Amy Morin: ...that the world doesn't owe us anything

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Our guest is Amy Morin, psychotherapist and author of "13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do'" an international bestselling book that is being translated into more than 25 languages, as well as "13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do". Her TED talk, "The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong", has had more than 15 million views. She's a columnist for Forbes and Psychology Today. Her website ishttps://amymorinlcsw.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.
0:14.7	And I'm Laura Owens, and we're really excited about our next guest, Amy Moran.
0:20.2	She's a psychotherapist and the author of 13
0:22.7	things mentally strong people don't do, an international bestselling book that's being
0:27.5	translated into more than 25 languages, as well as 13 things mentally strong parents don't do.
0:34.0	Her TED talk, The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong, has had more than 6 million views.
0:39.0	She's also a columnist for Inc, Forbes, and Psychology Today.
0:42.8	Welcome to the show, Amy.
0:44.8	Well, thanks for having me.
0:46.5	Amy, there's a fascinating story about how your first book,
0:50.3	13 things mentally strong people don't do came about.
0:54.8	Tell us about that.
0:56.8	So I was a therapist, and I had thought my goal in life was just going to be about teaching
1:02.0	other people to be mentally strong, but I went through a series of losses in my life.
1:06.8	My mother passed away suddenly from a brain aneurism when I was 23.
1:11.9	And then on the three-year anniversary of her death, my 26-year-old husband died of a heart attack.
1:18.5	Oh my gosh.
1:19.3	And yeah.
1:20.8	And so at some point, my journey with mental strength really became personal.
1:25.0	I figured out, okay, it's not just about teaching other people
1:27.5	these skills. I also need to practice them in my own life. And throughout seeing people in my therapy
1:34.0	office over the years, I figured out sometimes resilience wasn't always about what people did,
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