Hello and

welcome to being well. I'm Forrest 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. I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hansen. Rick is a clinical

psychologist and a best-selling author who spent over 35 years teaching people the key lessons from

psychology and contemplative practice that lead to a good life. It's great to be here

as usual with my pops so Dad how are you doing today pretty good sons

sons I'm trying to figure out how to transition out of that now.

Victory!

Yay!

I rattled my son who's normally cool and calm like a cucumber.

Oh, geez.

All right, so anyway, what I was going to say is that if you live in the United States

and probably for many people who don't, it's been a bit of a stressful week. I certainly am in

cortisol overdrive. I'm sure many other people are. There's been a lot to take in.

Many people have been dealing with some pretty complex feelings of different kinds. And this feels like a pretty good opportunity to talk about relaxation and anxiety, what we can do to kind of weather the storm when things get tough and perhaps even framing and

taking in the year as a whole in a lot of different ways so how have things been for you

dad? It's been personally, actually revelatory in some ways, and maybe I'll share a few sort of personal takeaways,

you know, that have actually aided me in coming to a softer calmer landing.

And it's also been really striking

to appreciate the ways in which so much of what

we can be understandably morally invested in or really care about at the

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