I Want to Replace My Bad Memories

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Is there anything Robert can do today to help erase the bad memories of his childhood? Email questions or comments: [email protected] - 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.

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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 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:11.0	Robert, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hello, Dr. Laura. How are you?
0:17.0	Good. What can I do for you today?
0:20.0	Okay, I have a question. I'm in my mid 50s and I live in a different state. I live in Texas. I grew up in Los Angeles and I'm out of work now and I'm getting ready to make some changes and I'm getting ready for surgery and a lot of things have been haunting me about when I was young when I lived in a certain house when I was a child.
0:43.0	It was in Venice, California. I think of Jim Morrison, you know, the beach.
0:48.0	Okay, my mother did the best she could. She was a single parent. She wasn't always home. She had to work.
0:57.0	Dinosaur was my electronic babysitter. Things weren't always nice and then they would be nice and then things would happen and then things would be nice again.
1:08.0	And I thought, you know, I have a little granny that I have never met. She's in the Los Angeles area.
1:14.0	And I thought about going out there and I thought about driving by the old house going to the old McDonald's, going to the old church, revisiting and recreating new memories so that when I do think back or something reminds me of something, it doesn't always have to be back.
1:33.0	I should have just let it go completely because I can't.
1:38.0	Something's telling me to go there.
1:40.0	I'm sorry. What makes you think you can't? Letting go doesn't mean forgetting.
1:45.0	Letting go means you're not going to spend your time thinking about it, marinating in it, regretting it, being hurt and angry over it. That's a lot of effort.
1:55.0	But I don't understand why you say you can't let it go. No, answer what I'm asking. Don't go off with your story in some other direction.
2:11.0	Because when I try to move ahead, it's like, I'll go ahead.
2:15.0	You have moved ahead by 30, 40 years. You have moved ahead. What are you talking about?
2:21.0	That's true. I'm here today.
2:23.0	Okay, let me explain something to you. Let me explain something to you.
2:27.0	You have some crappy memories from your past. Don't try to get rid of them.
2:31.0	Leave them alone and learn something from them and get on with your life, which you have.
2:36.0	But you can't make them go away and you're not going to replace them with, oh, I'm going to have a cheeseburger this time and I'll feel better about seeing the McDonald's. Come on.
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