional Freedom) | Marc Brackett 1:06:58

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By Elisha Goldstein

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Anxious-Avoidant Relationships, Narcissism, and Insight to Action: Mailbag 1:11:30

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Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag to answer questions about complex situations where good process really matters. They discuss whether to get back with an ex who has seemingly changed, relationships with someone with addictive tendencies, the difference between Narcissistic Personality Disorder and narcissistic tendencies, and why genuine ch…

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How to Parent Strong-Willed Kids Without Losing Your Mind | Kirk Martin 1:10:45

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Limerence: The Psychology of Romantic Obsession with Brandy Wyant 1:04:07

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Forrest and therapist Brandy Wyant discuss limerence, an intense and often one-sided state of romantic obsession. They explore how limerence differs from both love and ordinary crushes, why uncertainty fuels it, and how it can take over a person’s inner world. Brandy shares both clinical insights and her own lived experience, describing the obsessi…

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Kristin Neff on Fierce Self-Compassion, Stress, and Real Strength 56:24:45

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Mingyur Rinpoche: A Meditation Master on Anxiety, Awareness, and Awakening 1:08:50

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Dr. Rick and Forrest are joined by Mingyur Rinpoche, a renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher, to explore calming anxiety with awareness, relaxing unhealthy wanting, and finding a deeper sense of our innate goodness. Rinpoche shares how a near-death experience during his four-year “wandering retreat” transformed his relationship to fear and deepened his…

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You're Not Broken. You Just Learned to Abandon Yourself 13:33:45

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9 Lessons from the Great Minds of Psychoanalysis 1:47:55

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Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the evolution of psychoanalysis after Freud, highlighting key ideas from figures like Adler, Klein, Winnicott, and Hillman. They track how the field expanded from focusing on the individual ego all the way out to exploring the existential forces that shape who we are. They focus on what lessons we can take away from eac…

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From Rock Bottom to Resilience: Eric Zimmer on Emotional Strength and Recovery 1:06:05

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Reclaiming Anger: Trauma, Repression, and Healthy Protest with Elizabeth Ferreira 1:07:06

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Forrest and associate therapist Elizabeth Ferreira talk about healthy (and unhealthy) anger. They challenge the common framing of anger as a “secondary emotion,” and explore why anger matters, how it relates to trauma, and what it can tell us about our wants and needs. They discuss how to access healthy protest and work with less healthy forms of a…

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Psychoanalysis: Therapy’s Controversial Origins 1:32:46

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Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the ideas, context, and legacy of psychoanalysis, the often-controversial origin point for modern therapy. They discuss psychoanalysis’ early history and key concepts like the unconscious mind, repression, inner conflict, and transference. Alongside those major contributions, they wrestle with what hasn’t aged so well: …

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Is Self-Help Making You Miserable? 1:26:38

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Forrest and Dr. Rick discuss what's really wrong with the self-help industry, going beyond the obvious pseudoscience and snake oil to examine deeper structural issues. They explore the industry's mixed-bag focus on individual responsibility, the risks of turning healing into a never-ending project, performative personal growth, narcissism, social m…

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Flex Your Feelings: The 7 Traits That Build Real Emotional Strength 48:31:05

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The Freeze Response, Gifted Kid Syndrome, and BPD: July Mailbag 1:17:57

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Dr. Rick and Forrest answer listener questions about perfectionism, performance anxiety, trauma, and relationships. They explore how early praise for being “gifted” can create a fear of failure and contribute to “failure to launch,” and share ways to shift from focusing on an idealized future to appreciating your actual self right now. They discuss…

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Rethinking ADHD: Why It’s Not a Disorder—It’s a Performance Challenge with Michael McLeod 58:41:05

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How Real Change Happens with Elizabeth Ferreira 1:09:06

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Forrest is joined by associate therapist Elizabeth Ferreira to discuss parts work, psychological defenses, and how real change happens. They talk about the inner child work Forrest recently did during an episode with renowned therapist Terry Real, and how that led to meaningful changes in their relationship. Elizabeth and Forrest unpack the therape…

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Why Modern Life Doesn't Make Us Happy, and How to Fix It with Dr. William von Hippel 1:29:03

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Life today is safer and more comfortable than ever before, so why do so many people feel unhappy, lonely, and anxious? Forrest talks with evolutionary psychologist Dr. William von Hippel about this paradox in light of our two core needs: autonomy and connection. He argues that modern life has pushed us too far in the direction of autonomy, and that…

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Rethinking Masculinity: Strength and Connection w/ Terry and Justin Real 1:05:49

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Forrest is joined by renowned therapist Terry Real and his son Justin for a frank exploration of modern masculinity. They talk about why so many men feel like they’re struggling these days, and how the traditional model of masculinity perpetuates this problem. They discuss the appeal of red pill cultures, the cultural pushback against gender equali…

Forrest Hanson Podcasts

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Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

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Emotional Longevity

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Thoughtsmanship - The Legacy Of Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee

Thoughtsmanship - The Legacy Of Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee

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Emotional Regulation: How to Feel Your Feelings Flexibly 1:27:05

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You’re Not Broken — Here’s What’s Really Going On in Your Brain | Emotional Longevity Podcast 1:02:19

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10 Hidden Truths About How Emotions Shape Your Health and Longevity 34:13

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Trauma or Personality, When to Walk Away, and Burnout: October Mailbag 59:46

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The Overlooked Key to Longevity: Breathing, Ayurveda, and Emotional Health | Dr. John Douillard 1:03:55

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The Psychology of Resentment: Over-Functioning, Repression, and Repair 1:18:39

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Puberty Unpacked: What Every Parent Needs to Know | The Truth About Modern Adolescence 1:05:39

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How to Believe in Yourself: Carl Rogers and Humanistic Psychology 1:21:17

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Stop Falling for Self-Help That Doesn't Work | Joe Nucci 58:01

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AI Therapy Deep Dive: Can a Chatbot Be Your Therapist? w/ Dr. Nick Jacobson 1:25:50

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How to Have a (Good) Life Crisis: Authenticity, Healthy Discontent, and the Anxiety of Choice 1:12:02

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You Think You're Too Sensitive? Here's Why It's Your Superpower | Dr. Judith Orloff 1:02:19

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Why You Still Feel Lonely (Even with People Around) 1:15:06

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People Pleasing and the Fawn Response with Meg Josephson 1:14:32

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How to Deal With Your Feelings (and Find Emotional Freedom) | Marc Brackett 1:06:58

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Anxious-Avoidant Relationships, Narcissism, and Insight to Action: Mailbag 1:11:30

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How to Parent Strong-Willed Kids Without Losing Your Mind | Kirk Martin 1:10:45

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Limerence: The Psychology of Romantic Obsession with Brandy Wyant 1:04:07

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Kristin Neff on Fierce Self-Compassion, Stress, and Real Strength 56:24:45

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Mingyur Rinpoche: A Meditation Master on Anxiety, Awareness, and Awakening 1:08:50

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You're Not Broken. You Just Learned to Abandon Yourself 13:33:45

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9 Lessons from the Great Minds of Psychoanalysis 1:47:55

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From Rock Bottom to Resilience: Eric Zimmer on Emotional Strength and Recovery 1:06:05

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Reclaiming Anger: Trauma, Repression, and Healthy Protest with Elizabeth Ferreira 1:07:06

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Psychoanalysis: Therapy’s Controversial Origins 1:32:46

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Is Self-Help Making You Miserable? 1:26:38

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Flex Your Feelings: The 7 Traits That Build Real Emotional Strength 48:31:05

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The Freeze Response, Gifted Kid Syndrome, and BPD: July Mailbag 1:17:57

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Rethinking ADHD: Why It’s Not a Disorder—It’s a Performance Challenge with Michael McLeod 58:41:05

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How Real Change Happens with Elizabeth Ferreira 1:09:06

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Why Modern Life Doesn't Make Us Happy, and How to Fix It with Dr. William von Hippel 1:29:03

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Rethinking Masculinity: Strength and Connection w/ Terry and Justin Real 1:05:49