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How To Handle Dilemmas, Drift, Indecision, and Difficult People | Gretchen Rubin

Release Date: 08/06/2025

How To Cut Yourself Some Slack | Meditation with Vinny Ferraro

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Guess what: you don’t have to fix yourself. All this month, we’re sharing custom guided meditations from our teacher of the month, Vinny Ferraro, exclusively available at . Like any good drug dealer, the first taste is free – so today, we’re giving you a sample of what you can expect for the rest of the month. Related Episodes: On Sunday, September 21st from 1-5pm ET, join Dan and Leslie Booker at the New York Insight Meditation Center in NYC as they lead a workshop titled, "Heavily Meditated – The Dharma of Depression + Anxiety." This event is both in-person and...

What To Do When Your Life Blows up | Emma Heming Willis

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When life gets turbulent, is self-care self-indulgent? is a mother, step-mother, wife, and an advocate. After her husband, Bruce Willis, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, she became a passionate voice for care partners and families navigating neurodegenerative disease. Her new book is called . In this episode we talk about: The moment Bruce was diagnosed The importance of self-care and community support for caregivers Actionable advice on making time for oneself How to ask for and accept help when you need it Why learning to care for other people is...

How To Rewire Your Inner Dialogue and Re-Regulate Your Nervous System | Elizabeth Gilbert

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A raw conversation about addiction, love, death, grief, recovery, and more. is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nonfiction and fiction books such as Big Magic and Eat Pray Love. Her new memoir is All The Way To The River: Love, Loss, and Liberation. In this episode we talk about: Ways that Elizabeth fostered dependency in her life What Elizabeth means when she says “make other people into my home” The modalities and practices Elizabeth uses to ground in her daily life The definition of healthy relationships – and how to have them Self-compassion Join Dan’s...

Your Negative, Ruminating Mind: Here's Your Way Out | Sister Dang Nghiem

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When it comes to your demons, your baggage, you have a choice: transform or transmit. Sister Dang Nghiem, MD, (“Sister D”) was born in 1968 in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, the daughter of a Vietnamese mother and an American soldier. She lost her mother at the age of twelve and immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen with her brother. Living in various foster homes, she learned English and went on to earn a medical degree from the University of California – San Francisco. After suffering further tragedy and loss, she quit her practice as a doctor to travel to Plum...

Coach Dan Quinn Got Fired, So He Changed His Life.

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Then he got put in charge of a losing team, and he turned them into winners. Dan Quinn is Head Coach of the Washington Commanders. He was fired from the Atlanta Falcons back in 2020, then signed up for a “360 review” where he solicited feedback from former players, peers, and bosses. He then brought all those learnings to his new job at the Commanders, where last year (his first year with the team), he created a very interesting culture. They had a surprisingly great, headline-making season last year, and their opening game of this season is today, September 7. In this episode we...

How To Regulate Your Nervous System For Stress, Anxiety, And Trauma | Peter Levine

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The creator of shows Dan how to heal trauma through the body. Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., has spent the past 50 years developing . He holds a doctorate in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and a doctorate in Psychology from International University. His work has been taught to over 30,000 therapists in over 42 countries. He is the author of the new book, An Autobiography of Trauma. Content warning: This episode includes discussions of rape and violence. In this episode we talk about: How to do somatic experiencing. You’ll see Dan play the role of guinea pig + make weird sounds The difference...

Reset Your Nervous System: Actionable Advice for Stress, Burnout, and Trauma | Linda Thai

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An expert trauma therapist offers a master class in resilience. Linda Thai LMSW is a trauma therapist specializing in cutting-edge brain-and body-based modalities for complex developmental trauma. As an educator, she adeptly communicates on trauma, attachment, and the impact of oppressive systems. Passionate about healing trauma, Linda is redefining what it means to be wounded and whole and a healer. In this episode we talk about: A primer on your nervous system Stress, distress, traumatic stress and burnout The relationship between stress and digestion ...

Chronic Stress Ages You. Here’s How To De-Stress for Longevity. | Elissa Epel

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How to reduce negative thoughts, get deep rest, and improve cellular health. , is an international expert on stress, well-being, and optimal aging and a best-selling author of , and . She is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, at the University of California, San Francisco, where she is Vice Chair of Psychology and directs the . In this episode we talk about: What telomeres are Why chronic stress accelerates our rate of aging – and how to reverse it How we have way more control over aging than we think Small, consistent lifestyle...

You Can’t Hate Yourself Into Becoming a Better Person | Vinny Ferraro

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We’re in the midst of an exciting evolution of the overall 10% Happier project. In our quest to make this podcast more actionable – to help you operationalize all the game-changing ideas you encounter on this pod – we’re now offering guided meditations to accompany each full episode of the show, available to paid subscribers at . For the month of September, those meditations will come from , a Buddhist teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition. In this bonus episode, you’ll hear our head of content, DJ Cashmere, in conversation with Vinny, who shares his backstory: a tough...

Professional Setbacks Happen to All of Us. Here Are Some Lessons From Resetting My Career. | Dan Harris & Toni Magyar

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Practical learnings from Dan and his CEO on: focus, feedback, self-talk, and expecting adversity. 10% Media head honcho Toni Magyar joins Dan for a candid conversation about how to reset after a professional setback, navigating some tricky transitions, and how self-compassion and clear communication can make it all a bit easier. In this episode we talk about: Celebrating the one-year anniversary of our new business, independent of the app company that Dan co-founded How acknowledging that change is constant helps us live with uncertainty What it means to operate with...

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An avalanche of practical advice and brief (but powerful) life lessons.

Gretchen Rubin is a New York Times bestselling author and happiness expert who explores human nature and habits. She’s a highly acclaimed writer, host of the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin and the founder of the award-winning Happier app.

In this episode we talk about:

What aphorisms are, and why they’re useful
How to make decisions that lead to a “bigger life"
Why you should pay special attention to anything you lie about or hide
The argument against task-sharing
The dangers of being indecisive
Why offering emotional validation can often be more powerful than offering solutions
Why you should pay close attention when people repeat themselves over and over
And much more

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