Is Your Ambition Rooted in Trauma? | Christiane Wolf

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What if the very thing you think is blocking your progress in meditation — or in life — is actually the doorway forward?

In this conversation with Dr. Christiane Wolf, hosted by DJ Cashmere, we explore how to work with expectations, frustration, and the belief that life needs to be different before we can be okay. Christiane shares clear, compassionate wisdom for turning toward difficulty instead of fighting it — and for discovering that what feels like the problem can become the path.

Christiane is a physician, longtime meditation teacher, and author of Outsmart Your Pain and A Clinician's Guide to Teaching Mindfulness. She's known for blending deep Buddhist insight with warmth and humor.

We're also thrilled to share that Christiane will be our Teacher of the Month for November, leading meditations and conversations throughout the month in the DanHarris.com Substack community.

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Tickets are now on sale for a special live taping of the 10% Happier Podcast with guest Pete Holmes! Join us on November 18th in NYC for this benefit show, with all proceeds supporting the New York Insight Meditation Center. Grab your tickets here!

Tickets are now available for an intimate live event with Dan on November 23rd as part of the Troutbeck Luminary Series. Join the conversation, participate in a guided meditation, and ask your questions during the Q&A. Click here to buy your ticket!

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0:00.0	This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:18.7	Happy Sunday, everybody. Here's a provocative question for you. What drives you? This is such a crucial
0:25.0	question. I don't think enough of us ask ourselves this question. For many of us, though, if we pay
0:30.9	attention, we may find that our fuel is fear or self-loathing or some kind of inner coercion. However, it is possible to change that.
0:40.3	Today we're going to hear from a very driven person, Cristiana Wolf. She's a medical doctor,
0:45.9	a Dharma teacher, and an ultramarathoner. She's been on this show several times, so you may be
0:51.0	familiar with her. If you are, you may be happy to hear that she is our teacher of the month over on
0:55.9	Dan Harris.com for the month of November.
0:58.1	That means she will be crafting guided meditations to go along with all of our Monday,
1:02.8	Wednesday episodes.
1:03.7	She'll also be doing some weekly live meditation and Q&A sessions, which we do every Tuesday
1:08.7	at 4 Eastern.
1:09.8	This stuff is all available to paying subscribers over at Dan Harris.com, so you should sign up
1:14.5	and join the party.
1:15.7	One other thing to say before we dive in with Cristiano Wolf, very quickly, if you want
1:20.6	to meditate with me in real life, I've got a live taping of this podcast coming up on November
1:25.6	18th in New York City.
1:27.3	My guest will be the comedian Pete Holmes,
1:30.0	who's a dedicated meditator, very thoughtful dude. We will also do some meditation before we
1:35.3	start chopping it up. This is a benefit for the New York Insight Meditation Center. Go to the link in
1:40.0	the show notes and sign up and join us. Okay, after the break, you're going to hear
1:44.4	Christiana Wolf in conversation with the executive producer of this show, DJ Kashmir.
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