Hey listeners, Dr. Monica Johnson here. We're taking a break from your regularly scheduled

savvy psychologists programming today and bringing you something really special.

It's an episode of a brand new podcast called Curious State that's all about discovering

the unexpected gyms of knowledge that exist all around us. This episode features best-selling

author and therapist Laurie Gottlieb to help answer the question, can we overcome our childhoods?

You're going to learn why we're all unreliable narrators of our lives, the long-term impacts

of talking kids out of feeling what they're feeling, and the three questions to ask ourselves

to help get rid of negative self-talk. If you enjoyed the episode, you can find more Curious State

on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to my voice right now. See you next week.

Ah, adulthood, we've come so damn far.

We've gotten taller, we've gotten wider in some places, we've had scrapes that have healed,

and a few of them have made some pretty cool scar stories. Our minds have also grown,

and we've come to understand the beauty of things like a quiet night in or

for being kind strangers. And yet, somewhere in the rows and rows of office cubicles that make

up the emotional business of our brains, there's one employee, Helbet, on burning the whole place down.

Her name is Childhood. I'm Doug Frazier, and this is Curious State.

Can we overcome our childhoods? Laurie Gottlieb is here to help us answer that very question.

I'm Laurie Gottlieb, I am a psychotherapist, and I am the author of Maybe You Should Talk to

Someone. Laurie's memoir mixes tales of her time as a therapist, and as a patient of therapy.

If you haven't read it, take it for me, you should. So, about that childhood question,

our friend Laurie has an answer, sort of. Yes, or no? I'd like to call my mom.

What we don't realize is that we're all unreliable narrators. We tell a story through a particular lens,

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