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.

I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, so dad, how are you doing today?

Excellent, and thoroughly psyched about our topic today.

Yeah, absolutely.

One of the real threads that runs under so many of the conversations that we've had on

the podcast is our relationship with ourselves.

We've talked in the past about the value of having a view of our self-concept as something

that can grow and change over time, and we've explored many aspects of Buddhist thought connected

to how a narrow attachment to the perceived self can lead to a lot of suffering.

But what is that self exactly?

Where can we find it if anywhere in the brain and how can we use this inquiry to both understand

ourselves a bit better and help us address a variety of psychological challenges?

To help us hopefully start to answer some of those questions, we're joined by a psychiatrist,

neuroscientist, New York Times bestselling author, and returning guest Dr. Judd Brewer.

So Judd, how are you doing today?

I'm doing well, thanks for having me.

We've been really looking forward to this one.

It's like such a deep topic, I'm going to start by just giving a little extra bio for

you.

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