I'm Stuck In the Past

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🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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I'm Stuck In the Past - Steve thinks the way he dwells on his childhood memories of deceased relatives is unhealthy and is preventing him from living in the present. - Dr. Laura: "It's your turn to create beautiful memories for your family." - What's your fondest childhood memory? Email me your thoughts at: [email protected] | To participate on the radio program; call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment - https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM triumph 11. Steve, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi, hi, Dr. Laura. How you doing?
0:16.0	Hi, good. How can I help?
0:19.0	I'm going to listen. I've been listening to you help other folks and it just brought to my mind a problem that I've been having.
0:28.0	I'm 48 and here recently I've had a few deaths of some of my uncles and aunts.
0:41.0	But even before that, I've been thinking back on a time of my life when my grandparents were alive and my family was complete.
0:52.0	And I think to be stuck on those thoughts.
0:58.0	Pretty often, which maybe maybe a little unhealthy, I guess, but I can't shake them.
1:08.0	What thoughts, what thoughts are you not shaking? I'm not clear on that yet.
1:13.0	Just just, you know, the thoughts of my life back then where I'm just reminiscing on the good times that I've had with, you know, just family members around and like slowly and surely everybody's, you know, passing away, but those.
1:33.0	Okay, can we can we take a break? Can we take a break? When you had good times with your parents and grandparents, they had to think back because the people that made their lives whole were dead.
1:48.0	So you were having a good time in your time.
1:53.0	When they were your age, they were having a good time in their time, etc. Don't you understand?
2:00.0	It was full for you, but it wasn't full for them. They already lost people.
2:09.0	I understand that. Yeah.
2:12.0	And it's no, I don't think so. I don't think you understand that. They were providing for you lovely memories so that you could develop beautifully and then provide the next generation with lovely memories.
2:28.0	I don't think your parents and grandparents put in the effort to give you lovely memories so that they would die with you because you would focus in on what you've lost and not what you're creating in your turn. It's your turn to create lovely memories.
2:49.0	For other people to remember you buy when you're gone.
2:52.0	I didn't think about it in that way.
3:00.0	You know, you just gave me a different way of looking at it.
3:06.0	But I just learned. Go ahead. I feel myself constantly being thrown back to that time.
3:13.0	I don't want to hear that. Stop repeating yourself. It's boring.
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