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

If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of lasting

well-being.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

There come times in most of our lives when we recognize that something's got to change.

Maybe it's a habit or a behavior that we're trying to alter.

Maybe it's a view that we've held on to about the way the world is that we realize no longer

serves us.

Or maybe it's something much more fundamental, some aspect of who we are, how we view ourselves,

or even our self-concept altogether, that we know we need to change in order to make

our lives the way that we'd like them to be.

Today we're going to be exploring a pretty big question inside of that context.

What goes into making who we are?

And how can we give ourselves the freedom to grow and change over time?

So to help us do this, I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, so dad, how are you doing

today?

I'm good.

I'm looking forward to this discussion and what I might learn and how I might grow from

it.

Oh, okay, well, great.

Yeah, what a wonderful mindset to bring it to it, right?

We're both trying to do a little grown and changing of ourselves, I'm sure, at the same

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