How to Self-Regulate, Heal Your Relationships & Accept That You’ll Never Be Finished

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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305. How to Self-Regulate, Heal Your Relationships & Accept That You’ll Never Be Finished As we continue the discussion on Busyness, Amanda, Glennon & Abby share more of their thoughts about the cult of Busyness – how buying into it shows up in you and your relationships, and how it leads to dysregulation and dissatisfaction in all areas of life. We go through the signs that might indicate you’re too busy and burnt out, how to know the difference between building a life and living a life, and why dysregulation can be a breadcrumb toward healing. Discover: -Why the addiction of busyness will never be pointed out or helped by most people; -Why Abby says the idea of retirement is the greatest heist in human history; and -The emotional breakdown Amanda had, which led to starting her healing journey. Also check out: 304. Break Up with Busyness & Let Go of Your To-Do List 281. How Amanda Finally Calmed Her Brain & Her Letter from Love with Liz Gilbert 261. How to Stretch Time with Jenny Odell 139. No More Grind: How to Finally Rest with Tricia Hersey 93. BURNOUT: Do You Feel Half Alive? with Emily and Amelia Nagoski

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0:00.0	Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. We are diving deep. We are in it.
0:17.0	Let's go. We have come to someone has given us some smelling salts.
0:21.3	We have I feel better are in a cult and that cult is
0:28.4	capitalism which has told us from many many pulpit for many, many years that the way to joy and
0:37.4	happiness and peace and success in transcendence is productivity. We have tried that for low so many years. We don't believe it anymore.
0:51.1	Now what? Yeah. That's what we're talking about today.
0:55.0	If we have slowly died inside because we have followed the cult of productivity,
1:02.0	we have ended up exhausted, angry, bitter living from the outside in by lists,
1:10.0	and we're ready to try a different way.
1:12.4	How does one begin?
1:15.3	Before we get into that, I just want to say this one thing.
1:18.8	I think about this all the time, because what is the retirement age in this country 67 I mean it's nothing anymore right
1:27.1	doesn't even exist the generations that are behind us I mean, Charlie. Even the idea of retirement is a privilege that may not be afforded,
1:39.8	that may be a vestige of the past. It's not like Europe where there is like a retirement age.
1:45.0	There's a it depends on...
1:47.0	When do you get Social Security in this country?
1:49.0	67 or 72?
1:50.0	For like six more months.
1:52.0	My point is... Yeah yeah my point is, 62, you can get him as early as 62. My point is, let's say we're lucky and we get mid-70s of life. Let's say we're lucky and we get mid-70s of life.
2:03.6	Let's say we're 80.
2:04.9	And let's say you retire or you're planning on retiring from your job
2:10.1	that you've worked for.
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