279 episodes
We Can Do Hard Things Glennon Doyle and Audacy
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4.9 • 36.2K Ratings
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Life is freaking hard. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing; caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace.
On We Can Do Hard Things, Glennon Doyle, author of UNTAMED; her wife Abby Wambach; and her sister Amanda Doyle do the only thing they’ve found that has ever made life easier: Drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard things including sex, gender, parenting, blended families, bodies, anxiety, addiction, justice, boundaries, fun, quitting, overwhelm . . . all of it.
We laugh and cry and help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, free-er, less alone.
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How to Let Go of Perfection this Holiday (Encore)
Holiday Expectations are the joy robbers. Here’s how to leave room for yourself, and be sturdy this holiday season (and always).
1. How in our preparation for making things perfect, we leave no room for the peace and joy that is actually in front of us.
2. The opposite revolutions that Glennon and Amanda are having right now – and why they’re at the core the same.
3. The final frontier: How to be who we are wherever we are – and let our people be who they are wherever we are, too.
4. What it felt like for Glennon, Abby, and Amanda to watch Tish’s first live performance on stage.
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267. The #1 Relationship Strategy with Dr. Becky Kennedy
Dr. Becky Kennedy returns to walk us through the #1 strategy for all relationships: REPAIR. She teaches us how to repair by revisiting hard moments to infuse them with love, connection, and new perspectives – and what happens when we don’t repair (it’s not good). Dr. Becky highlights how lack of repair can traumatize us by leaving us alone to make meaning of disconnection.
Plus, we deep dive into the difference between repair and apology, and why it can be so hard to apologize (particularly for Abby to the kids and for Glennon to Abby).
About Dr. Becky:
Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and mom of three – who’s rethinking the way we raise our children – and named “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” by TIME Magazine. Dr. Becky is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be and founder of the Good Inside Membership platform, a hub with Dr. Becky’s complete parenting content collection all in one place. Dr. Becky hosts Good Inside with Dr Becky, a chart-topping podcast with over 20M downloads. In 2023, Dr. Becky delivered a TED Talk in which she shares “the single most important parenting strategy”.
TW: @goodinside
IG: @drbeckyatgoodinside
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266. How to Love Family When You’re Divided On Beliefs with adrienne maree brown & Autumn Brown
Just in time for the holidays: adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown join us for a heart-opening, mind-bending conversation about sisterhood, justice, family, and how to love ourselves and people with different values simultaneously.
Why their family holidays used to end in explosions – and the strategy they used to transform family time into peaceful respites.
Their intentional practice for creating a more beautiful way of spending time together - including their weekly “Sister Check-ins.”
What their mother did as children to protect their dignity, and what they are doing now to protect hers.
Their beautiful vision for the future – and invitation to all of us to go with them.
For our conversation with adrienne, check out 239. Why Are We Never Satisfied? With adrienne maree brown.
About adrienne:
adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through writing, music, and podcasts. adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas, frameworks, networks and practices for transformation. adrienne’s work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation. adrienne is the author/editor of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; Grievers; and Maroons.adrienne lives in Durham, NC.
TW: @adriennemaree
IG:@adriennemareebrown
About Autumn:
Autumn Brown is a mother, organizer, theologian, artist, and facilitator. The youngest child of an interracial marriage, rooted in the complex lineages of counter-culturalism and the military industrial complex, Autumn is a queer, mixed-race Black woman who identifies closely with her African and European lineages, and a gifted facilitator who grounds her work in healing from the trauma of oppression.
Autumn is a facilitator with the Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance (AORTA), a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy through political education, training, and planning. Prior to joining AORTA, Autumn served as the Executive Director of RECLAIM!, a non-profit that works to increase access to mental health support so that queer and trans youth may reclaim their lives from oppression in all its forms.
Autumn co-hosts the podcast "How to Survive the End of the World" with her sister, adrienne maree brown. She lives in Minneapolis with her three brilliant children.
IG:@autumnmeghanbrown
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265. Megan Falley Knows What Love Is
When was the first time you were made aware of your body or made to feel ashamed of your body? As promised, poet and author, Megan Falley, returns and blows Glennon’s mind with her explorations into the complexities of body, gender, and love.
Megan reflects on her earliest memories of body shame and the lessons she learned about love from her family (and how she’s able to hold both the good and the bad at once). Megan shares about her summers at “fat camp,” her decision to leave an abusive relationship, and finding love with poet Andrea Gibson that redefined for her what it means to truly love and be loved. At the end, she tells a story that Glennon decides is the best description she’s heard of what forgiveness might actually be.
For our Andrea Gibson and double date episodes, check out:
Ep 245 An Unforgettable Double Date with Andrea Gibson & Megan Falley
Ep 215 The Bravest Conversation We’ve Had: Andrea Gibson
About Megan:
Megan Falley is a nationally-ranked slam poet and the author of three full-length collections of poetry – most recently her book “Drive Here and Devastate Me”. Since transitioning to writing prose, excerpts from her memoir-in-progress have won several first- and second-place national prizes. She runs an online writing workshop called “Poems That Don’t Suck” which has been heralded as “a degree’s worth of education in 5 short weeks.”
TW: @megan_falley
IG: @meganfalley
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264. Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People with Lindsay C. Gibson
Author and clinical psychologist, Lindsay C. Gibson, is back to share practical steps to disentangle ourselves from emotionally immature people (EIPs), emphasizing the importance of repetition, persistence, and consistency in communication as well as boundary setting.
Lindsay addresses questions about being in relationship with EIPs including:
Are people raised by EIPs prone to entering relationships with similar dynamics?
What happens when we try to have conversations or engage in conflict with EIPs?
How do we ACTUALLY HEAL as adult children of EIPs and maintain healthy detachment?
For Part 1 of our conversation, check out: 263. Healing from Emotionally Immature Parents with Lindsay C. Gibson.
Lindsay C. Gibson’s books can be found here: http://www.lindsaygibsonpsyd.com/books.html
About Lindsay:
Lindsay C. Gibson is an author and clinical psychologist, and practicing psychotherapist for over thirty years. She has written several books, including Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents and Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People. Dr. Gibson specializes in therapy and coaching with adults to attain new levels of personal growth and confidence in dealing with emotionally immature people.
Website: http://www.lindsaygibsonpsyd.com/
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263. Healing from Emotionally Immature Parents with Lindsay C. Gibson
Author and clinical psychologist, Lindsay C. Gibson, helps us identify the characteristics of emotionally immature people (EIPs) like ego-centrism, lack of empathy, and fear of emotional intimacy.
Lindsay shares the effects of being raised by emotionally immature parents, mapping out two routes children often take – becoming internalizers or externalizers – and how that plays out in adult relationships and professional lives.
Emphasizing the importance of self-compassion, Lindsay explains how often the most important step toward healing is identifying the EIPs in our lives.
Lindsay C. Gibson’s books can be found here: http://www.lindsaygibsonpsyd.com/books.html
About Lindsay:
Lindsay C. Gibson is an author and clinical psychologist, and practicing psychotherapist for over thirty years. She has written several books, including Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents and Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People. Dr. Gibson specializes in therapy and coaching with adults to attain new levels of personal growth and confidence in dealing with emotionally immature people.
Website: http://www.lindsaygibsonpsyd.com/
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Customer Reviews
Relationship repair
This episode was so moving! As a parent, I really appreciated the message about emotional regulation. As a child, I shared the podcast with my dad. Our relationship is currently broken … can it be repaired??? Thank you for sharing extremely valuable information :)
My Sisters
Absolutely love this podcast. It always has what I need to feel my heart and make me feel not alone in this world. Best ever!!!
Love your podcast and am upset
I love your podcast and deeply appreciate your warmth, authenticity, and vulnerability. I have often thoughts of writing about my positive reactions to many episodes and feel badly that the first time I'm writing is because of upset that I felt during episode 266. Much did resonate with me, including the discussion about how to relate, with love, to family members, with whom we share different perspectives. I hope to write this message with love. Here is my upset: I am Jewish, and I feel compelled to share that, during the part of the episode when Gaza was mentioned, without any mention of what happened in Israel, I felt deep sadness and anger. I was both surprised and not surprised about the intensity of my reaction. The atrocities that Hamas perpetrated on October 7 including the rape of girls and women, and the kidnapping of over two hundred innocent civilians, as well as the other brutal deaths and burnings, continue to bring up deep grief, horror, and helplessness. So, when Gaza and cease-fire were mentioned without any response about what happened in Israel and the recent astronimcal rise in antisemitism, I also felt deep hurt. Your podcast has provided a place for me, in the past three years, to laugh, cry, be inspired, and to feel understood and known. This has been invaluable to me. Yesterday, when I experienced this intense reaction, it occurred to me, in spite of hearing you discuss the range of oppression that occurs in this often-confusing world of ours, I don't recall ever hearing you talk about antisemitism. I could certainly be wrong. I haven't listened to every episode. And I may be projecting my feelings onto you, as maybe that wasn't the right time in the episode, to address it. I don't know. And yet, the immense silence there has been about the sexual violence perpetrated on October 7 from many people and in so many spaces that I've previously thought of as progressive and caring, has made me more attuned to the silence I experienced when listening to this episode yesterday. Isn't this a "both-and" situation? Can't we be horrified about the loss of Palestinian life and the loss of life to Israelis? And be aware of the complexity of the situation? I find it hard to imagine that I am the only Jewish listener who felt this silence, although I am aware I can't speak for others' experiences. You are all important to me, and I am amazed at what you do, and I want to value my feelings and be heard. I hope I have expressed my feelings and thoughts in a non-blaming and non-judgmental way, as you, your guests from this episode, and other guests, often discuss. With deep gratitude.