Radio Headspace
Join us every weekday morning to take a few moments to step out of the internal chatter and external noise. We'll pause and reflect to consider what brings us together in this shared human condition and how we can live a life that best reflects our limitless potential.
Episodes
What If It Can Wait?
What would happen if you didn't answer that notification right away? Dora explores why the mind equates speed with importance, and how questioning that impulse can create more clarity and less stress.
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Stop Before You Move On
Before rushing into the next task, what if you gave yourself just one mindful breath? Dora shares a simple practice for noticing what you're carrying, reconnecting with the present moment, and responding with more intention instead of habit.
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The Pressure To Have A Plan
A simple question can sometimes carry a surprising amount of pressure. Dora reflects on why "What's next?" can make us feel like we should already have life figured out, and why it's okay if the answer is still unfolding.
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Conversations That Follow You Home
A conversation ends, but your mind keeps going. Dora explores why we replay social interactions long after they're over, and why learning to notice those mental loops can help us find a little more ease.
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Stop Asking If You're There Yet
It's natural to wonder whether meditation is "working." But instead of searching for a finish line, Dora invites you to pay attention to the small shifts already unfolding. What do you notice today that you might have missed a few months ago?
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How Do You Talk To Yourself?
Have you ever noticed the way you talk to yourself when you make a mistake? Meditation has a way of turning up the volume on that inner voice. Dora explores why our inner critic can become so loud during practice, and how meeting it with kindness can change far more than the way we meditate.
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Busy Doesn't Make Feelings Disappear
When an uncomfortable emotion shows up, our first instinct is often to distract ourselves or push it away. Dora shares why simply naming what you're feeling can create enough space to respond differently, and why that small shift can make emotions feel less overwhelming.
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Simple Doesn't Mean Easy
Meditation isn't complicated, but it does ask something unusual of us: to stop trying to fix every uncomfortable moment. Dora explores why the practice is remarkably simple, and why our expectations are often what make it feel difficult.
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Your Mind Was Never Meant to Be Empty
If you've ever sat down to meditate only to feel overwhelmed by your thoughts, you're not alone. Dora shares a gentler approach that replaces frustration with awareness, helping you meet your mind exactly as it is.
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When Growth Feels Invisible
When you feel stuck, it's natural to focus on how far you still have to go. Instead, try to pause for a moment, and look back. You may discover you've already changed in ways you never stopped long enough to notice.
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I Thought I'd Be Somewhere Else By Now
Rosie reflects on the future she once imagined for herself and the quiet grief of watching that vision change. Over time, she discovers that accepting a different path doesn't mean settling. Sometimes it means finally seeing the life that's already here.
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Why "Calm Down" Never Works
When someone comes to you frustrated or overwhelmed, it's easy to jump into fixing the problem. Today's episode offers a different approach: pause first and ask yourself, Does this person need a solution right now, or do they just need someone to listen?
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The Practice of Gentleness
A simple encounter with a rose sends Rosie into a deeper reflection about enthusiasm, attachment, and the ways we sometimes overreach for the things we love. What if care isn't about doing more, but learning when to soften our grip?
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What Small Things Can Wake Up In You
We've all had moments when a small inconvenience sparks a surprisingly big reaction. Rosie explores the subtle signals that often appear before frustration boils over, and why paying attention early can change the course of an entire day.
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Aging Is Not an Emergency
Many of us aren't afraid of aging itself. We're afraid of what change means, what it says about us, and what it asks us to let go of. Rosie explores how resisting life's natural transitions can create unnecessary suffering, and why acceptance often begins with paying attention.
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Healing Doesn't Follow a Checklist
Meditation streaks. Therapy homework. Journaling goals. Dora thought she was doing everything right until she realized she'd turned her healing journey into another productivity project. She reflects on what shifted when she finally stopped trying to optimize every step of the process.
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How to Hear Yourself Again
From friends to family to social media, everyone seems to have an opinion about what we should do. Dora shares simple practices for tuning out the noise, trusting your instincts, and rebuilding confidence in your own decision-making one small choice at a time.
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When Being Right Gets In The Way
Many of us aren't afraid of making mistakes. We're afraid of what those mistakes might say about us. Dora explores how our attachment to being right can quietly limit our ability to learn, connect, and grow. She reflects on why humility isn't a sign of weakness, but one of the most important forms of wisdom.
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The Family Given and The Family Chosen, with Diana Hanafy and Lindsey Ingram
Whether we're talking about family, friendship, community, or partnership, most of us want the same thing: to be seen and accepted for who we are. Through stories of coming out, friendship, marriage, and parenthood, Lindsay and Diana reflect on the challenges and joys of finding acceptance, building community, and creating a sense of home.
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When Labels Replace Curiosity
Our minds are constantly categorizing people, places, and experiences. While those shortcuts can feel useful, they often come at a cost. Andy explores how labels can quietly limit our ability to truly see one another, and why curiosity may be one of the most important qualities we can cultivate.
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Training the Mind Toward Possibility
When things don't go according to plan, where does your mind go first? Andy explores the difference between pessimism and optimism, and why the real opportunity may be cultivating a mind that's curious rather than certain. Through a simple day spent running errands, he reflects on how our expectations can quietly shape the reality we experience.
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Start With One Truth This Week
If you had to narrow life's wisdom down to a handful of ideas, what would make the list? Andy shares four principles that continue to shape how he approaches life, and invites listeners to choose one to carry into the week ahead. Sometimes a small shift in perspective is enough to change how we experience everything else.
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The Courage To Create Without Approval
Whether it’s cooking, music, art, or simply how we move through the world, Andy reflects on how difficult it can be to create without attaching our self-worth to other people’s reactions.
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You Can Still Change
Andy reflects on the common belief that people become more fixed over time, and why mindfulness suggests the opposite. From thoughts to emotions to the body itself, everything is constantly shifting which means change is always possible.
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Simplify the Outside, Quiet the Mind
Andy explores how reducing small daily decisions and embracing routine can help create a sense of steadiness, leaving more room for presence, creativity, and spontaneity where it actually matters.
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Grief Needs Witnesses
After a quiet trip to a local fruit stand unexpectedly reminds her of her late grandmother, Rosie notices how grief can surface through scent, taste, memory, and tiny everyday rituals. What starts as “the Tajín being extra spicy” slowly becomes an honest moment of realizing she doesn’t actually want to carry the sadness alone.
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Separating the Facts From the Story
While waiting to hear back from a friend, Rosie notices how fast her mind starts spiraling. Did I do something? Are we weird now? But as she sits with it, she eventually realizes the stress isn’t really coming from the silence, it’s coming from all the meaning she’s attaching to it.
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Feeling Rigid or Defensive? Try This
When you notice yourself gripping tightly to being right, holding tension in your body, or moving through conversations with defensiveness, pause for a moment. Soften your shoulders, lower your gaze slightly, and ask yourself: what would it feel like to meet this moment with reverence instead of control
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When the Argument Stops Mattering
Sometimes we convince ourselves a relationship is over when really we’ve just stopped reaching toward it. Then something fragile happens, and suddenly the need to be right gives way to something much more important: deep care.
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Maybe Success Only Looks Effortless From Far Away
It’s easy to assume other people arrived somewhere effortlessly when all we’re shown is the final result. The hidden work often disappears from view, leaving us comparing our private struggles to someone else’s public success.
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Why We Say “I’m Fine” When We’re Not
Rosie reflects on the gap between what we truly feel and what we present to others. She explores how emotional incongruence can quietly wear on us, and why acknowledging what’s actually happening inside can be an act of self-compassion.
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Why Trauma Can Shape the Way We Move Through Life, with Linda Thai
Dora sits down with somatic therapist and trauma expert Linda Thai to explore how trauma can shape the nervous system, our relationships, and our sense of self. Together, they unpack how survival patterns form, why discomfort can feel unsafe, and how mindfulness can gently support healing over time.
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Silence Can Carry Stress Too
A frustrating relationship dynamic leads Rosie to a deeper realization: beneath the irritation and exhaustion was the pain of feeling unseen. Once she stopped trying to override the feeling with logic, something inside her softened.
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Try Saying: This Is Uncomfortable, and I Can Handle It
Rosie explores the tension between emotional sensitivity and resilience. In trying not to dismiss pain, we can sometimes begin treating every discomfort like damage. But confidence isn’t built by avoiding every fall, it’s built by learning we can survive them.
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Check In When You’re Alone
Rosie offers a simple way to understand alone time more clearly. If it feels heavy, maybe connection is needed. If it feels spacious, maybe it’s worth letting yourself enjoy it without guilt. Either way, the body usually knows.
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When Slow Starts to Feel Like Failure
There’s a particular kind of discomfort that comes from moving slowly while life keeps asking more of you. In this episode, Rosie explores how we start to interpret that pace as failure, and what shifts when we stop measuring growth only by speed.
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When Keeping the Peace Backfires
Choosing silence can feel like the mature thing to do. But over time, what goes unspoken doesn’t disappear, it changes how we show up. In this episode, Rosie shares how quiet resentment can grow beneath the surface, and how honest expression can shift the dynamic.
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When Frustration Makes Us Forget the Person
A small moment of friction can quickly turn into something bigger. What begins as frustration can quietly shift into a story about who someone is and why they’re wrong. In this episode, Rosie explores how easily we lose sight of the human being in front of us, and what it looks like to pause, soften, and come back to understanding instead of judgment.
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How to Practice Mindfulness Safely, with David Treleaven
What do you do when meditation starts to feel like too much? Dora sits down with David Treleaven to discuss practical ways to recognize your limits, adjust your attention, and build a practice that supports your nervous system instead of overwhelming it.
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If You Have the Space to Heal, Start Here
As Dora reflects on her own experience with therapy and mindfulness, she finds herself thinking about her parents, the lives they lived, and what they didn’t have access to. That thought stays with her, and slowly begins to change how she understands her own healing.
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Seeing Your Parents as People
Dora reflects on a moment that changed how she sees her mom. Not by ignoring the past, but by expanding the story. As she begins to hold both her experience and her mom’s humanity at the same time, something softens, and creates a little more space to move forward.
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Maybe I’m Not Behind
When Dora notices herself comparing timelines, that familiar feeling of being late, or not where she should be creeps in.. But as she comes back to the present moment, something softens, and a different relationship to time starts to take shape.
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When Everything Feels Hopeless, Try This
After a conversation that spirals into everything that’s wrong in the world, Dora notices that familiar drop in energy. Instead of staying there, she experiments with something simple. She shifts her attention to small, everyday acts, and begins to see how hope can grow from action, not the other way around.
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If You’re Feeling Overwhelmed, Start Here
Dora finds herself standing in the kitchen, phone in hand, unsure where to begin. Messages, responsibilities, small tasks have started to pile up, and suddenly, everything feels like too much. As she sits with that moment, she starts to see the feeling of being overwhelmed a little differently, and what shifts when she stops trying to push through it.
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They’re Not Showing Up the Way I Want
A group project in nursing school leaves Dora feeling stuck, waiting on others, and quietly pulling away. She feels herself pulling back, convinced she works better alone. But as the experience unfolds, she begins to see how quickly frustration can shape the story, and what opens up when she questions it.
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Maybe I’m Not Doing It Wrong
Dora remembers her first attempt at meditation and how quickly doubt crept in and told her she wasn’t cut out for it. But years later, she starts to notice something else: that voice isn’t proof she’s failing, it’s just trying to protect her. And when she relates to it differently, something begins to shift.
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Why Does This Feel So Hard to Celebrate?
A night out with friends turns into a quiet moment of reflection. Dora begins to notice how quickly comparison can take hold, even in moments of connection, and what it looks like to stay present instead of getting pulled into where she thinks she should be.
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When Something You Love Starts to Feel Like a Chore
A question about inspiration turns into a deeper look at how we spend our time. Dora begins to notice how often we move through life out of habit or expectation, and what changes when we start paying attention to what actually feels meaningful.
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For Men, Hair Thinning Is More Than Genetics, with Dr. Rawn Bosley
Hair thinning is often blamed solely on genetics, but stress, nutrition, and daily habits play a major role. Today we explore what’s really influencing hair health and what can be done about it with Dr. Rawn Bosley, a double-board-certified dermatologist and Nutrafol partner.
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How to Use Your Breath When Anxiety Hits
In moments of anxiety, it can feel like everything is moving too fast. Eve shares a straightforward breathing technique to help slow your breath, settle your body, and regain a sense of steadiness.
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Women’s Bodies and Hair Through Life Stages, with Dr. Isabelle Raymond
Dr. Isabelle Raymond breaks down what’s happening in the body during major hormonal transitions like postpartum, perimenopause, and menopause. From stress and sleep to mood, brain fog, and hair changes, this conversation offers a clearer picture of what many women experience and why understanding it can make it easier to move through.
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Rethinking What Stress Is Doing
Dora takes a closer look at stress and what it’s actually doing beneath the surface. Instead of something to get rid of, she starts to see it as a signal, something that can shift how we respond, grow, and move forward.
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Habits for Whole-Body Wellness and Hair, with Dr. Heather Woolery-Lloyd
The way you sleep, handle stress, and move through your day shapes more than your energy. It impacts your entire system. Dr. Heather Woolery-Lloyd, a double-board certified dermatologist and Nutrafol’s Chief Medical Advisor, shares how these habits support overall health, and how that shows up in your hair.
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Am I Choosing What’s Easy, or What Matters?
Dora remembers a night from her time working as a nurse. She's tired, overstretched, and faced with a small but meaningful choice with a patient: keep moving things along, or sit and stay with them?
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The Things We Say Without Thinking
A silent retreat gives Dora something unexpected. Not silence, but a clearer view of the constant inner commentary running in her mind. Back in the world, that awareness follows her into everyday moments, especially the ones where words come quickly.
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Am I Showing Up, or Just Trying to Get Something?
Dora starts to notice a small but important distinction in her practice: the difference between being present and quietly trying to get somewhere. It’s easy to miss, but once she sees it, she can’t unsee it. And something about that awareness begins to change how she relates to the experience itself.
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Maybe That’s Not What They Meant
Dora’s clearing out her phone when a quote stops her mid-scroll. It gets her thinking about how often we’re convinced we know what someone meant only to realize later we filled in the gaps ourselves. She starts to notice how quickly the mind turns moments into meaning, and how different things feel when we step back from the story and just see what’s there.
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Letting the Ending Be the Ending
When Dora gets a text from a friend going through a breakup, she finds herself sitting with a familiar question. Why do endings feel so personal? She starts to think about her own experiences, from heartbreak to quiet moments on retreat, and begins to see endings a little differently. There’s a little less weight to carry, and a little more room to be with what’s here.
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New Beginnings Feel Hard
When Dora moves to a new city, she arrives with nothing but suitcases, and a growing sense of overwhelm. She begins to notice not just the stress of starting over, but the story she’s telling herself about it. And slowly, she starts to find a little more space, and a little more ease.
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Letting Go of Who We Used to Be
When we let go of familiar routines and roles, it can feel like losing a part of ourselves. Dora shares her experience of stepping away from alcohol and rebuilding her sense of belonging, and learning that growth sometimes means releasing the things that once carried us.
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What Makes a Place Feel Like Home?
Dora shares personal reflections from travels that challenged her idea of where she belongs. Through moments of connection and loneliness, she discovers that feeling at home isn’t about the place. It’s about the relationship we have with ourselves.
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Grieving While Love Is Still Here
Dora reflects on the quiet grief that can arise as loved ones grow older. A thoughtful exploration of anticipatory grief, impermanence, and how mindfulness can help us meet change with presence and care.
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Sleep Data, Decoded with Dr. Aric Prather
Dr. Aric Prather breaks down the growing popularity of sleep tracking devices and what their insights can and can’t tell us about our nightly rest.
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The Truth About Sleep Aids with Dr. Aric Prather
Sleep psychologist Dr. Aric Prather explores the role sleep aids can play in our nightly routine. From supplements to medications, he breaks down when they may help, when they might not, and what to consider before relying on them for better rest.
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Better Sleep Starts with Understanding with Dr. Aric Prather
Dr. Aric Prather takes a closer look at the science of sleep, challenging common myths and offering simple, effective tips to help you build healthier sleep habits.
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Is This a Midlife Crisis?
Rosie explores the myth of the midlife crisis, the disappearing happiness “U-curve,” and the quiet tension between who we’ve been and who we’re becoming. A gentle invitation to evolve without waiting for a breakdown.
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From Flop To Feedback
Rosie reflects on a launch that didn’t go as planned and the deeper lessons it revealed about approval, service, and self-worth. A compassionate look at how we grow through what doesn’t land.
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Spilling The Tea
Rosie shares a personal story about setting a boundary with someone she deeply cares about, and why speaking your truth, even when it risks discomfort, is an act of alignment, not confrontation.
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The Neuroscience of a Focus Playlist
Music does more than entertain. It can shape your cognitive state. Dr. Sahar Yousef shares how to use music intentionally to reduce distraction and enter a state of sustained focus.
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Who’s in Charge — You or Your Phone?
Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Sahar Yousef breaks down why smartphones are so hard to ignore — and how small, intentional shifts can help you keep your focus where it matters most.
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Becoming Superhuman
Cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Sahar Yousef guest-hosts Radio Headspace this week. In today’s episode, she explains what she really means by “becoming superhuman” — and how understanding your brain can help you build a to-do list that actually gets done.
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Presence Over Perfection
When we focus only on content, we forget how we show up. Matt Abrahams explains how mindful breathing, posture, eye contact, and feedback can transform your presence and why authenticity matters more than performance.
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How to Make Them Lean In
Why do people tune out, and how do we bring them back? Matt Abrahams explores how questions, energy shifts, inclusive language, and presence can activate attention and build lasting connection.
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What, So What, Now What
What are you saying? Why does it matter? What comes next? In this episode, Matt Abrahams explains how answering these three questions sharpens your message and makes spontaneous communication feel more manageable.
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Listen Like It Matters (Because It Does)
Want to strengthen your relationships? Start by listening more deeply. Matt Abrahams explains how slowing down, creating mental space, and paraphrasing what you hear can increase trust and improve communication at work and at home.
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Anxiety Happens. Here’s What Helps
When we worry about how we’ll be received, our anxiety spikes. Matt Abrahams explains why staying present is the antidote to communication fear, and walks you through a simple grounding breath to prepare for your next meeting, interview, or presentation.
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Burnt, Not Broken
A lighthearted story about air-frying gone wrong opens up a conversation about self-blame, negativity bias, and how to meet failure with humor and curiosity.
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When the Mind Writes Horror Stories
A harmless video turns into a full-blown mental horror film. Rosie talks about rumination, why our brains jump to catastrophe, and how small grounding actions can quiet fear before it takes over.
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The Ghosts Inside Us
Not all ghosts live in old houses. Some live in our bodies and our stories. Rosie reflects on how recurring fears and memories can become teachers when we stop avoiding them and start listening.
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The Teachers We Didn’t Ask For
Rosie reflects on how the people who hurt or challenge us often shape us in unexpected ways. She shares how reframing “enemies” as unlikely teachers can build resilience, compassion, and clarity.
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