Episode 173: Overthinking About You with Allison Raskin
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Allison Raskin's book Overthinking About You is the first of its kind that talks about dating and mental health. This week, Allison joins me for a conversation about talking to a potential partner about mental health topics, why caring for your mental health when dating is important, and some tactical strategies to help you be better prepared to tackle dating and relationships with confidence.
Allison is a comedian, a mental health advocate and the host of the popular "Just Between Us" podcast, and co-creator of a YouTube channel by the same name. Join us for this insightful and important conversation.
Show Highlights
- Why talking about dating and mental health is not commonplace (and why it should be) (2:14)
- How to open up about mental health with a potential partner (9:45)
- Creating a safe space for dating and caring for your mental health (12:35)
- Allison stresses the importance of self-soothing techniques before you start dating (18:16)
- Online dating tips and strategies (40:25)
Learn more about Allison Raskin:
Allison Raskin has written and developed multiple TV shows and created the original scripted podcast Gossip. A vocal mental health advocate, Allison also runs the mental health-focused Instagram account @emotionalsupportlady. She knows the challenges of navigating romantic relationships with mental health issues firsthand. She was diagnosed with OCD at 4 years old and also lives with a general anxiety disorder.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other |
| 0:33.9 | side of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:49.3 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back. Today's episode is awesome. My guest today is Allison Raskin. She's a New York Times bestselling author and the author of the new book, Over Thinking About You, Navigating Romantic Relationships when you have anxiety, OCD, and or depression. She's a comedian, a mental health |
| 1:12.4 | advocate, and the host of the popular Just Between Us podcast and co-creator of a YouTube |
| 1:18.8 | channel by the same name. You can also find her on Instagram, her Instagram account, |
| 1:25.5 | Emotional Support Lady, is awesome. And I think this is a really important |
| 1:30.2 | topic for us to talk about. I mean, this is what most of us go through post-divorce, right, |
| 1:35.8 | is we are learning how to date again when a lot of us have anxiety and depression. A lot of |
| 1:42.8 | us have or sort of come to terms with some of our mental health issues. |
| 1:47.2 | And it's a really great and important conversation to be having. |
| 1:50.6 | How to date while dealing with all of your shit. |
| 1:57.5 | I don't know anything about this. |
| 2:00.5 | So without further ado, here is my conversation with Alison Raskin. |
| 2:13.9 | Allison, thank you so much for coming on and talking to us about your new book. So exciting. |
| 2:21.6 | Thank you so much for having me. So, okay, so let's talk about this book because this is really |
| 2:27.5 | interesting, right? It's, it's one of the first books ever to talk about dating and mental health. |
| 2:37.9 | So like, first of all, like, why, why is this not something we're talking about all the time? Like, I don't know, you know, I think from the moment that |
| 2:45.8 | I, that I started working on the book to when the book came out, you know, because books take a long |
| 2:50.0 | time. I think on social media, there is some more acknowledgement of it all. And, you know, you'll see some |
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