279: The Problem with Nice Guys
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Nice Guy Syndrome is when men try so hard to be liked and helpful that they end up miserable and alone. The people-pleasing, caretaker role is something that initially sounds great but often leads to huge meltdowns in personal and professional relationships. On this week's Yoga Talk Show, we depart from our usual discussions about nutrition, anatomy and alignment to explore interpersonal relationships, particularly men's complex and often confused role.
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Listen & Learn:
- Why avoiding conflict creates more problems than it solves
- Why dysfunctional relationships are the norm
- Why cooperative reciprocal relationships should be the goal
- Caring vs. caretaking – what's the difference?
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. Glover is a marriage and family therapist and is an internationally-recognized authority on the Nice Guy Syndrome. Through his book, online classes, workshops, podcasts, blogs, consultation, and therapy groups, Dr. Glover has helped change the lives of countless men and women around the world.
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| 0:37.0 | When I first started the yoga talk show hundreds of episodes ago, we always talked about |
| 0:47.9 | knees and meniscus and rotator cuffs and anatomy and alignment and different styles of yoga and it was great. |
| 0:54.7 | Over the years the show has really expanded to encompass health and wellness in general and |
| 0:59.3 | more recently personal growth productivity, and relationships. |
| 1:03.7 | And interestingly, many of those episodes have been the most popular. |
| 1:07.3 | So I'm taking my lead from you, and we're doing another show on relationships, in this case, |
| 1:12.1 | men's role specifically in |
| 1:13.7 | relationships and we're talking about nice guy syndrome this common trap |
| 1:17.6 | men fall into where in their attempt to do everything right they end up doing |
| 1:21.6 | everything wrong this sounds like the |
| 1:23.7 | cheesy title of a magazine you pick up at the checkout aisle at a grocery store but |
| 1:28.6 | I assure you it's not. I think you'll find a lot of really interesting takeaways |
| 1:32.1 | whether you're a man or a woman and I think this is a lot of really interesting takeaways whether you're a man or a woman and I think this is a topic that doesn't get talked about enough and will bring up some interesting questions for you. |
| 1:39.0 | As you're listening, your questions, comments and feedback are always most welcome. |
| 1:42.6 | Email me podcast at yoga body.com or else I like voicemail. |
| 1:46.9 | yoga body.com forward slash ask Lucas. |
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