Thank you for joining us for episode 492 of Live Happy Now.

In just a couple of days, we're going to celebrate Halloween, but here at Live Happy, the festivities are already underway.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by our social media marketing manager,

Casey Johnson, who, like myself, is a big fan of this holiday.

This year, we decided to dive into the science behind Halloween traditions and rituals

to find out why they make us happy and even what they can do for us.

So take a break from the truly scary things out there,

like news, and listen as we learn what makes the spooky season so good for us.

Casey, thank you for sitting down with me today. Thank you for having me. It's always good to be here.

It's our favorite holiday of all time.

Yes.

Halloween.

Yes.

Yes.

And I know that we may not be in the majority, but we are certainly not alone in our affinity for this holiday.

And, you know, I think it's something that you and I have been talking about for several

years now, like how much we both love Halloween and really how much joy we get out of it.

And just so our listeners know, the reason we're sitting down is we thought as much joy as it brings to us, there's got to be some psychology behind all of this.

And so Casey and I are not scientists.

We are not psychologists. But we do know how to read

and we know how to Google. Yes, we're Halloween enthusiasts. Yes, we are. And we found out

a lot of really cool stuff about how good Halloween really is for us. And so that's what we wanted

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