345: From Survive to Thrive

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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We all want to live our lives to the fullest potential, but sometimes it's hard! Mental illness, depression and just being human can wear on our ability to thrive in this life. Listen to today's episode for tips on how to go from merely surviving to thriving! In this episode with Dr. Margaret Chisolm, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Understanding the difference between languishing and flourishing The best self talk when feeling depressed How to rescript your life story for the better Examples for how to rescript a break up or other painful life experiences The importance of understanding our temperament and inability to change it The value of knowing yourself and bringing that into your relationship And much more! Sponsors Care/Of: Find the right vitamins, protein and collagen, personalized for you. For 50% off your first Care/of order, go to TakeCareOf.com and enter code ido50. BetterHelp is an online therapy platform that will assess your needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist. Start living a happier life today and get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/IDO. Ritual vitamins contain only the nutrients you need, in forms your body can actually use. Committed to creating the purest, most effective formulations for everyday health, Ritual is offering our listeners 10% off your first three months by visiting ritual.com/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, I hope you're having a great day.
0:29.9	Wherever you're tuning in from, we appreciate you coming to the show today.
0:35.4	I got a great one for you where I welcome Dr. Margaret Chisholm and she is the
0:40.4	vice chair for education and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences in
0:45.7	medicine at Johns Hopkins. She received her BA in visual arts from UMBC and her
0:52.2	MD from the University of Maryland and she has authored over 100 scientific
0:59.1	clinical and medical educational papers on psychiatric disorders and
1:04.2	humanistic medical practice as well as articles and one book on the use of
1:09.3	social media and medicine and two books on psychiatry. And today we talk about
1:14.4	one of her books, her latest book from Survive to Thrive and we dig into what
1:21.3	it means to just be surviving and how we get towards thriving in this life. And we
1:28.2	talk about dealing with mental illness, depression, some actionable things that
1:33.2	you can do to try to dig yourself out of that and also how to retell your life
1:41.5	narrative, your life story. I think that's a really valuable one for me lately.
1:46.7	I've realized that the voice in my head a lot of times is negative and is not
1:53.2	really telling me the objective reality of what's going on. And I totally
1:58.8	relate to that and think it's really important when you can start to
2:02.2	understand that that's not the reality, that little voice, that inner critic,
2:07.2	whatever it is. And when we start to observe that and realize that that's not us,
2:12.7	we can gain more control and move through the world in a lot better way. So
2:17.9	Dr. Chisholm tells us how to do that. And I refer to her as Meg in the interview,
2:23.2	as she has asked me to do. So don't think that we go back 20 years and I'm
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