Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Van Ness, and today I am so excited because we're celebrating our 200th episode and five years of the show.

Honestly, I could kind of cry sitting on this chair saying this.

I'm just, I'm so honored and so proud that you all are listening and that getting curious

is touching your lives and just thank you so much for your support and for listening.

I am so grateful to each and every one of you, every guest, every listener, our producers, our team. Thank you so much everyone.

I love you so much.

We have interviewed so many amazing guests.

We have learned so many invaluable lessons and gotten way too good at making

Taco Bell references for them to not be our sponsors. We wanted to kick off today's

episode with an act of care.

Here are some of our favorite conversations about how to be our best selves

without becoming what our friend Ashley Marie Preston calls

a self-caren.

We have Dr. Doreen, Dajam McGee, you are a doctor, you are an academic, you are a researcher,

and you're an author and you're a speaker.

So is it really true when people say that like our psyches are

developed between the ages of like zero and seven? You know it's so

interesting. Yes that was the research when I was in graduate school 8,000 years

ago, but now we know at least with the brain, at least neurologically, we know that new

synapses, new neural wiring can happen all the way through age 80.

So, I know, isn't that great news news and neuroplasticity just means that even if we've created

some really tricky habits we can uncreatate the neural tendency to engage them.

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