Apr 17, 2024
My guest this week is psychologist Dr. Beth Kurland, author of the new book, You Don’t Have to Change to Change Everything: Six Ways to Shift Your Vantage Point, Stop Striving for Happy, and Find True Well-Being (affiliate link). We begin with a calming guided meditation that Beth led.
Topics we discussed...
Apr 3, 2024
My guest this week is Dr. Peter Levine, who is well-known for being the developer of Somatic Experiencing. He’s also the author of a new book: An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey (affiliate link), which we focused on in this very enjoyable and meaningful discussion.
Peter shared about how his own wounds from...
Mar 20, 2024
My guest this week for part 4 of our series on midlife is Dr. Tim Windsor. Tim has done many research studies on adult development and how we change in midlife and older age. I took so much from this conversation as Tim described what we know about how to have a great second half of life.
Things we discussed...
Mar 13, 2024
My guest this week is Nick Davies, back for his third time on the podcast. This time we focused on issues related to midlife, as this is part 3 of our series on that topic.
Things we discussed included:
- Nick’s personal backstory and his decision to make a big change in his mid-thirties
- Asking the right questions that...
Mar 6, 2024
My guest this week is Dr. Kieran Setiya, a philosophy professor at MIT and author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide (affiliate link).
Topics we discussed included:
- The extent to which midlife is a time of crisis
- Elliott Jaques’s coining of the term “midlife crisis” in 1965
- Data showing that life satisfaction is...