331: Making Your Crazy Work For You

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever feel like you're going crazy? Many of us have dysfunctional self-relationships that can create personal and relational issues, making us feel a bit crazy. Listen to today's show to better understand your "crazy" and how to make it work for you. In this episode with Dr. Mark Borg, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: How we sometimes create negative relationships with ourselves and how to remedy this Where dysfunctional relationships with ourselves can originate The performer identity to earn love and the key insights this can provide for improving your relationship Why we are sometimes driven in our relationships by the need to be seen as good How to have compassionate empathy toward ourselves Diving into your past to create powerful healing And much more! For more information on our guest, and for the episode links visit: https://idopodcast.com/331 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors BetterHelp: Get help on your own time and at your own pace. Get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/IDO. Green Chef: The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well. Visit GreenChef.com/ido10 and use the code ido10 to get 10 Free Meals including free shipping! Bonafide offers naturally derived products to treat menopause, PMS and intimacy issues. It’s easy to use, safe, hormone-free & recommended by thousands of doctors. Get 20% off your first purchase when you subscribe to any product. Go to HelloBonafide.com and use promo code IDO. Spark My Relationship Course: Get $100 off our online course. Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! – Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, thanks for tuning in to the
0:29.9	today's show. Got a great one for you where I welcome Dr. Mark Borg and he is a
0:36.1	community and clinical psychologist and psychoanalysts practicing in New York
0:41.6	City and is the co-author of making your crazy work for you from isolation to
0:48.3	self-acceptance, compassionate empathy and love. And today that's exactly what we
0:54.0	talk about. The subject of his forthcoming book and it is super interesting how we can heal
1:05.4	ourselves and improve our relationships and a lot of that starts with looking at our past and into
1:12.2	our childhood all the way up to the present day. And Mark and I talk about how we can do that and
1:19.1	why it's so important and how we can heal and have more empathy towards ourselves and ultimately
1:26.0	that's going to help us have better relationships. So I'll get right into it. Mark is a super
1:34.2	energetic guy. You guys are going to love today's show. As always, thank you so much for tuning in
1:40.7	today's show. Hey Mark, thanks so much for joining me on the show today. I'm happy to be here.
1:55.1	Today we're going to talk about your new book, the topic of your new book and I just really love
2:01.5	it. I love the title and let's just dive right in. Making your crazy work for you. I totally
2:07.6	identified with that because sometimes I feel a little crazy and I want to make it work for me.
2:12.5	So I've read a little bit about the book and in the pre-show we talked a little bit. So let's dive in
2:19.0	what inspired you to write this book? Well, you know, it's tricky. Like I go back to 2010 and I wrote
2:26.6	this paper that wound up becoming a chapter in a book and the paper was called, are you a human
2:33.2	anti-depressant? And at the time I thought about compulsive caretaking is being this, you know,
2:39.5	sort of one directional thing that people were doing to each other. But as I got together with
2:45.2	my co-authors, Grant Brenner and Danny Berry, I started to think we started to think that this
2:51.6	compulsive caretaking thing wasn't so much something that people did to each other, but it was really
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