Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening today and if you've listened before, welcome

back.

In our Productivity Obsessed, always on, hustle-focused culture, it's really easy for constant busyness

to become a batch of honor.

And hey, look, we all have things we want to accomplish in our lives.

And sometimes that means putting in the effort and burning the midnight oil.

I have definitely had plenty of long days and late nights creating this podcast, but it's

been fulfilling work and very meaningful to me.

But sometimes that efforting transforms from the intense but reasonable pursuit of our

goals into workaholism, a compulsive and even addictive drive to work.

Today we'll learn what workaholism is really, the psychological functions it serves and

how it relates to other forms of addictive behavior.

Then we'll learn the general structure for how to approach changing behaviors like workaholism.

I'm really looking forward to that.

And finally, we'll cover some specific interventions that can help us out.

To help me do that, I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick is a clinical psychologist,

a best-selling author, and he's my dad.

So dad, how are you doing today?

I'm really good for us.

And as a bit of a personal confession in the context of something like 300 plus podcast

episodes at this point, this is the first one that has given me pause in terms of looking

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