All episodes
‘What do we want in a partner?’ Relationships and how to foster deeper connections
Could your friend be your life partner? The history and shifting nature of friendship
Midweek Reset: On Meditation
The art of conversation: Charles Duhigg on how to be a super communicator
Midweek Reset: Power practices
Wild Sorrow: Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on losing her son and finding her way forward
Midweek Reset: On self curation
Can birth control mess with the mind? Navigating pregnancy with mental disorders
Midweek Reset: Family trauma
Are you being gaslit? How to navigate and stop the gaslighting in your relationship
Robert Macfarlane on nature, language, and music
Midweek Reset: On Relationships
The art of travel: A vagabond’s joys, essence, and philosophy
Relationship skills: Couples counselor Terry Real on building a lasting partnership
Empathy: The superpower of human connection
Midweek Reset: Perfectionism
It’s all in her head: Gender bias in healthcare and reproductive rights
Midweek Reset: On not giving advice
Bittersweet: Susan Cain on the joy of sweet sorrow
Midweek Reset: On Discipline
‘The Perfectionist’s Guide’: Learning to control our quest for the ideal
‘The Sympathizer’ author Viet Thanh Nguyen on new memoir ‘A Man of Two Faces’
Midweek Reset: Cultivating Attention
Scott Galloway: Can the youth still make it in America?
Midweek Reset: Kieran Setiya on failure + process
Uprooted: Climate migration and scientist activism
KCRW’s “How’s Your Sex Life” discusses falling in love and falling apart with Jonathan Bastian
Midweek Reset: Scott Galloway on Blessings
Border Crossings: Navigating identity, language, and belonging
Midweek Reset: Michael Pollan on psychedelics
Michael Pollan’s long and strange trip: shifting perspectives on food and psychedelics
Midweek Reset: The lesson of Costa Rica
Laughter, leadership, and Improv: navigating the unscripted parts of your life
Midweek Reset: Mood follows action
Are you in a relationship with a narcissist?
Midweek Reset: Peaceful protest
Freud: What he said, why he matters
Midweek Reset: Authenticity trap
Mapping the darkness; the science behind sleep
Midweek Reset: When to Quit
Splintering: When a divorce and first child arrive together
Midweek Reset: The Retirement Myth
How to build community in an age of isolation
Midweek Reset: The wisdom of moss
‘Re-sparkling’: The science behind embracing variety and rejecting habituation
Midweek Reset: Are you addicted?
Inciting joy: Poet Ross Gay on gardening, grief, and basketball
Heartbreak and divorce: reflections on endings, healing, and self-discovery
Midweek Reset: The Art of Love
Addicted to distraction: How our world is robbing our ability to pay attention
Midweek Reset: Negativity bias
Facing death without God: Spiritual care in the final hours of a death row inmate
Midweek Reset: Why we hate
Why allergies and gut health are getting worse
Midweek Reset: Ikigai
God is a verb: The mystical, existential poetry of Christian Wiman
Midweek Reset: Radical Truth Telling
Robert Sapolsky on life without free will
Midweek Reset: The Future Happiness Trap
The wonder of water — and why we love to swim
Midweek Reset: Savoring the ordinary
Can pain and suffering sweeten our lives?
Wintering and enchantment: A pathway to healing and happiness
Midweek Reset: Tech Sabbath
Owls: What they know and what humans believe
Antarctic expedition: A treatise on climate change and motherhood
Midweek Reset: Wintering
Distilling life on the page: The beauty of storytelling with Yiyun Li
Midweek Reset: Toxic positivity
Dopamine Nation: Living in an addicted world
The science of spirituality — and why it’s good for our mental health
Midweek Reset: The Power of Subtraction
Time management: A guide to more sanity and less anxiety
Midweek Reset: Why relational conflict is good
Living in reciprocity with nature, with Indigenous ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer
Midweek Reset: Creativity has no age
The process of dying: From hospice care to meditating monks
Midweek Reset: Life: less itinerary - more flow
Conflict, resolution, and the human need to get along, with Peter Coleman
Midweek Reset: Better listening
The agents of change: How women are altering the power paradigm
Midweek Reset: Sharon Salzberg and emotional balance
A 1000 mile trek: Lessons in fortitude and healing from distance walker Raynor Winn
The art of quitting: Is there wisdom in walking away?
Big life decisions and uncertainty: a toolkit
Trauma, PTSD, and human resilience, with George Bonanno
The language of grief, with writers Ross Gay and Chloe Honum
The art and science of change, with author Brad Stulberg
A guide to self discipline and the science behind habits, good and bad
Attachment styles: How knowing ourselves can lead to better, more lasting relationships
‘What do we want in a partner?’ Relationships and how to foster deeper connections
On blindness: Andrew Leland explores how losing his sight has expanded his world view
ADHD in an era of distraction: Why are more adults getting diagnosed?
The Japanese art of happiness: From ikigai, to ritual, to embracing old age
The secret lives of cats, past and present
’Til death do us part’: Hard truths on marriage and divorce with Tracy McMillan
Biology’s new era: How mRNA and AI are impacting vaccines, medicine, and reproduction
Becoming a Buddhist: Two renowned teachers, two stories of transformation
Estrangement: Why are adult children cutting off their parents?
Why minimalism: A history, practice and industry