Michele Harper | Beauty in Breaking

Most new habits fizzle quickly, what if they didn't have to? We blame a lack of willpower, but what if the way we approach habits that's the real problem? Why does true, lasting habit change feel so hard to sustain? And, how can we do it better?In this Best of episode, we explore ...  Show more

Big dreams matter. But how we pursue them matters more.You can honor where you've come from, hold live with self-compassion, and be grateful for what you have, and still yearn to accomplish big life-changing dreams, visions, or goals. The question is how? How to do we do this in ...  Show more

“It’s the possibility of greater change that rejuvenates me,” says Michele Harper, MD. “That’s what makes it possible for me to keep going.” Harper is an emergency room physician who has worked as chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and in the emergency departme ...  Show more

The conversation of this hour always rises as an early experience that imprinted everything that came after at On Being. Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen is one of the wise people in our world. She trained as a doctor in a generation that understood death as a failure of medicine. Yet her ...  Show more

On today's episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C speaks to Donna Jackson Nakazawa about her forthcoming book, The Angel and The Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine. Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning journalist and internationally-recognized spea ...  Show more

Happy Wednesday Heal Squad. We have such an amazing episode today as author, producer, and former Ambassador to the Bahamas Nicole Avant joins us today to share the inspiration behind her book ‘Think You’ll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude”. Nicole g ...  Show more