Your 'Inner Child' Runs Your Life. Here's How To Spot It and Take Back the Wheel. | Dr. Galit Atlas

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the 10% Happier podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. I have been thinking a lot and writing a lot in my never-ending next book project about what I was like as a child, super anxious, often deeply ashamed. uh and how that impacts who I am now.

And I, as a consequence of doing all this thinking and writing, was very intrigued when my staff recommended that we bring on the show a woman named uh Dr. Galit Atlas, who is a psychoanalyst and the author of a new book called Come Closer, in which she argues that the key to your adult relationships is the child you once were. So without further ado, let's uh say a big hearty 10% happier hello to uh Dr. Galit Atlas.

Welcome to the show. Thank you very much. I'm happy to be here. I have to say that over and over on this show, concepts that I used to love to gleefully dismiss as bullshit, like uh like going to your happy place or being in the present moment or whatever. I've had to come to admit are actually deeply useful.

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