Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well. I'm Forest Hanson. If you're new to the podcast,

thanks for joining us today and if you've listened before, welcome back. I'm joined

as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson. Rick is a clinical psychologist, he's a best-selling author,

and he's also my dad, so dad, how are you doing today?

I'm really good for us, and as I said to you before we started recording here, I just

appreciate how kind you are to me. In general, and also giving me feedback, don't lean

in too far to the mic or make sure you're recording. Are you late again, Rick, or dad?

Yeah, I'm sorry, I am late again. Anyway, thank you.

Well, I try to be nice about it, and I also appreciate that you're often a very good

sport about all of the buttons we need to push and wires that need to be turned to get

this particular plate off the ground over here. I don't know, maybe it's kind of a way

into thinking about what we're going to be talking about today, which is how do we want

to be in the world, and how do we want to change in the ways that support us? Because we're

coming to the end of the year here, and it's that time of year that people start thinking

about how they want their next year to be. For a lot of people, that can take the form

of resolutions, and it's normal for resolutions to be about our behavior, and we can think

about behavior in a lot of different ways, like being nice to somebody is a behavior.

And a lot of people are trying to both give up maybe more problematic behaviors and embrace

some more positive ones. And that is great. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm sure we'll

talk about that a little bit. But today, I'd like to really focus on this and kind of an

inside out way, really thinking about how we can reinvent ourselves or step into new

ways of being in the world that support the parts of us that we really want to lean

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