How to Handle Family Drama

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Religion & Spirituality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Danielle Bean discusses how to handle family drama. She emphasizes the importance of setting realistic expectations, thinking ahead and planning ahead, picking your battles, and setting boundaries. She also shares listener feedback on cultivating joy and offers advice on embracing your temperament, faking it till you make it, and praying for the grace to be more joyful.

Takeaways

Set realistic expectations for family drama and recognize that it is a normal part of family relationships.
Think ahead and plan ahead for interactions with difficult family members, identifying triggers and preparing responses.
Pick your battles and focus on understanding the other person's perspective rather than trying to change their mind.
Set boundaries to protect yourself and your immediate family, limiting interactions with toxic or negative family members.
Embrace your temperament and cultivate joy by faking it till you make it, expressing gratitude, and praying for the grace to be more joyful.

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0:00.0	Girlfriends, episode number 414, How to Handle Family Drama.
0:05.2	Hello and welcome to Girlfriends.
0:07.1	I'm Danielle Bean.
0:08.1	I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you.
0:11.2	Know your worth is a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living.
0:15.0	This week we are talking about how to handle family drama.
0:18.5	Not that any of us needs that kind of encouragement, right? Yes, we do. Can't
0:22.6	wait to take on this important topic. Let's go. Hey, girlfriend, thank you so much for being here.
0:33.9	Thank you for showing up. We often talk about the value of showing up. And I want you to know,
0:37.8	I appreciate you doing just that for the girlfriend's podcast. You showed up. Thank you so much for being here.
0:43.4	If you're a first-time listener, I want to thank you especially and give you a special welcome.
0:47.4	Really appreciate that you're giving us a try. I hope you're going to like what we do here and want to come back. If you're a sometime or all the time listener, you know I
0:54.9	appreciate you too. Thank you so much for being part of the podcast. It means the world to me.
1:00.2	All right. On the agenda today, we're talking about family drama. I mean, this is great, right?
1:05.3	So before we dive into the drama, though, I just want to give you a reminder that we are
1:10.5	continuing our Lenton content.
1:12.3	Yes, it is still Lent over at Daniellebean.com.
1:15.6	Get yourself subscribed so you won't miss any of this valuable content, which Lent or not,
1:20.6	this is just valuable content for women.
1:22.3	These are important conversations we need to be having.
1:25.1	So this Lenton content, these sessions that we're doing each week for Lent,
1:28.4	include a short video for me about 10 minutes long, reflecting on stories of women in the New
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