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The Jordan Harbinger Show

702: Atheist Teen Stressed by Mom's Church Scene | Feedback Friday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.8 β€’ 12.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

As a closeted, bi, teen atheist, it's a bummer your mom makes you go to a church β€” three times a week β€” that has a problem with your very existence. On top of this, she insists you're being overly dramatic about the depression, anxiety, and insomnia you experience every day. How do you even consider coming out to a mother who can't seem to empathize with your most basic needs? We'll try to help find an answer to this and more here on Feedback Friday!

And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com. Now let's dive in!

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/702

On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:
  • As a closeted, bi, teen atheist, how do you even begin the conversation of coming out to your mother when she regularly downplays the depression, anxiety, and insomnia you're going through and forces you to go to her church (which rejects your very existence) three times a week?
  • You were dismayed to learn that your husband (with whom you work) isn't very popular at the office. While you know it's due to his difficulty reading social cues rather than any serious character flaws, you're not sure if telling him will help him improve or completely crush his confidence.
  • You've made the decision not to be bullied by your emotionally manipulative, sometimes violent QAnon-corrupted parents whose values, to put it kindly, do not match your own. The problem: you also happen to work for them. How do you make a clean break from them and their business?
  • As a 73-year-old delver into family secrets lain bare by the modern wonder of DNA testing, you'd like to have a relationship with a few of your newfound relatives. Unfortunately, some people in your family have threatened to cut you out of their lives if you reveal their part in covering up this shared history. What should you do?
  • You're excited about a new relationship that budded from an old friendship. But how do you foster a healthy bond without falling into the rut of codependency you each experienced with prior significant others?
  • Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at friday@jordanharbinger.com!
  • Connect with Jordan on Twitter at @JordanHarbinger and Instagram at @jordanharbinger.
  • Connect with Gabriel on Twitter at @GabeMizrahi.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Feedback Friday.

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I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger.

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As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday, producer of the Custom Dungle, connecting your

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USB-A of drama to our USB-C of Life Advice.

0:14.8

Gabriel, Ms. Rahee

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Top 5

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On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most

0:22.2

fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact

0:26.7

your own life and those around you.

0:28.6

We want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and

0:31.7

behave, and our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker

0:36.4

so you can get a much deeper understanding of how the world works and make sense of what's

0:39.9

really happening even inside your own mind.

0:42.5

If you're new to the show on Fridays, we give advice to you and answer listener questions.

0:46.5

The rest of the week we have long form interviews and conversations with a variety of absolutely

0:50.6

amazing folks from spies to CEOs, athletes, authors, thinkers and performers.

0:56.1

This week we had Yoan Grillo on Gun Smuggling, Cartel Violence and Crime in Mexico and the

1:02.2

United States.

1:03.2

This was a two-parter, really insightful stuff from somebody who spent a lot of time

1:08.2

in Mexico covering crime, cartels, violence, gun running, human trafficking, you name it.

1:13.4

If you're interested in that sort of discussion from this show, this one is a buffet.

1:17.5

I also write every so often on the blog, my latest post, Why You O Your Friends Honesty.

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