Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of lasting

well-being.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick is a clinical psychologist and a best

selling author, and I'm also happy to say that he's my dad, so dad, how are you doing

today?

We're doing really well for us, and as always, thanks for asking.

It's not pro forma for you.

Yeah, which is really sweet, actually.

How are you doing?

I'm doing pretty well.

I mean, I'm a little tired today to be perfectly honest.

I had a little bit of a rough sleep night last night, and then there's all this construction

going on outside of my house right now where we're living, and it was kind of interfering

with the recording initially, so we had to sort of figure that out, but it's calmed down

a little bit.

If you get a little background noise during this episode, it's probably because they're

literally building a hotel across the street from me right now.

And I can't do anything about that one.

So anyways, getting into today's episode, we're actually going to have some fun today,

as you might be able to tell from our slightly lighter than normal open.

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