362: Lori Gottlieb - Maybe You Should Talk To Someone
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Lori Gottlieb (IG: @lorigottlieb_author) is a psychotherapist and author of the New York Times bestseller Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, which is being turned into a television series.
In addition to her clinical practice, she writes The Atlantic’s weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column and contributes regularly to The New York Times and many other publications.
Lori’s recent TED Talk is one of the top 10 most watched of the year, and she is a sought-after expert in media such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, and NPR’s “Fresh Air.”
Lori has a new iHeart Radio podcast, produced by Katie Couric, called Dear Therapists.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How to land your kids in therapy
- Learning how to sit with your feelings
- Why Lori decided to write about the human condition
- How you see yourself clearly in other people’s stories
- The relationship that blindsided Lori
- Idiot compassion vs. wise compassion
- The vantage point of a therapist
- Lori’s unexplained medical symptoms brushed off as a psychological issue
- Why Lori was hiding her health issue from her loved ones
- Living with an undiagnosed autoimmune condition
- Don’t take life for granted
- Pay attention to the present moment
- Stop engaging in unproductive anxiety
- Numbness isn’t nothingness
- We should talk more to one another
- The meaning of true vulnerability
- Give people the opportunity to understand us
- Nobody gets through life without struggle
- Goodbye is not the end
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Lori Gottlieb - Maybe You Should Talk To Someone (book)
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Lori Gottlieb - How to Land Your Kid in Therapy (The Atlantic article)
Lori Gottlieb - Dear Therapist (The Atlantic column)
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe it's insomnia. Maybe it's too much food or too much alcohol or too much mindless |
| 0:05.5 | scrolling on the internet, the most effective short-term non-prescription painkiller out there. |
| 0:09.9 | So that's what we do when we try to numb out the way that we feel in the present. |
| 0:14.4 | But the problem is that numbness isn't nothingness. |
| 0:18.0 | Numbness is a reaction to having too many feelings. |
| 0:22.0 | It's not no feelings. It's not no feelings. |
| 0:24.0 | It's I'm overwhelmed by all of these feelings. |
| 0:27.6 | And all of these feelings are going to come out |
| 0:29.8 | in ways that are very maladaptive and that don't serve you. But if you can stay grounded in the |
| 0:34.2 | present, that's going to free you up. |
| 0:36.4 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 362 |
| 0:45.9 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your health to the |
| 0:50.2 | next level. Each week will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:55.4 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 1:00.8 | And this week we have Lori Gottlieb on the show. She's a psychotherapist and author of the New York Times Best Seller, |
| 1:06.4 | Maybe You Should Talk to someone, which is being turned into a TV series. |
| 1:10.0 | In addition to her clinical practice, she writes the Atlantic's Weekly Dear Therapist at Vice |
| 1:14.8 | Column and contributes regularly to the New York Times and many other publications. |
| 1:20.3 | Lori's recent TED Talk is one of the top 10 most watch of the year and she's a |
| 1:24.4 | sought after expert in media such as the Today Show, Good Morning America, |
| 1:28.8 | CNN and NPR's Fresh Air. |
| 1:31.0 | Lori has the new I-Heart Radio Podcast produced by Katie Currick called Dear Therapists. |
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