Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forrest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today, and if you've listened before,

welcome back.

We recently released a couple of episodes focused on identifying and expressing our

wants and needs to other people, and during those conversations I mentioned that an important

part of the process is developing a greater sense of self-worth.

In addition to just feeling good, when we increase our self-worth, it allows us to get

on our own side more easily, which can help us take our needs more seriously and change

our lives further better.

And it's really easy to tell somebody to just develop some more self-worth, but it's

often a lot harder to do it in practice.

So that's what we're going to be focusing on today, how we can develop a more durable

sense of self-worth.

And to help us learn how to do that, I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson,

Dr. Rick is a clinical psychologist, a best-selling author, and he's also my dad.

So dad, why do you think that self-worth is so important?

It's really hard to take action on our behalf if we don't feel that we're worth the results,

right?

Right from the start.

Second, low self-worth is associated as a lot of research shows with depressive mood.

So when you feel like you're running on empty, because you don't feel much sense of

worth, it's really hard to keep on going.

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