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Oct 2023
59m 34s

How to Become Self-Confident

RICK HANSON, PH.D., FORREST HANSON
About this episode
In today’s episode Forrest and Dr. Rick explore how we can improve our self-confidence, allowing us to become more psychologically flexible and create healthy boundaries with other people. They explain why becoming better at something doesn’t always make us more confident, the two paths of gaining confidence and releasing insecurity, and how we can release i ... Show More
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