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Humor: An Antidote for Stress

Self-Compassion

Offers practical ways to turn care inward without abandoning responsibility.

Giving — Do Kind Things for Others

Encourages practical kindness while normalizing asking for and receiving support.

Join a Local Group — Connection and Belonging

Provides a practical route toward local community and repeated human connection.

Purpose Defined

Helps listeners distinguish purpose from achievement and explore how purpose evolves across life.

Pivot

Helps listeners identify what is working, explore options, and make a grounded next move.

Designing Your Life

Gives listeners concrete reflection and experimentation tools for choosing direction.

Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid

Normalizes tending to emotional pain and seeking support.

The StoryCorps App

Gives listeners an immediate way to preserve a loved one's story in their own voice.

Emotional Agility

Helps listeners name emotions, loosen their grip on unhelpful self-talk, and choose actions aligned with what matters.

The Happiness Challenge

Gives listeners a structured way to revisit and practice proven wellbeing habits.

The Long Now Foundation

Invites listeners to place their current effort inside a longer horizon.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Offers education and pathways to care without turning the episode into diagnosis.

The Checklist Manifesto

Helps listeners understand how verification habits reduce preventable errors and protect future work.

Free Kindness Printables

Gives listeners free, ready-to-use kindness activities and printable tools.

Rituals Alleviate Grieving for Loved Ones, Lovers, and Lotteries

Shows that ritual can matter psychologically even when the ritual itself is simple or personal.

Take in the Good

Helps listeners build a more balanced attention pattern by staying with good moments long enough to register them.

Emotions — Look for What's Good

Offers small reflection practices listeners can use to strengthen hopeful attention.

Stanford Life Design Lab

Provides tools and examples for navigating uncertainty with curiosity and experimentation.

How to Make Stress Your Friend

Helps listeners reinterpret stress and see connection as part of coping and courageous action.

NIH Emotional Wellness Toolkit

Gives listeners free checklists and concrete practices they can use immediately after the episode.

Designing Your Life

Gives listeners concrete reflection and experimentation tools for choosing direction.

Building a Second Brain: The Definitive Introductory Guide

Helps listeners create a trusted system so meaningful work can be found and reused.

Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

Gives practical permission and evidence for making restoration part of meaningful work.

Together

Helps listeners understand belonging as a health and human need, not an optional social extra.

How to Ask for Help

Offers concrete language and routes for asking for support instead of waiting until strength is completely gone.

Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid

Normalizes tending to emotional pain and seeking support.

Social Connection

Shows listeners that connection and belonging are health-supportive, not merely sentimental.

NAMI Connection

Provides a practical route toward peer support and community.

Start With WHY

Helps listeners articulate what they are moving toward before choosing the next road.

Range

Helps listeners reinterpret detours and varied experience as potential assets.

Emotional Agility

Helps listeners name emotions, loosen their grip on unhelpful self-talk, and choose actions aligned with what matters.

Acceptance — Be Comfortable with Who You Are

Offers practical self-acceptance exercises while preserving accountability and growth.

Grief and Mourning

Provides practical grief information and links to further support.

Meaning — Be Part of Something Bigger

Offers reflection and practical pathways for exploring meaning and purpose.

Greater Good in Action

Lets listeners choose practical exercises based on what they need most.

Trying Out — Keep Learning New Things

Encourages curiosity and continued forward movement without requiring certainty.

Awareness — Live Life Mindfully

Offers concrete mindfulness practices for interrupting future-focused worry.

The StoryCorps App

Gives listeners an immediate way to preserve a loved one's story in their own voice.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Offers a structured path for developing present-moment awareness and resilience.

UCLA Mindful Guided Meditations

Provides a concrete return-to-the-present practice for difficult moments.

Emotional Agility

Helps listeners name emotions, loosen their grip on unhelpful self-talk, and choose actions aligned with what matters.

How Great Leaders Inspire Action

Offers a memorable model for connecting decisions to purpose.

Hope Rising: How the Science of Hope Can Change Your Life

Offers a deeper framework for understanding and deliberately building hope over time.

The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage

Offers an accessible explanation of emotional agility and permission to feel honestly while still moving forward.

The Science and Power of Hope

Helps listeners understand hope as something they can practice rather than something they must wait to feel.

The Practice

Helps listeners replace outcome obsession with a repeatable relationship to meaningful work.

The Worry Trick

Helps listeners recognize worry loops and respond without giving every imagined future immediate attention.

The Happiness Trap

Teaches practical ways to stop treating every thought as a command or fact.

Boundaries

Helps listeners examine over-responsibility and create healthier limits.

MHA Screening

Provides private, low-barrier screening and next-step resources while clearly noting screening is not diagnosis.

Caring for Your Mental Health

Gives listeners trustworthy next steps without turning the episode into treatment advice.

Social Connection: The Healing Effects of Social Connection

Provides research, printable resources, and practical connection recommendations.

Purpose in Life and Stress: An Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis

Offers listeners who want the science a large-sample research connection between purpose and stress.

Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes

Helps listeners understand why transition can feel difficult even when the change is right.

10 Keys to Happier Living

Provides multiple practical entry points for rebuilding and choosing a next step.

Caregiving

Helps caregivers recognize their own needs and locate practical support.

Kindness at Home — Free Resources

Provides simple family activities that turn kindness and presence into repeatable practice.

How Your Beliefs Shape Reality

Encourages reflection on the power and limits of the mental frameworks we carry.

UCLA Mindful Guided Meditations

Provides a concrete return-to-the-present practice for difficult moments.

Burn-out an occupational phenomenon

Helps listeners recognize when sustainable practice needs more than another productivity adjustment.

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Introduces perseverance research in an accessible format.

NIH Emotional Wellness Toolkit

Gives listeners free checklists and concrete practices they can use immediately after the episode.

Personal Digital Archiving

Shows listeners concrete ways to protect family and personal digital history.

Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

Helps listeners recognize meaningful rituals they already have and create new ones intentionally.

Resilience — Find Ways to Bounce Back

Provides practical resilience actions that support grounding during hard seasons.

Greater Good in Action

Lets listeners choose practical exercises based on what they need most.

Self-Determination Theory

Helps listeners understand why values-aligned motivation is more sustainable.

Social Connection

Shows listeners that connection and belonging are health-supportive, not merely sentimental.

Relating — Connect with People

Gives listeners simple actions for strengthening connection and belonging immediately.

Caring for Your Mental Health

Gives listeners trustworthy next steps without turning the episode into treatment advice.

Atomic Habits

Helps listeners turn a meaningful ritual into a sustainable practice.

The Good Life

Helps listeners see ordinary relationship investments as central to a meaningful life.

Emotional Agility

Helps listeners name emotions, loosen their grip on unhelpful self-talk, and choose actions aligned with what matters.

Start With WHY

Helps listeners articulate what they are moving toward before choosing the next road.

Listening to Shame

Provides language for shame and the courage required to speak honestly.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Workbook

Turns reflection into guided written work around narratives and change.

The Power of Vulnerability

Helps listeners reconsider whether hiding struggle is protecting connection or preventing it.

How To Be Happy — Practical Paths to Wellbeing

Helps listeners identify a wellbeing area and choose a concrete action to try.

Why You Should Keep a List of What Makes You Laugh

Invites listeners to notice, record, and return to what genuinely makes them laugh.

Option B

Offers practical resilience concepts for rebuilding after loss and disruption.

Self-Compassion

Offers practical ways to turn care inward without abandoning responsibility.

What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness

Offers strong evidence that relationship quality matters to long-term wellbeing.

Intellectual Humility

Helps listeners practice curiosity and evidence-seeking without abandoning conviction or values.

Self-Compassion

Offers practical ways to turn care inward without abandoning responsibility.

Atomic Habits

Helps listeners turn a meaningful ritual into a sustainable practice.

What? Me Worry!

Provides a no-cost, structured way to practice rather than merely understand worry.

Digital Preservation Handbook

Provides a rigorous reference for preservation planning, risk, formats, storage, and continuity.

Direction — Have Goals to Look Forward To

Turns direction into practical reflection and achievable next actions.

Tiny Habits

Shows how to make meaningful change feel small enough to begin.

ACT for the Public

Gives listeners a research-informed framework for staying present and acting from values.

Find Your WHY

Helps turn values and lived experience into a usable purpose statement.

Designing Your Life

Gives listeners concrete reflection and experimentation tools for choosing direction.

Managing Stress Webinar Workbook

Gives listeners a substantial downloadable workbook with practical exercises they can work through to understand and reduce stress beyond the episode.

The Effects of Gratitude Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Gives research-minded listeners evidence behind one common emotional-wellness practice.

I'm So Stressed Out! Fact Sheet

Helps listeners recognize stress patterns and choose an appropriate next step.

Let Your Life Speak

Helps listeners look backward at their own life for clues about purpose instead of assuming purpose must arrive from outside.

Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes

Helps listeners understand why transition can feel difficult even when the change is right.

Think Again

Helps listeners question inherited ideas while preserving curiosity and respect.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Reduces stigma around therapy and invites honest reflection about the narratives we use to protect ourselves.

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