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1. How to make peace inside your own head by getting to know your “parts.”
2. Why our “manager,” “firefighter,” and “exile” parts are running our lives – and how to get them to step back.
3. How Glennon is using Internal Family Systems in her eating disorder recovery process.
4. Understanding that the parts of you that you might struggle with most right now were originally developed by you to protect you.
5. How to tap into your wisest, most trustworthy self.
About Dr. Becky:
Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and mom of three, 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. Her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021.”
TW: @goodinside
Dr. Becky Kennedy is back to help us understand Attachment Styles, how our past comes alive in our present – and how to free ourselves and raise freer kids.
1. Why attachment styles are at the heart of our most intense conflicts (in ourselves and with others).
2. How to rewire our original mental coding (75% of which is complete by age 3), so we can have more peace.
3. How our physical and emotional attractions in adulthood are dictated by childhood attachments.
4. Why it’s never too late to initiate relationship repair, and the warning signs that we’re starved for connection.
5. How we can help our kids trust their instincts, use parenting as a path to grow in the ways we’ve always wanted to grow, and build empathy for our own imperfect parents.
About Dr. Becky:
Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and mom of three, 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. Her podcast “Good Inside with Dr. Becky” – was one of Apple Podcasts “Best Shows of 2021.”
TW: @goodinside
Following Glennon’s diagnosis, she, Abby, and Amanda go deep with Sonya Renee Taylor - author of The Body is Not an Apology – exploring the personal and global promise of Radical Self Love:
1. Examining the way we talk to our bodies – and how to change negative self-dialogue.
2. How to shift from a relationship with our body based on dominance and control to a relationship based on trust.
3. The pitfalls of “body positivity.”
4. Recognizing this global moment we are in as a gift inviting us to collective Self Love.
5. The full life that is possible only if we stop believing our body is our enemy, and start seeing our body as a teammate.
About Sonya:
Sonya Renee Taylor is a world-renowned activist, award-winning artist, transformational thought leader, author of six books including The New York Times best selling The Body is Not an Apology, and founder of the international movement and digital media and education company of the same name whose work has reached millions of people by exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice using a radical self-love framework. She continues to speak, teach,write, create, and transform lives globally.
IG: sonyareneetaylor
This moving conversation delving inside the “wonderful, dangerous” mind of Tracee Ellis Ross covers:
1. Tracee’s go-to strategies to stop questioning herself, to pick herself up when she feels unlovable, and to tether herself to her truest self.
2. How she made peace with the fact that she’s “not everyone’s cup of tea” – and stopped trying to change the things about her that others don’t like (but she does).
3. Inside Tracee’s 50th birthday party – the honor of being “Fifty and Free,” and what moved her to sing her mother’s song in her mother’s dress.
4. Tracee’s recent personal journal entry rejecting the lie that a woman’s purpose is to be “chosen” – and how she creates a beautiful, full life outside the roles of mother and partner.
5. Tracee’s incredible view of friendship: How to be brave enough to become a barnacle in your friends’ lives, and to find your Cauldron people
About Tracee:
Tracee Ellis Ross is an award-winning actress and producer best known for her roles in ABC’s award-winning comedy series BLACK-ISH and GIRLFRIENDS. For her role as “Rainbow Johnson” in BLACK-ISH, as a comedic leading actress, Ross won the Golden Globe Award in 2017 as well as nine NAACP Image Awards. She was nominated for five Emmys and two Critics Choice Awards.
Ross is the CEO and Founder of Pattern, a haircare brand for the curly, coily and tight textured masses.
Ross recently executive produced and narrates Hulu’s THE HAIR TALES, a docuseries about Black women, beauty and identity through the distinctive lens of Black hair.
Upcoming, Ross will be producing a ten-episode podcast “I Am America,” which aims to break through the noise during this divided time in our country in an effort to create space and to heal.
TW: @TraceeEllisRoss
IG: @traceeellisross
Glennon, Abby, and Amanda each share a No they are leaving behind – and a new Yes they’re bringing into their lives this year.
Glennon shares from the messy middle about her new diagnosis and what’s next for her recovery.
If talk about eating disorders and mental illness helps: Listen today.
If it triggers: Skip today.
CW // eating disorders
If you have an eating discover, you may find the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) hotline a helpful resource: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline
At the end of our first full year together, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda reflect on We Can Do Hard Things, this community, some of their favorite episodes, and they reshare the very first show:
1. The original idea for the podcast and how it’s evolved.
2. Glennon describes how an anxiety attack feels – and the 3 strategies that help her find calm.
3. Amanda shares some special “thank you” messages to Glennon, Abby, and the Pod Squad.
1. Why we should stop expecting people to forgive.
2. Rabbi Danya’s five step-by-step process for repairing a relationship.
3. What makes a good – and a terrible – apology.
4. What to do (and to not say) if you want to make amends and change.
5. Why repentance is a process that has nothing to do with the one who was hurt.
About Rabbi Ruttenberg:
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg is an award-winning author of 8 books, including On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World. She serves as Scholar in Residence at the National Council of Jewish Women, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Salon, Time, Newsweek, and many other publications.
TW: @TheRaDR
Glennon, Abby, Amanda and the Pod Squad share their most brutiful and hilarious holiday stories.
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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