Reducing Reactivity (Without Becoming a Doormat) with Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, joins Rick and Forrest to explore how to work skillfully with anger and reactivity without becoming passive. Drawing on her new children’s book Kind Karl, she shares how mindfulness creates space, how to distinguish healthy moral anger from habitual reactivity, and how looking closely at what’s in the anger can bring clarity. They discuss the Buddhist link between anger and fear, the protective function of anger, and how lovingkindness and self-compassion are active forces for resilience.