Beyond Happily Ever After: Katherine Woodward Thomas on Redefining Love | EP 590

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Katherine Woodward Thomas, seasoned marriage and family therapist, shares her profound wisdom gained from over two decades of counseling and her personal journey, including her own divorce. Thomas delves into the societal pressure around the "happily ever after" myth, tracing its roots to historical contexts and highlighting the need to redefine our aspirations in the modern world. Addressing the challenges of evolving relationships, she emphasizes the importance of conscious love, growth, and navigating the delicate balance between stability and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas provides valuable insights on transitioning relationships, updating agreements, and embracing personal and collective evolution.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	You're a marriage family therapist, right? You've been doing this for 20, 30 years
0:16.4	and you've been teaching hundreds of thousands of people around the world about, you know,
0:20.6	relationship advice and all this good stuff so you've got some great
0:23.4	wisdom as a licensed therapist but also with your own experiences so I think that's
0:29.4	where we learn the most from our own experiences because you're your divorce as well yes and you had to figure
0:35.1	this out for yourself also after a decade we decided to un-marry so it wasn't the one anymore well Well, he was though for that time.
0:44.0	For that time.
0:45.0	Okay.
0:46.0	And this goes back to the Happily Ever After Myth.
0:48.0	When we made the decision, you know, my prayer was like a little less than pious.
0:52.0	It was, you you know are you
0:54.0	effing kidding me God like seriously I like got all these people who look to me
1:00.8	for the answers and how to find love and they really like open up to
1:05.3	possibility in their lives after all sorts of things but then I'm going to get divorced
1:10.3	so what's that message and how do I even convey that message so I know you talk you love to talk in school of greatness about failure a lot
1:16.8	So that was like a great crash in burn
1:19.4	That moment it could have really been a disaster and you were the the woman that was like, I'm calling the one,
1:24.6	I'm teaching all how to do it, and now I'm essentially
1:27.6	failed at calling in the one.
1:29.1	Yeah.
1:30.0	Well, and so you know what?
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