7 Questions To Reclaim Yourself with Dr. Thema Bryant

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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413. 7 Questions To Reclaim Yourself with Dr. Thema Bryant Psychologist, author, professor, and minister, Dr. Thema Bryant, joins us to explore how to rebuild a relationship with yourself and why healing that relationship is the foundation for real connection with others. -The essential shift to stop believing your wounded self is your whole self -Why you are worthy of grieving—and why recognizing that changes everything -How to end the hunger for safety—and what to trust instead -How to stop constantly running and finally learn to stand still -The question Abby asked that made Amanda nauseous. Dr. Thema Bryant is a psychologist, professor, sacred artist, minister and author of the new book Matters of the Heart, who teaches how to create healthy relationships, heal trauma, and overcome stress and oppression. She is a professor of psychology at Pepperdine University, where she directs the Culture and Trauma Research Laboratory. Dr. Tayma is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and leads the mental health ministry at First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles. She was the 2023 president of the American Psychological Association (APA) and is the host of The Homecoming Podcast. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. I am telling you right now, Pod Squad, you are not going to want to miss this conversation.
0:18.4	In the next hour, you're going to learn what we learned, which is
0:24.4	the only way to have a good relationship with others in the world is to start by building a good
0:33.6	relationship with yourself. A million people have told us this. No one has ever told us what the hell it means to have a good relationship with yourself. A million people have told us this. No one has ever told us
0:39.1	what the hell it means to have a good relationship with yourself. And today, I freaking learned it.
0:45.5	Okay? You will learn it too. It's absolutely revolutionary. The person who we're speaking to
0:51.2	today is absolutely revolutionary. In this hour, she teaches us about
0:56.1	self-sovereignty. She teaches us how to come home to ourselves, how to analyze whether or not we have
1:01.7	a solid relationship with ourselves. And she teaches us how to go out into this wild world and
1:07.1	maintain our gentleness while being powerful in a way we couldn't without gentleness.
1:13.8	Dr. Tama Bryant is a psychologist, professor, sacred artist, minister, and author of the new book
1:19.8	Matters of the Heart.
1:21.2	She teaches how to create healthy relationships, heal trauma, and overcome stress and oppression.
1:26.5	She is a professor of psychology at Pepperdine University,
1:30.3	where she directs the Culture and Trauma Research Laboratory. Dr. Bryant is an ordained
1:35.5	elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and leads the mental health ministry
1:40.3	at first AME Church in Los Angeles. She was the 2023 president of the American Psychological Association, the APA, and she is the host
1:50.8	of the homecoming podcast.
1:53.7	Dr. Tama Bryant.
1:55.7	Welcome.
1:56.8	Oh, my goodness.
1:58.1	Tema.
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