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Good Inside with Dr. Becky

Calling All "Good Girls"

Good Inside with Dr. Becky

Dr. Becky

Kids & Family, Parenting, Education, Relationships, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Becky unpacks the good girl conditioning from childhood and inspires women to embrace being inconvenient.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So many of us struggle to locate and express our needs.

0:05.7

I want us to think about that together today because I think it's kind of universal.

0:10.6

So many times that I'm with friends will complain about so many things in our life.

0:15.8

But when someone in the group says, okay, I know there's a lot that's hard, but what do you want?

0:19.6

What is it that you actually want? Kind of look at each other. Like, what do we want? And I think underneath that

0:27.4

is this kind of unconscious question, am I allowed to want? Am I allowed to want things for myself? I mean, I know how I feel when my wants and needs

0:43.2

aren't met, but am I allowed to proactively want and need things from other people from the world?

0:50.3

And I think this conversation is deeply connected to this two-word phrase that was kind of always in the ether when we were growing up.

0:59.0

I still think it is today.

1:00.7

Ready for it?

1:03.4

Good girl.

1:04.9

Oh, kind of have the hebie-jeebies when I hear it.

1:08.2

Oh, she's such a good girl.

1:09.6

Becky is such a good girl. Becky was such a good girl. Becky was such a good

1:12.4

girl on the play date. Be a good girl. Today I want to talk about how these things all relate.

1:19.3

Wanting things. Other people may be feeling inconvenienced along the way. What it really means to be a good girl and what lessons

1:31.2

we took from that? And there's no better time to kind of talk about these themes than March.

1:38.6

In March, we celebrate women. And a lot of times, we celebrate women give. They're accomplishments in the world,

1:48.1

how they've often taken care of a lot of people. I have a really bold idea. I'm almost,

1:55.0

maybe it's my own wiring. My heart's racing. I'm a little nervous to say it.

1:59.6

What if there was a moment in March? I'm going to say it. What if there was a moment in March,

2:02.1

I'm going to go crazy. What if we claimed a day to celebrate what women take, what we take for

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