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10% Happier

Self-help for smart people. World-class insights and practices from experts in modern science and ancient wisdom. Hosted by veteran journalist and best-selling author, Dan Harris.

Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris

New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.
 
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A journalist explores one of humanity’s most brutal and unavoidable experiences.
 

 
Cody Delistraty is a writer and speechwriter, most recently working as the culture editor at the Wall Street Journal Magazine. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and was the European arts columnist for The Paris Review. He has degrees in politics from New York University and in history from the University of Oxford. British Vogue named him a best young writer of the year, and he has given talks about art and creativity to companies like PwC. He lives in New York City.
 

 
In this episode we talk about:
 
 • Why our culture is so repressed when it comes to grief
 • We dive into the many experiments that Cody launched to help cope with loss; from book and laughter therapy, to psilocybin and AI
 • The concept of grief as an addiction 
 • The importance of rituals 
 • The scientific possibility of deleting our memories to avoid pain 
 • And how to live along side of grief when there is no cure
 

 

 
Related Episodes:
 
Abby Wambach On: Grief, Addiction, And Moving From External To Internal Validation
 
#583. Jennifer Senior On: Grief, Happiness, Friendship Breakups, and Why We Feel Younger Than Our Actual Age
 
Joe DiNardo, Grief and Meditation
 

 
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Full Shownotes: https://happierapp.com/podcast/tph/cody-delistraty-872
 

 
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The Grief Cure: Looking for the End of Loss

The Science Of Grief: What Helps, What Doesn’t, And Why We Don’t Talk About It Enough | Cody Delistraty

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Smart strategies that emerged from a brutal year. 
 

 
Sam Sanders is an award-winning reporter, radio host and podcaster. He co-hosts the podcast Vibe Check with Zach Stafford and Saeed Jones. He also currently hosts The Sam Sanders Show from KCRW. Check out the album he mentioned in the episode, Caroline Rose’s The Art of Forgetting. 
 

 
This is part 2 in a 3-part series we’re running on grief.
 

 
In this episode we talk about:
 
 • The fact that there is no right way to deal with grief 
 • The value of feeling your feelings — even though it sucks 
 • Why it can be helpful to take breaks from your grief without guilt
 • The importance of joy and play 
 • The changing nature of grief
 • What it means to be “anointed” by grief
 • And what it looks like to maintain a relationship with someone even after they’ve died
 

 

 
Related Episodes:
 
 How (and Why) to Hug Your Inner Dragons | Richard Schwartz Kryptonite for the Inner Critic | Kristin Neff The Voice in Your Head | Ethan Kross Jonathan Van Ness on Shame, Shopping, Bodies, and Hope 

 

 
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Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/sam-sanders-873

How To Talk To Yourself When Things Suck | Sam Sanders

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A famed author and humorist takes a deep dive into grief (with Dr. Bianca Harris as co-host).
 

 
Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling books Grief Is for People, How Did You Get This Number, and I Was Told There’d Be Cake. She is also the author of Look Alive Out There, Cult Classic and The Clasp, both of which have been optioned for film. She served as editor of The Best American Travel Writing series and is featured in The Library of America's 50 Funniest American Writers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Phillip Lopate’s The Contemporary American Essay and others. She was the inaugural columnist for The New York Times Op-Ed "Townies" series, a contributing editor at Interview Magazine, and a columnist for The Village Voice, Vanity Fair, The Independent, Black Book, Departures and The New York Observer. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She has taught at Columbia University and The Yale Writers’ Workshop.
 

 
In this episode we talk about:
 
 • A series of consecutive losses that Sloane endured
 • The concept of cumulative grief 
 • Sloane’s version of the five stages of grief
 • Her beef with acceptance
 • Bibliotherapy as a source of healing
 • And much more
 

 
Related Episodes:
 
The Science Of Grief: What Helps, What Doesn’t, And Why We Don’t Talk About It Enough | Cody Delistraty
 
How To Talk To Yourself When Things Suck | Sam Sanders
 
#450. The Science of Loss and Recovery | Mary-Frances O’Connor
 

 
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 • Download the Happier app today: 
https://my.happierapp.com/link/download Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss All My Puny Sorrows Otherwise: New & Selected Poems By Jane Kenyon

Tricky Questions About Grief: Is There A Right Way To Do It? What To Say To People In Grief? And Can You Grieve For Things? | Sloane Crosley

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The upside of the often misunderstood "tribalism".
 

 
Michael Morris is the Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership at Columbia Business School as well as a Professor in its Psychology Department. Outside of academia, Professor Morris has consulted with and conducted executive training workshops for hundreds of clients across the globe, including Fortune 100 firms, governments, and the Obama and Clinton campaigns. He lives in New York City. His latest book is called Tribal: How The Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together.
 
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 How Turning Habits Into Rituals Can Help You At Home, At Work, And When You're Anxious | Michael Norton 

 
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What Evolutionary Psychology Teaches Us About How To Influence People | Michael Morris

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How your blindspots hurt your decision-making— and how to fix it.
 

 
Anu Gupta is an educator, lawyer, scientist, and the founder and CEO of BE MORE with Anu, an education technology benefit corporation that trains professionals across corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors to advance DEIB and wellness by breaking bias. His work has reached 300+ organizations training more than 80,000 professionals impacting over 30 million lives. Gupta holds a JD from NYU Law, MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge University, and BA in International Relations and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies from NYU. As a gay immigrant of color, he came to the work of breaking bias after almost ending his life due to lifelong experiences with racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia. The realization that bias can be unlearned helped lead him out of that dark point and inspired a lifelong mission to build a global movement for social healing based on principles of mindfulness and compassion. A peer-reviewed author, he has written and spoken extensively, including on the TED stage, the Oprah Conversation, Fast Company, Newsweek, and Vogue Business. He is the author of Breaking Bias: Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From—and the Science-Backed Method to Unravel Them.
 

 

 

 
In this episode we talk about:
 
 • The 5 causes of bias
 • The dis-utility of shame
 • What has – and hasn’t – been working in DEI trainings
 • Contemplative practices, on and off the cushion, for breaking bias
 • And his response to skeptics 
 

 

 
Related Episodes:
 
 Why You‘re Not Seeing the World Clearly— and How to Fix It | Jessica Nordell The Self-Interested Case for Examining Your Biases | John Biewen Dolly Chugh, How Good People Fight Bias Rhonda Magee, Law Professor Using Mindfulness to Defeat Bias How to Call People In (Instead of Calling Them Out) | Loretta Ross 

 

 
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Full Shownotes: https://happierapp.com/podcast/tph/anu-gupta-877

How To Unsubscribe From The Negative Stories You Tell About Yourself And Others | Anu Gupta

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Dan and Executive Producer, DJ Cashmere, pull back the curtain on what we do, how we do it—and what’s coming next.
 

 
In this episode we talk about:
 
 • An exciting New Year's series reveal and upcoming meditation challenge
 • What goes into making the show–and why we do it
 • The ins and outs of starting a new business
 • And much more
 

 
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Full Shownotes: https://meditatehappier.com/podcast/tph/bts-878

Behind The Scenes Of The 10% Happier Podcast + A Sneak Preview Of Something Big

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Equanimity: what it is, what it isn’t, and how to get it. 
 
Guest Kamala Masters was one of the teachers at Dan’s first ever meditation retreat. In this episode she dives into how to develop equanimity and shares her story of learning how to practice meditation during her everyday life while raising three children on her own. 
 
Kamala Masters has been meditating since the 1970s, first with Anagarika Munindra, who was Joseph Goldstein’s first teacher, and then with the Burmese master Sayadaw U Pandita with whom she twice temporarily ordained as a Buddhist nun. More recently, she’s been training with another Burmese master we’ve talked about here on the show, Sayadaw U Tejaniya. She is a Guiding Teacher at the Insight Meditation Society, and the co-founder of the Vipassana Metta Foundation, which developed the Maui Dharma Sanctuary.
 
In this conversation we talk about: 
 
 • What is equanimity?
 • The most common misconception about equanimity
 • The near and far enemies of equanimity 
 • The power and limitations of setting intentions
 

 
Full Shownotes: https://meditatehappier.com/podcast/tph/kamala-masters-rerun
 
Where to find Kamala Masters online: 
 
Website: Vipassana Metta on Maui
 
Additional Resources:
 
Download the Happier Meditation app today.

How To Be Okay No Matter What | Kamala Masters

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Can mindfulness really pull you out of a spiral of self-judgment? Don’t you need to be judgmental sometimes? What’s the difference between being discerning and judgmental?
 

 
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Meditation and mindfulness doesn’t uproot your capacity to be judgmental, but it can help you see the value in being judgmental by learning how to work with the judging mind. 
 
La Sarmiento has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1998. La is a mentor for the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, a teacher with Cloud Sangha, and a contributor to the Happier Meditation app.
 
In this episode we talk about:
 
 • How mindfulness can help us identify when we’re being judgmental
 • The difference between discernment and judgment
 • How it can be so delicious to be judgmental of others – but why it’s actually harmful to ourselves and others
 • The four questions to ask when we notice ourselves going into judgment mode 
 • How to operationalize the phrase “am I suffering right now?” 
 • Investigating the motivations behind striving for success 
 • Why owning up to being a jerk is sometimes the exact right answer
 

 
Full Shownotes: www.meditatehappier.com/podcast/tph/la-sarmiento-rerun-2024
 
Where to find La Sarmiento online: 
 
Website: www.lasarmiento.com
 
Additional Resources:
 
Download the Happier Meditation app today.

How To Be Less Judgmental (Of Other People – and Yourself) | La Sarmiento

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Very few of us relish chaos and disruption, but they are facts of life, given the nonnegotiable nature of change. In this episode with Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, we’re going to talk about how to tune into the value of disruption, and learn how to sit with the chaos. 
 
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel is an ordained Zen priest, holds a Ph.D., and worked for decades as a social science researcher and development director for non-profit organizations. She is also a prolific author.
 
In this conversation we’ll explore:
 
 • what to do with the unknown and not having any answers
 • the power of a “sip of silence” (her term)
 • what she means by the phrase “death as a doorway to tenderness”
 • how she defines tenderness - a word that can easily get bogged down in sloppy sentimentality
 • and what she meant when she wrote “I'm not advocating love as an answer to all of the ills of the world. Then again, it is just that simple to be love.”
 

 
Content Warning: There are brief mentions of assault; spiritual, sexual, and substance abuse; and racism, including an incident Zenju experienced herself. 
 
Full Shownotes: www.meditatehappier.com/podcast/tph/zenju-earthlyn-manuel-rerun
 
This episode was originally published in October 2021.

Sitting with Chaos | Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

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“Radical self-love” — what it is and how to do it.
 
It is incredibly common for many of us humans, whatever our gender, to be at war with our bodies -- trying to live up to the people we see in the movies, on social media, or even the versions of ourselves in old pictures. This never-enough-ness can lead to an ambient level of self-loathing that can be incredibly destructive. That's where "radical self-love" comes in.
 
Our guest today is Sonya Renee Taylor. She is the author of three books, including The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love. She is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology. She has come to this work as a result of her own personal pain, as a Black woman inhabiting a body that she says does not conform to societal norms. 
 
In this conversation, we talk about defining radical self-love (and why she believes it's our natural state), tools for cultivating radical self-love, and the connection between being OK with yourself and the larger society.
 
Full Shownotes: www.meditatehappier.com/podcast/tph/sonya-renee-taylor-rerun
 
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Happier Meditation app • today.

How To End The War With Your Body | Sonya Renee Taylor

Thubten Chodron was born in Chicago and grew up near Los Angeles. She felt her life's calling was to help others, so she became a teacher, landing her first job in the inner-city schools of Los Angeles. Looking for something to do during summer break, she saw a flyer for a meditation course being taught by two Tibetan Lamas. Little did she know, taking this course would change the trajectory of her life. The teaching that resonated with her most was about setting motivations. She realized that though she was doing good things in her life, the motivations she had for doing them were self-centered. Chodron wanted to dedicate her life to living selflessly and with altruistic intentions. She felt the only way she could do that was to let go of her worldly attachments, including her marriage, and become a Buddhist nun. She believes we all have the potential to be happy and live altruistically, but we get in our own way. In this episode, Chodron offers her thoughts on how to set selfless motivations as we live our everyday lives. Plugzone: Personal Website: https://thubtenchodron.org/ Sravasti Abbey: https://sravastiabbey.org/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/sravastiabbey Books: The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist Practices for Eating with Mindfulness and Gratitude https://www.amazon.com/Compassionate-Kitchen-Practices-Mindfulness-Gratitude/dp/1611806348 Other book titles by Thubton Chodron: https://www.amazon.com/Thubten-Chodron/e/B000APM652

What's Your Motivation? Thubten Chodron

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