#797 Brianne Davis Helps A Struggling Paul
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Paul’s trusted support group friend Brianne Davis comes to lend him emotional support around his current mental/emotional struggles and to talk about her own experience with the challenge of mean self-talk and working towards having nonjudgemental self-compassion. A great conversation for anyone who is curious about how vulnerability, honesty and sitting with agonizing feelings can be discussed between trusted friends in support groups, especially when one of them is struggling.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 797 with my return guest, Brianne Davis. |
| 0:05.4 | Brianne is a friend of mine from my support groups, and we're going to talk about self-compassion, |
| 0:12.3 | which if you're a regular listener, you know that I'm going through kind of a really, |
| 0:18.2 | really tough time lately, and it's at the heart. |
| 0:22.3 | My struggle with that is kind of at the heart of things. |
| 0:26.3 | And I've wanted to have Brianne on previously to talk about a book that she has, which is |
| 0:34.8 | called, I misname it in the podcast. I call it becoming your own |
| 0:40.7 | fucking best friend, but it's called becoming my own fucking soulmate. And I was like, well, |
| 0:49.3 | this seems like the perfect time to let people who are listening, let them see how nitty, gritty conversations can be between two people who are friends from a support group and really getting down there in the trenches with each other, |
| 1:16.3 | which is what she does for me in this episode. |
| 1:19.6 | And I'm very nervous about it because I feel that I'm coming across as a classic social media attention whore. |
| 1:32.2 | I'm coming across as somebody who's stuck in playing the victim, a hundred other things. |
| 1:39.6 | And the recovered part of me knows that I have to just walk through that if I want to get better |
| 1:49.1 | and continue to grow. |
| 1:51.5 | I have to risk looking bad, looking foolish, and being somebody that people just roll their eyes at. That's what the mean part of my brain |
| 2:05.1 | is telling me. And before we get to that, I've been reading, if you're regular listener, |
| 2:15.7 | you know that I told you that one of the pieces of |
| 2:19.5 | literature that I've been reading lately, I'm not a member of ACA, but I have their textbook |
| 2:26.0 | laying around, and I've just been reading it because a little voice in my head was like, |
| 2:30.8 | you might find some help in reading this text. |
| 2:34.9 | And I have. |
| 2:35.6 | Almost every page of it has been, I guess in their program, they call this the big red book. |
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