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Today I'm speaking with Andrea Pallard. Andrea is a German-born

author and clinical psychologist with an extensive background in psychodynamic therapies,

meditation, and Eriksonian Mind Body Work.

She's the founder of the Los Angeles Center for Zen Psychology and is the author of a new book

with Sounds True called A Unified Theory of Happiness,

an East Meets West approach to fully loving your life.

In this episode of Insights at The Edge, Andrea and I spoke about exactly what is

happiness. We talked about the role of relationships in happiness and what

Andrea calls the wings of happiness, which are the two

modes of happiness which she refers to as the basic mode and the Supreme

mode. We also talked about ambition and how ambition can be a

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