How to Stop Pleasing and Start Living

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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349. How to Stop Pleasing and Start Living Amanda and Glennon answer your questions about friendship, mental health, people pleasing and the difference between boundaries and control. Discover: -Why if you’re a person who “goes with the flow” you might want to reconsider; -What to do when you feel the loss of a friend getting into a new relationship; -The truth about married men who refuse to socialize with women who are not their wife; and -The healing power of getting a mental health diagnosis later in life. 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	Welcome to We can Do Hard Things Today is a special.
0:16.0	That was sounded like We Can Do Hard Things Today, which actually might be a more accurate description.
0:21.0	We're not sure about tomorrow.
0:22.0	We could do our
0:22.8	things today exclusively. Oh listen I have been thinking lately about why the one day
0:31.8	at a time slogan is so important to people in the program obviously
0:36.6	sobriety is one day at time and I used to only think of it as like of course
0:41.2	because life is so hard that I can't think about like not
0:44.7	drinking or not I can't think about my whole life I can only think of this one
0:47.8	24 hour period and that will make me less insane and I can just keep doing that one day at a time.
0:53.6	And but I think that one of the reasons also is because you get to start a fresh
0:58.8	slate with every, like you're, the concept of one day at a time is that you're not bringing every you're not the history of every relationship
1:06.7	the past of everything the future fear. It's like recently someone brought up the concept of you know I used to be a teacher
1:15.8	and you used to have these charts of cards for behavior and it was like
1:20.2	everybody would start on green every day and then maybe yikes if you had some challenges
1:25.0	you would be on yellow and that but every morning
1:29.0	green
1:30.0	green cards for everybody every single morning no matter what and that is like a super
1:36.0	important concept of one day at a time too that like if you live that way you're
1:41.0	promising yourself today I will deal with the relationships that I have
1:44.8	today and not bring all of our past history to every single situation like seeing
1:51.4	everybody with a beginner's mind is kind of a cool way to live.
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