Everything Isn't Terrible with Dr. Kathleen Smith

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

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Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.6 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Laura and Sarah open with a discussion of things that evoke feelings of anxiety, and then Sarah interviews author and therapist Dr. Kathleen Smith who she connected with after reading her recent book, the aptly-named Everything Isn't Terrible. Dr. Smith discusses Bowen theory and offers many concrete suggestions for how we can manage anxiety about our families, in parenting, at work, and in a stressful news environment.

In the Q&A, they address a listener trying to decide between school options for her child - one that might work better now vs a potential better long-term solution.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
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0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Hi, this is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist,
0:38.3	and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of three, a practicing physician, and blogger on the side.
0:44.3	We are two working parents who love our careers and our families.
0:47.3	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun.
0:53.3	From figuring out child care
0:55.2	to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life.
1:02.4	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. In this episode, Sarah is going to be interviewing
1:08.2	Dr. Kathleen Smith, who is a licensed therapy with a PhD in counseling,
1:12.6	is also the author of the book, Everything Isn't Terrible.
1:16.3	So Sarah, why don't you tell us a little bit about why you found Dr. Smith?
1:21.2	Yes.
1:21.6	So a blog reader actually recommended her book to me when I was going through some period of overwhelm. I don't remember.
1:29.7	Actually, when the initial recommendation came in, I think it was around my big career transition,
1:34.0	a lot of big feelings I was having in 2022 around changing things around and making some
1:40.7	really big decisions and going through some tough things. But I kind of forgot about
1:44.2	the recommendation and had it in the back of my mind. But then when I had another kind of slightly
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