Bonus: Should You Cancel Your Family?: An Interview with Brit Barron, author of Do You Still Talk to Grandma? When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt pressured to cut someone out of your life because of their problematic views or actions -- even when it's family? In today's polarized culture, it's easy to fall into black-and-white thinking and believe that we must completely reject anyone who doesn't align with our beliefs. But what happens when the problematic person is someone we love, like a family member or close friend?
In this bonus episode, I sit down with author and speaker Brit Barron to explore the complexities of navigating relationships with problematic loved ones. Brit's new book Do You Still Talk to Grandma? When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love challenges the notion that we must cancel or annihilate those who hold different views from us. You're going to want to listen in on this one, as Brit offers insights on practicing empathy and humility, finding a middle ground between accountability and punishment, and more.
Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://schoolofnewfeministthought.com/bonus-brit-barron
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. I'm your host Kara Lowenthile, Master certified Coach and founder of the School of New Feminist Thumb. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life on your own terms, |
| 0:22.0 | one that you're truly excited to live. Let's go. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello my friends, I am as always excited for my guest, but today's guest I just saw her book come across my Instagram and I was like oh my god we have to talk you me we need to do this my people need to hear this so |
| 0:40.2 | Today's conversation I think is like is going to be an antidote to a lot of what we see online and a lot of the sort of like |
| 0:48.4 | unmanaged mind action is what I would call it the polarization polarization of like, I have a thought, all my thoughts are true, |
| 0:55.4 | anybody who doesn't agree with my thoughts is a moron and a terrible person, and I therefore |
| 0:59.5 | should punish them, cut them out, never speak to them again. |
| 1:04.0 | So I'm so excited to introduce Britt Barron. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm going to have her tell you a little bit about yourself, |
| 1:09.0 | but I just have to tell you the title of her book, |
| 1:10.0 | which came out this week, so you can get the book now and obviously you should all |
| 1:14.0 | order it we're going to talk a lot about it but it has such a brilliant title |
| 1:16.8 | do you still talk to grandma when the problematic people in our lives are the ones |
| 1:21.1 | we love which I just love for even suggesting that you're allowed to love a problematic person in your life, which I feel like a lot of people online don't think you are. |
| 1:28.0 | So will you tell us a little bit about who you are and how you kind of came to write this book? |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah, yeah, thanks for having me. I'm super excited to be here and have this conversation. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm Britt Barron. I'm an author, speaker, I spent a lot of my career in the DEI space actually, so I've had lots of conversations about |
| 1:49.2 | liberation, justice, and found myself a few years ago wondering where is the room for |
| 1:54.9 | nuance and all of this it seems like something that that needs to happen and |
| 1:58.8 | shift and so the journey of my own life, the journey of my work, |
| 2:03.2 | sort of led me to dive deep into some questions, |
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