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.

One of the most important skills we can develop in life is learning how to relate to our strong

thoughts, feelings, and emotions, accepting them, experiencing them authentically, and

then also learning how to regulate them.

And we're all going to have times when those feelings are particularly strong, and maybe

even a bit harder to manage than normal.

It's very common to have these natural fluctuations in how we feel about others or ourselves,

but some people struggle with this more than others.

Clinically significant form of this is known as borderline personality disorder or BPD,

which is characterized by a real pattern of instability in a person's emotions, moods,

behavior, even their self-image, and their relationships.

BPD is actually fairly common, and even more common are very normal challenges with

emotional sensitivity, stability, and regulation.

So today we're going to be diving into what borderline tendencies are, and what we can

do about them.

To help us do that, I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen, Rikaze, clinical psychologist,

best-selling author, and he's also my dad.

So dad, how are you doing today?

I'm doing great for us, and extremely happy that we're going to be talking about this

subject.

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