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This is the Live Happy Now podcast.

I'm your host, J.R. Houston.

Glad that you have joined us once again for another edition of the podcast that is trying to help you reach your peak happiness through powerful positive psychology, relatable insights and stories, and maybe having a little bit of fun along the way as well. We're not above it. We're glad that you're joining us wherever you are in the world. However, you may be listening, and we're so glad to be a part of the live happy family the new magazine is on newsstands

now got dolly parton on the cover at least at the time of recording that's the new magazine

and we're very excited about it got some good stuff in there including uh from our guest on the

podcast today more on that coming up in just a little bit. We also want to thank our partner,

LifeReimagined, their website, LifeReimagined.org slash happy is just filled with all kinds of

things that you can use in your daily life to help you reach that peak happiness, processes,

resources, and the like, all there for you. Lifereimagined.org slash happy. They say as you

awaken to the power of happiness,

so do your dreams. So what's next? Find out at life reimagine.org. Well, our guest today is

Dr. Michael Finkelstein, also known as the slow medicine doctor, author of Slow Medicine, Hope and Healing

for Chronic Illness. Dr. Finkelstein has been featured in the New York Times and on CNN and

offers both a micro and macro point of view on today's health care needs and challenges. In this episode,

Live Happy C.O. co-founder and editorial director, Deborah Heiss joins Dr. Fanklstein to discuss the

definition of forgiveness and some tools for releasing stress from traumatic experiences

or toxic personalities.

Dr. Finkelstein, thank you so much for joining us today.

I am really excited to have you on the podcast.

One of the things I'm really excited about is your column that's coming up in the November, December

issue where you talk about the

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