10.) Top 40 Countdown - I Can't Forgive Myself

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🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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I Can't Forgive Myself: Shannon's anxiety and anger problems have driven her husband away, and she's having a hard time forgiving herself and moving on. - Dr. Laura: "Let your feelings of embarrassment and regret motivate you to do better." - Dr. Laura: "Let your feelings of embarrassment and regret motivate you to do better." | To participate on the radio program; call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment - https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.
0:03.8	Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.
0:09.9	Shannon, welcome to the program.
0:12.3	Hi Dr. Laura, thank you for taking my phone call.
0:16.7	I guess I don't know.
0:18.5	Thank you.
0:20.5	I'm currently going through, I just moved out of my home with my husband,
0:26.8	living back in my parents' home now.
0:31.1	So the divorce, I take full responsibility for it, it's because of my own actions.
0:38.9	You know, I've begged my husband to say, but I understand that he does not want to deal with me anymore.
0:44.4	So I have...
0:45.4	What about you, does he not want to deal with?
0:49.6	I have really bad anxiety and I have really bad anger problems that I never addressed until recently.
0:58.8	I just started a DBT therapy for them.
1:02.8	What is that?
1:04.0	I don't know letters for therapy, what is that?
1:07.8	It's dialectal, I think it's called dialectal behavioral therapy.
1:13.6	So it's a therapy that's kind of intense and it focuses on mindfulness skills and monitoring your emotions and thoughts.
1:23.6	So it's very helpful for me because I've learned that I have a lot of trouble tolerating distress and coping.
1:31.4	I don't have any coping strategies.
1:33.6	So I used to act out when I was irritated sometimes, I would start arguments and I would become very upset very easily.
1:46.8	And I would leave, I would say, you know, you can leave or divorce me.
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