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 last

and well-being.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

It's been great to see topics related to mental health, personal growth, and the psychological

sciences broadly become increasingly mainstream.

But as their popularity has grown, so has the spread of some common misconceptions.

These are ideas that can sound pretty convincing, and they're held by a lot of people out there,

so there's a pretty good chance that you've run into a few of them yourself.

Today we're going to be exploring a few of the most common misconceptions around personal

growth, therapy, and changing for the better generally.

To help me do that, today I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, so dad, how are you

doing today?

I'm good, and I'm thrilled about this topic, because it's genius, frankly, to bring it up

and address it.

I'm glad we're doing it.

Yeah, same.

We've both been really looking forward to this one.

To kind of set this up a little bit, we're going to be framing each of these misconceptions

as a statement.

And then we'll spend some time kind of unpacking it, talking about why that view is incomplete

to problematic, or maybe just a little bit misguided.

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