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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Self-Determination Theory
Helps listeners understand why values-aligned motivation is more sustainable.
Relating — Connect with People
Gives listeners simple actions for strengthening connection and belonging immediately.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.