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

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Amy Morin is a psychotherapist and the 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 6 million views. She's a columnist for Inc, Forbes, and Psychology Today.

This interview originally aired in 2018, but we need to learn skills to be mentally strong now more than ever!

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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 Morin. She's a psychotherapist and the author of 13 things
0:23.2	mentally strong people don't do, an international bestselling book that's being translated into
0:28.2	more than 25 languages, as well as 13 things mentally strong parents don't do. Her TED talk,
0:34.7	The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong, has had more than 6 million views.
0:38.9	She's also a columnist for Inc., Forbes, and Psychology Today.
0:42.7	Welcome to the show, Amy.
0:44.7	Well, thanks for having me.
0:46.4	Amy, there's a fascinating story about how your first book, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do, came about. Tell us about that. So I was a therapist,
0:58.4	and I had thought my goal in life was just going to be about teaching other people to be
1:02.9	mentally strong, but I went through a series of losses in my life. My mother passed away
1:07.8	suddenly from a brain aneurysm 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.
1:18.4	Oh, my gosh.
1:19.0	And yeah. And so at some point, my journey with mental strength really became personal.
1:24.9	I figured out, okay, it's not just about teaching other people these skills. I also need to practice them in my own life. And throughout seeing people in my therapy office over the years, I figured out sometimes resilience wasn't always about what people did, but sometimes it was more about what they didn't do. And so I practiced not just developing good habits, but getting rid of bad habits that would
1:47.0	keep me stuck.
1:48.6	And then a few years down the road, I was fortunate to find love again.
1:52.2	I got remarried and life was looking good.
1:55.0	And my father-in-law was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
1:59.3	And to get through that while we were dealing with what we knew was about to happen,
2:04.4	the doctors gave him a few weeks to a couple of months left to live.
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