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

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

well-being.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

Today, we're continuing the conversation that we began last week focused on common misconceptions

around self-help, personal growth, therapy, and overall are attempt to better our own

psychology throughout our lives.

So to help me with this topic, I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, so dad, how are

you doing today?

I'm good.

And I love these topics.

They're right at the heart of being engaged with your own mind in this life.

So I think it's fantastic that we're addressing a variety of critiques that have come along

the way, a variety of objections to doing what you can to look inside yourself and heal

and grow and even awaken a little bit every day.

So these are a variety of common misconceptions that are very present out there in the world

related to these topics.

And their ideas that all can sound pretty convincing, and some of them might even have

a kernel of truth at the core of them.

And they're held by a lot of people.

But for one reason or another, they're incomplete or otherwise problematic or misguided.

So before we get into today's misconceptions, we explored, I want to say maybe five or

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