Hello and welcome to the Being Well Podcast, I'm Forrest Hanson.

This week we have a special bonus episode related to the strength of confidence.

Rick was fortunate enough to interview Dr. Paul Gilbert for his Foundations of Well-being online program

and we're sharing that interview in full today. Dr. Gilbert is a professor of clinical

psychology at the University of Darby and the founder of compassion-focused therapy.

He's also been awarded the Order of the British Empire for his continued contribution to mental health

care. In this episode Dr. Gilbert shares how we can grow a healthy sense of self-worth,

be honest without being critical, and stop undermining our own confidence.

If you'd like to learn more about the Foundations of Wellbeing program, you can find it at

www. The Foundations of Wellbeing.com. I'll also include a link to the

I'll also include a link to the site in the description of this episode.

The conversation runs for about an hour so it's a bit longer than most of our episodes. I hope you enjoy it. Hi everybody I'm Rick Hansen and it gives me a great deal of pleasure both

personally and professionally to be able to be speaking here with Dr. Paul Gilbert

who is the founder of compassion-focused therapy,

as well as a major scholar, writer, therapist, trainer, and all around good guy

when it comes to integrating the knowledge about the

brain and evolution and very practical approaches, especially related to growing

a sense of self-worth and healing of toxic

shame and we'll get into a lot of details about that here. A bit about Dr.

Gilbert's background, he's the head of the mental research unit as well as professor of clinical

psychology there at the University of Darby. And he also is the author of many, many book chapters, many many professional articles as well as a number of books.

Paul, who will use that term from now on, has been distinguished with an order of the British Empire.

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