I Don't Feel Complete in Life

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Can Dr. Laura help 39-year-old Phillip finally find meaning and purpose for his life? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my Call of the Day podcast.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Philip, welcome to the program.
0:13.7	Hi, thank you for having me, Dr. Laura.
0:16.5	Hi. How can I help?
0:18.0	So at the beginning, you mentioned being stuck, moving on by fear, and I think that's one of the issues I was hoping you could elucidate for me.
0:31.3	So I'm 39, and I still rent and don't really feel complete in my life.
0:41.6	I've had some tumultuous relationships up and down, and I'm currently single with my little dog here at home.
0:48.7	And I came into some money when my mom passed a few years ago, so I could be purchasing a house
0:55.7	and maturing and taking that next step, but I just feel stunted and like my mindset still feels
1:05.5	like an 18-year-old kid, and I'm almost, I am middle-aged and I look at it.
1:13.2	It's kind of like keeping up.
1:14.1	What do you do for a living?
1:15.4	I work in retail.
1:17.8	I've been with the same company for about 20 years at Costco.
1:22.0	And are you satisfied with that?
1:27.0	I think I'm lying to myself because I under, like I, I'm doing a peon job and I think
1:35.5	I'm destined for better, but at the same time, like, responsibility sometimes irks me,
1:40.3	and I get a little bit caught up in taking on too much.
1:45.6	Like I had a supervisor role and I got demoted and then I kind of just took the worst
1:52.1	to the worst working in the freezer and pushing carts and I've just been doing that for about
1:55.6	five years now.
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