Ep. 243: Treat Yourself Like a Dog and How Obligers Can Resist Pressures to Indulge

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Why you should treat yourself like a dog, why telling someone, “Calm down” is usually a bad idea, and ideas for Obligers who are trying to resist expectations that they eat or drink. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected]; happiercast.com/238; 774-277-9336. Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/243 Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. Get tickets for our live podcast events in Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Chicago, Kansas City, Providence, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Charlotte and Brooklyn here: https://gretchenrubin.com/events Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, and Happier in Hollywood. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we explore strategies and solutions for
0:05.1	making life happier.
0:07.4	This week we'll talk about why you should treat yourself like a dog, and we'll talk about
0:11.8	ways for obligers to resist when people expect them to eat or drink something.
0:28.8	I'm Gretchen Ribbon, a writer whose studies happiness good habits in human nature.
0:32.6	I'm a New York City, and with me is my sister, Alyssa Kraft, who always treats me like a dog
0:37.6	when we're together.
0:39.1	That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in Los Angeles, and I don't
0:44.8	know about that, Bradshaw.
0:47.3	I guess I give you treats.
0:49.0	Now, Elizabeth, you have some exciting news to share.
0:54.4	Yes, Sarah and I, my writing partner and co-host of Happier and Hollywood, have sold two
1:00.9	pilots.
1:01.9	So, we sold one to ABC and one to CBS, so we're starting the whole process of doing pilots
1:10.4	and trying to get shows on the air.
1:12.1	So if anybody wants to follow that process, we talk about it in detail on Happier and Hollywood,
1:17.6	as well as many other things.
1:20.3	Check it out because we will be filling you in as we go.
1:24.9	Well, I remember back in the day when you were just starting out, and if somebody had told
1:29.4	you that the day would come when you had two pilots that had been sold like that, you
1:35.0	would have just been staggered.
1:36.6	Yes.
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