Episode 16: The Power of Personal Responsibility
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this solo episode, I talk about coming out of a pretty dark depression, and then move on to how taking personal responsibility can be the most empowering thing you can do for yourself, your marriage, and your divorce.
I tell the story of when I was in nursery school and was told to apologize and literally couldn't, do a pretty amazing impression of my mom, and tell a really personal story about what having been molested as a child taught me about personal responsibility and growth.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron
The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones by Sandra Tsing Loh
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have real, honest, smart, |
| 0:11.6 | and sometimes even hilarious conversations about co-parenting, separation, and divorce, and all that goes along with that. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, certified |
| 0:22.0 | life and relationship coach, and happily divorced mom who helps women decide if they should stay |
| 0:27.1 | in or leave their marriages and then guides them through the process one step at a time. |
| 0:35.5 | Hey everyone. It's been a long time since I've done a solo podcast. So today I'm jumping back in and I'm going to talk to you in a little while later about how taking responsibility for your own shit and your marriage is basically the most personally empowering thing you can do, even though it might seem weak or scary |
| 0:56.6 | or like you're giving up or giving in. But the truth is that taking personal responsibility |
| 1:02.3 | is possibly and probably the most courageous and empowering thing you can ever do in almost |
| 1:07.9 | any circumstance. So we're going to get to that later. But first, I want to come |
| 1:13.6 | clean about some stuff. So I've been a little quiet here lately and I wanted to tell you what's |
| 1:18.7 | been going on. I have spent the last three or four months struggling with some pretty serious |
| 1:25.4 | depression. Now, if you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, |
| 1:29.3 | which you totally should, if you're not, by the way. |
| 1:32.3 | All the links are on my website, kateanthony.com. |
| 1:35.3 | But if you've been following me here, oh, there, over there on social. |
| 1:41.3 | I have posted a few things about it. And I tend to be pretty pretty transparent |
| 1:46.9 | on social media about stuff that I struggle with. My general feeling is that the less that we |
| 1:52.0 | hide and the more we come out and share our truths, the more we normalize things for other people. |
| 1:57.4 | So I talk about my depression pretty openly. So but I just, but I haven't talked about it here that much. So I talk about my depression pretty openly. Um, so, but I just, but I haven't talked about it |
| 2:03.2 | here that much. So I'm just going to dip into it a little bit. So I, you know, I've always said |
| 2:07.6 | that I suffer from chronic depression. And in thinking about it this week, I realize that that's |
| 2:11.8 | wrong, actually. What I, what I really suffer from is acute depression, which means that I don't live |
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