How changing your story can change your life | Lori Gottlieb

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🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Stories help you make sense of your life -- but when these narratives are incomplete or misleading, they can keep you stuck instead of providing clarity. In an actionable talk, psychotherapist and advice columnist Lori Gottlieb shows how to break free from the stories you've been telling yourself by becoming your own editor and rewriting your narrative from a different point of view.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	Hi, you're
0:08.0	Hi, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:12.0	I'm Elise Hugh. What is the story you're telling
0:15.1	yourself about your life and choices? Psychotherapist and author Lori Gottlieb says
0:20.2	that is a more foundational question than asking what should I do?
0:24.0	Even though she does have a lot of folks asking her what she should do a lot,
0:28.0	occupational hazard.
0:29.0	Her talk at Ted at DuPont in 2019 explains why understanding the narratives in our lives can also transform
0:36.1	them.
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0:55.0	slash health. Thanks.
0:57.0	So I'm going to start by telling you about an email that I saw in my inbox recently.
1:01.0	Now, I have a pretty unusual inbox because I'm a therapist
1:06.0	and I write an advice column called Dear Therapist. So you can imagine right
1:10.9	what's in there? I mean, I've read thousands of very personal letters
1:16.7	from strangers all over the world.
1:19.4	And these letters range from heartbreak and loss
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