Feels Like We Only Go Forward (with Lori Gottlieb)

Another Day with Ana Marie Cox

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

News, Arts, Performing Arts, Business, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) is joined by Lori Gottlieb (@lorigottlieb1), author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. They talk about the route Lori took to become a therapist, how it's informed her practice and the common misconceptions of mental health. They'll also unpack why many are surprised that therapists have their own therapists! Join us for a mindful discussion on the mind, and don’t forget to call your therapist. (Turns out, like the rest of us, they don’t love being ghosted.) Thanks to our sponsors! Grove Collaborative is the online marketplace that delivers all-natural home, beauty, and personal care products directly to your door. Grove’s sustainable swap set is the best and easiest way to get started reducing plastics waste in your home. Go to Grove.co/FRIENDS and you’ll get the FREE FIVE PIECE set from Grove so you can easily swap out plastics. Plus, you’ll get free shipping AND a free 60-day VIP trial!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Autumnery Cox and welcome to With Friends Like These.
0:05.4	I have been in therapy for so long and known people in therapy for so long that I sometimes
0:12.1	forget it can be a revelation to some people.
0:15.6	Like it was for our next guest, Laurie Gottlieb.
0:19.2	Gottlieb had faith in therapy before she began it because she is a therapist.
0:24.4	The therapy became a true revelation to her when she sat on the other side of the couch.
0:30.8	Laurie is a psychotherapist and the author of The New York Times Bestseller maybe you
0:35.1	should talk to someone about her journey from the chair to the couch and back to the chair.
0:40.3	It is being adapted into a television series by the creators of the Emmy and Golden Globe
0:44.9	Award winning series The Americans.
0:47.4	In addition to her clinical practice, she writes, The Atlantic's Weekly Dear Therapist
0:51.7	column and her new I Heart podcast Dear Therapists is produced by Katie Kirk for I Heart.
0:58.7	You may wonder why exactly she's on the show because we don't talk about politics.
1:04.9	I don't think we come even close.
1:08.0	So what's the difference that needs to be bridged here?
1:10.8	What's the relationship that needs to be changed?
1:14.2	I think it's the relationship to ourselves.
1:17.7	We do talk a lot about learning to bridge the difference between the stories we tell ourselves
1:22.6	and what the truth is or at least something closer to the truth.
1:28.1	Because it's only when we see ourselves clearly that we can really start to see others.
1:34.3	Coming right up, Laurie got lead.
1:36.5	Laurie, welcome to the show.
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