This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hello, my fellow suffering beings, how are we doing today? Today on the pod, we've got an eminent

Buddhist teacher talking about a trainable skill that she says can lead to increased calm,

equanimity, energy, and an increase in your ability to deal with difficult people.

What is this trainable skill?

It is learning to trust yourself.

Now, I want to say right here from the jump that this may sound a little funny,

trusting yourself in a Dharma context,

given that the Buddhists argue that the self is an illusion,

but my guest is going to help us unpack that.

Said guest is Trudy Goodman, PhD.

She's a founding teacher of Insight, L.A., and co-founder of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.

Trudy has trained in mindfulness and in Zen since 1973.

She holds a graduate degree in developmental psychology from Harvard, and she is widely known for her role

as the voice of Trudy, the Love Barbarian, and the Netflix series Midnight Gospel.

I also want to say about Trudy that she's somebody I've gotten to know a little bit personally

in the last couple of years, and she's just fucking awesome.

In this conversation, we talk about how to trust yourself, why to trust yourself, why Trudy is interested in this subject, why she doesn't love the word enlightenment, but she does want to make the concept more accessible, which I'm here for, what self-love does and does not look like, especially in a Buddhist context, how to stay steady in uncertain times, the role of intuition, the importance

of getting out of your own bubble and differentiating between your opinions and your values,

the connection between forgiveness and trusting yourself, and much more.

And check this out.

If you want to practice the skill of trusting yourself, which is a subtle art, if you want to practice it, this episode comes with a bespoke, a custom guided meditation called How to Listen to Yourself.

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