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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 581: Narcissist? Codependent? Panic Attack? Maybe Not. Plus a Quick Cure for Worry

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We talk about why it’s a good idea to avoid self-diagnosis. We also suggest an easy hack for people prone to worry, and share our progress on “Design Your Year” aims now that we’ve reached Day 100 of the year. Resources & links related to this episode: Visit the Design Your Year hub  26 for 2026 list Choose your One Word Theme Join the Move 26 Challenge  Take the Four Tendencies Quiz  Check out my book Forty Ways to Look at JFK here Elizabeth: The Client by John Grisham (Amazon, Bookshop)  Gretchen: Joyful Anyway by Kate Bowler (Amazon, Bookshop)  Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What if the life you built online suddenly became real and completely out of your control?

0:06.8

In Carol Claire Burke's debut novel yesteryear, Natalie is a tradwife influencer with a picture

0:12.8

perfect life and millions of followers until she wakes up in 1855 and everything she's been

0:18.9

romanticizing becomes something she has to survive.

0:22.4

Carol Claire Burke is also the co-host of the podcast, Diabolical Lies, and readers are calling this

0:28.1

book impossible to put down with a twist that's completely off the rails in the best way.

0:34.0

Yesteryear is available now in print, audio, and e-book.

0:49.3

Music Yesterday Year is available now in print, audio, and ebook. Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about strategies and solutions for living happier lives. This week we'll talk about why you might want to avoid self-diagnosis.

0:54.6

And we share a super quick and easy hack for people who are prone to worry.

1:00.6

I'm Gretchen Rubin, writer who studies happiness, good habits, human nature.

1:04.5

I'm in my little home office in New York City.

1:06.9

And joining me today from Kansas City is my sister Elizabeth Craft.

1:10.9

Elizabeth, Elizabeth, I wish I were with you in K.C.

1:12.9

Me too.

1:13.9

That's me, Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer who lives in LA, but yes, I'm coming

1:19.6

to you from what we call the bunny room because of the wallpaper in Kansas City, Gretsch.

1:24.5

So fun.

1:25.8

Well, before we jump in, a few updates, Shannon wrote, I want to share a little whimsy.

1:31.2

I read the last lecture by Randy Pouch, and he mentions that he won the parent lottery as they let him draw on a wall in his house as a kid.

1:39.6

In an effort to emulate that and provide myself, family and friends with an opportunity for whimsy,

1:45.3

we created a wonder wall in our upstairs office.

1:48.9

Anyone who comes over can draw anything on the wall that provides wonder or awe in their lives.

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