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Other People's Problems

Hannah: Stop pleasing and start trusting connection

Other People's Problems

CBC

Society & Culture

4.7820 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Hannah has found a range of ways to earn love and protect herself from getting hurt. In Dr. Hillary McBride’s words, she “has found a way to stay connected to people by figuring out who they want her to be, and then being that.” The two work to help Hannah trust that she can show up as her authentic self, and to believe that she is lovable as she is.

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0:00.0

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0:35.6

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0:38.9

Okay, so I know you're feeling like you need to be cozy today, but tell me how the last

0:43.4

week has been for you.

0:45.8

It's been a bit hard with the homework assignment.

0:51.5

I guess I really didn't want to look through my grandma's eyes at me.

0:56.3

So I found myself crying or like tears would come up kind of as like a defense mechanism, I think.

1:03.6

Okay.

1:05.0

Because like obviously my grandma doesn't know the big things have happened in my life, but bring on like the shame and the other stuff.

1:13.6

So then I guess that sort of got me thinking, like, if I had been able to share that with her,

1:21.3

like would that have changed anything?

1:27.2

Yeah. Hi, I'm Hilary McBride, and this is other people's problems.

1:35.8

This is a real-life therapy session between myself and a client we're calling Hannah.

1:44.8

In this session with Hannah, you hear us start off by reviewing some of the homework that

1:49.0

it gave her after our last session, an experiment, something to try, to see what would come up

1:54.3

for her.

1:56.1

Hannah's grandma was a really important person in her life, someone who was stable, who's

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