Welcome to Episode 202 of Live Happy Now, brought to you this week by the Happy Child Summit.

I'm Paula Phelps thanking you for joining us today to talk about happy children.

As I just mentioned, this episode is brought to you by the Happy Child Summit, and today we're talking with Rini Jane, author and childhood happiness expert and founder

of the Happy Child Summit. She's going to tell us what the summit is all about, how she came up

with the idea, and how you can be a part of it. Rini, welcome to live happy now. I am really glad

that you could join in us here today. Thank you for having me, Paula.

I'm excited to be here.

Well, we have so much that we can talk about, but I think to get started, I'd like you to first tell us a little bit about Gozen and how that all came to be.

I was how that came to be.

I was lying in therapy in my. Okay, that's the first time I've ever got that

answer. So I'm, I'm intrigued. I was about 24 years old. And I was in a bad relationship and ended

in a breakup. And I started to have these panic attacks. And every time I had one,

I would literally fall to the ground and clutch my chest and think I was having some kind of heart

attack. I had been used to pretending like everything was okay. That was sort of my way to deal

with problems in my life, just to pretend that it was fine and I was okay. That was sort of my way to deal with problems in my life,

just to pretend that it was fine and I was fine. And the funny thing is, is that when you do that

for long enough, you know, you kind of stockpile all of the emotions inside, your body just

starts to shut you down. It just will not allow it. And so I thankfully ended up in therapy.

And I clearly remember this therapist who was wonderful and he kind of looked like Freud,

and he would stroke his beard, as I imagine Freud would have.

You know, he's teaching me all these things, cognitive behavioral therapy, how to really reframe what you're going through, how to feel your feelings.

And he pulled from lots of different fields, mindfulness, positive psychology, neuroscience.

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