Thank you for joining us for episode 517 of Live Happy Now.

We're living in rapidly changing times and many of us feel exhausted by the events that are unfolding.

But today's guest has a strategy to help us through.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by Dr. Bob Rosen, an organizational

psychologist, CEO advisor, and best-selling author known for his work on leadership and personal

development.

Bob is the founder and CEO of Healthy Companies International, a consulting firm dedicated

to helping leaders and organizations thrive.

His latest book, Detach Your Baggage to Live a More Fulfilling Life,

looks at how we sabotage our happiness with unhealthy emotional attachments.

He's here to explain how we can use his strategies to detach from the political whiplash we're experiencing

right now. Let's have a listen. Dr. Bob, thank you so much for joining me on Live Happy Now.

My pleasure. This is a very timely conversation we're having. Your latest book, Detach,

is looking at how certain attachments can hold us back. And before we get

into some very specific questions on that, I wondered if you could give us a broad overview and

tell us kind of what that means and what those attachments are. Well, I got interested in this topic.

This is my eighth book, and it's my favorite by far. And I got interested because I noticed

that there are some global surveys that show that over the past 10 to 15 years, there's

been a decrease in the amount of happiness around the world. People feel more disconnected and lonely. There's kind of like a systemic anxiety

that is sitting over the world. And there's more mistrust, more cynicism, more anger and resentment.

And people are just uncomfortable in their own skins. And so I started thinking about how could we create a

personal practical book to help people navigate through these anxious times? And that's where

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