Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from Meditation Studio. I'm Patricia Carpus. In this series, we introduce you to real people with extraordinary stories and experts who share how meditation and mindfulness practices change our lives. Our podcast is brought to you by Meditation Studio, Apple's Pick, as one of the 10 best apps of the

year. Why download the app? Because life is messy. We get stressed, anxious, have trouble

sleeping. We work too hard. We deal with conflict. Our hearts get broken. We worry about the

state of the world. We meditate because we're human. Our app gives you

hundreds of meditations from over 30 leading experts. It helps a lot. And if you haven't tried

the app yet, you can now try it for free and explore a starter series plus a sample of some of our

favorite guided meditations in the Discover

collection. You may also want to check out our new meditation collections this year. Mindful

eating, work, authentic leadership, and a special collection just for college students. There's also

a new mindful work and sleep basics course.

If you've already got the app, check out our new unguided meditation timer

where you can create your own meditations with or without our brand new, pretty amazing music tracks.

And don't forget the aid free meditations on Alexa.

Just ask her to enable Med studio. Today, our guest is

psychologist and bestselling author Rick Hansen. His new book is called Resilient, How to Grow an Unshakeable

Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. It's another great book by Rick, teaching us how to use

positive neuroplasticity to develop the 12 most essential inner strains and resources we need to cope with the challenges that we all face at one time or another.

He makes it all very real when he says we need resilience every day of our lives to simply deal with challenges, big and small.

The resources he describes are both simple and incredibly wise,

everything from developing compassion and self-compassion to grit, learning, confidence, motivation, intimacy, and so much more.

And he discusses the mental and motivational machinery.

We need to really grow these inner resources.

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