How to Get More Joy with Martha Beck

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

1. Why it’s important to prioritize our own needs, wants, and feelings–and how that creates freedom and peace for those we love. 2. What Glennon says was the hardest thing about telling her kids that Craig and she were getting a divorce–and how truth telling frees us all. 3. Martha’s helpful strategy for how to choose freedom over fear when we’re faced with a tough decision. About Martha: Dr. Martha Beck is a New York Times bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.” Martha is a passionate and engaging teacher, known for her unique combination of science, humor, and spirituality. Her newest book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times Best Seller. Book: The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self Instagram: @themarthabeck Twitter: @marthabeck To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, lovebugs. I don't know why I just called you lovebugs actually. I'm not going to
0:17.2	redo it. So I call my family. And so today you are lovebugs. Welcome back to we can do
0:26.8	hard things. We are super psyched about today because the response to the last episode was so
0:32.8	huge because we were with Miss Martha Beck who is reminding us about how to return to our wild
0:40.4	and live with a little more integrity just meaning integrated. So our outer lives and our inner
0:47.1	selves are the same damn thing for once in our lives. And because acting is so exhausting. And so
0:53.6	we're trying to figure out how to just be the parts of untamed that people responded to the most
1:01.2	I think were this idea that there is a part of us that knows how to live and what we were meant for
1:07.5	but that we get that part drowned out by the expectations of our culture and by our
1:12.7	by family and by religion and by all of these forces that tame us into forgetting our wild.
1:21.8	And so so much of my life was transformed when I kind of figured out how to get back to that knowing.
1:29.7	And I know that's true but I'm not always amazing at describing how to do it perfectly. So we brought in
1:37.3	the human who knows how to describe how to get back to our knowing. And her name is Martha Beck.
1:46.0	Martha is back. Hello Martha. Hello love bug. Thank you. Thanks for that. I needed that. Do you mind
1:57.3	Martha if we just jump into these questions because they're more beautiful and fascinating and brilliant
2:02.4	than you can imagine this pod squad that that we do life with just always brings the ringers. So
2:08.2	let's just jump in. Is that okay? Oh love it. Okay, let's do it. My name is Anna and I am wondering
2:17.2	about whether or not you think selfishness is real. And by that I mean as someone who has
2:27.6	recently made the decision to stop drinking and who is really working on prioritizing
2:34.1	myself and learning how to get in touch with what it is that I really like to do and how I like to
2:40.4	spend my time. I've come up against a lot of moments of not knowing when it's okay to just do what
2:48.9	I want to do with something that means not leaving the apartment for several days. And sometimes when I
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