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A Doctor Who Can Feel People’s Pain
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“There’s a space between people that we just have to take a risk and just leap and see how we can connect,” says Joel Salinas, Harvard Medical...
When Our Bodies Talk to Us
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“So much of the healing that can come to us, we can create for ourselves,” says James Gordon, MD, psychiatrist and author of The Transformation...
The Quarter-Life Crisis
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We set quarter-lifers up to fail,” says psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock, “and then we make fun of them.” In her practice (called Quarter-Li...
Are We Bad at Listening?
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“The world isn’t so evil as people assume,” says Joel Stein, journalist, funnyman, and author of In Defense of Elitism. Stein joins chief conte...
Gwyneth x Kerry Washington: Staying Mentally and Emotionally Fit
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
GP sat down with Kerry Washington in front of a live audience, and they started reminiscing about going to the same all-girls school in New York C...
Using Food as Medicine
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We need to do something different to feel something different,” says Will Cole, DC, functional medicine practitioner and cohost of the goopfellas...
When Our Stories Move the Culture
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I have more freedom than I’ve ever had,” says Catt Sadler, journalist and host of the podcast NAKED. After more than a decade of working at E! ...
Gwyneth x Barry Michels: How to Think Less and Do More
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We would much rather think than do,” says Barry Michels, psychotherapist and coauthor of The Tools and Coming Alive. He sat down with GP at In go...
How We Misunderstand Privilege
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We’re so caught up in our own sense of not belonging,” says Elaine Welteroth, “that we aren’t even recognizing that we’re all in it toget...
Why We’re the Loneliest Society
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We need to change the cage we’re all living in,” says Johann Hari, the author of Lost Connections. Hari struggled with depression for most of h...
Changing the Perception of Wellness
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Being alive and existing isn’t good enough,” says Dr. Robin Berzin. “We want to feel well.” The founder and CEO of the functional medicine ...
Why We Can’t Detect a Lie
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We may think we know when people are lying, but basically we have no clue,” says Malcolm Gladwell, journalist and New York Times–bestselling au...
Why You Want to Feel Fear
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I want to be frightened and afraid I’m not going to be able to do it,” says actor Sarah Paulson about what draws her to play a particular chara...
Gwyneth x Ray Dalio: Why We Can Never Be Sure We’re Right
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Why should you believe that just because you have an opinion that that's the right opinion?” asks Ray Dalio, founder of prestigious investment ma...
What We’re Taught about Money
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I have not been able to find a single piece of research that tells me that anything bad happens when women have more money,” says Sallie Krawchec...
How We Adapt to Stress
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian MacKenzie doesn’t like when people tell him to “just breathe” either. So even though he’s the founder of a (great, practical, helpful) b...
Why Fear Can Be Magical
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Ninety-nine percent of the time when we use the word ‘can’t,’ it’s really a euphemism for ‘won’t,’” says entrepreneur Marie Forleo,...
Taking Control of Our Sexual Experience
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peggy Orenstein, bestselling author of Girls and Sex, explores the gaps and nuances of intimacy. Today, she talks to Elise about how girls and women a...
Fight Like a Mother
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is a handbook for people of all political leanings and persuasions—and for people who aren’t political at all but want to meaningfully engage...
Gwyneth x Michelle Pfeiffer: Second Marriages and Careers
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Although Michelle Pfeiffer and GP do talk about acting and costars, they also talk about who they are off-screen. They talk about why they both decide...
How to Raise Successful People
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
All parents need to know one thing, says Esther Wojcicki: “There is no perfect parenting.” Wojcicki is the author of How to Raise Successful Peopl...
Why We’re Not Broken
22 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We get into fear, and then we assume what we’re feeling is ours,” says Dana Childs, an intuitive and energy healer. Childs believes that a big ...
Feeding Your Digestive Fire
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jasmine Hemsley, the author of East by West, was in university when she realized the food she was eating (mainly cheese toasties, morning, noon, and n...
The Beauty in the End
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
BJ Miller, MD, is the kind of person who can make you feel good about death—and, in turn, life. He’s also the kind of person who can coauthor a bo...
What Our Anxiety Is Telling Us
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We’re just not taught these days to feel our feelings,” says psychiatrist Ellen Vora, MD. In her New York City practice, Vora takes a holistic,...
Why We’re Disengaged at Work
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
People are disengaged at work across the board, says Laura Morgan Roberts, PhD, an organizational psychologist who teaches executive and leadership pr...
The Beautiful State
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We are either living in a suffering state, or we are living in a beautiful state,” says philosopher Preethaji. “There is no third state.” Whi...
Where Do Emotions Come From?
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We don’t actually detect things in the world,” says neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Barrett. “We infer what we expect to see.” Barrett...
How Do We Reach Our Full Potential?
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Gervais, a high-performance psychologist and the host of the podcast Finding Mastery, always loved sports. But he says he struggled “above t...
Having a Fighting Chance
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“To me, justice is when everybody has a fighting chance to have a fighting chance,” says Lindsay Toczylowski, cofounder and immigration attorney a...
Now Available: The Beauty Closet
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to beauty, there are 70 billion questions. On goop’s newest podcast, editors Jean Godfrey-June and Megan O’Neill are going to answer...
Why Bloating and Brain Fog Aren’t Normal
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gastroenterologist Robynne Chutkan (author of The Microbiome Solution)and endocrinologist Eva Cwynar (author of The Fatigue Solution) joined Elise Loe...
Gwyneth x Krista Tippett: What We Long to Talk About
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
GP got a little starstruck when she first met Krista Tippett, creator of the On Being Project and host of the On Being podcast and radio show. But the...
Why We Crave
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re all addicts, according to Judson Brewer, author of The Craving Mind, director of research and innovation at the Mindfulness Center, and associ...
Changing Your Relationship to Your Memories
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For three decades, Rick Doblin, PhD, has been working in human connection. Doblin is the founder and executive director of the legendary Multidiscipli...
What Our Sex Lives Look Like
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For Three Women, her first (highly anticipated) book, journalist Lisa Taddeo immersed herself in the lives of three American women, in different parts...
How Food Affects Our Mood
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Uma Naidoo is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and professional chef. And she’s married the two: Naidoo practices nutritional and integrative psychiat...
How Do We Heal from Depression?
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Psychiatrist Steven Levine was drawn into his profession because he loves the human story. But as a doctor, he found himself dissatisfied with the opt...
How to Prototype Your Life
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Across the board, people tend to be terrible at answering the question “What do I want to do with my life?” Dave Evans, a coauthor of Designing Yo...
The Difference between Love and Acceptance
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
An award-winning writer and activist for LGBTQ rights, mental health, and the arts, Andrew Solomon is adept at reframing misconceptions about what it ...
Why You Should Follow Your Envy
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered what a psychotherapist would think about you? Or what goes on in your therapist’s life outside of office hours? Lori Gottlieb...
Manifesting the Life You Want
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
According to Lacy Phillips, a manifestation advisor—she’ll explain what that means—manifesting isn’t about positivity. And you don’t get wha...
How to Create Meaning in Groups
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Why are we coming together, what do we care about, and how do we focus the light on that?” Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering, asks thi...
Unlocking the Energy That Holds Stress and Causes Pain
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We are light beings,” says chiropractor John Amaral. To which body-alignment specialist Lauren Roxburgh adds, “And that light gets compressed w...
Getting through Empathy Overload
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In partnership with our friends at Ketel One Botanical There’s a lot we misunderstand about empathy, says Jamil Zaki, a professor of psychology at ...
Gwyneth x Elizabeth Gilbert: Can Creating Something Small Heal Something Big?
04 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Gilbert—beloved author of City of Girls; Eat, Pray, Love;and Big Magic—opened up In goop Health Los Angeles with GP. We cried. We laughe...
Now Available: The goopfellas Podcast
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What drives people to change, to heal, to reinvent themselves? On goopfellas, two friends who have become familiar with unlikely personal transformati...
The Soul of Money
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“What you appreciate, appreciates,” says Lynne Twist, global activist and author of The Soul of Money. What she means: When we let go of what we d...
Gwyneth x Eddie Stern: The Punk Rocker Turned Yogi Who Changed Her Life
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
GP walked into one of Eddie Stern’s Ashtanga yoga classes in the village twenty years ago, and he changed her life forever. Since then, they’ve be...
Moving Beyond Victimhood
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I was done with being a sick person,” says Seamus Mullen, award-winning New York City chef, cookbook author, avid cyclist—and cohost of our new...
What Every Conflict Is Actually About
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Before I can change your mind, I need to understand where your mind is,” says pro negotiator Daniel Shapiro. The founder and director of the Harv...
The Levers That Keep Us Well
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“The way people think will affect their health in a big way,” says Apostolos Lekkos, DO. As a physician, Lekkos splits his time between emergency ...
Gwyneth x Caroline Myss: On Living a Lie
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two decades ago, GP read Anatomy of the Spirit for the first time. It’s a book she’s returned to again and again over the years. And now she’s m...
Processing the Trauma of Loneliness
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Part of the reason why humans suffer is that we don’t honor the expression of these so-called weak emotions—meaning sadness, fear, and shame,”...
Creating a Value-Centered Home
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kim John Payne’s work focuses on the feeling of overwhelm that a lot of us walk around with today. As an educator, school consultant, and family cou...
How to Move from Consumer to Citizen
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We've turned ourselves just into these consumers,” says David de Rothschild. “We've lost sight of the fact that we're citizens.” De Rothschil...
Gwyneth, Demi Moore, and Arianna Huffington: On Redefining Success with Age
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
P brought a couple friends—Demi Moore and Arianna Huffington—together for a chat at In goop Health in New York City. They talked a little bit abou...
Letting Perfectionism Go
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I was craving the straight and narrow path that I had arbitrarily created for myself without really any experience to base it upon,” Valerie Jarr...
How to Minimize Stress and Avoid Burnout
23 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Wellness is not a state of mind,” Emily Nagoski says. “It is not coming to a place of loving yourself. Wellness is a state of action. It is the...
Gwyneth x Brené Brown: On the Roots of Shame, Courage, and Vulnerability
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I call shame the twenty-ton shield,” says Brené Brown. “It's a defense mechanism—very classic—that we carry in order to protect ourselves ...
How to Cultivate Intuition
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Day and Laura Lynne Jackson are renowned psychic mediums and friends. They both joined our chief content officer Elise Loehnen (another friend) ...
Why Are We All So Unhappy?
11 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The spiritual legend best known as Swamiji went to New Jersey—and so did our chief content officer Elise Loehnen. Swamiji created and runs the Vedan...
The Small Hacks That Make Life Easier
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“To be a helpable person seems counterintuitive,” says Bonnie St. John. “I’m the one-legged black woman. You know, I spent my whole life provi...
How Soil Health Is Reflected in the Gut
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“We’ve wiped out 40 percent of biology on earth in just fifty years,” says Zach Bush, MD. “And yet that Mother Earth keeps reaching out saying...
What We Get Wrong about Other People
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“You’ve got to meet people where they are,” says Sally Kohn. “But then you don’t have to leave them there.” Kohn, a TV commentator and col...
Gwyneth x Lupita Nyong’o: On Giving Yourself Permission to Learn
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
GP hung out at Universal Studios with Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o as she prepped for the release of her new film Us (written and directed b...
How Does Childhood Stress Manifest in Adulthood?
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Nothing itself is addictive on the one hand,” says Gabor Maté, MD. “And on the other hand, everything could be addictive if there’s an empti...
How to Become Your Future Self
21 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Nobody changes until they change their energy—and when you change your energy, you change your life,” says researcher and author Joe Dispenza,...
Gwyneth x Dax Shepard: On Triggers and Self-Esteem
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
GP caught up with Dax Shepard at his studio and they covered a lot of ground: They talked about the roots of shame and fear, the things that they find...
The Social Anxiety Toolbox
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Boston-based clinical psychologist Ellen Hendriksen has become known for helping people through anxiety, which is something she has struggled with, to...
What Makes a Dad a Dad
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Dads saved the human race,” says Anna Machin, evolutionary anthropologist and author of The Life of Dad. In this conversation with goop CCO Elise...
Erin Brockovich on How We’ll Rescue Ourselves
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I never thought you had to be any one way to be a person and to be kind and to learn,” says Erin Brockovich, who continues to redefine what it me...
Family Secrets
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I've been kind of a student of family secrets all my life,” writer Dani Shapiro says. All of her novels have centered around family secrets, and ...
The Skin-Gut Connection
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“People get used to sometimes feeling a certain way, and they don't know that they could feel better,” says naturopathic doctor and aesthetician N...
Gwyneth x Elena Brower: On Divorce and Self-Forgiveness
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
GP catches up with her old friend Elena Brower, yoga teacher and coauthor of Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate. They talk about ...
How to Deal with Assholes
21 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“For better or worse, I’m the asshole guy,” Robert Sutton once told us. Sutton is a professor at Stanford and the author of The Asshole Survival...
How to Be with the Partner You Picked
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Our memory is shit,” says couples therapist and author of We Do Stan Tatkin. “It can’t be relied on, and our perception is like a fun-hous...
On Addiction and Recovery
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I didn't think that anybody thought or felt or experienced the world the way that I did until I came into recovery,” Bill Clegg tells our chief ...
Miracles from a Magic Shop
12 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“When we promote, if you will, acting compassionately, there’s a subset of people who look at this as a soft science,” says neurosurgeon James D...
Sticking to Plan A
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“I think we build up this thesis of who we are, and then it gets shook.” This is how Abbi Jacobson—one of the creators, executive producers, and...
Why Love Starts with Loneliness
05 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alain de Botton talks to Elise Loehnen about the complexities of falling into, and out of, relationship and how we will always be students of love. ...
How We Relate to Money
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Financial expert Farnoosh Torabi knows how to help people get out of debt and in this episode she explores the ways in which we relate to money. To ...
How to Avoid the Chemicals That Disrupt Hormones
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jessice Helm provides insight into how endocrine-disrupting chemicals affect our health and what we can do about them that isn't all-consuming and ove...
Gwyneth x Howard Schultz: On the Entrepreneur’s Dream
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Howard Schultz, the author of the new book From the Ground Up, tells stories about his time as the Starbucks CEO and how it almost slipped away from h...
Detox without Deprivation
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Deanna Minich, PhD, highlights why our health should be a joy, not deprivation and how her detox focuses on what we can add back in to really nourish ...
Why Optimism Is a Better Match for Reality
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Pinker, the experimental psychologist, Harvard psychology professor, and bestselling author of Enlightenment Now explains our tendency to look ...
Is Intermittent Fasting the Key to Health?
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Longevity researcher Valter Longo breaks down the phenomenon of intermittent fasting and shares the forthcoming science that he’s most excited about...
The Man Who Defies What's Possible
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Wim Hof talks to Elise Loehnen about his breathing method and how nearly anyone can apply it to their life, even if they are not running a marathon in...
Gwyneth on Detoxes, Cleanses, and How She Eats
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn insider details on how Gwyneth eats and detoxes, plus hear behind-the-scenes details on her new book, The Clean Plate. To learn more about li...
Are We Lying More?
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn why Jeff Hancock suggests trust may be not declining but, perhaps, evolving. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visi...
Why We Use Food to Shame Ourselves
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how to unpack your hang-ups around food, let go of shame and deprivation, and feel something much more pleasurable and long-lasting in your body...
The Orgasm Myth
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s conversation, Nicole Daedone tells us why climax is just like sugar or a drop in the ocean and how to get to the real thing we’re looki...
The Power of the Unconscious Mind
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Srini Pillay helps you understand how to manage risk, harness creativity, and access the unconscious. To learn more about listener data and our priv...
How to Balance Your Hormones
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Dominique Reade takes us through her approach, outlines what we can expect from hormonal shifts, and suggests different options for smoothing out ...
Are Psychedelics a Mental Health Panacea?
11 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Psychologist, Alex Belser, talks with Elise Loehnen about the many different ways psychedelics are being used to treat depression, anxiety, addiction....
Gwyneth x Misty Copeland: On Being the First
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ballet star and history-maker Misty Copeland sits down with GP to talk about what it’s like being the first African American woman to ever be promot...
Can You Heal the Mind through the Body?
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our first guest in a three-part Tuesday series on mental health is psychiatrist Kelly Brogan, who believes that healing the body can be a path to heal...
How to Create Memories That Matter
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford University's Chip Heath has figured out how to create moments that matter and tells why we remember certain things and not others. To learn...
The Silencing of Women
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Famed Author/Historian Mary Beard explores how women have been silenced throughout history—and why we still are today. To learn more about listen...
Selfishly Thankful
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A. J. Jacobs and our chief content officer, Elise Loehnen, talk about how gratitude doesn’t have to be cheesy and why it might be the simplest route...