It’s Never Too Late To Start Over: A Discussion With Lori Gottlieb, Psychotherapist and Best Selling Author (Part 2)
The Lo Life
Podcast Nation
5.0 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Lori is back for round two with Lo as the two discuss her journey to becoming a psychotherapist. She left a successful career and made the decision to go to medical school. She followed her passion and started a new chapter later in life. Even though Lori is celebrated as an expert when it comes to therapy, relationships, and understanding ourselves, she says her greatest credential is that she too is a card-carrying member of the human race. She’s opening up about why her upbringing of “let’s pretend we’re happy” ultimately drew her to the field of therapy, and detailing how she believes we can make changes to allow the next generation to better talk about our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs – even when they may drastically differ from those of our family.
In today’s episode, Lori is also sharing how we can go about finding a therapist that is right for us; just because we had one poor experience doesn’t mean we’re not built for therapy. It turns out therapy isn’t too different from dating - the number one predictor of success in a therapeutic relationship is our relationship to our therapist, so sometimes it can help to date around. Lori and Lo also discuss our relationship to the person we talk to the most in life: ourselves. Lo is all too familiar that sometimes we treat ourselves very differently than we’d treat a loved one or even a stranger, and the two explore how we can change these habits. And of course, Lori is answering Lo’s round of rapid-fire questions, which wraps with some words to live by that will take you into the weekend in a place of self-compassion.
Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and send to a friend so we can keep this sh!t show on the road, kings and kweens! Follow your host Lo on Instagram @stylelvr and make sure to drink some water... we know you’re thirsty. You can find Lori’s books and more information on her website, watch her popular TED Talk here, find her on social media @lorigottlieb_author, and listen to her podcast Dear Therapists wherever you find podcasts.
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| 0:31.7 | I'm your flaming hot and spicy, seasonally depressed, hot mess of a host, Lo van Rumpf. |
| 0:33.1 | And I'm so happy to be here with you today. |
| 0:36.0 | No place I'd rather be than here with my beautiful kings and queens, my low lifers. I'm so thankful to have this podcast. It's always a highlight of my week getting to be here with you. So thank you for tuning in. If you're new to this podcast, oh, hello. Welcome, new king or queen. I'm very happy to have you here. You picked the right time to join the Hot Mess Express. This is actually a two-part situation. So last week's episode, part one of the conversation. If you didn't get a chance to listen to that one, treat yourself. You will not be disappointed. Loved that episode. Today's show is great, too. I recently had someone asked me, you know, what do you talk |
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