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

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening today.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

In our last conversation, we talked about one of the most powerful skills we can learn.

The ability to change our perspective, see things in a new light, and become more flexible.

This helps us relate to others and ourselves much more effectively, regulate and manage

our emotions, and find new paths when we thought that all of the doors were closed.

During that conversation, we also talked about self-confidence, including how self-confidence

can support healthy forms of flexibility.

When we're sure of ourselves in a variety of different situations, and trust that we'll

be able to handle what life throws at us, we don't need to be so rigid.

On the other hand, we don't want to be so flexible, though we start to feel like we're

a doormat that life walks all over.

And self-confidence can help there too.

As it gives us the belief in ourselves, we need to create healthy boundaries with other

people, stand in our truth, and pursue what we really care about.

So today, we're going to be exploring how we can become more self-confident, and I'm

joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen, because a clinical psychologist, a best-selling author,

and he's also my dad.

So dad, how are you doing today?

I'm good, and I'm confident that this will be a good episode.

Yeah, I love this topic.

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