Live Well and Flourish

Sep 30 2024 122 ep. 17 mins 1.2k
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If you’re ready to think beyond material and external success, if you’re ready to take control of who you are and the kind of life you live, if you’re ready to flourish, this podcast is for you. The topics I cover help you understand what it means to live a flourishing life, a life of meaning, satisfaction, and enduring happiness.(Formerly known as the Rational Ignorance Podcast.)Contact us at [email protected], on Twitter @TheRIpodcast, or on Mastodon @[email protected].

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All things must pass - the end of Live Well and Flourish?

Sep 30 2024 4 mins  
After over three years and more than 100 episodes, I've decided it's time to step back from Live Well and Flourish. Producing this podcast has become more of a job than a passion, contributing to stress rather than alleviating it. Although new episodes will no longer be released regularly, past episodes will remain available at livewellandflourish.com for you to revisit whenever yo

Stress Trifecta: Uncertainty, Isolation, and Overload (rewind)

Aug 26 2024 14 mins  
Stress can literally kill you ... if it's not managed well. In this episode of Live Well and Flourish, Craig shares his insights on the three main causes of stress: uncertainty, isolation, and overload. He discusses how each of these factors can bring about stress and offers suggestions on how to prepare for better managing your stress through reflection and performing an uncertain

Managing Conflict (rewind)

Aug 19 2024 14 mins  
(This is a re-release of episode 43 of Live Well and Flourish.)Conflict is a part of human relationships, and relationships are critical to flourishing. So, knowing how to effectively manage these inevitable conflicts is an important aspect of living a good life.In this episode, Craig discusses four important conflict management approaches based on the importance you place on relat

Controlling Your Emotions Through Emotional Regulation (rewind)

Aug 12 2024 16 mins  
(This is a re-release of episode 31 of Live Well and Flourish.)Being able to control your emotions to minimize unnecessary suffering, and to maximize positive feelings is important to your flourishing. In this episode, Craig discusses emotional regulation and provides some strategies for taking control of your emotions and emotional responses. There's also a goat story!NotesFive Fa

Grief and Gratitude (rewind)

Aug 05 2024 18 mins  
(This episode originally aired before our name change from Rational Ignorance to Live Well and Flourish.)Grief comes from loss. But gratitude should accompany grief. Listen as Craig reflects on the puzzling relationship between grief and gratitude, and how a deeper understanding of how they interact can help you deal with grief, and prepare for future grief. ------Live Well an

Living Well Through Reflection (rewind)

Jul 29 2024 13 mins  
Reflection is a learning, growth, and flourishing superpower.The world is often a chaotic, puzzling place. Reflection is how we can make sense of the world and our place in it. As the Jesuits at Boston College put it, “Reflection is the way we discover and compose the meaning of our experience.” In this episode, Craig discusses critical self-reflection and its many benefit

Living Well Through Mindfulness (rewind)

Jul 22 2024 12 mins  
Do you ever feel like you’re going through life on autopilot? Most of us have, but life doesn’t have to be that way. Join Craig as he discusses mindfulness and its benefits. Mindfulness is an active, conscious process where you’re more open to the present as well as more attentive and aware of the moment. According to Dr. Ellen Langer there are three specific behaviors r

Living a Life of Purpose (rewind)

Jul 15 2024 13 mins  
Do you have a purpose in life? And do you know the difference between purpose and goals? In this episode you’ll learn how purpose is an elemental foundation to guiding your life and flourishing, as well as a means for having more focus and resilience when faced with the challenges of life. It’s also important to understand that you already have purpose, it’s already in you, a

Taking Control of Your Life (rewind)

Jul 08 2024 15 mins  
When you have a low sense of personal control, you suffer increased stress, anxiety, depression and negative mood. Your physical health also suffers. In this episode of Live Well and Flourish, Craig discusses the effects of personal control and provides some insights into how to increase your sense of personal control to improve your mental and physical health, and to help you flou

The Problem with Generalizations (rewind)

Jul 01 2024 18 mins  
Like assumptions, our generalizations can limit your flourishing by putting blinders on how you see the world. Generalizations help us make sense of a complex world; generalizing is a fundamental human function. Most of the time, our generalizations serve us well. But, when we make generalization errors, bad things happen, such as stereotypes that lead to prejudice. In this episode