Unseating the Inner Tyrant | Ajahn Sucitto
04 Apr 2022
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Brené Brown Says You're Doing Feelings Wrong
01 Apr 2022
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How to Argue Better | Oren Jay Sofer
30 Mar 2022
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Mind-Blowing Sex | Dr. Lori Brotto
28 Mar 2022
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How to Keep Your Relationships On the Rails | Kaira Jewel Lingo (2021)
23 Mar 2022
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How to Suffer Well | Brother Pháp Dung
21 Mar 2022
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The Joys of Insignificance | Ron Siegel
16 Mar 2022
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Many, if not all, of us have a nonstop, ambient thought-track running through our minds of: how am I...
How Do I Meditate When There's a War Going On? | Claude AnShin Thomas
14 Mar 2022
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How can we meditate when it seems like the world is falling apart? How do we titrate our news consum...
From Evangelical Pastor to Buddhist Nun | Venerable Pannavati
14 Mar 2022
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Venerable Pannavati is a former evangelical pastor who has been ordained in three separate Buddhist ...
The Upside of Apocalypse | Lama Rod Owens
11 Mar 2022
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We're now entering year three of the pandemic, and even though we're in a very different stage of th...
Is It Possible You Are Irrational About COVID? | David Leonhardt
07 Mar 2022
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As we enter year three of the pandemic, the psychology of COVID is no less complex or consequential....
Compassion Is the Ultimate Tool for the Truly Ambitious | Paul Gilbert
02 Mar 2022
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Dr. Paul Gilbert OBE is a professor of psychology at the University of Derby, Founder and President ...
A Serious Case for Humor | Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas
02 Mar 2022
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A common denominator among all of the great meditation teachers is a sense of humor. They take the t...
Become an Active Operator of Your Nervous System | Deb Dana
28 Feb 2022
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We don't think about it this way, but as we move through the day, the various moods we inhabit — e...
Climate Change as an Opportunity | Bhikkhu Anālayo
28 Feb 2022
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Today's guest makes an extremely convincing case that there are many self-interested reasons to look...
There's No Part of Your Life You Can't Make More Awesome | Jeff Warren
23 Feb 2022
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It is very easy to think about your meditation practice as being quarantined to those minutes when y...
The Elephant in the Meditation Room | Christopher Ford
21 Feb 2022
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Today's episode is the culmination of a long search to find a countervailing force: a Buddhist Trump...
The Good News About Your Inevitable Decline | Arthur Brooks
16 Feb 2022
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The unavoidable truth is that our skills change as we get older. We invest so much in our profession...
How Not to Ruin Your Relationships | Drs. John & Julie Gottman
14 Feb 2022
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If you care about your long term health and happiness, the quality of your relationships is an area ...
Why I'm Not a Buddhist | Evan Thompson
09 Feb 2022
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This episode features Evan Thompson, author of the book Why I Am Not a Buddhist. Evan Thompson is a ...
Hinduism 101 | Swami Tyagananda
07 Feb 2022
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One of the most consistent requests we get from listeners is to explore non-Buddhist forms of medita...
Why Self-Hatred Makes No Sense | Matthew Brensilver
02 Feb 2022
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This episode, with Matthew Brensilver, explores a compelling Buddhist question: does self-hatred, or...
What We Can Learn About Happiness from Babies | Alison Gopnik
31 Jan 2022
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Dr. Alison Gopnik is a psychologist at UC Berkeley and one of the world's leading experts in cogniti...
Buddhist Lessons on Anxiety | Leslie Booker (2021)
28 Jan 2022
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All week, we've been running "best of" episodes as part of our Taming Anxiety series – and this ...
How to Break Your Anxiety Habit | Judson Brewer (2021)
26 Jan 2022
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This week, we're sharing some of the best episodes in our archives about anxiety. Dr. Judson Brewer ...
Sara Bareilles: Anxiety, Anger, and Art (2021)
24 Jan 2022
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This week, we're posting some of our best podcasts from the archives on a dragon many of us face int...
The Science of Depression | Sona Dimidjian
19 Jan 2022
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This episode features one of the world's leading experts in depression and how meditation can hel...
The Zen of Therapy | Mark Epstein
17 Jan 2022
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Psychiatrist Dr. Mark Epstein, discusses his new book The Zen of Therapy, in which he explores how h...
Are You Willing to Challenge Your Own Tribe? | Robert Wright
12 Jan 2022
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Why, from an evolutionary perspective, is it so terrifying for many of us to contemplate challenging...
Ways to End Bias That Will Also Make You Happier | Jessica Nordell
10 Jan 2022
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Jessica Nordell is a science and culture journalist who has written for the Atlantic and the New Yor...
For the Burned Out, Fried, and Exhausted | Emily & Amelia Nagoski
05 Jan 2022
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The final episode of our New Year's Getting Unstuck Series features Emily and Amelia Nagoski. Our go...
Can You Handle This? | Tara Brach
03 Jan 2022
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This is the third episode of our Getting Unstuck Series and we're kicking off the new year with a gi...
How a Buddhist Teacher Gets Unstuck | Matthew Hepburn
29 Dec 2021
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It's the second episode of our Getting Unstuck Series. In this episode, Buddhist teacher and TPH fan...
That Rut You're In – This One Word Could Pull You Out | Nedra Tawwab
27 Dec 2021
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This is the first episode of our Getting Unstuck Series. This episode, featuring social worker and N...
Karamo: How to Actually Do Self-Love (January, 2021)
22 Dec 2021
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With the approach of the new year (and perhaps New Year's resolutions) we've decided to replay a ver...
How to Change Your Habits | Katy Milkman (May, 2021)
20 Dec 2021
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We're almost at that time of year where we contemplate making New Year's resolutions. So we decided ...
How You Can Help End Polarization and Inequality – and Get Happier, Too | Robert Putnam & Shaylyn Romney Garrett
15 Dec 2021
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In this episode, Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett discuss the recent book they co-authored, ...
What Is Nirvana? | Robert Thurman
13 Dec 2021
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If you want to make change in a world filled with all sorts of horrors and obstacles, does it help o...
This Episode Will Make You Stronger | Sister Dang Nghiem
08 Dec 2021
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It's hard to be a human. No matter how good things are for you, being alive is still hard; whatever ...
How To Work Around Your Own Irrationality | Richard Thaler
06 Dec 2021
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This episode explores how to make the infernally difficult challenge of habit formation a little eas...
How to Embrace the Anti-Diet | Christy Harrison
01 Dec 2021
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This episode is the second in our two-part Anti-Diet Series, and features guest Christy Harrison. Ch...
Jameela Jamil on Mental Self-Defense
29 Nov 2021
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Our guest for our 400th episode is actor and activist Jameela Jamil, who you may have seen on such s...
How to Get Out of Your Head | Willa Blythe Baker
24 Nov 2021
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It is a common desire to get out of our heads, to escape the internal noise, the chatter, the Sturm ...
The Right Kind of Suffering | Paul Bloom
22 Nov 2021
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Is there a good kind of suffering? Paul Bloom says, yes -- there is a kind of suffering that you cho...
Best of the Archives: How Your Emotions Are Made | Lisa Feldman Barrett
17 Nov 2021
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Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is at the forefront of understanding human emotions: what they are, why hum...
How to Benefit From Religion, Even as a Nonbeliever | David DeSteno
15 Nov 2021
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Dr. David DeSteno has embarked on a project he calls "religio-prospecting." In other words, he has b...
Don't Side With Yourself | Matthew Hepburn
10 Nov 2021
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Work can be one of the most difficult places to apply meditative concepts such as mindfulness, patie...
How to Handle Difficult People | Dawn Mauricio
08 Nov 2021
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It's been a problem ever since the dawn of humankind: how do we deal with jerks? What do you say to ...
Staying Sane at Work | Laurie Santos
05 Nov 2021
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It turns out you can call up Laurie Santos and ask about any conundrum and she will respond with a v...
How to Give Feedback Without Ruining Everything | Kim Scott
03 Nov 2021
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One of the hardest things to do in any relationship is give feedback. It's always dicey. You don't w...
How to Fight Languishing (at Work and Everywhere Else) | Adam Grant
01 Nov 2021
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This episode officially marks the launch of the Work Life Series, a brand-new, five-part series that...
The Benefits of Thinking Like an Entrepreneur | Reid Hoffman
27 Oct 2021
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The advice to "think like an entrepreneur" can, from a certain angle, come off as the kind of rote, ...
A Buddhist Recipe for Handling Turmoil | Kaira Jewel Lingo
25 Oct 2021
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We all know that change is inevitable and impermanence is non-negotiable. But somehow it can feel su...
What the Buddha Taught About Friendship | Kate Johnson
20 Oct 2021
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Friendship was important to the Buddha. In fact, there's a whole passage in the Buddhist scriptures,...
The Science of Training Your Attention | Dr. Amishi Jha
18 Oct 2021
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Distraction is one of the top complaints of meditators -- and of pretty much every human being, in t...
Twenty Percent Happier | Matthew Hepburn
13 Oct 2021
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In this special episode we're going to do some mindful eavesdropping. You're going to get a chance t...
Sitting with Chaos | Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
11 Oct 2021
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Very few of us relish chaos and disruption, but they are facts of life, given the nonnegotiable natu...
The Awesome Power of "Touchy-Feely" | Carole Robin and David Bradford
06 Oct 2021
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We talk a lot on this show about social connection, but in this episode we're going to get super gra...
What to do About Eco-Anxiety | Jay Michaelson
04 Oct 2021
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In the mental health community, there's a new term: "Eco-Anxiety." Our guest in this episode, Jay...
An "Erotic" Approach to the Climate Crisis | Dr. Andreas Weber
29 Sep 2021
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In this episode we're talking about increasing happiness by connecting to nature. Guest Andreas We...
Stoicism 101 | Nancy Sherman
27 Sep 2021
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You may have heard about stoicism, in the common parlance, as having a stiff upper lip, sucking it u...
What Does it Actually Mean to Be a "Whole Person"? | Scott Barry Kaufman
22 Sep 2021
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In this episode, we're going to demystify concepts such as: self actualization, personal growth, aut...
Psychedelics and Meditation | Michael Pollan
20 Sep 2021
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Michael Pollan has done more than perhaps anybody else in recent history to change the conversation ...
How to Get the Wisdom of Old Age Now | Dilip Jeste
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Happiness levels are really high when we're young. They then steadily dip through our 20s, 30s, and ...
Life, Interrupted | Suleika Jaouad
13 Sep 2021
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Here's a thought experiment: how would you handle it if you got a terrible diagnosis? Of course, man...
A More Relaxed Way to Meditate | Alexis Santos
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A common problem among type-A people is trying to win at meditation. But the practice doesn't work l...
Letting Go of Perfectionism | La Sarmiento
06 Sep 2021
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In this episode, we're talking about the difference between kindness and what our guest, La Sarmient...
Reversing the Golden Rule | Jamil Zaki
01 Sep 2021
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In this episode we're talking about how what you believe— about yourself, or about the world — c...
The Evolutionary Case for Kindness | Dacher Keltner
30 Aug 2021
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Here's a question: Is there an evolutionary advantage to being kind? Our guest today is Dacher Kel...
Optimizing Your Stress | Modupe Akinola
25 Aug 2021
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Stress – which many of us despise and try to avoid – does not actually have to be a bad thing. R...
The Science of Making and Keeping Friends | Robin Dunbar
23 Aug 2021
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Friendship might not necessarily be something you've considered to be an urgent psychological and ph...
Improving Your Relationships - Buddhist Style | Martine Batchelor
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This great deep-Dharma episode is all about using an ancient, fascinating, and readily-accessible Bu...
Help, Work Sucks | Cal Newport
16 Aug 2021
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A lot of us right now would probably agree that the technologies meant to make our jobs easier are a...
How Do You Love Without Being Attached? | Kevin Griffin
11 Aug 2021
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In this episode we're tackling some thorny dharma questions. For example: How do you love someone wi...
How To End The War With Your Body | Sonya Renee Taylor
09 Aug 2021
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It is incredibly common for many of us humans, whatever our gender, to be at war with our bodies -- ...
Escape From Zombieland | Koshin Paley Ellison
04 Aug 2021
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Modern life has turned many of us into zombies. We walk around with our noses in our phones, constan...
A Rarely Accessed Source of Joy | Roman Mars
02 Aug 2021
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Today's episode is about finding joy, pleasure, interest, and even gratitude in a surprising source:...
The Price of Secrecy | Michael Slepian
28 Jul 2021
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This episode is all about secrets. Did you know that there are 38 categories of secrets—and stat...
How to Outsmart Your Pain | Christiane Wolf
26 Jul 2021
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Sit in meditation for a few minutes and you're likely to experience pain, either physical or psychol...
The Art and Science of Compassion | Thupten Jinpa
21 Jul 2021
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It can be incredibly frustrating when life-changing, world-changing concepts such as compassion and ...
The Voice in Your Head | Ethan Kross
19 Jul 2021
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The craving, complaining, and comparing voice in our heads can be the source of incalculable sufferi...
Getting Over Yourself | Joseph Goldstein
14 Jul 2021
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For the uninitiated, Joseph Goldstein is one of the cofounders of the Insight Meditation Society (IM...
How to Keep Your Relationships On the Rails | Kaira Jewel Lingo
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is about a Buddhist tool for resolving conflict and keeping your relationships healt...
The Science of Happiness | Emiliana Simon-Thomas (2020)
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a previous interview with Dan, the Dalai Lama said something along the lines of, "everyone's self...
Rethinking Your Relationship to 'Stuff' | The Minimalists + Oren Jay Sofer
05 Jul 2021
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We've been meaning to tackle our relationship to 'stuff' for a while now. This subject can go deep. ...
Why Men Armor Up | Daniel Ellenberg
30 Jun 2021
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Today's episode is a deep dive into the male operating system and how it can be upgraded. Today's gu...
Self-Compassion Ain't Always Soft | Kristin Neff
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There's a widely held assumption that if you have a warmer, friendlier relationship with yourself, y...
The Hard Questions That Might Save Your Relationship | Susan Piver
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have some counterintuitive relationship advice. If you're in a tough spot with your loved o...
Buddhist Lessons on Anxiety | Leslie Booker
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taming Anxiety Series - Episode 4: Welcome to the final episode in our Taming Anxiety Series! Today'...
Strategies for Social Anxiety | Ellen Hendriksen
18 Jun 2021
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Taming Anxiety Series - Episode 3: As we move into summer and more and more vaccines go into arms, y...
Anxiety, Explained | Luana Marques
16 Jun 2021
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Taming Anxiety Series - Episode 2: Anxiety is very common -- but also commonly misunderstood. So tod...
Sara Bareilles: Anxiety, Anger, and Art
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taming Anxiety Series - Episode 1: Today is a big day here on the podcast, both because we have a fa...
The Surprising Upsides of Self-Deception | Shankar Vedantam
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone with a passing familiarity with Buddhism will know that "delusion" is rarely, if ever, mentio...
Chris Bosh: Making Your Inner Voice Your Ally
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the more surprising lessons I've learned as an ambitious person is that perhaps the best reci...
Dan Tells A Meditative Story
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from the excellent podcast Meditative Story, recorded a couple of years ago, Dan sha...
Why You're Burning Out -- And How to Fix It | Leah Weiss
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Covid appears to have brought on a spike in burnout, especially among women, millions of whom have e...
A Buddhist Approach to Patience | Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
These are not hospitable times for the mental skill of patience. Instant gratification has never bee...
How to Be Courageous | Stacy McClendon
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us know that meditation can confer benefits such as self-awareness, calm, and compassion, bu...
Meditation is Not Just a Solo Endeavor | Pamela Ayo Yetunde
24 May 2021
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There's a meditation pitfall that's pretty easy to fall into. In fact, I've fallen into it many time...
How to Focus | Shaila Catherine
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Living as we do in an era that has been called the info blitzkrieg, staying focused can be extremely...