Feel More, React Less with Margaret Cullen #217

Feel More, React Less with Margaret Cullen #217

Author: Scott Snibbe March 24, 2026 Duration: 37:20

Meditation teacher and licensed psychotherapist Margaret Cullen recently published her book, Quiet Strength: Find Peace, Feel Alive, and Love Boundlessly Through the Power of Equanimity.

In this book she reveals scientific breakthroughs and spiritual intersections that demonstrate how the power of equanimity allows us to live more fully, with balance and wisdom.

In her interview with Scott, they discuss how equanimity can help in personal relationships, taking refuge, healthy activism, struggles with mental health, personal integrity, suffering, and how to develop equanimity.

Episode 217: Feel More, React Less with Margaret Cullen

This Earth Day, I’ll be sitting down with one of the most inspiring voices on climate and the future—author Kim Stanley Robinson—for a live online conversation hosted by UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism.

We’ll explore how his work offers real hope in the face of the climate crisis—a chance to imagine not just what could go wrong—but what could go right.

It’s free, April 22nd at 5:30pm Pacific. Sign up here to watch on Zoom.

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