If you enjoy understanding why people do what they do, you'll probably find something to love in Hidden Brain. Host and science journalist Shankar Vedantam uses psychology, neuroscience, behavioral science, and storytelling to explore the patterns that influence our thoughts, emotions, relationships, and choices, including many of the things happening outside of our conscious awareness.
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel — Real and often intimate conversations about relationships, conflict, intimacy, betrayal, family patterns, and the complicated ways we relate to one another. Many episodes allow you to listen to what feels very much like a therapy session, which may help you recognize some of your own relationship patterns.
Where Should We Begin?
Unlocking Us with Brené Brown — Conversations about vulnerability, shame, belonging, courage, relationships, grief, and what it means to live with more emotional honesty.
Unlocking Us
Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris — A very approachable entry point for people who are interested in mindfulness but may be skeptical of meditation or unsure where to begin. Episodes cover anxiety, difficult emotions, relationships, self-compassion, habits, and practical ways to bring mindfulness into everyday life.
Ten Percent Happier
Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson — This podcast sits nicely between psychology and practical self-help. They cover attachment, relationships, trauma, anxiety, self-worth, boundaries, emotional regulation, and changing long-standing patterns.
Being Well
ADHD Experts Podcast from ADDitude — A useful resource for adults with ADHD and parents of children with ADHD. Episodes feature clinicians and other ADHD experts discussing executive functioning, emotional regulation, relationships, parenting, medication, school, work, and everyday strategies. Topics vary so peruse and find one that interests you.
ADHD Experts Podcast
The podcast looks beneath behavior to what may be happening in a child's nervous system and explores regulation, connection, trauma, sensory needs, shame, boundaries, and those moments when the parenting strategies that are “supposed to work” simply aren't working. It's especially helpful for parents of children who have big emotions, sensitive nervous systems, trauma histories, or behaviors that are difficult to make sense of.
Listen to The Baffling Behavior Show
Good Inside with Dr. Becky — A great podcast for parents / caregivers. Dr. Becky Kennedy talks about behavior, boundaries, emotional regulation, connection, repair, parental guilt, and what children may need underneath difficult behavior.
Good Inside with Dr. Becky
The Addicted Mind Podcast — Focused on addiction, recovery, trauma, relationships, and the psychology underneath addictive behavior. Episodes include conversations with clinicians, researchers, and people with lived experience.
The Addicted Mind Podcast