You're listening to the Feel Good Effect. Do you want to know the secret to becoming more resilient

and hint it is not about positive thinking? In this episode, we're going to walk you through

this step by step on exactly how to create an inner core of unshakable resilience.

Sound good? Let's make it happen.

Welcome to the feel good effect. I'm your host,

Robin Conley Downs, and I help people find time and create space in their lives for what matters most by sharing simplified strategies for wellness. This podcast is all about real talk, real wellness,

and unpacking what it really means to be healthy. Hey, feel good fam. I am so glad you're here

for this conversation on creating more resiliency in your life and becoming a more resilient person.

Our guest is kind of the expert on resilience. Dr. Rick Hansen is a psychologist,

senior fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and a New York Times best-selling

author. His books are available in 26 languages, and they include resilient, which we're really going to dive into today, hardwiring happiness, which are also talking about, Buddha's Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nature. So here's the deal. This episode and interview originally aired about a year and a half ago, and I'm choosing to re-air it now with this new intro and a new outro for a

couple of reasons. First up, if you're in the United States, you know that this week, if you're

listening in real time, is Thanksgiving, which is very much the kickoff to the entire holiday season.

And even if you're not in the U.S., I love my international listeners. You know that this

is just a really full time of year. Sometimes there is a lot of expectations about the holidays

and how joyful and magical they are. But I think that it's a time that's inherently filled with

ups and downs, whether it's around spending time with maybe difficult relatives or expectations not meeting reality

or just kind of the hustle and bustle and the busy that can come with trying to get so much

done in a short amount of time. And so that's the first reason I chose this particular show is

I think that this idea of resilience, building it in yourself, is a really beautiful way to approach

this season to give you some skills to kind of handle it. And the second reason I chose this episode

is because I'm starting to think about the new year, right? And maybe some intentions or goal

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