Psychology professor Dacher Keltner joins us to discuss a relatively new field of research studying awe, how it can transform the mind and body, and his own personal experiences with it.
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Cutting people off from opioids may not be the solution
Maia Szalavitz, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, talks about policies that keep chronic pain patients from accessing their drugs and where they turn when prescriptions aren’t an option.
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Are your goals in line with your values?
Philosophy professor Valerie Tiberius discusses aligning our goals with our values and what to do when those things don’t match up. Plus, we’ll learn how to use philosophy and psychology to guide us to the answers.
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Why you should be scheduling time for fun
Psychologist Mike Rucker joins us to discuss why adding fun back into the daily grind will make you more productive and lead to a happier life.
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Do your friends hold the key to your happiness?
Harvard psychiatry professor Robert Waldinger talks with us about why friendships, marriages, even book groups, form the basis for a more meaningful existence.
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The impossible expectations on American mothers
Jessica Grose is an opinion writer at The New York Times who writes the newsletter On Parenting, and she joins us to talk about what successful parenting really looks like and the societal expectations we have for parents.
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Kids need to talk about death, too
Elena Lister, a senior consulting analyst for grief at Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center, talks about how parents and educators can talk about grief with a child in a nurturing way.
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How to kick your success addiction and love your work
Arthur C. Brooks discusses his research to understand how to move past waning opportunities for advancement and embrace aging with all its many wonderful possibilities.
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How countries treat mental health when there’s a scarcity of psychiatrists
Vox reporter Sigal Samuel talks about a new model for training mental health laypeople to treat underserved communities.
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Acting against your values can have a lasting effect on you
Writer Elizabeth Svoboda offers a primer on moral injury, new treatment methods and why Covid has health care providers suffering from it anew.
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You don’t need to be exceptional to live a good life
Avram Alpert, co-editor of Shifter magazine, discusses why our competitive nature makes us forget that there is enough success to go around – and how to find purpose in life just being OK.
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How to cope with multiple losses at once
Katie Reilly talks about cumulative grief – where one loss exacerbates the effects of another – how that effects health and relationships, and how to make it through.
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