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The One You Feed

How to Manage Family Relationships with Nedra Glover Tawwab

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode with Nedra Glover Tawwab, you'll learn:

  • Why it’s important to connect who you are and who you were in relation to your family
  • How we can learn to recognize unhealthy relationships in our family dynamics
  • How shame limits our ability to be honest with ourselves and others
  • Why we need to unlearn certain ideas of what love means
  • How to manage a relationship with someone who won’t change
  • The difference between changing behavior and changing personality
  • How can we move away from unhealthy patterns and learn to love ourselves

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0:00.0

Even if you've trained for it, you went to school for it, you worked hard for it, you've

0:03.7

done all the work to be in a healthy relationship, you may feel like, ugh, I don't deserve this

0:09.3

good person. It's the discomfort of being in a new situation.

0:22.6

Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance

0:27.6

of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think,

0:33.6

ring true, and yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward

0:39.8

negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do.

0:46.6

We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking,

0:52.0

our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

0:58.4

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,

1:02.8

how they feed their good wolf.

1:08.3

I'm Jay Shetty and on my podcast on purpose, I've had the honor to sit down with some of the most

1:23.1

incredible hearts and minds on the planet. Oprah, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Hart, Louis Hamilton,

1:29.2

and many, many more. On this podcast, you get to hear the raw real life stories behind their journeys,

1:34.5

and the tools they used, the books they read, and the people that made a difference in their

1:38.4

lives so that they can make a difference in hours. Listen to on purpose with Jay Shetty on the

1:43.2

I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Join the journey soon.

2:04.6

Nedra, a new book, Drama Free, a guide to managing unhealthy family relationships.

2:11.6

If you've lost track of what's important to you, you're not alone. We often go through phases in

2:16.8

life where we feel dissatisfied or disconnected, and when we get off track, it's easy to get stuck

2:22.6

in unhelpful patterns, like avoidance or perfectionism. It shows up as negative self-talk,

2:28.0

breaking your own rules, procrastinating, or struggling to let go of addictive or otherwise

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