259. The Cure for Emotional Isolation

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

How do we bring our full selves into our relationships without fear of rejection? Today, Abby shares more about what’s been happening in her life since she’s stopped “bright siding” including powerful truth-telling she’s unleashed in business and her family of origin. Glennon shares how Abby embracing her full emotions has led to deeper intimacy and connection, and a feeling of “un-loneliness” in their partnership – the opposite of what Abby feared might happen. Plus, we discuss how toxic positivity and polarized dynamics in relationships can lead to emotional disconnection and loneliness. For the first part of our conversation, check out 258. Abby Asks, “Why Can’t I Love Myself?”

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0:00.0	Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things at the end of last episode, last beautiful
0:16.2	episode where Abby shared with us her journey into knowing and expressing hard emotions and the other half of herself.
0:26.6	Y'all please just go back and listen to that episode.
0:28.9	It was so beautiful.
0:29.9	I was so proud of my wife. At the end of that episode Abby said, but what is the way? How do we
0:39.3	find our way to self-love. And so in this episode we will find the way. You are 50 minutes from
0:51.0	knowing the secret of life.
0:52.8	No, that's not going to happen.
0:54.3	We never have any answers, but we could not let last episode go
0:59.5	without digging in even deeper to this unbelievably important journey which is figuring out
1:08.7	how to be able to bring our full selves to our relationships.
1:15.6	Even the icky stuff, you know,
1:17.1	the uncomfortable stuff, anger, fear, shame,
1:19.4	our needs, our desires, our boundaries.
1:22.3	How do we bring all of that to other people and trust that they will
1:27.6	still want us? And how do we allow our people to bring their full selves even the hard stuff and not get so
1:36.5	threatened by it that we shut them down because I think maybe that is the
1:41.8	kernel that's where we stop loving ourselves is when we bring in our
1:47.8	early life when we begin to experiment with bringing our hard things to other people and we see them shut down.
1:58.4	Can I just add one thing?
1:59.4	Yes, always.
2:00.9	I think one of the important things that I'm because of my co-dependency issues.
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