Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast and this is where we explore the practical science of lasting

well-being.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

Our lives are filled with relationships, large and small.

And maybe the most important of these is the relationship we have with ourselves.

You're the only person you'll be around every minute of every day for the rest of your life.

And unfortunately, that relationship is often our most complicated one.

We often find it easier to be understanding, kind, accepting, and compassionate toward others

than toward ourselves.

We might accept ourselves in the same grudging way that we accept the annoying behavior

of our friends sometimes, or even love ourselves in a kind of obligatory, yeah, I love them,

the mullules sort of way.

But at least in my experience, it's actually kind of rare for people to truly like themselves.

So that's what we're going to be focusing on today, becoming a better friend to yourself

and learning to like ourselves.

To help us do that, I'm joined today by Dr. Rick Hansen, Rick is a clinical psychologist

and a best-selling author.

And I'm also happy to say that he's my dad, so dad, how are you doing today?

I'm good and really looking forward to this topic.

Yeah, I think it's a really good one.

It's super rich, and it's one that you've done a lot of work on, so I'm excited to talk

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