180 ADHD and Relationships Part 3: Safe vs. Unsafe People
I Have ADHD Podcast
Kristen Carder
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We are on a mission to improve all of our relationships, and today we discuss the difference between someone who is safe verses someone who is unsafe. This has been a critical (and truthfully, painful) exercise that I have gone through in my own life that has improved my experience of every single relationship that I have. Tune in to hear why it's important to understand safety in relationships and exactly what makes someone relationally safe verses someone who is relationally unsafe. Click here to read the Psychology Today article that I reference in this episode.
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| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD. I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder. |
| 0:29.0 | I'll help you understand your Hey what's up? This is Kristen Carter and you're listening to the I Have 80D |
| 0:44.1 | podcast episode number 180. I am medicated, I am caffeinated, and I'm ready to |
| 0:50.4 | roll. I cannot wait to talk to you guys today. I cannot wait. Thank you for being here. |
| 0:56.2 | I am so glad you press play on this podcast. Today is part three in a four-part relationship series. |
| 1:03.7 | We're talking all about ADHD and relationships. |
| 1:06.7 | And what I've found in my own life |
| 1:08.8 | and working with thousands of clients with ADHD |
| 1:11.5 | is that we struggle in relationships. and so I thought it would be |
| 1:14.9 | really important for us to tackle this issue on the podcast here. Today's |
| 1:21.3 | episode is going to be an interesting one because I'm going to introduce the concept of safe people versus unsafe people. |
| 1:30.0 | And I have to admit to you that as of two years ago when I would hear somebody refer to another person as unsafe, I would roll my eyes. |
| 1:40.0 | Because I knew they weren't physically abusive, I knew they weren't physically unsafe, |
| 1:44.8 | and I didn't understand what it meant. I wish I could go back and give myself a hug |
| 1:50.8 | and explain to her the difference between a safe person and an a and a lot of reading and work on relationships. |
| 2:04.0 | I have finally come to the realization |
| 2:06.3 | that it is not just important. |
| 2:09.2 | It's actually very necessary for us |
| 2:11.9 | to comb through the relationships in our lives and identify |
| 2:16.2 | whether the people that we're interacting with are safe or unsafe and when I say |
| 2:21.1 | that I mean emotionally, mentally, relationally safe versus emotionally |
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