This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody how we doing. If it is do you, but. If it is true, and it is true, but anyway, if it is true that the science strongly

suggests that the quality of your relationships will determine the quality of your life,

then what logically follows from that is that if you want to be as healthy and as happy

and live as long as possible, you need to learn the skills to do relationships better.

You can call this interpersonal hygiene, some psychologists call it

social fitness, whatever you want to call it, these are essential life skills which are very

rarely taught to us.

Which brings me to today's guest

who is here with some extremely useful

social fitness strategies,

specifically how to repair the damage

after you get into a fight with somebody.

Dr Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist best-selling author and mom of three who's been called

the millennial parenting whisper by Time magazine. To be clear right here from the jump Becky spends much of her

public and professional life thinking about and talking about parenting but she is trained as a therapist for

grown-ups and also as a couple's

counselor and this conversation I think is going to be very useful even to people who

don't have kids. A little bit more about Dr Becky she's the founder and

CEO of Good Inside a content and community company.

She wrote the number one New York Times best-selling book, also called Good Inside, and she hosts

a podcast by the same name.

She's just out with a new TED Talk about repairing the

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