How to Express Your Needs
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
I’m joined by Ariella Azaraf, LCSW, to talk about expressing your needs, setting boundaries, and managing your dating anxiety. We discuss the language to use when you want to communicate about your needs (or your needs not being met) to someone new, when and how to trust your gut and intuition, coping with being blindsided, and what to do when you’re fresh out of a breakup and are afraid to go to the places that remind you of them. Ariella shares her expertise on where your anxiety comes from, what to do in moments of high anxiety, and how you can work towards healing your anxious attachment.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:07.9 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back for another episode of Seeing Other People. |
| 0:13.3 | I don't know what to say right now. |
| 0:15.8 | I literally don't know how to start this intro. |
| 0:20.0 | Big life update. You guys, I'm engaged. I have been on cloud |
| 0:29.0 | 9,000 for the past week. I am so exhausted. I don't think I've ever been this tired in my life, |
| 0:37.3 | but I wouldn't want it any other way. |
| 0:41.1 | I'll give you guys the little rundown and then Jake and I are actually going to record an episode |
| 0:45.6 | tomorrow about recapping the proposal and our first week being engaged in all of the festivities. |
| 0:53.0 | And we will answer the number one question |
| 0:55.9 | that everybody has been asking, did I know it was coming or not? So stay tuned for all of that. |
| 1:01.9 | We are really excited to kind of just recap it all and have also that recording down as a memory |
| 1:07.9 | of part of our engagement week. So it was really incredible, though. |
| 1:11.5 | He proposed to me in the spot where we had our first date over two years ago. And it was just the most, |
| 1:21.0 | truly the most special and incredible moment of my entire life. I actually like burst into tears the second he got down on one knee. |
| 1:30.3 | And I've never in my life had a rush of emotions like that. I didn't know that I was capable of |
| 1:36.0 | like bursting into happy tears. I've literally never done that in my entire life. And it was just so like I felt like I was floating and I can't I don't know I just I wish I could |
| 1:50.1 | bottle up that feeling but trust me when I tell you it is worth the weight and is worth all of the |
| 1:57.7 | shitty people who go to you and all of the bad dates and all of the people who are |
| 2:03.7 | breaking your heart right now. Like it is all leading to you finding your person and you being |
| 2:09.7 | ready for that person. Like Jake and I always say had we met six months before or any other point |
| 2:15.9 | before, like we wouldn't have been ready for each other. |
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